Enshrouded 1.0: How to Get the Grappling Hook and the Improved Hook

Embervale is stacked with cliffs, towers, and broken ledges you cannot reach on foot, and the Grappling Hook is the tool that changes that. The recipe appears once you have picked up String, Shroud Wood, Animal Fur, or Shroud Spores, so you do not need to clear a quest before making one. You just need to gather the materials and have a Workbench ready.

Quick answer: Craft the Grappling Hook at a Workbench using 4 Metal Scraps, 7 String, and 10 Shroud Spores. The recipe appears once you have picked up String, Shroud Wood, Animal Fur, or Shroud Spores.

Craft the Grappling Hook at a Workbench

The game sums up the tool plainly: “A sturdy tool that can help to cross many chasms along the way.” You will need the following:

4 Metal Scraps
7 String
10 Shroud Spores

Build a Workbench, then open it to view the Grappling Hook recipe under Essentials. The recipe unlocks automatically once you have collected String, Shroud Wood, Animal Fur, or Shroud Spores.

Grappling Hook recipe card at the Workbench in Enshrouded with Metal Scraps, String and Shroud Spores — The Grappling Hook card under Essentials at the Workbench, with its three resources.

Collect 4 Metal Scraps. Furniture in ruined settlements breaks apart into Metal Scraps.

Defeat Shroud enemies to collect 10 Shroud Spores.

Return to the Workbench, craft the Grappling Hook, and equip it. You know it worked when the hook sits in your equipment: aim at a Grappling Hook anchor in the world, activate it, and you will pull yourself up or swing across the gap.

Enshrouded Grappling Hook item card showing '40 Stamina Cost' with an Equip and Delete menu — Right-clicking the hook on the action bar and choosing Equip puts it in the Character tab hook slot.

We needed the hook at Braelyn Bridge in the Springlands. From the wooden deck at the south end, aim at the wooden frame on top of the first stone pier until an “E” prompt shows on it, then press E to swing across the gap. For the full route, see how to cross Braelyn Bridge.

In the Ancient Vault – Hunter, you cross a lava pit by looking up at the ceiling point until the E prompt shows, then firing the hook midair; our Hunter rescue walkthrough has full steps.

A cobbled road climbs north toward a Scavenger palisade gate, with lit torches on the rocks beside the gate.

Enshrouded cobbled road climbing north to a Scavenger palisade gate with lit torches — The cobbled road climbs north toward the Scavenger palisade gate.

At the gate, the notice “This road is blocked. A Grappling Hook is required to cross.” appears. Look up at the wooden watchtower above the gate, and an “E” prompt shows on it.

Player standing on a dirt road below a wooden watchtower beside a Scavenger palisade gate, with an E prompt on the watchtower — The notice reads This road is blocked. A Grappling Hook is required to cross.

Press E, and the Grappling Hook swings you up to the watchtower.

Enshrouded player swinging on the Grappling Hook toward a wooden watchtower above a palisade gate — The Grappling Hook swings you toward the watchtower while the notice stays on screen.

You land on the platform at the top of the watchtower.

Player on the wooden watchtower platform after using the Grappling Hook, facing a rocky gap, with the blocked-road notice still showing — After pressing E with the Grappling Hook, you stand on the watchtower’s top platform.

From the platform, walk north off the top of the watchtower, pass under the rock overhang, and drop into the Scavenger camp behind the gate. The game shows “Threats nearby” because Scavengers are inside, and we fought them there.

Inside the camp is a silver chest with an “E Open” prompt. Ours held Metal Scraps x6.

Enshrouded silver chest showing an 'E Open' prompt inside a Scavenger camp palisade — A silver chest with an ‘E Open’ prompt sits inside the camp’s palisade.

Leave the camp through the tent on its north side to get back onto the road. From there, the road runs north out of the camp through a pass between tall rocks.

Enshrouded road leaving a Scavenger camp to the north through a pass between tall rocks — The road leaves the camp heading north through a pass between tall rocks.

Past the camp, the road carries on north through a pine forest.

Enshrouded road running north of the Scavenger camp among tall pine trees — North of the camp, the road continues through a forest of tall pines.

The Blacksmith’s “Grappling Hook” quest puts it this way: “A Grappling Hook is vital for exploration. It can be used to swing across chasms or reach elevated locations. Look for Grappling Hook Pull Anchors in the world once you have crafted your Grappling Hook to use it. You can craft the Grappling Hook at a Workbench. The Grappling Hook is needed to climb the Ancient Spire!”

When you talk to Oswald Anders, the Blacksmith, “Grappling Hook” shows up in his menu, listed right next to “Scaling An Ancient Spire”.

Oswald Anders the Blacksmith menu in Enshrouded listing Scaling An Ancient Spire and Grappling Hook — Oswald Anders, the Blacksmith, lists Grappling Hook and Scaling An Ancient Spire in his menu.

Choose “Grappling Hook” and Oswald says, “I see ya explorin’ out there. The world needs curious minds like yours! Ya know, crafting a Grappling Hook would let ya get even further”. A “NEW QUEST Grappling Hook” banner appears on screen.

Oswald Anders in Enshrouded saying crafting a Grappling Hook would let you get even further — Oswald Anders explains that crafting a Grappling Hook would let you get even further.

Upgrade to the Improved Grappling Hook

The Improved Grappling Hook does exactly what its description says: “Requires less stamina. Can be activated at larger ranges.” You cannot craft it from scratch. The recipe unlocks through the Alchemist’s quest The Alchemist’s Rumors, which points you toward the Scavengers’ camp with the line, “Seek out their camp and smite them down to unlock an improved tool.”

Take on The Alchemist’s Rumors and travel to the Hill of Scavengers.

Defeat the Scavenger Matron at the camp. Clearing her is what unlocks the recipe.

Craft the Improved Grappling Hook at the Carpenter. The recipe takes 1 Grappling Hook, 1 Shroud Core, 2 Shroud Liquid, and 3 Shroud Spores, and your existing hook is consumed in the process. The Carpenter notes that “the improved tool will require less stamina to use.”

Every grappling hook compared

There are three hooks in total, each a step up from the last. The Improved and Underwater versions are both made at the Carpenter.

Hook	Rarity	Crafted at
Grappling Hook	Uncommon	Workbench
Improved Grappling Hook	Rare	Carpenter
Underwater Grappling Hook	Rare	Carpenter

The Underwater Grappling Hook, described as “A grappling hook that can be used underwater,” sits at the top of the chain. Its recipe unlocks once you find one out in the world, and it is crafted at the Carpenter from 1 Improved Grappling Hook, 1 Shroud Radiance, 2 Pink Mushroom Meat, 3 Shroud Relic, and 2 Gold Dust. Each tier folds the previous hook into the next, so keep the lower version until you are ready to upgrade.

Build your own grapple anchors

After obtaining a hook, you can place anchor points on structures and grapple through your base or across gaps you create. The Blacksmith makes both anchors at the Forge. Picking up Copper Bars unlocks both recipes.

Grappling Hook Pull Anchor — takes 3 Metal Sheets and 1 Copper Bars. Item text: “Add this pull anchor to your buildings to pull yourself forward and onto other platforms. Requires a Grappling Hook to activate.”
Grappling Hook Swing Anchor — takes 3 Metal Sheets and 1 Copper Bars. Item text: “Add this swing anchor to your buildings to swing across chasms. Requires a Grappling Hook to activate.”