Practical routes through Ashenfall
One useful next step.
Start from the question in front of you. Each guide connects preparation, materials and the next part of the journey.
Start and prepare
Build the camp, make your tools and plan the next fight.
Your first hour in Ashenfall
Build a useful camp, prepare food and water, and work towards your first mining upgrade.
Read the guide 02 / Tools & resourcesHow to get the Bone Pickaxe
The materials, leather chain and crafting station you need before mining copper and tin.
Read the guide 03 / Crafting progressionBuild a Furnace and start smelting
Separate station construction, ore inputs and processing fuel before your first metal run.
Read the guide 04 / ExplorationHow to unlock fast travel
Build Lodestones, budget Vault Cores and leave room for the return journey.
Read the guide 05 / SurvivalHow healing works now
Current food, health progression and poison rules, with obsolete Early Access advice called out.
Read the guide 06 / First dragonPrepare for General Velgar
A preparation guide for the Dragon Slayer encounter, updated for the health rework.
Read the guideFind the missing material
Gathering routes connect named areas, tool requirements and the next upgrade.
Flax, thread and leather: a Bramblemead gathering route
Gather blue-flowered Flax and animal materials, then turn the haul into thread and leather for your first upgrades.
Read the guide 10 / Resource routesWhere to gather Clay for your Kiln and Furnace
Reach the eastern Whispering Swamp deposits with the right pickaxe and a construction budget.
Read the guide 11 / Resource routesCopper and Tin: your first Fractured Plains ore run
Cross from Whispering Swamp, recognise both ores and bring home a balanced load for bronze.
Read the guide 12 / Resource routesIron Ore: the eastern Stormtouched Highlands route
Prepare a Bronze Pickaxe, scout the Highlands border and return with enough ore for a specific upgrade.
Read the guide 13 / Resource routesVault Shards and Cores: start with South Temple Woods
A landmark route through Crasorak Kara, with the distinction between dropped shards and collectible cores.
Read the guideFollow the story
Quest starts, progression gates and the hand-ins that finish each chapter. Contains story spoilers.
Quest progression: from Temple Woods to Umbral Sands
Find the next story quest, its starting point and the preparation that connects each region.
Read the guide 15 / Quest progressionDragon Slayer walkthrough: Cathan, the Challenge Horn and Velgar
Follow the quest from Bramblemead to the final hand-in, with the tools and material locations that block progression.
Read the guide 16 / Quest progressionWithering Heights: Fellhollow entry and the three Curse Fragments
Find the entry sequence, fragment locations, four Emberwood shrines and the hand-in after Imaru.
Read the guideReturn to Ashenfall
Check movement and version changes before following older advice.