Crimson Desert Gets Its Biggest Patch Yet, Adds Difficulty Settings, Much-Needed Storage Improvements, and Even Birds as Pets

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has released update 1.04.00, which makes important improvements to the game. Chief among them is the summation of trouble settings, caller retention improvements, caller pets, keyboard/mouse and controller preset options, caller class tabs for the inventory, caller skills, improvements to distant scenery quality, and a batch more.

It’s worthy digging into the details here. Hard trouble makes it truthful ft point effects won’t beryllium applied immediately, and volition lone instrumentality effect aft the depletion animation is complete. This volition marque it intolerable to retrieve wellness by spamming food. Instead, you're going to person to carve retired the abstraction and clip to bash so. In hard trouble you besides instrumentality much damage, and the maximum health, aggressiveness, and wide velocity of opponents is increased. You besides get a reduced timing model for parry and dodge, reduced invincibility duration for roll, and accrued frequence of bosses attempting to counterattack oregon flight erstwhile hit. And beryllium warned: Pearl Abyss said it had added further combat patterns for definite bosses. Hard trouble volition brace good with the upcoming brag rematch feature, which volition fto you look disconnected against bosses of your choice.

Easy difficulty, connected the different hand, reduces the harm taken by the player, reduces the maximum health, aggressiveness, and wide velocity of opponents, and extends the timing windows for parry and dodge. Normal is the trouble we’ve each been playing truthful far.

There’s a batch much to similar astir this patch. It adds the Sturdy Gatherables Chest, which tin beryllium acceptable up with the lodging system. It has 1,000 slots and tin beryllium purchased from furnishings shops. This is crucial: materials stored successful the Sturdy Gatherables Chest tin beryllium utilized for crafting oregon refinement adjacent if they are not carried successful your inventory. That’s going to prevention a batch of clip for players!

Similarly, the Kuku Cooler and Enhanced Kuku Cooler items are added to the game, and tin beryllium placed with the lodging system. The Kuku Cooler tin beryllium obtained done a quest, portion the Enhanced Kuku Cooler tin beryllium crafted. Both tin beryllium utilized to store nutrient items and ingredients. Ingredients stored successful either cooler tin beryllium utilized for cooking adjacent if they are not carried successful your inventory. Again, a invited clip saver.

Moving on, Pearl Abyss has added birds arsenic pets, which volition springiness those who are gathering their carnal armies a batch much to do. Elsewhere, determination are 5 caller types of feline pets, and you tin alteration the names of horses and pets. Pets person a caller slot for caller items that gives them caller abilities and behaviors, too.

And this is brilliant: Pearl Abyss has made yet different bug an existent feature:

• Fixed an contented wherever cats could stay connected the player's enarthrosis indefinitely, contrary to the intended design. However, considering that galore Greymanes really liked these cats' behavior, we person added an point that allows cats to enactment connected the enarthrosis for a longer play of time.

There are large changes to combat, too. Bosses are nary longer immune to subordinate attacks portion performing almighty attacks, which should marque them easier overall. Kliff, Damiane, and Oongka person caller skills to play astir with, too.

As expected, there’s a batch successful this spot that Pearl Abyss hadn’t announced was connected the way, and players are digging into it to find retired what’s new. It looks similar the biggest update yet for Crimson Desert, which has enjoyed tremendous occurrence since going connected merchantability successful March. These updates person drastically changed the game, and the gait of their merchandise is singular for a triple-A, single-player unfastened satellite enactment adventure.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Crimson Desert, including praise from the manager of The Witcher 3, a hidden nutrient effect strategy that a modder has restored, and an awesome quality creator mod. We urge you instrumentality a look astatine our usher to Things to Do First successful Crimson Desert, positive Things Crimson Desert Doesn’t Tell You (we’ve got 28 and counting!). We’ve besides got a usher to the Best Early Weapons we urge picking up, the Best Skills to Get First (including a useful explainer of the skills system), and 34 Essential Tips and Tricks to assistance you win successful Pywel.

The spot notes, courtesy of Pearl Abyss, are below:

Crimson Desert update 1.04.00 spot notes:

• Easy / Normal / Hard trouble options person been added to Settings > Play. For experienced Greymanes looking for much aggravated and thrilling combat, Hard trouble offers a much challenging journey.
  • For those who person enjoyed galore brag fights and are looking to situation them again, the brag rematches diagnostic allowing you to look disconnected against the bosses of your prime volition beryllium added soon.
  • Easy
    • Reduced harm taken by the player.
    • Reduced maximum health, aggressiveness, and wide velocity of opponents.
    • Extended timing windows for Parry and Dodge.
    • Reduced the frequence of bosses attempting to counterattack oregon flight erstwhile hit.
  • Normal
    • This is the trouble you person been playing truthful far.
  • Hard
    • Food point effects won't beryllium applied instantly and volition lone instrumentality effect aft the depletion animation is complete.
    • Increased harm taken by the player.
    • Increased maximum health, aggressiveness, and wide velocity of opponents.
    • Reduced timing model for Parry and Dodge.
    • Reduced the invincibility duration for Roll.
    • Increased the frequence of bosses attempting to counterattack oregon flight erstwhile hit.
    • Added further combat patterns for definite bosses.
• Added the Sturdy Gatherables Chest which tin beryllium acceptable up with the lodging system.
  • The Sturdy Gatherables Chest has 1,000 slots and tin beryllium purchased from furnishings shops.
  • Materials stored successful the Sturdy Gatherables Chest tin beryllium utilized for crafting oregon refinement adjacent if they are not carried successful your inventory.
• Added the Kuku Cooler and Enhanced Kuku Cooler items which tin beryllium placed with the lodging system.
  • The Kuku Cooler tin beryllium obtained done a quest, portion the Enhanced Kuku Cooler tin beryllium crafted. Both tin beryllium utilized to store nutrient items and ingredients.
    • Kuku Cooler: 40 slots
    • Enhanced Kuku Cooler: 330 slots.
  • Ingredients stored successful either cooler tin beryllium utilized for cooking adjacent if they are not carried successful your inventory.
• Added the Collectibles Chest which tin beryllium placed done lodging mode.
  • The Collectibles Chest tin beryllium utilized to store assorted quest items and crafting recipes.
  • The Collectibles Chest has 1,000 slots and tin beryllium obtained done a quest.
• Added an outfit retention diagnostic to the Wardrobe, which tin beryllium placed done lodging mode.
  • The Wardrobe tin beryllium purchased from furnishings shops.
  • Each Wardrobe provides 100 retention slots, and the full retention capableness increases based connected the fig of wardrobes placed.
  • The maximum outfit retention capableness is 1,000 slots.
• Added the Select House enactment wherever you tin alteration the layout of your house.
  • Selectable location types unlock based connected the Greymane Camp enlargement level.
    • Compact House
    • Standard House
    • Spacious House
    • Spacious Pailunese House
• Improved lodging mode-related UI and controls.
• Added a relation that allows each furnishings items placed done the lodging mode to beryllium retrieved each astatine once.
• Improved the Greymane Camp.
  • After moving the campy to Pailune, you volition person the Private Storage point which tin beryllium placed done lodging mode.
  • Added a good to Howling Hill.
• Improved the reflection diagnostic truthful that Abyss artifacts tin beryllium earned erstwhile observing a accomplishment that had already been acquired by utilizing Abyss artifacts.
• Improved the pursuing items, which were antecedently unstackable, to present stack successful the inventory:
  • Regular Abyss gears, insects, fish, and animals
• Added birds arsenic pets. You tin brushwood these caller companions passim Pywel.
  • Added the Sotdae of Bond point which allows you to summation Trust with birds.
  • Place assorted types of nutrient that birds mightiness similar connected the Sotdae of Bond to provender them and summation Trust.
  • The Sotdae of Bond tin beryllium obtained done a quest.
• Added 5 caller types of feline pets.
• Improved the Abyss Heuklang truthful that it tin go your pet.
• Added a relation to alteration the names of horses and pets.
• Fixed an contented wherever cats could stay connected the player's enarthrosis indefinitely, contrary to the intended design. However, considering that galore Greymanes really liked these cats' behavior, we person added an point that allows cats to enactment connected the enarthrosis for a longer play of time.
  • Added an accessory slot for pets, which volition let pets to present instrumentality connected a wider assortment of roles.
    • Sigil of Bonding: Equipping this point connected a favored feline ensures it to enactment longer connected your shoulder.
• [Damiane] Added a caller exclusive one-handed weapon, the Sword of Starlight, which tin beryllium obtained done a quest.
• [Kliff/Oongka] Added 2 caller one-handed weapons, Tree Branch and Sturdy Tree Branch.
  • These items tin beryllium obtained by cutting down trees and bamboo trees.
• Added a caller tool, Sturdy Broom.
• [Kliff] Added the caller Baltheon armor outfit.
• Changed the sanction of Rekhia Plate Helm to Baltheon Plate Helm and improved it truthful that it tin beryllium equipped by Kliff.
• Added a concealed store successful Pororin wherever favored instrumentality tin beryllium purchased.
• Added further outfits to definite shops, including the Back Alley Shop.
• Improved the Kuku Flame-Resistant Armor and the Kuku Ice-Resistant Armor truthful that they tin beryllium dyed.
• Added assorted ores and wells crossed Pywel.
• Reduced the magnitude of onslaught and defence gained from instrumentality reinforcement with grindstones and anvils.
• Fixed an contented wherever the cloudcart could not beryllium called.
  • Improved the cloudcart truthful that it tin beryllium utilized arsenic a imperishable mount.
  • Changed the cloudcart crafting ngo truthful that it tin lone beryllium completed once.
• Improved the prices of goods sold by Greymane NPCs truthful that they tin beryllium bought astatine a 10% discounted price.
• Added livestock vendors crossed Pywel.
  • Livestock specified arsenic cows, pigs, goats, sheep, ducks, and chickens tin beryllium purchased from these NPCs.
• Added 13 caller tattoos for characters.
• Added a "Lock" relation that prevents selling oregon discarding of the selected item.
• Improved gathering and mining truthful that the quantity of items obtained is applied consistently.
• Improved resting successful furniture truthful that the player's quality gets up instantly afterward.
• Improved NPCs to amusement a wider assortment of reactions to their surroundings.
• As portion of ongoing ocular improvements, replaced prime 2D ocular assets to amended align with the game's creation direction.

Controls

• Added a preset diagnostic for some keyboard/mouse and controllers.
  • The archetypal controls are disposable via the "Classic Preset".
  • More elaborate controller customization volition beryllium added soon.
• Added a diagnostic where, erstwhile the enactment cardinal is pressed, the corresponding enactment is performed immediately.
  • [Keyboard/Mouse] This feature, located successful Settings > Input > Keyboard/Mouse Customization, tin beryllium utilized erstwhile the UI enactment conception does not overlap with the keys successful the Default Input Group. If the keys overlap, that conception volition beryllium highlighted successful yellow.
  • [Controller] This diagnostic tin beryllium utilized done the default settings successful Settings > Input > Controller Customization.
• Added the "Evasion Control" and "Switch Roll and Evasion Input" options.
  • This diagnostic allows you to take betwixt either the archetypal treble click/press enactment oregon the clasp option.
  • Enabling the "Switch Roll and Evasion Input" enactment switches the controls for Roll and Evasion.
• Improved the controls for aiming
  • Added a relation that allows you to crook your lantern connected and disconnected portion aiming.
  • Improved the controls truthful that adjacent erstwhile a limb is drawn, pressing purpose portion determination is an interactable people adjacent volition instantly power to purpose alternatively of guard.
• Added the "Using Skill: Element" option.
  • Selecting "Quick Slot Option" allows you to usage the selected elements assigned for each idiosyncratic input.
• Changed the controls for Vault.
  • Vault tin present lone beryllium utilized by pressing Jump portion performing a antithetic attack.
• Changed each interactions truthful that they are executed continuously portion the fastener is held down.
• [Keyboard/Mouse & Controller] "Dismount/Drop" and "Cancel" keys/buttons person been combined.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Expanded the scope of customizable cardinal bindings.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Changed the Escape cardinal utilized portion nether presumption effects to lucifer the Evade key.
• [Controller] Improved the representation truthful that it tin beryllium opened by holding the DualSense interaction pad oregon the Xbox controller's View button.

Combat/Action

• Adjusted the wide equilibrium of bosses.
  • Changed bosses truthful that they are nary longer immune to subordinate attacks portion performing almighty attacks.
  • Adjusted the frequence astatine which bosses counterattack oregon flight portion being deed consecutively.
  • Adjusted the onslaught signifier of definite bosses.
• Increased harm taken from elemental presumption ailments.
• Slightly reduced the harm dealt erstwhile hitting enemies with pillars oregon trees.
• Added caller charging stages for Force Palm Pulse.
  • The accomplishment tin beryllium charged up to 3 stages, with harm expanding progressively.
• Improved the wide velocity of "Examine" erstwhile examining items.
• Improved the velocity of pushing oregon rotating objects during puzzles.
• Improved follow-up attacks truthful they link much rapidly adjacent erstwhile the archetypal onslaught is blocked.
• Changed Blinding Flash truthful that it tin besides beryllium utilized successful areas wherever weapons cannot beryllium drawn.
• Changed Blinding Flash truthful that it is utilized toward the people presently being faced during combat.
• Improved onslaught chaining aft utilizing Dodge during unarmed combat.
• [Kliff] Added the accomplishment Weapon Throw, usable portion dual wielding.
  • This quality tin beryllium utilized with the aforesaid controls arsenic Shield Bash.
  • Weapons tin beryllium retrieved by pressing the aforesaid controls oregon by approaching it.
• [Kliff] Improved the onslaught velocity of Force Palm.
• [Kliff] Fixed an contented wherever the parry enactment aft guarding would not trigger erstwhile a non-sword limb was equipped arsenic the superior weapon.
• [Kliff] Fixed an contented wherever Charge could not beryllium utilized with definite weapons.
• [Kliff] Improved Force Current truthful that Kliff nary longer falls from ledges erstwhile utilizing it.
• [Damiane/Oongka] Added the accomplishment Ambush.
• [Damiane/Oongka] Added a accomplishment that has the aforesaid effect arsenic Kliff's Focused Force Palm.
• [Oongka] Fixed an contented wherever Oongka could not determination horizontally during Vertical Flight.
• [Oongka] Improved Oongka's blaster truthful that it tin beryllium fired during Flight.
• [Oongka] Fixed an contented wherever Scatter Shot could beryllium utilized adjacent without bullets during Back Hang.
• Improved "Examine" truthful that it tin beryllium utilized successful your inventory portion mounted connected a horse.
• Improved the brightness and detection scope of the Miner's Lantern Hat truthful that it tin much easy place gatherable ores.
  • It tin present place chromatic arsenic well.
• Changed the healing effects displayed connected targets affected by Healing Force Palm.
• Fixed an contented wherever the "Lift" enactment became unavailable erstwhile a restrained people fell into water.
• Fixed an contented wherever stamina would retrieve erstwhile repeatedly drafting and stowing weapons portion moving.
• Fixed an contented wherever sprinting, swimming, and immoderate different actions could not beryllium performed portion riding the Marni's Mechahorse.
• Fixed an contented wherever the quality would get stuck successful definite situations portion operating mechanical devices.
• Improved spears and longswords truthful that their attacks travel much people during combat.
• [Damiane] Improved Quick Reload truthful that, successful summation to being acquirable by accomplishment observation, the accomplishment tin besides beryllium acquired with Abyss Artifacts. (Added: 2026/04/23)

UI Fixes & Improvements

• Improved the inventory truthful that items tin beryllium viewed done class tabs.
  • There are 5 categories: All, Documents, Equipment, Food, Materials, and Others.
  • The Sort settings for each inventory class are saved and volition stay successful effect adjacent aft restarting the game.
  • The aforesaid class tabs volition besides beryllium added to the backstage retention successful the adjacent future.
• Improved the inventory UI truthful that grouped icons volition amusement an icon with a typical representation of that group.
  • The diagnostic whitethorn beryllium turned connected oregon disconnected successful Settings > Play > Show Group Icon successful Inventory.
• Separated the input options for "Ungroup" and "Ungroup All Items".
• Added "Filters/Search" relation to the map.
• Improved the representation and minimap truthful that icons are displayed for obtained Memory Fragments.
  • After Memory Fragments are obtained, lanterns volition nary longer show a detection signal.
• Added a diagnostic that allows players to take the signifier and colour of representation markers.
• Improved the representation to show the banal presumption of store items for shops with whom maximum spot has been reached.
• Improved the representation and minimap to show good icons.
• Improved the minimap to show north, south, east, west.
• [Kliff/Damiane/Oongka] Adjusted the layout of the Skills menu.
• Improved the Faction Quests and Challenges UI to amusement the fig of quests and challenges available.
• Improved the Journal truthful that reward point accusation tin beryllium viewed.
• Added a UI show to shops that amusement however galore of an point the subordinate owns.
• Improved shops' bargain paper to show the conditions required for purchasing deactivated items.

Graphics & Settings

• Improved the rendering prime of distant objects and textures. The higher the graphics settings, the much enhanced the details and ocular clarity volition be.
  • Fixed an further contented wherever inheritance objects that should lone look nether definite conditions were ever disposable from a distance.
• Improved the ocular prime of characters astatine agelong distances.
• Improved hairsbreadth lighting successful shaded areas.
• Improved errors and flickering related to displacement mapping.
• Added a "Max" size for the subtitle font size setting.
• Improved to support the camera's region to the quality erstwhile adjusting the ocular range.
• Added a "Colorblind Mode" enactment successful Settings > Accessibility.
• Added a "Chromatic Aberration" enactment successful Settings > Accessibility.
• Added a "Photosensitive Mode" enactment successful Settings > Accessibility.
• [PC] Improved the prime of "AMD FSR Ray Regeneration".
• [PC] Improved the prime of "Intel XeSS 3.0" upscaling and "Intel XeSS Frame Generation".
• [Steam] Fixed an contented wherever actions requiring rotation of the close stick, specified arsenic Nature's Snare and reeling successful a sportfishing rod, did not relation decently with an Xbox controller erstwhile the "Enable Steam Input" was enabled.
• [Mac] Reduced stuttering during gameplay.
• [Mac] Added a "MetalFX Denoising Upscaler" enactment successful Settings > Video. This enactment is disposable starting from macOS Tahoe.
• [Mac] Fixed an contented wherever switching betwixt aggregate displays nether Settings > Video did not enactment smoothly.
• [Mac] Fixed an contented wherever the crippled would motorboat astatine an unintended solution erstwhile utilizing definite displays.
• [Mac] Improved HDR prime and allowed HDR to beryllium enabled by default "For This Mac" preset erstwhile utilizing an HDR-compatible display.
• [Mac] Fixed an contented wherever the surface appeared excessively acheronian erstwhile disabling HDR aft it had been enabled.

Stability, Gameplay

• Changed the Load paper to show a announcement successful a slot if the prevention information is corrupted oregon invalid.
• Fixed an contented that caused the crippled to clang if HDR was enabled connected a show that does not enactment HDR.
• Fixed respective stableness and clang issues crossed PC, console, and Mac.

Localization

• Fixed assorted localization errors and improved localization prime crossed each languages.

Others

• Tumbleweeds person been added to godforsaken regions.
• Fixed an contented wherever the "Display Weapons" mounting was not applied decently successful definite cutscenes and gameplay situations.
• Fixed an contented wherever the people determination would show incorrectly erstwhile a bounty people quest failed.
• Fixed the bounty strategy truthful that if the player's bounty is excessively precocious to crook successful a bounty target, bringing the people to the Constabulary volition trigger an apprehension authorities alternatively of the handover cutscene.
• Improved comrades' behaviour truthful they bash not onslaught bounty targets.
• Fixed an contented where, aft completing definite quests, tracking of the consequent quest did not trigger properly.
• Improved the Journal to bespeak whether a quest people has been dispatched connected a mission.
• Improved the advancement show for cumulative quests specified arsenic "To the Rescue".
• Fixed an contented wherever the crippled would occasionally adjacent erstwhile retrying bosses arsenic Damiane oregon Oongka.
• Fixed an contented wherever the quality power paper became disposable aft completing a signifier that automatically switched the subordinate character.
• Fixed an contented wherever teleporting via the representation portion mounted connected Blackstar caused Blackstar to go invincible oregon incapable to move.
• Fixed an contented wherever Blackstar would not determination erstwhile summoned from a distance.
• Fixed an contented wherever an point was displayed incorrectly erstwhile speechmaking a Memory Fragment with the lantern.
• Fixed an contented successful the Prologue wherever enemies would not admit the subordinate aft the subordinate rested successful a bed.
• Fixed an contented that caused an inifite loading surface to look if the subordinate was caught cheating astatine Duo arsenic Oongka.
• Fixed an contented wherever NPCs were incapable prime up items they had dropped aft colliding with the player.
• Fixed an contented wherever immoderate outfits looked unnatural depending connected the player's movements.
• Improved the show of the equine cargo truthful it nary longer overlaps with shields.
• Fixed an contented wherever audio did not play decently successful definite situations.
• Fixed an contented wherever a definite Pailune merchant NPC would not look successful immoderate prevention files.
• Fixed an contented wherever the ngo would neglect if a bounty people was killed aft being captured.
• Fixed an contented wherever Trust would not summation aft giving a acquisition to the brag of the Beggars' Alliance.
• Fixed an contented wherever the effects of the items Golden Beer and Sage's Eye did not use properly.
• Fixed an contented wherever applicable Knowledge was not acquired aft interacting with the Pailune Militiamen.
• Fixed an contented wherever the cognition for Tristan, the Flame Knight, Marni's Machina Knight, and Dreadnought could not beryllium acquired.
• Fixed an contented wherever Greater Abyss Gear could not beryllium sold.
• Fixed enhancement materials, crafting materials, and reinforcement levels that had been acceptable otherwise from the instrumentality worldly type.
• Fixed assorted different in-game issues.

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