Wax is a common crafting material in Enshrouded with a smooth consistency, described in its item text as “Needed for illumination of all sorts.” You will reach for it when lighting your base and, more pressingly, when pushing the Flame Altar up a level. There are two reliable ways to gather it: pulling it from wild beehives in the world, and producing it at your base once you unlock the Honey Beehive.
Quick answer: Early on, gather Wax by harvesting wild hives in trees; next, finish the Farmer’s “A Beehive Smoker” quest and craft a Honey Beehive, which produces 1 Wax from 3 Plant Fiber, or from Paper Reed.
Harvest Wax from wild beehives
Wild hives are large, pale, papery shapes that hang from branches, so the first job is to spot them against the canopy.
Unlock the Honey Beehive through the Farmer quest
For Wax you can make on demand, you need the Honey Beehive. It becomes available after you finish the Farmer’s quest “A Beehive Smoker”, which tracks down a missing delivery and ends in a fight.
A placed Honey Beehive handles both bee products: each Wax takes 3 Plant Fiber or Paper Reed, while 1 Sugar yields 1 Honey.
What Wax is used for
Taking the Flame Altar from level 2 to level 3 costs 10 Wax alongside 10 Salt, 5 Spark, 10 Shroud Wood, 10 Flintstone, 25 Mycelium, and 1 Scavenger Matron Helmet. Beyond that, Wax feeds several crafting recipes across your workstations.
| Item | Station | Wax needed |
|---|---|---|
| Candle | Workbench | 1 Wax (+ 1 String) |
| Wax Torch | Hunter | 1 Wax (+ 1 Twigs, 1 Torn Cloth, 1 Resin) |
| Hardened Leather | Hunter | 2 Wax (+ 1 Leather) |
| Mining Sieve | Blacksmith | 1 Wax (+ 3 Steel Bars, 2 Palm Wood Logs, 2 Plant Fiber) |
The Resin and Torn Cloth for the Wax Torch come from their own sources.
