Enshrouded 1.0 adds the Infusion Altar, a Rare stone crafting station that makes exactly one thing: Archaic Infusion. That material goes into the chest pieces of the Cinder’s Cradle armor sets, the Placeable Gem Forge, and a batch of eternal spells and arrows. You can’t buy or find the altar. You build it, and only the Ancient Researcher can build it. That means a trip into Cinder’s Cradle, the volcanic region that stayed locked through all of Early Access, to recover her soul first.
Quick answer: Collect Loraine Crim’s soul at the Cinder’s Ascent waypoint, place her next to a sheltered bed as the Ancient Researcher, then craft the Infusion Altar from her Production Place menu.
Infusion Altar unlock requirements
The recipe sits behind a short chain of conditions. All of these need to be true before the altar shows up as craftable.
- You have recovered Loraine Crim’s soul from Cinder’s Ascent.
- Loraine is summoned at your base and working as the Ancient Researcher.
- She is assigned to a bed that sits under a roof (a sheltered bed).
- Bring 30 Basalt alongside 10 Gold Dust, plus 5 Celestium Bars; add 1 Moonstone Dust and 1 Diamond Dust.
The shelter requirement isn’t decoration. The altar is a roofed craft, so a bed out in the open won’t do.
Where to find Loraine Crim’s soul at Cinder’s Ascent
Loraine’s soul sits inside the ruins at Cinder’s Ascent, a platform in the middle of Cinder’s Cradle, north of the Veilwater Basin. The main quest Land Of The Sky Islands sends you there with an objective to look around the area. It’s flagged as a Hard difficulty location and pays out 6,400 XP, so expect enemies above your level.
You’ll know it worked when a “SOUL DISCOVERED! LORAINE CRIM” banner appears. A second notification unlocks the Cultivation Rack recipe at the Decoration Workbench at the same moment.
Set up Loraine Crim as the Ancient Researcher
A survivor’s soul is useless sitting in your inventory. Loraine only starts crafting once she’s living at a base with a proper bed.
The altar is one of Loraine’s first recipes, alongside the Archaic Lockpick. She also brings up the altar in conversation shortly after moving in, and her quest Crafting An Infusion Altar asks you to build it and place it.
Loraine offers more than the altar: she can craft the Placeable Gem Forge, the Ancient Workbench, and the Archaic Lockpick. Keep her supplied.
Infusion Altar recipe and materials
One craft makes one altar. The bill touches three stations, the Ancient Researcher, the Mill and the Blast Furnace, and one raw material you can only mine in the lava region.
| Ingredient | Amount | Made at | Made from |
|---|---|---|---|
 Basalt | 30 | Mined | Cinder’s Cradle terrain |
 Gold Dust | 10 | Mill | Gold Bars |
 Celestium Bars | 5 | Blast Furnace | Celestium Ore |
 Moonstone Dust | 1 | Mill | Moonstone |
 Diamond Dust | 1 | Mill | Diamond |
Basalt and Gold Dust
Basalt is the dark volcanic stone that makes up much of Cinder’s Cradle. Mine it straight out of the ground while you’re up there for Loraine. Gold Dust is a simple Mill job, one Gold Bar per dust. If you’re out of bars, a single Blast Furnace cycle turns 20 Gold Ore and 40 Coal into 20 Gold Bars, which leaves 10 spare.
Celestium Bars
Celestium Bars take the longest. The Blast Furnace smelts 20 Celestium Ore and 40 Coal into 20 bars, and one cycle runs 12 minutes. You only need five, so a single cycle leaves 15 bars for later. Celestium Ore comes from the deposits a meteorite left across Cinder’s Cradle, and the recipe unlocks the moment you pick up your first chunk of ore.
Moonstone Dust and Diamond Dust
Both dusts come off the Mill at one per craft. Moonstone Dust takes one Moonstone and three minutes, and its recipe unlocks when you first pick up Moonstone. Diamonds turn up in the shrouded parts of Cinder’s Cradle, including the area northeast of the Ancient Gate and along the mountainsides. Grind one at the Mill for your Diamond Dust.
Broken down to raw materials, one altar costs 80 Coal, 30 Basalt, 20 Celestium Ore, 20 Gold Ore, 1 Moonstone and 1 Diamond.
How to use the Infusion Altar
Once Loraine has built the altar, it works like any other production station.
The setup is correct once the altar is placed at your base and Archaic Infusion appears as craftable in its menu. Placing it also fulfills Loraine’s Crafting An Infusion Altar quest.
Archaic Infusion recipe
Archaic Infusion is the altar’s only recipe, and nothing else in the game produces it. Each craft yields five and takes four minutes. It’s a level 45 Common material that stacks to 250. The recipe unlocks when you pick up Archaic Shards or the Infusion Altar itself.
| Ingredient | Per batch | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Magma Gel | 10 | Cinder’s Cradle |
 Archaic Essence VII | 6 | Cinder’s Cradle Shroud Lairs |
 Archaic Shards | 5 | Ancient Constructs, Cinder’s Cradle |
 Sparkling Dust | 4 | Mill |
 Archaic Core | 1 | Archaic component |
Archaic Shards are dense, jagged metal fragments you pull from the Ancient Constructs roaming Cinder’s Cradle. They’re level 45 and stack to 250.
Archaic Essence VII is the level 45 tier of the essence normally used to slot gems into weapons. You get it by clearing Shroud Lairs in Cinder’s Cradle, and it stacks to 500.
Sparkling Dust is another Mill product, one per craft and three minutes each. It’s a ground mix of Diamond, Moonstone and Mother-Of-Pearl, and the recipe unlocks when you first pick up a Diamond.
What Archaic Infusion is used for
Archaic Infusion feeds the top end of Enshrouded’s crafting. Every Cinder’s Cradle armor set needs it for its chest piece. Vorgoth’s Soulbound Chest is one example, a level 45 Legendary Ranger chest from the Ancient Researcher with 98 Magical and 98 Physical Armor. The Placeable Gem Forge and the Ancients Night Door also call for it.
The eternal arrows and spells are the other major sink, and each one burns two or three infusions per craft.
| Item | Type | Infusions used | Crafted by |
|---|---|---|---|
 Eternal Ember Arrow III | Arrows | 2 | Hunter |
 Eternal Voltaic Arrow III | Arrows | 2 | Hunter |
 Eternal Arc Lightning II | Spell | 3 | Alchemist (Laboratory) |
 Eternal Blizzard II | Spell | 3 | Alchemist (Laboratory) |
 Eternal Pillar Of Flames I | Spell | 3 | Alchemist (Laboratory) |
 Eternal Protective Barrier | Spell | 2 | Alchemist (Laboratory) |
Those recipes also pull heavily from the same pool of Sparkling Dust, Magma Gel and Celestium Bars the infusion itself uses. Keeping the Mill and the Blast Furnace busy in the background saves you a lot of waiting once the altar starts running.
