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Building Boundaries in Embervale

Flame Altars serve as the technical heart of every base in Enshrouded, establishing the protected buildable area and providing essential sanctuaries from the encroaching Shroud. However, the game engine enforces specific constraints on the quantity and scale of these altars to maintain technical stability and prevent world-data bloat. Understanding these limits is important for community owners who wish to manage a high-population server with active builders.

Difficulty

Beginner

Time

3 Minutes

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Technical Constraints & Logic

As of the current development build, Flame Altar limits are governed by the world’s collective progression rather than simple configuration variables.
  • Global Server Limit: There is a hard-coded technical cap on the total number of simultaneous active altars permitted per server instance.
  • Progression-Based Scaling: The number of available slots for altars frequently scales with the world’s overall “Flame Level.” As players contribute resources to strengthen the global flame, new territorial slots are programmatically unlocked.
  • Configuration Registry: Currently, there is no direct variable within the enshrouded_server.json file to forcefully override these architectural limits.

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Strategic Community Management

To maximize your server’s architectural potential within the engine’s constraints, we recommend implementing the following community guidelines.
Encourage your participants to form guilds or groups. Shared Flame Altars allow multiple players to contribute to a single massive stronghold rather than depleting the server’s global altar quota on redundant, individual outposts.

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Advanced Modding Workarounds

While official support for a “Limitless” building mode does not yet exist, certain unofficial server wrappers and experimental mod frameworks may provide early-access methods for bypassing these boundaries. Please be aware that using unauthorized modifications to change world-scale limits can lead to significant database corruption and world-save instability.

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Last Updated: January 2026 | Enshrouded: Flame system active.