Enshrouded: How to Place a Second Flame Altar (Recipe and Altar Limit)

A second Flame Altar in Enshrouded uses the same recipe as your first one, and it needs no workbench. We built ours away from our first base and set it down at a mine camp in a ravine to the west, along the road out of the base. It was lit the moment it went down.

Quick answer: Craft it from Crafting (V) > Essentials > Flame Altar for Stone x5. Select it on your ALT action bar, aim at flat ground until the preview turns blue, then left-click Place.

Craft and place a second Flame Altar

Open the main menu and switch to CRAFTING with V.

Under ESSENTIALS, select the first tile, “Flame Altar”. It’s listed as “Level 1 Flame Altar” with COMMON rarity, and its RESOURCES line asks for Stone x5.

Press SPACE to Craft. If you want to keep the recipe on screen while you gather Stone, press F to pin it first.

Flame Altar selected under Essentials in the Crafting menu with its Stone recipe and the Space Craft prompt — The Flame Altar is the first tile under Essentials: Level 1 Flame Altar, Stone x5.

Go to the desired altar site. Switch to your ALT action bar and select the slot holding the Flame Altar (slot 2 for us); its placement preview will appear ahead of you. The left mouse button is labeled “Place”, while the side panel lists R for Rotate 90° and X for Use Snapping.

Check the preview’s color. Red with “Not enough free space” means something is in the way. Ours did this on a rocky ledge with a bush on it. Move to clear, flat ground.

Red Flame Altar placement preview showing the Not enough free space warning — A red preview with “Not enough free space” blocks placement.

On the open floor of the mine camp the preview turned blue. Left-click Place (R rotates it 90° first if you need a different facing).

Blue Flame Altar footprint on open ground with the Place prompt available — On open, flat ground the altar preview turns blue and can be placed.

The altar is lit as soon as it lands, and walking up to it brings up “E Commune with the Flame”.

Newly placed second Flame Altar lit at a mine camp with the E Commune with the Flame prompt — The second altar lit as soon as it was placed, with E Commune with the Flame.

Open the World Map with M to check it counts: on our Flame Level 2 world the Active Altars counter went from 1/4 to 2/4. For getting back to an altar quickly, see how to fast travel to your Flame Altar.

Placing a Flame Altar on a hillside

Select the Flame Altar on the ALT bar and the placement preview appears right at your character’s feet, while the camera pulls back to a high, top-down view of the spot. On our grassy hilltop and its slopes, every spot we tried showed the red preview with “Not enough free space”, even with nothing on the ground.

Red Flame Altar placement preview with Not enough free space on a grassy hilltop slope in Enshrouded — On the grassy hilltop, the preview showed red with Not enough free space.

A little lower down, we found a flatter patch of grass beside a rock, and the preview turned blue there. A left-click placed our third Flame Altar on that patch, and its flame lit at once. If the preview stays red on a slope, try moving to flatter grass nearby.

A lit Flame Altar placed on a flatter patch of grass beside a rock on a hillside in Enshrouded — A flatter patch beside a rock turned the preview blue, and the altar lit as soon as it was placed.

Placing a Flame Altar Out in the Wild

When we tried to place the altar in the wild, north of a Scavenger camp, the preview showed “Enemies nearby” with enemies around, and at night Fell and Shroud creatures kept coming. On foliage and on the road, it showed “Cannot build here”. On a slope, it showed “Not enough free space”.

The preview turned blue on open grass on the valley floor, a few steps from a rock face.

Enshrouded blue Flame Altar footprint on grass with 'R Rotate 90°' and 'Use Snapping' prompts — The Flame Altar footprint turns blue on open grass near a rock face.

Left-click places the altar, and ours was lit at once on grass beside a cobbled road, becoming our fifth active altar with the World Map’s Active Altars counter reading 5/6. The altar menu offers “F Rename Altar”, and we named it after the camp.

Enshrouded lit Flame Altar placed on grass beside a cobbled road in the wild — Our fifth active Flame Altar burns on the grass beside a cobbled road.

Flame Altar limit by Flame Level

How many altars you can have active is set by your Flame Level. The Strengthen the Flame screen lists it as Altar activation capacity. The values for every later level are in the Flame Level requirements list.

Enshrouded World Map panel showing 'FLAME Level 2' and 'ACTIVE ALTARS 4 / 4' — At Flame Level 2, the World Map panel shows 4 of 4 altars active.

Flame Level	Altar activation capacity
Flame Level 1	2
Flame Level 2	4

Flame Level 1 still allows placement of a second altar. To place the third and fourth, upgrade the Flame to Level 2.

Enshrouded red Flame Altar placement preview on a hilltop showing 'Cannot place more Altars' — With all four altars active at Flame Level 2, placement shows ‘Cannot place more Altars’.

Building around the new Flame Altar

The ground around the new altar becomes a Flame protected area, so you can build there right away. Pick a building block such as Rough Stone Block, and the side panel reads “Flame protected area”. Left mouse sets the block and right mouse removes it. The game also suggests the Construction Hammer with a hint: “You can build bigger structures effectively with the Construction Hammer.”

Rough Stone Block selected with a blue build preview and Set and Remove prompts near the new altar — Placing a Rough Stone Block inside the new altar’s Flame protected area.

These build controls also show up in the side panel while you work inside the area:

Z for First Person Mode
Z+SPACE for Fly Mode, which comes from the Airborne Architect skill
Y to Undo Build Action

You can’t build on the altar’s own stone slab. Aim a block at it and the preview turns red with “Cannot build here”. The building area itself grows with the altar’s level, covered in how to upgrade the Flame Altar.