If you’ve ever spent 20 minutes trekking back to your base after getting mauled by a shroud wolf at 2 a.m. in Enshrouded, you know how frustrating it is to spawn at the default starting point every time you die. That’s exactly why one of the first core items you should craft when you set up your first outpost is a bed. Learning how to make a bed in Enshrouded doesn’t just give you a cozy spot to rest, it’s one of the most impactful quality of life upgrades you can unlock in the early game. I’ve put more than 80 hours into Enshrouded so far, and I still make a point to craft a bed within the first 30 minutes of any new playthrough, no matter what build I’m running.
What You Need to Make a Bed in Enshrouded (Exact Crafting Requirements)
Before you can craft your first bed, you’ll need to gather a small set of common materials that are easy to find even in the starting grasslands biome. You don’t need any advanced workbenches for this craft, either—all you need is the basic hand crafting menu you have access to from the second you spawn into the world.
The required materials are:
- 8 Plant Fiber: You can get this by picking up small bushes, tall grass, and wild plants scattered across non-shrouded areas. One lap around the starting plateau will net you more than enough for this craft.
- 3 Wood Logs: Chop down any small or medium tree with your starting stone axe to get these. You won’t need to cut down any of the large ancient trees to get enough wood for a bed.
- 2 Resin: This drops randomly when you chop trees, so you’ll almost certainly get enough while you’re gathering the wood logs for this recipe. If you’re having bad luck, look for pine trees in higher elevation areas, they drop resin more frequently.
I’ve seen a lot of new players waste time looking for cloth or other rare materials for their first bed, but that’s only required for higher tier bed variants later in the game. The basic starter bed only needs those three items, so you can put it together almost immediately after you pick a spot for your first base. Just make sure you’re standing in a non-shrouded area when you go to place it, because you can’t place any furniture inside the shroud mist.
Step-by-Step Process to Place and Use Your Bed
Once you have all your materials gathered, crafting and placing your bed takes less than a minute, but there are a few small rules you have to follow to make it work properly. First, open your hand crafting menu and navigate to the furniture tab to select the basic bed recipe. Once you’ve crafted it, you’ll need to place it in a valid spot to activate its perks.
Your bed has to be placed under a solid roof and on a solid, built floor to work. You can’t just set it down on the bare dirt under an open sky, even if you’re in a non-shrouded area. I made this mistake my first playthrough— I plopped my bed down next to my campfire under the stars, and I couldn’t set it as my spawn point no matter how many times I interacted with it. You don’t need a fancy base, either: a simple 3x3 wood floor and a basic wood roof held up by two support beams is more than enough to meet the placement requirements.
Once it’s placed correctly, walk up to it and press the interact button. You’ll see two options: set as spawn point, and sleep. Select set as spawn point first, that way if you die on your next expedition into the shroud, you’ll pop up right next to your bed instead of all the way back at the starting altar. The sleep option lets you skip straight to morning if you don’t want to deal with night time enemy spawns, which is perfect if you’re low on healing items and don’t want to fight off wandering ghosts after dark.
Key Perks of Having an Active Bed in Your Base
A lot of new players write off the bed as a nice-to-have cosmetic item, but it actually gives you three very practical benefits that make surviving in Enshrouded way easier. I never go more than a couple of in-game days without setting up at least one bed, even if I’m just building a small outpost near a shroud zone I’m exploring.
First, it gives you a fixed spawn point that saves you hours of travel time over the course of a playthrough. If you’re exploring a far-off biome full of rare resources, setting up a small outpost with a bed means you don’t have to run all the way from your main base every time you die to a tough enemy or fall off a cliff. That alone makes the 10 minutes it takes to gather materials and build a small outpost worth it.
Second, sleeping in your bed gives you the Well Rested buff that lasts for 15 in-game hours. This buff increases your stamina regeneration by 10% and your experience gain by 5%, which is a huge help when you’re grinding for levels or mining large amounts of ore. The buff even stays active if you head into the shroud, so it’s perfect to grab before you head out on a long expedition.
Third, it lets you skip bad weather and dangerous night cycles. If you log in right as a thunderstorm hits or the sun is setting, you can just hop in bed and skip straight to clear, sunny daytime without having to wait 10 real minutes for the cycle to pass. That’s a huge quality of life boost if you don’t feel like fighting off extra enemies that spawn during storms or at night.
Upgrading Your Basic Bed: Is It Worth It?
Once you progress further into Enshrouded and unlock the tailor workbench, you’ll get access to higher tier bed variants like the stuffed bed and the royal bed. A lot of players wonder if spending extra rare materials to upgrade their bed is worth the effort, and the answer depends on how you play the game.
Higher tier beds give you a longer lasting Well Rested buff, and some of them give extra stat boosts like increased max health or faster mining speed. The royal bed, for example, gives you a 20% stamina regeneration boost and 10% extra experience gain for 30 in-game hours, which is double the bonus you get from the basic bed. That said, the materials required for these upgraded beds are a lot harder to come by: you’ll need cloth, iron bars, and even golden nuggets for the highest tier variants.
If you’re playing on a higher difficulty level or you spend most of your time fighting tough bosses and exploring high level shroud zones, upgrading your bed is absolutely worth the investment. The extra stat boosts will make every fight and every resource run a little bit easier. If you’re a casual player who mostly builds and explores the lower level biomes, the basic bed will work perfectly fine for your entire playthrough, and you can save those rare materials for other crafting projects like better weapons or armor.
At the end of the day, the bed is one of the simplest, most useful items you can craft in the early stages of Enshrouded. It doesn’t require any rare materials or advanced workbenches, and the perks it gives you far outweigh the small amount of effort it takes to put together. Whether you’re a brand new player still figuring out the basics or a veteran starting a new playthrough, taking the time to learn how to make a bed in Enshrouded is one of the first things you should do to set yourself up for a smooth, fun survival experience. Next time you spawn into a new world, skip the extra resource runs for fancy tools first, and put together a bed as soon as you pick your base spot—you’ll thank yourself later the first time you die and spawn right at home instead of halfway across the map.