Conan Exiles — Progression Route

Establish basic survival and a first permanent foothold. Follow the Journey objectives early — they teach the crafting chain in a sensible order.

• Create your character and choose a starting region

  Either map. Enhanced lets you move between them later without restarting
• Collect Stone, Wood, Plant Fiber and Branches
• Craft basic tools, a weapon, and clothing or armour
• Make a Waterskin and establish a reliable food source
• Place a Bedroll and build a small shelter with basic storage
• Build a Campfire
• Start working through the Journey objectives
• Locate Ironstone and Coal
• Craft a Furnace and produce Iron Bars
• Upgrade to Iron tools and weapons
• Build the Armorer's, Blacksmith's and Carpenter's Benches, and a Tannery
• Begin producing Leather and unlock better armour
• capstoneReach a stable base with iron gear and working crafting stations

Move past bare survival into the systems that carry the rest of the playthrough: a long-term base, thralls, and a mount.

• Choose a long-term base location and expand your crafting area
• Create dedicated material storage
• Stockpile Iron, Coal and Brimstone, and produce Leather in quantity
• Begin producing Steel Fire, then Steel Bars
• Upgrade your crafting stations, armour, weapons and harvesting tools
• Craft a Truncheon and Fiber Bindings, and build a Wheel of Pain
• Capture your first thrall
• Acquire a Fighter thrall, and an Archer if you want one
• Acquire your first crafting thralls
• Start hunting Tier III and Named/Tier IV thralls
• Level your primary combat follower

  Combat thralls start at level 0 and train to 20
• Acquire a foal, build a Stable and raise a Horse
• capstoneCraft a Saddle and start exploring mounted

⭐ The Enhanced change that matters most. Stop treating the two regions as separate campaigns. Adherent of the Outer Dark NPCs move you between them — several exist in the Exiled Lands, and Siptah has return transport including an Adherent at the Camp of the Castaways. You do NOT have to relocate permanently: a main base on one map plus an expedition outpost on the other is the effective pattern.

• key unlockLocate an Adherent of the Outer Dark
• Travel to the other region and discover your arrival location
• Confirm you know how to get back before you commit to anything
• Place a Bedroll and basic supply storage in both regions
• Scout a secondary-base location on the second map
• capstoneIdentify the important resource locations on both maps

From ordinary survivor to established exile. Everything here is shared progression and pays off on both maps.

• Maintain a reliable Steel supply
• Upgrade to Steel tools and weapons, and improve your armour
• Expand your permanent base and build improved crafting stations
• Acquire stronger combat thralls and better crafting thralls
• Establish reliable healing-item and food production
• Create backup equipment sets
• Begin stockpiling Alchemical Base and collecting Demon Blood
• Start killing 1-skull and easier world bosses
• capstonePush into increasingly dangerous biomes

Shared character progression, so it benefits you on both maps. The Tome of Kurak is the core progression item and upgrades at the Thaumaturgy Bench.

• Obtain the Dead Sorcerer's Map and begin the Sorcery quest
• Obtain the Tome of Kurak
• Build a Thaumaturgy Bench
• Collect Sorcerous Spell Pages and upgrade the Tome
• Unlock additional Words of Power
• Experiment with corruption and unlock useful utility spells
• key unlockUnlock the Transportory Stone

  The highest-value Sorcery unlock in Enhanced specifically, because your character now operates across a far larger combined world
• capstoneBuild a transport network linking your bases, outposts and production sites

• Produce Hardened Steel and upgrade your tools
• Craft advanced weapons and armour
• Upgrade your important crafting stations
• Build separate high-level combat and harvesting equipment sets
• Stockpile healing supplies and food buffs
• Acquire a high-quality combat thrall and level it toward 20
• Begin farming bosses and collecting Legendary equipment
• Begin farming Fragments of Power
• capstoneBe ready for Level 60 content

Reaching the cap is not the end. It is the point where gear, recipes, followers, dungeons and map completion replace character levels as the progression system.

• Reach Level 60
• Unlock the Level 60 Knowledge you want
• Craft Star Metal equipment and Epic armour
• Assemble an endgame weapon set and armour set
• Get a combat thrall to Level 20 and optimise its equipment
• Upgrade your primary base
• Build an expedition base on the opposite map
• Establish convenient cross-map transportation
• capstoneBegin systematic dungeon and Legendary farming

The Dregs is the introductory dungeon of the Exiled Lands.

• Locate and enter The Dregs
• Defeat the Abyssal Remnant and collect its rewards and recipes
• Explore the Darfari territories
• Explore Black Hand territory and discover the Black Galleon
• Discover Sepermeru and the major Relic Hunter locations
• Begin exploring the Jungle and discover the major Lemurian locations

A practical order. These lead gradually toward the map's hardest content.

• Palace of the Witch Queen0 / 4

  In the Jungle. Unlocks several Lemurian equipment Knowledges

  • Reach the Jungle and enter the Palace
  • Defeat the Witch Queen
  • Collect the Mask of the Witch Queen
  • Learn the Lemurian equipment recipes
• Midnight Grove0 / 3

  • Locate the entrance and enter the Grove
  • Defeat its bosses and its final boss
  • Learn the Jhebbal Sag Knowledge
• The Barrow King0 / 3

  • Reach the Mounds of the Dead
  • Obtain access to the tomb
  • Defeat the Barrow King and collect his artifact
• Traverse The Passage

  Partly a dangerous shortcut between sections of the map — worth learning for the route as much as the loot

• Reach the Frozen North safely
• Learn how Star Metal deposits work, and gather Star Metal Ore
• Produce Star Metal Bars and craft Star Metal tools and weapons
• Reach the Black Ice deposits and establish reliable farming
• Stockpile Black Ice for high-tier crafting

• The Black Keep0 / 2

  • Enter the Black Keep and defeat its boss
  • Learn the Silent Legion equipment Knowledge
• The Well of Skelos0 / 3

  • Prepare heat protection and explore the Volcano
  • Enter and complete the Well of Skelos
  • Defeat its boss and collect its Knowledge
• The Sunken City0 / 3

  Entered from the area around Dagon's Embrace

  • Find the route and enter the dungeon
  • Complete its encounters and defeat its bosses
  • Collect the Dagon equipment Knowledge
• Warmaker's Sanctuary0 / 3

  Bring a full Level 60 loadout, strong healing and an equipped follower

  • Enter and complete the Sanctuary
  • Defeat the Champion of the Warmaker
  • Farm the equipment you want
• Wine Cellar0 / 3

  • Reach Sepermeru and enter the Wine Cellar
  • Complete its encounters and defeat its major bosses
  • Defeat Thag

The map's major repeatable endgame farming area, and the home of the Library of Esoteric Artifacts.

• Explore the entire Unnamed City and locate its major bosses
• Kill your first Unnamed City boss
• Farm Legendary equipment
• Collect Fragments of Power
• Locate the Library of Esoteric Artifacts
• key unlockSpend Fragments of Power on the recipes you want

The current Enhanced endgame story arc, begun July 21 2026. Planned as four free parts; only Part One has released, so Parts II–IV are placeholders and deliberately carry no invented detail.

• Reach the Unnamed City and find Akhamet
• Begin Legacy of the Giant-Kings
• Enter the Cyclopean Halls

  Part One takes place beneath the Unnamed City
• Explore the sacrificial chambers and descend into the lower sections
• Complete the dungeon and defeat its boss
• Acquire its unique rewards
• key unlockUnlock and use the Legendary repair system

  Returned with this content — lets you restore damaged Legendary equipment
• unreleasedComplete Part II when it releases
• unreleasedComplete Part III when it releases
• unreleasedComplete Part IV when it releases

• Discover all major regions
• Discover all Obelisks and unlock the Map Room
• Clear every dungeon on this map

  The Dregs, Palace of the Witch Queen, Midnight Grove, Barrow King, The Passage, The Black Keep, The Well of Skelos, The Sunken City, Warmaker's Sanctuary and the Wine Cellar
• Defeat the major Unnamed City bosses
• Complete your Library of Esoteric Artifacts goals
• Complete the Cyclopean Halls and all available Legacy of the Giant-Kings content
• capstoneObtain the Legendary equipment you want

Siptah has its own systems: Elder Vaults, Eldarium, the Maelstrom, Leyshrines and Surges. ⚠️ Do not treat the centre of the map as an ordinary low-level zone — the Maelstrom is meant to be dangerous and is part of advanced progression.

• dlcExplore the coastline and locate the NPC settlements and camps
• Locate the Tower of Siptah
• Locate at least one Elder Vault
• Locate a Leyshrine
• Enter the edge of the Maelstrom once you are prepared
• Explore the western and eastern regions, and scout the southern islands

Siptah-exclusive dungeons — fourteen of them, themed around eight elder races: Bat Demons, Demon Spiders, Fiends, Fishmen, Goblins, Harpies, Serpentmen and Wolfmen. Level 40+ for a first attempt; Level 60 for systematic farming.

• Enter your first Elder Vault and learn its mechanics
• Defeat the Vault boss
• Loot Decaying Eldarium and obtain a Sigil
• Work through all fourteen Elder Vaults0 / 5

  • Clear your first Vault
  • Clear 3 different Vaults
  • Clear 5 different Vaults
  • Clear 10 different Vaults
  • Clear all 14 Elder Vaults

The biggest reason an Enhanced character should spend real time on Siptah even with a main base in the Exiled Lands.

• Obtain Decaying Eldarium and learn how to produce and use Eldarium
• key unlockBuild a Delving Bench
• Research your first Delving recipe
• Farm more Eldarium
• Unlock the weapon and armour recipes you want
• Build out an Eldarium equipment collection

Vault rewards that function as character buffs.

• Obtain your first Sigil and learn its effect
• Collect different Sigils from further Vaults
• Settle on a preferred Sigil combination
• Re-farm important Sigils after losses
• capstoneCollect every Sigil and build a full endgame setup

The storm around the island's centre. Creatures from the outer void spawn inside it.

• Enter the Maelstrom and survive your first encounter
• Kill Maelstrom creatures and learn which you can farm efficiently
• Gather the Maelstrom-related resources
• Establish a nearby staging location if you plan to farm it
• Progress the associated Journey objectives

Siptah's own method of obtaining specialised NPCs and thralls, many unavailable from ordinary camps.

• Discover a Leyshrine and learn its mechanics
• Gather the resources a Surge requires
• Activate your first Surge and defeat the arrivals
• Capture useful thralls from it
• Repeat Surges for the thralls you want, and try different factions
• capstoneObtain high-tier Surge thralls

The Pools of the Grey Ones sit in the southern Isle of Dawn area. Figurines found across Siptah summon creatures at the three Pools.

• Reach the Pools of the Grey Ones and learn how the three Pools operate
• Collect Figurines and use your first one
• Defeat a summoned creature, then farm summoned bosses
• Collect the rare drops and recipe rewards, and learn the Grey Ones weapon Knowledge
• Explore the Grey Ones ruins and defeat elite Grey Ones
• Master the southern Siptah islands
• Reach the Tower of Siptah and explore its surroundings
• Obtain the available Tower Knowledge and spend Fragments of Power on Siptah recipes

• Explore the entire main island, the Isle of Dawn and the Isle of Dusk
• Explore the major NPC camps and discover all Leyshrines
• Clear all 14 Elder Vaults and collect the Sigils you want
• Master Eldarium crafting and the Delving Bench
• Complete the Pools of the Grey Ones summons and obtain the Grey Ones Knowledge
• Collect the Siptah schematics you want
• capstoneComplete the Siptah Journey objectives

Your follower network becomes its own permanent progression system.

• Obtain a strong Named Fighter and level it to 20
• Optimise its attributes through levelling
• Equip it with endgame armour and a endgame weapon
• Obtain backup Fighters and any specialised followers you want
• Collect high-quality crafting thralls0 / 10

  • Blacksmith
  • Armorer
  • Carpenter
  • Alchemist
  • Cook
  • Taskmaster
  • Tanner
  • Smelter
  • Priest
  • Performer
• dlcFarm Surges for thralls that are rare or unavailable elsewhere

• Establish a defensible settlement and learn the Purge mechanics
• Build a dedicated Purge base if you want one
• Complete an introductory Purge
• Increase the difficulty, improving defences and defensive thralls as you go
• Farm Purges for thralls and rewards
• capstoneComplete the highest difficulty your build handles reliably

Far more meaningful in Enhanced than it was in legacy Conan Exiles, because it is one character rather than two.

• Exiled Lands — main settlement and a northern resource outpost
• Exiled Lands — Volcano and Unnamed City staging points
• Exiled Lands — a Purge base and your transport locations
• dlcSiptah — main outpost and a Vault staging base
• dlcSiptah — Maelstrom and southern-islands staging areas
• dlcSiptah — a Pools of the Grey Ones staging point and transport locations
• capstoneJoin it all with a working cross-map transport network

• Defeat a 1-skull boss, then a 3-skull boss
• Farm World Bosses on both maps
• Obtain Legendary weapons and armour
• Test different Legendary builds
• Repair your valuable Legendaries through the Enhanced repair system
• Establish repeatable boss farming routes on both maps

• Exiled Lands — dungeon Knowledge and Library recipes
• Exiled Lands — Religion Knowledge and world-discovered recipes
• Exiled Lands — cooking, brewing, armour and weapon recipes
• dlcSiptah — Vault Knowledge and Delving Bench recipes
• dlcSiptah — Grey Ones and Tower recipes, and schematics
• dlcSiptah — Eldarium equipment and Siptah-specific Knowledge

The point where progression becomes collection, optimisation and mastery rather than levelling. There is no finish line here — take what you want from it.

• Optimise your attributes and build multiple endgame builds
• Fully develop Sorcery
• Complete your endgame armour sets and weapon collection
• Complete your Legendary collection and Sigil setup
• Field multiple Level 20 combat thralls and fully equipped base defenders
• Clear every major dungeon and Elder Vault, and defeat every major boss
• Unlock the Knowledge, Delving and Library recipes you want
• capstoneHold a major base on each map, joined by transport, resource and farming networks