Conan Exiles Brimstone Locations: Best Farming Routes

Brimstone is the mid-game bottleneck nobody warns you about: you need it for Steelfire (which makes Steel Bars, which make every decent weapon, tool and building reinforcement), and the nodes are scattered, radioactive-looking, and often guarded by rocknoses. The good news is the farm is simple once you know the zones: a handful of clusters hold the majority of the map's 89 brimstone nodes, and a loop between two of them fills your forge for a week. This guide lists the confirmed brimstone locations, the rocknose harvesting trick, and the routes that make the farm fast.

Here's what you'll learn:

• What brimstone is actually for (steelfire, steel, explosives) and why you'll never stop needing it
• The confirmed farming zones: Sinkhole, Shattered Springs, Unnamed City outskirts, the volcano
• The rocknose harvesting method — free brimstone from creatures
• The route-planning loop that makes farming one trip instead of five
• Whether Enhanced changed anything (spoiler: no)

What Brimstone Is For

Brimstone is the sulfur-like component of the metal and siege chain. The official wiki's Steel Bar page is the anchor fact: "The crafting of steel requires Iron and Steelfire, a peculiar additive made from Tar and Brimstone." That single sentence makes brimstone the gate on the entire steel tier:

• Steelfire = Tar + Brimstone (Furnace)
• Steel Bar = Iron Bar + Steelfire
• Hardened Steel Bar = Steel Bar + Black Ice (see the building materials guide for the full metal chain)

Brimstone also feeds explosive crafting (the siege meta on PvP servers), some alchemy recipes, and — after the 2026 updates — demand from the crafting economy hasn't dropped; every clan forge runs on the same two clusters.

Per the official Brimstone wiki page, brimstone is a craftable and harvestable ingredient, including a sorcery-based transmutation route ("Diluted Sorcerous Lifeblood" into brimstone) for players who'd rather spend corruption than time.

The Confirmed Brimstone Zones

The map's ~89 brimstone nodes cluster in four areas (the node census comes from MapGenie's Exiled Lands layer, cross-checked against community farming guides):

Two things make the farm reliable: node positions don't move between patches (they regenerate in place), and the Enhanced UE5 upgrade did not touch world layout — the interactive-map guide's sources confirm coordinates and node positions are identical to the pre-Enhanced build. So any map you pin today stays accurate.

The Rocknose Trick: Free Brimstone

The fastest reliable brimstone in the early-mid game isn't a node at all — it's rocknoses. These rock creatures drop brimstone and stone when harvested with a pickaxe (the official wiki lists the Rocknose Carcass as a brimstone source). Farming pattern:

1. Find a rocknose spawn area (the classic early spot is near the Noob River region; rocknoses are common around stone-heavy zones).
2. Kill and skin them with a pickaxe — you get stone plus brimstone per carcass.
3. Loop the spawn until the creatures respawn.

It's slower per-hour than the big node clusters but zero-risk and accessible from level 10, which is exactly when you hit the first steel wall. Combine both: rocknose loop for daily top-ups, a Sinkhole/Shattered Springs run for bulk.

Does Enhanced Change Brimstone?

No. The UE5 upgrade was purely visual — the sources behind our interactive map guide confirm that "coordinates, resource node positions, thrall spawn rings, and named NPC routes are all unchanged from the Age of Heroes UE4 build." The brimstone clusters you pinned in 2025 are exactly where they were in 2026. The only thing that changed is the competition: Enhanced brought tens of thousands of players back, so on populated servers the good clusters get stripped faster — farm in off-hours or on a private server, and use the player count data to pick quieter windows if you want to test that theory.

FAQ

Where can I find brimstone in Conan Exiles? The four confirmed zones are the Sinkhole (grid H/6), Shattered Springs (dense but gassed), the Unnamed City outskirts, and the volcano (highest yield, hottest zone). Rocknoses also drop brimstone when harvested with a pickaxe. Node positions are stable across patches.

How do you get brimstone quickly in Conan Exiles? Loop two clusters: farm the Sinkhole rim, run to Shattered Springs, teleport home via a Map Room. For a zero-risk early supply, kill and harvest rocknoses with a pickaxe — they drop brimstone from level 10 onward.

What is brimstone used for in Conan Exiles? Brimstone + Tar makes Steelfire, which is required for Steel Bars (the mid-game metal tier), and it feeds explosive and alchemy crafting. The official wiki calls Steelfire "a peculiar additive made from Tar and Brimstone."

Can you farm brimstone from rocknoses? Yes. Rocknose carcasses are a documented brimstone source — harvest them with a pickaxe for stone plus brimstone. It's the safest early-game farm, if slower than the big node clusters.

Does the Enhanced update change brimstone locations? No. The Enhanced upgrade was purely visual; resource node positions are unchanged from the pre-Enhanced build, so existing maps and coordinates remain accurate.

Related Guides

• Conan Exiles Building Materials Guide
• Conan Exiles Interactive Map Guide
• Conan Exiles Gameplay Guide
• Conan Exiles Sorcery Guide
• Conan Exiles Player Count & Steam Charts
• Conan Exiles Console Commands

Official resources: Steam store page · Official wiki — Brimstone · Official wiki — Steel Bar · MapGenie Exiled Lands map

Last Updated: August 13, 2026