How to Unlock the Infusion Altar in Enshrouded 1.0

The Infusion Altar is a Rare crafting station added with Enshrouded 1.0, and it only becomes available once you bring the Ancient Researcher back to your base. That survivor is Loraine Crim, and her soul is waiting deep inside Cinder’s Cradle, the lava region that stayed locked behind closed gates through all of Early Access. Reach her, settle her next to a bed, and the altar recipe opens up in her crafting menu.

Quick answer: Travel northeast past the Ancient Gate to the Cinder’s Ascent waypoint, collect Loraine Crim’s soul from the barred room under the ruins, place her as the Ancient Researcher beside a sheltered bed, then craft the Infusion Altar from her menu.

Recover Loraine Crim’s soul at Cinder’s Ascent

Cinder’s Ascent is a platform inside Cinder’s Cradle, the volcanic region north of the Veilwater Basin. You pick it up through the main quest “Land Of The Sky Islands,” which points you to look around the area and rewards 6,400 XP. The platform itself sits empty and inactive, but a lost soul nearby holds the key to reactivating it.

Open the world map and head northeast past the Ancient Gate into the volcanic biome until you hit the Cinder’s Ascent waypoint. The quest is flagged as a Hard difficulty area, so expect enemies several levels above you.

Map location walkthrough — Set your route from the map: Cinder's Ascent lies northeast of the Ancient Gate. Shown at 00:39 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

On arrival, cross the stone bridges of the temple structure and follow them up toward the upper stairs. The route leads you over and around the ruins toward an enclosed section underneath.

Approaching the temple entrance — The stone bridges of the temple lead up toward the soul chamber below the ruins. Shown at 00:13 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Find the metal-barred doorway tucked under the structure and open the iron door. Inside the gated room you’ll see a glowing apparition.

Approach the apparition and claim Loraine Crim’s soul. A “SOUL DISCOVERED! LORAINE CRIM” notification confirms you obtained it, and the Decoration Workbench gains the Cultivation Rack recipe.

Collecting Loraine Crim's soul in the barred chamber confirms the pickup and unlocks a new recipe. Shown at 00:56 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Place Loraine Crim as the Ancient Researcher

A survivor’s soul does nothing until you summon them at a base with a bed under a roof. Once Loraine is settled, she fills the Ancient Researcher role and her full crafting list becomes available, including the Infusion Altar.

Fast travel back to your base or Flame Altar.

Summon Loraine Crim and place her next to a sheltered bed. The shelter requirement matters, since the altar recipe only unlocks when she is crafting under a roof.

Talk to her. You gain a skill point and receive the quest “Activating The Gate To The Stars,” which continues the Cinder’s Cradle storyline.

Open her Ancient Researcher menu and select the Infusion Altar under the Production Place category. If you have the materials, build it there.

Loraine also makes the Placeable Gem Forge, the Ancient Workbench, the Archaic Lockpick and more, so she’s worth keeping stocked once she joins the base.

Infusion Altar crafting requirements

The altar is built by the Ancient Researcher and needs a sheltered bed nearby to appear as a recipe. Here is everything the craft consumes and where each ingredient is produced.

Ingredient	Amount	Made at	Source
Basalt	30	Gathered	Cinder’s Cradle
Gold Dust	10	Mill	Gold Bars
Celestium Bars	5	Blast Furnace	Celestium Ore
Moonstone Dust	1	Mill	Moonstone
Diamond Dust	1	Mill	Diamond

Basalt is a dense volcanic stone mined directly in Cinder’s Cradle, so gather it while you’re in the region. Celestium Ore also comes from the deposits that formed across Cinder’s Cradle after a meteorite impact, and it’s smelted into bars at the Blast Furnace. The three dusts are all ground at the Mill from their respective raw forms.

Ingredient reference for the Infusion Altar

Every crafted ingredient for the altar sits at item level 45 and carries Common rarity, with each one stacking to 250. Use this to plan your gathering runs before you commit the materials.

Material	Item level	Rarity	Station
Celestium Bars	45	Common	Blast Furnace
Celestium Ore	45	Common	Cinder’s Cradle
Moonstone Dust	45	Common	Mill
Diamond Dust	45	Common	Mill

Moonstone Dust and Diamond Dust each come out of the Mill at one per craft, so a single run covers the altar’s needs for both. Celestium Ore is the only piece that ties you to the lava region itself, which is convenient since you’ll be collecting Basalt there anyway.

What the Infusion Altar produces

After placing the altar, you can craft Archaic Infusion from its menu. This material is made by refining components from before recorded history, and the Ancient Researcher can use it. It is a level 45 Common item, produced in batches of five and stackable up to 250. The full chain is working when the altar appears at your base and its menu lists Archaic Infusion as a craftable recipe.