Best Farm Routes: Honey, Resin & Metal Scraps
Do not hunt wild honey: build a Honey Beehive. The world holds only 18 honey pickups; a hive turns 1 sugar into 5 honey. Resin comes from trees, not pickups: stumps, deadwood and fallen trunks give about 4+ per chop, and Springlands and the Albaneve Summits hold the most. Metal scraps bunch in the Kindlewastes: 36 of the 117 placed spots, plus enemy drops.
- Honey pickups18in the whole world
- Honey per sugar5in 2 min 30 s
- High-yield resin nodes18,3184+ resin per chop (ours)
- Scrap spots117Kindlewastes has 36
Honey, resin and metal scraps are three cheap materials with three different problems. Honey barely exists as a pickup. Resin is everywhere, but only some wood is worth chopping. Scraps are scattered in small groups, and a few enemies carry them.
Every stop below is ours, built from the 1.0 placement files (the rule is under "How the routes are built"). The game files hold no route and no spawn timer, so there is no promise a spot refills. Single pages for each item: Honey, Resin, Metal Scraps. Crops are in the farming guide.
Honey: build the hive
Wild honey is the weak option. The files place 18 honey pickups, all in Revelwood, Nomad Highlands and Kindlewastes, and two of the spots are the camps the Beehive Smoker quest sends you to anyway. The wiki also says natural beehives on trees respawn; those are not in our files. A hive in your base is the real source:
Finish A Beehive Smoker
The Farmer sends you to "Far Away Fray" Tavern (Kindlewastes), then to Beehive Smoker Shipment Route (Kindlewastes), then to Vukah Sacrifice Hill (Nomad Highlands). The smoker it returns unlocks the Honey Beehive.Craft the Honey Beehive
Emily Fray (Farmer) makes it from 4× Wood Logs, 20× Straw, 4× Lump of Clay, and the smoker is a prerequisite (the smoker itself: 3× Lump of Clay, 3× String, 2× any of Sand, Fine Sand, Veilwater Basin Sand or Cinder's Cradle Sand).Make sugar
Cooking Station turns 10 sugar cane into 5 sugar in 1 min 30 s. Sugar cane grows from a seedling in the Seedbed; see farming.Feed the hive
The hive turns 1 sugar into 5 honey every 2 min 30 s (the file also lists 2 water charges). That is 2.5 honey per sugar cane. It also makes Wax: 3× any of Plant Fiber or Paper Reed for 1, in 2 min.
| Stop | Region | Items | From the last stop | Nearest Spire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Vukah Sacrifice Hill (Honey quest) | Nomad Highlands (16–20) | 8 | start | Kindlewastes, 1,451 m |
| 2. Beehive Smoker Shipment Route (Honey quest) | Kindlewastes (21–27) | 5 | 660 m | Nomad Highlands, 1,271 m |
Resin: chop the right wood
Resin is the one material where the answer is not a place but a kind of tree. In the files, 174 kinds of tree and stump drop it, but only 21 of them are worth the swing: their drop list is about 80 percent resin, with 5 or 6 drops a chop, which is 4 or more resin per node by our arithmetic (drops per node times the resin share; the game may roll differently). By their template names they are the stump, fallen-trunk and deadwood nodes and the Springlands resin trees. You find them by looking, not by a map pin: the files give no coordinates for trees.
Where they are, counted per region (the five best of 8):
| Region | Enemy levels | High-yield nodes | All resin nodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albaneve Summits | 28–35 | 9,484 | 22,280 |
| Springlands | 3–9 | 6,221 | 22,447 |
| Nomad Highlands | 16–20 | 1,265 | 5,002 |
| Revelwood | 11–15 | 927 | 4,312 |
| Kindlewastes | 21–27 | 290 | 9,583 |
Our pick by stage
Early, in the Springlands: 6,221 high-yield nodes, so any wood will do. Mid game, the Nomad Highlands carry 1,265. At the top, the Albaneve Summits hold 9,484 dead trees, but its enemies run level 28–35. The wiki adds that red-leaf trees give more and that you can grow Revelwood Red Leaf Seedlings.
Resin pickup stops, nearest-neighbour order
| Stop | Region | Items | From the last stop | Nearest Spire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Pikemead's Reach | Revelwood (11–15) | 5 | start | Revelwood, 1,288 m |
| 2. Flame Shrine | Revelwood (11–15) | 3 | 1,978 m | Revelwood, 809 m |
| 3. Vukah Ceremony Hill | Springlands (3–9) | 5 | 2,338 m | Low Meadows, 371 m |
| 4. Cave Passage | Nomad Highlands (16–20) | 5 | 1,235 m | Low Meadows, 1,358 m |
| 5. Hidden Temple | Kindlewastes (21–27) | 5 | 1,759 m | Nomad Highlands, 662 m |
Metal scraps: Kindlewastes first
The files place 117 metal scrap spots (63 lootable corpses, 54 pickups on the ground). Kindlewastes has 36 of them, and the three richest stops are all there. Run them in this order, starting from the nearest Ancient Spire:
| Stop | Region | Items | From the last stop | Nearest Spire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. East Lapis | Kindlewastes (21–27) | 12 | start | Kindlewastes, 1,147 m |
| 2. Cave Passage | Kindlewastes (21–27) | 7 | 453 m | Kindlewastes, 1,035 m |
| 3. Flame Sanctum | Kindlewastes (21–27) | 7 | 778 m | Nomad Highlands, 1,005 m |
| 4. Elixir Production Site (290 m away) | Albaneve Summits (28–35) | 6 | 1,736 m | Nomad Highlands, 900 m |
| 5. Woodgard | Springlands (3–9) | 4 | 4,444 m | Springlands, 450 m |
| Enemy | Entries in its corpse table |
|---|---|
| Hollow Hound | 100% per kill · ×2–3; 100% per kill · ×1–2; 25% per kill (one of 2) · ×1 |
| Hollow Summoner | 100% per kill · ×2–3; 100% per kill · ×1–2; 25% per kill (one of 2) · ×1 |
Enemies carry them too
In the 1.0 files the fixed corpse tables list Hollow Hound and Hollow Summoner as scrap carriers. The wiki also names Scavengers as the early source and says destroyed metal objects drop scraps; we could not check either in the fixed tables. With only 117 placed spots in the world, drops are the larger supply.
How the routes are built
Each stop is the densest circle of 300 m around a placed spot, with at least 3 items (honey, resin) or 4 (scraps), counted and removed, up to 5 stops. The order is nearest neighbour from the richest stop, in straight-line metres, not a walking path. The Spire column is the nearest fast-travel point. Region and level come from the game's biome map. The 5 resin stops hold 23 of 61 pickups; the 5 scrap stops 36 of 117.
Common mistakes
Walking the honey pickups for a supply. There are 18; build the hive.
Chopping every tree for resin. 153 of 174 kinds are poor; wait for stumps, deadwood and fallen trunks.
Expecting a spot to refill. We found no refill rule for pickups in the files.
Forgetting the quest. The Honey Beehive is locked behind the Farmer's smoker quest; see the quest order.
Related guides
Enshrouded Farming Guide (1.0): Seedbed, Soil, Crops
Enshrouded 1.0 farming from the game files: the Seedbed's 63 recipes, Farm Soil and the better soils, what to plant and where each crop grows wild.
Enshrouded Gold Chest Routes by Level (1.0)
324 Gold Chests in Enshrouded 1.0 and the dense spots to run, region by region from level 3 to 50: how many chests each route holds and the order to walk it.
Enshrouded Quest Order: Unlock Every Crafter & Station
Which Enshrouded quests to do first for crafting: the order to rescue the 7 crafters, the 19 station quests and how many recipes each opens, from the 1.0 files.