Enshrouded Night Sanctums: How to Open & Where

Every Night Sanctum has a pin on our map. The first one a story quest points you to is the Elder's Night Sanctum near the Springlands and Revelwood border (the quest file names both regions), where the Barber sleeps: the journal quest Illuminate The Night marks it for you. The journal describes the door: The barrier you've set out to investigate revealed itself to be a door. However, the star and moon ensemble decorating its facade indicates this to be no ordinary door, and it doesn't seem susceptible to force.

For the other 29, use the table below. The enemy level around a sanctum is that of its region; the files do not store a level per sanctum.

20 of the 30 map pins say the sanctum "requires a Spark to open". The other 10 (Elder's Night Sanctum; Night Sanctum #1 — Low Meadows; Night Sanctum #2 — Low Meadows; Night Sanctum #1 — Springlands; Night Sanctum #3 — Springlands; Night Sanctum #2 — Springlands; Night Sanctum #2 — Revelwood; Night Sanctum #1 — Revelwood; Night Sanctum #3 — Revelwood; Night Sanctum — Blackmire) carry no such note, so we cannot tell you what their doors need; the Elder's sanctum is opened as part of its quest. A Spark also strengthens your Flame at the altar, and the game's own text on where to get them is: "Find Sparks in Flame Sanctums and Flame Shrines."

Look for the Flame Shrines on the Flame Shrine map. The files do not say whether a Spark is used up by a door, so keep a spare.

Per region, what the pins and the chest layers give. "Typical enemy level" is the median spawn level of the region in the 1.0 files, with the middle 80 % band in brackets. "Chests" counts the chest layers of the map within 150 m of each sanctum's pin (wooden, silver, gold, locked and sarcophagi).

Two sanctums are tied to quests in the journal. Illuminate The Night (main quest) ends with "Summon The Barber": the Elder's Night Sanctum holds a sleeping survivor, the Barber.

Contraptions And Mechanisms (side quest, from the Carpenter) sends you to the "Night Sanctum" in Revelwood (Night Sanctum #1 — Revelwood, "On top of the hill."). The game's text: "The Ancients use traps and other fare in their Night Sanctums." What you get there is the tool for the Sparkworks Workbench, the Carpenter's logic station.

Not stated. The 1.0 files we read hold the sanctums' placements and chests, not a respawn rule for them, so we do not say yes or no.

Every Night Sanctum, from the lowest enemy level to the highest. "Opens with" is what the map pin says; "not stated" is no information, not "free".

3 pins note the sanctum is inside the Shroud, so bring your Shroud time up with the Shroud guide. Not in the files: a level for each sanctum, whether a sanctum opens only at night, and the contents of the chests beyond what the loot tables of the chest map give.