If you try to start your survival in Enshrouded step by step and follow the initial guidelines, you will face far fewer complications in the gameplay. However, if you try to explore the world right after waking up, you will probably need to stop that exploration from time to time to grind for new tools.
Enshrouded: How To Craft String
String is a crucial material in Enshrouded, and while it can be found in the world, there are easier ways to get it.
Grappling Hook is one of the first major tools that will open up new exploration methods for you, the most important of which is traversing to the other side of the Braelyn Bridge. However, you might wonder how you can actually craft it. We have the answer!

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How To Craft Grappling Hook
Before you can craft a Grappling Hook, you need tobuild a Workbench. So, cut a bunch of trees to get Wood Logs and craft someStringsto build your first Workbench through the character’s personal craft station on the menu. Now, if you interact with the Workbench, you will find Grappling Hook.
It requires3Metal Scraps, that you can collect from by destroying metal pods inside the altar where you woke up at the beginning of the game. Then you will need10 Shroud Spores, which can be collected bylooting the blue-ish creatures inside the Shrouded zonesafter killing them. Finally, you need some Strings again.

Once you craft Grappling Hook, enter the menu, and head to the Character tab. Here, you can equip the Grappling Hook through its dedicated slot on the bottom left. Now, if you get close enough to the swingable area on top of the Braelyn Bridge, you will get a button prompt. Hold it down, and your character will swing over the gap and land on the other side of the bridge.
Aside from the bridge, the Grappling Hook will prove its value when solving platforming puzzles inside the rest of the Flame Shrines. So, if you want to unlock new fast travel spots on the map, you must equip a Grappling Hook.

Enshrouded: Where To Find Metal Scraps
Metal Scrap is an essential material for most weapons and armor pieces in Enshrouded, but it is difficult to find a large amount of it early.