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Enshrouded: How to Track or Switch Quests in the Journal

Pick which quest objective appears on your HUD, swap it for another, or clear it, all from the Journal's Quests page.

Pick which quest objective appears on your HUD, swap it for another, or clear it, all from the Journal’s Quests page.

by AllThingsHow StaffAllThingsHow Staff

In Enshrouded, the tracked quest’s objective shows in the top right of the HUD, and you choose that quest in the JOURNAL. You can swap it for another quest or stop tracking it there too.

Quick answer: Press J, open Quests with SPACE, select a quest and press SPACE (“SPACE Start Tracking”). Its objective appears at the top right of the HUD.

Enshrouded quest tracking controls

The selected quest card in the Journal shows its prompts in the footer. These are the ones that control tracking:

KeyPromptWhat it does
SPACE“SPACE Start Tracking”Tracks the selected quest
SPACE“SPACE Stop Tracking”Stops tracking the current quest
F“F Show on Map”Shows the quest on the map
R“R Automatically Track Priority Quests”Turns automatic tracking of priority quests on or off

SPACE is one key with two jobs. On a quest you are not tracking, it reads “SPACE Start Tracking”. On the quest you are already tracking, it reads “SPACE Stop Tracking”. The R toggle sits on the bottom line of the quest list, not on any single quest card.

Switch the tracked quest in Enshrouded

Switching the tracked quest in Enshrouded is done from the Journal. Every key you need is in our full controls list, and each quest’s steps are in our all quests list.

Press J to bring up the JOURNAL. The opening screen shows Quests, then The Flame, with Survivors next; Bases follows, then Workshops, plus Lore and Sets, before Tutorial. Choose Quests and press SPACE (Open).
Enshrouded Journal home page listing Quests, The Flame, Survivors, Bases, Workshops, Lore, Sets and Tutorial
The Journal home page, with ‘SPACE Open’ shown next to the Quests entry.
Look at the quest list. TRACKED QUEST sits at the top, followed by MAIN QUESTS, SIDE QUESTS and COMPLETED. Ours had A Story Of Rot tracked, with the objective “Discover The Shroud Obelisk”. Its footer shows “SPACE Stop Tracking” and “F Show on Map“.
Enshrouded Journal quest list with A Story Of Rot under Tracked Quest and a Stop Tracking prompt
The Quests page with A Story Of Rot tracked and its Shroud Obelisk objective shown.
Select the quest you want to follow instead. We picked Carpentry Assistance under MAIN QUESTS, with the objective “Find The Ancient Vault“, Difficulty Hard and the Location “Ancient Vault — Carpenter”. Its footer reads “SPACE Start Tracking”.
Enshrouded Journal quest list with Carpentry Assistance selected under MAIN QUESTS and 'SPACE Start Tracking' footer
Carpentry Assistance selected under MAIN QUESTS, with the objective ‘Find The Ancient Vault’.
Press SPACE. The quest moves up to TRACKED QUEST, and its footer changes to “SPACE Stop Tracking”.
Enshrouded Journal quest list showing Carpentry Assistance under TRACKED QUEST with 'SPACE Stop Tracking' footer
Carpentry Assistance now sits under TRACKED QUEST, with ‘SPACE Stop Tracking’ and ‘F Show on Map’.
Exit the Journal. Once it is closed, the HUD’s upper-right corner displays “CARPENTRY ASSISTANCE”, with “Find The Ancient Vault” below it.
Enshrouded gameplay with the Find The Ancient Vault objective shown in the top-right quest tracker
Back in the world, the HUD tracker shows the Carpentry Assistance objective, Find The Ancient Vault.

Switch back or stop tracking a quest

To go back to an earlier quest, open the Journal again and select it. Press SPACE on its card, and it takes over the TRACKED QUEST slot and the HUD; we tracked A Story Of Rot again this way. To clear tracking instead, select the quest under TRACKED QUEST and press SPACE when the footer reads “SPACE Stop Tracking”.

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