Enshrouded: How to Get Diamond in Cinder’s Cradle (1.0 Update)

Diamond is a Level 45 crafting material added with the full 1.0 release of Enshrouded. It comes from the Shroud that pools inside Cinder’s Cradle, the volcanic biome sitting between the mountains and the water region. You mine it straight out of rock surfaces with a pickaxe, and it feeds a long list of endgame weapons, armor, spells, and refined dusts.

Quick answer: Head past the Ancient Gate east of Starfish Shores into Cinder’s Cradle, step into a Shroud pocket, and mine the Diamond veins on cliff and cave walls with a pickaxe.

Where Diamond spawns in Cinder’s Cradle

Diamond only appears inside the Shroud that fills parts of the volcanic biome. To reach it, travel through the Ancient Gate, which connects the water region near Cromville Hot Spring and Starfish Shores to Cinder’s Cradle. Once you cross into the lava biome, look for the shrouded zones that hang over the terrain.

Diamond deposits occur in cave and cliff faces, as well as on rocky outcrops within Shroud pockets. A reliable cluster lies near the opening of Cinder’s Cradle, beyond the point of interest called Battlegrounds, where several veins usually sit close together.

Map location in the volcanic biome — The route runs through the Ancient Gate into the volcanic region, with the Shroud sitting above the gate. Shown at 00:34 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

The volcanic biome is endgame territory, so arrive with gear suited to the Shroud and a timer in mind, since the Shroud drains your life the longer you stay inside it.

Mining Diamond with a pickaxe

Enter a Shroud pocket inside Cinder’s Cradle and search along the rock walls, cliff faces, and ground outcrops for the crystalline veins.

Overview of shroud location — Inside a Shroud pocket in Cinder's Cradle, where Diamond veins sit on the surrounding rock. Shown at 00:04 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Equip a pickaxe and strike the vein. A Gilded Pickaxe works well here, and each node also drops Basalt alongside the Diamond.

Mining diamond nodes in the shroud — Striking a vein with a Gilded Pickaxe yields both Basalt and Diamond. Shown at 01:04 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Keep mining the surrounding nodes to build a stack, then leave the Shroud before your protection runs low. Diamond stacks up to 250 in your inventory.

You know it worked when Diamond appears in your backpack with its tooltip listing Level 45, Common rarity, and a source of Cinder’s Cradle Shroud. Picking up your first Diamond also unlocks the recipes that use it.

Refining Diamond into dust at a Mill

Raw Diamond is processed at a Mill back at your base. Place Diamond into the Mill and select the Diamond Dust recipe to grind it down. One Diamond produces one Diamond Dust, and each batch takes 3 minutes to finish.

Crafting menu with Flame Altar selected, showing a recipe that needs 5 Stone, of which 6 are held. — The Crafting menu shows the Level 1 Flame Altar recipe, which requires 5 Stone, with 6 in the player’s inventory.

The same Mill also makes Sparkling Dust, which combines Diamond with materials from across the map. The recipe takes 1 Diamond (Cinder’s Cradle Shroud), 1 Moonstone (Cinder’s Cradle), 1 Celestium Ore (Cinder’s Cradle), and 1 Mother-Of-Pearl (Stillmere Basin, underwater). Both dusts share the same 3-minute grind time.

What Diamond is used to craft

Diamond is a reagent for a wide spread of endgame recipes, including six weapons, thirteen armor pieces, three spells, and two refined materials. The weapons it supports cover the Warrior and Ranger classes, and each carries its own damage split and perks.

Weapon	Type	Base damage	Class
Golden War Hero Axe	Two-Handed Axe	16 Cutting	Warrior
Greater Golden Twinflame Sword	One-Handed Sword	11 Cutting	Warrior
Lesser Golden Twinflame Sword	One-Handed Sword	11 Cutting	Warrior
Shroud Vessel’s Greatsword	Two-Handed Greatsword	16 (8 Cutting / 8 Shroud)	Warrior
Jezmina’s Apotheosis	One-Handed Axe	11 (5.5 Cutting / 5.5 Fire)	Warrior
Valor Heart Daggers	Daggers	7 Piercing	Ranger

Damage figures above are the Level 1 values, and these weapons scale up to equipment Level 55. The Golden War Hero Axe and Shroud Vessel’s Greatsword, for example, reach 138 Cutting-based damage at Level 55.

On the armor side, Diamond goes into pieces such as the Vorgoth’s Soulbound Boots and the Ashwind Strider set. The Ashwind Strider Boots and Pants are Ranger gear at item Level 45, while the Legendary Vorgoth’s Soulbound Boots are a Warrior piece crafted by the Ancient Researcher. Diamond also appears in spell recipes including Chain Lightning II, Eternal Fire Totem II, and Fire Bolt VIII.

With a steady supply of Diamond from the Cinder’s Cradle Shroud, you can keep a Mill running for dust and stock the Blacksmith, Hunter, Alchemist, and Ancient Researcher benches for the gear that defines the 1.0 endgame.