Enshrouded 1.0 Max Level, Skill Points and Tree Reset

The Enshrouded 1.0 max level is 50, gear tops out at level 55, and every Early Access skill tree resets the first time a save loads in 1.0. Enshrouded 1.0 released on 15 October 2026 on Steam (PC) and PS5, and hotfixes 1.0.0.1 and 1.0.0.2 followed; the rules below come from the 1.0.0.0 changelog of 14 October 2026.

The 1.0 changelog sets the new maximum player level at 50 and the maximum equipment level at 55 when fully upgraded. These are two separate caps: one limits your character, the other limits how far gear can be upgraded. Before 1.0 the community wiki tally was built on levels 2 to 45, so level 50 is five levels higher than that Early Access tally.

The changelog’s highlights pair the new cap with a new survivor who specialises in Ancient knowledge and recipes, plus a new tier of crafting progression and new equipment, tools, food, arrows and spells tied to Cinder’s Cradle. You can read the full text in the 1.0 changelog on Steam, and the rest of our coverage sits in the Enshrouded guides hub.

Your world is not wiped. Keen’s Launch FAQ of 13 October 2026 says Early Access saves remain usable and convert to a new save format when loaded in 1.0, and PC Early Access owners do not need to buy the game again.

Keep your Early Access character

This is allowed: the Launch FAQ says you can absolutely keep using Early Access saves after release. You will meet the reset either way, since it is tied to loading the existing save.

Start a fresh character

The same FAQ says Keen strongly encourages starting over, because the world and the first hours of the game changed. The 1.0 changelog describes reworked early-game camps and encounters, and a first level-up that is designed to land when you place your first Flame Altar. The skill tree reset does not apply to a brand-new character, since there is nothing to reset.

The 1.0 changelog says Shroud Roots give skill points, and it adds 12 new ones in Cinder’s Cradle plus 6 additional ones in the new areas near the world edge of the older biomes, especially the Springlands, Blackmire and the Kindlewastes. Levels are the other source. Per the community-maintained Official Enshrouded Wiki, an Early Access tally gave 2 points per level, 1 per Shroud Root and 3 per Elixir Well. Whether those per-source values changed in 1.0 is not stated in the 1.0 changelog.

Our reading, arithmetic only: if the Early Access values of 2 per level and 1 per Root still hold, levels 46 to 50 would add 10 points and the 18 new Roots would add 18. That is not a confirmed 1.0 figure, and it ignores any change to Elixir Wells.

Cost in time: the changelog gives no XP per level, so there is no honest hour count for levels 40 to 50. The countable chunk is 18 new Shroud Roots to find: 12 in the new biome and 6 at the edges of older ones.

The changelog names eight new combat skills, and Keen’s 1.0 Combat post of 23 September says what each does; the table below follows it. The tree also gained a centre skill and a few relocations, which matters because you are respending anyway.

Airborne Architect at the centre

The changelog adds a skill called Airborne Architect at the centre of the skill tree, and it enables building in a free-flying mode. Its point cost is not in the changelog text we read; check it in the tree.

Moved and rebalanced skills

Dagger-related skills moved from the warrior area to the assassin tree. Unlock costs and effectiveness of several skills were rebalanced, and a few skills such as Veteran, One-Handed Specialization, Inner Fires and Snap changed position.

Three different things are called a skill reset in Enshrouded, and they work differently. The rules below come from Keen’s update notes of 2024–2026; we have not re-checked the prices in the 1.0 client, so confirm them on screen before you spend Runes.

The full reset at the altar and its price come from the Melodies of the Mire and Souls of the Frozen Frontier notes. Single-skill unlearning arrived with Pact of the Flame, and Patch #14 fixed a bug so that only the last node in a chain can be fully unlearned: you cannot pull a skill out of the middle of a path while the skills after it stay active.

Levels 40 to 50 come from normal XP gain; the changelog does not say which activities or areas supply them. It does say defeating the final boss unlocks a further Flame level, raising the altar cap to 16 and letting altars push back the Shroud.

We have not found, in Keen’s posts or in the 1.0 client, the total skill points at level 50, whether the 1-Rune-per-point respec price from 2024 still applies, or whether the 1 point per Root and 3 per Elixir Well values changed. The 184-point figure you will see in guides is an Early Access count from before 1.0; treat it as that until a source checks it against the release build.

Sources and Confidence

This table separates what the studio has confirmed and what is not confirmed yet. Each claim below is tied to the post and the game version it describes.