Greetings Adventurers, 

 

December is here and brings some winter scenery to the world of Black Desert Online. Enjoy the snowfall during the entire day and beautiful auroras during nighttime!

We will also add a new Family Inventory system and an option to transport your mounts. We hope this will help you in your adventures!

 

 

 

[New Events]

• Winter is Here!

  • Period: December 2 (after maintenance)–December 30 (before maintenance)

  • During the event period, enjoy heavy snowfall during the entire day and beautiful auroras at night!

 

Heavy snowfall and magical auroras have come to Black Desert. We wish you a happy, albeit cold, winter season in Black Desert.

• Who will Win? KR vs TW

  • Have you noticed the global siege rounds happening in other serviced regions of Black Desert Online? This time, Korea will face off against the Taiwan (Taiwan & Hong Kong & Macao) team in a world conquest war. Though this global conquest war isn't for our region, we wanted to give the chance for NA and EU adventurers to take part by rooting for and guessing who may win!

  • During the 2 siege round periods, simply claim an [Event] Nutritious Bibimbap if you think the KR team will win, or claim [Event] Sweet Milk Tea if you think TW team will win offered in the Challenges tab (Y).

    • Pick the winner for 1st round: December 3, 00:00 UTC–December 6, 09:00 UTC

      • 1st reward distribution (to mailbox (B)) on December 9 regular maintenance.

    • Pick the winner for 2nd round: December 7, 00:00 UTC–December 12, 09:00 UTC

      • 2nd reward distribution (to mailbox (B)) on December 16 regular maintenance.

  • You may use the [Event] Nutritious Bibimbap or [Event] Sweet Milk Tea claimed in your Inventory to get the energy recovery effect. Even if you had used the item, your vote will still be eligible to receive the reward.

  • If you guessed correctly and claimed the item that belongs to the winning team, you will receive:

    • Advice of Valks (35–45) x1

    • [Event] Enhancement Help Kit II x1

  • If you didn't guess correctly and claimed the item that belongs to the losing team, you will still receive:

    • Advice of Valks (25–35) x1

    • [Event] Enhancement Help Kit I x1

  • If you'd like to tune in to the world conquest war (KR vs TW), the schedule is:

    • 1st round: December 6, 2020 (Starts 13:00 CET/04:00 PST)

    • 2nd round: December 12, 2020 (Starts 13:00 CET/04:00 PST)

    • You can watch the KR stream (unavailable in English) <Here>.

 

[Ongoing Events]

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Event 2. Go Fishing: November 25–December 9 (before maintenance)

  • Event 3. Arcana Log-in Challenge: November 25–December 31 (23:59 UTC)

 

[Ended Events]

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Event 1. Weekend Season Server Coupons!

• Basilisk Subjugation

  • Those who have the quest [Event][Weekly] Gorgo's Nightmare (Hard) accepted already will be able to complete this quest by defeating Basilisk Guardian and receive Gorgo's Nightmare Fragment as loot until December 9 (before maintenance).

• Bonus! Attention All Season Characters

• Targargo and Targarga

• November Enhancement Aid

  • Challenge 2. [Event] Morden Secret Trade Voucher I II, lll will end December 1 (23:59 UTC) as scheduled.

  • However, you can still claim [Event] Morden Secret Trade Voucher I, [Event] Morden Secret Trade Voucher II, and [Event] Morden Secret Trade Voucher III items from the Challenges tab (Y) until December 16 (before maintenance).

  • NPC Tawner Morden with whom you hand over the blue-grade accessories will also stay until December 16 (before maintenance).

  • After today's maintenance, in-game tooltip of the voucher items will also be changed to state that you can complete the quest as long as you have a voucher, and only during the event period up to Dec. 16 (before maintenance).

  • Please make sure to exchange all of your voucher items with Tawner Morden until December 16 (before maintenance) as no more exchanges will be allowed from then on even if the voucher items will not be deleted. 

 

[Reward Distribution]

• 'Stay Secure and Earn a Reward' rewards were sent out via in-game mailbox.

  • Please claim these rewards sent out today before January 20, 2021 regular maintenance or they will disappear.

  • Please note this event runs until December 31, 2020 and you can check the full announcement <Here>.

 

• Family Inventory
  
  Shakatu, the Valencian Mogul, discovered a special ancient artifact at Cantusa Desert and has called upon adventurers to visit Shakatu's Territory. After witnessing the ancient artifact, adventurers have dubbed it the "Family Inventory."

  • What is a Family Inventory?

  • Family Inventory is a convenient bag that all characters in the same family have access to. However, only consumable items listed below can be placed in this inventory.

    • 1) Scrolls

    • 2) Food

    • 3) Elixirs

    • 4) Pet Feed

    • 5) Worker Stamina Recovery Food

  • The Family Inventory can be obtained through quests or through the Pearl Shop by purchasing the Family Inventory Slot Coupon with Pearls or Loyalties, which creates a "Family Inventory" category within the Inventory upon use.

  • Starting weight of Family Inventory is 100LT. The Family Inventory can be expanded up to 28 slots.

  • Please note that the below items cannot be moved to the Family Inventory.

    • 1) Items bound to characters

    • 2) Oasis exclusive items

    • 3) Items purchased from the Guild Shop

    • 4) Content-specific items (such as Guild, Red Battlefield, Savage Rift items)

    • 5) Certain event items

  • Items that do not have “Can be placed in The Family Inventory” in their item description cannot be placed in The Family Inventory. Check out the item's tooltip for more details.

  • Added quest to obtain the Family Inventory.

    • Accept Black Spirit Suggested Quest [Shakatu's Gift] Invitation (Lv. 60 and above) to receive a Family Inventory +2 Expansion Coupon.

    • The quest can be viewed in both Quest List (O) - Recommended tab and [Lv. 60] Bag of the Stars in the New Quest tab. Quests related to Shakatu’s hidden gifts will not be shown separately.

    • This quest is only available once per family.

  • You can check the official WIKI page on Family Inventory <Here>.
     

Over the past few years, we've had many voices from all over the world requesting a Family-shared inventory space. We thought having the Maid/Butler system and the addition of the Central Market would satisfy this need, but the requests were still frequent. So we decided to finally add the Family Inventory. However, only certain types of items can be placed in the Family Inventory. You can obtain the Family Inventory via a quest, which will start you off with 2 slots and 100LT. Slot expansion coupons can be purchased with Pearls and Loyalties.

 

• Fixed the issue with the horizontal scroll when playing a composition in the Compose window.

 

• End of Autumn Season

  • All remaining Autumn Season characters who've yet to convert will be converted to regular characters.

    • All unaccepted nor incomplete "Season-related quests" will be deleted.

    • Adventurers who have yet to complete the quest “[Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World” will receive the following items in their Mailbox (B) - Gift Box Full of Memories, Fughar's Letter of Encouragement, [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box.

      • Gift Box Full of Memories, Fughar's Letter of Encouragement can be claimed without an expiration date from your mailbox.

      • [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box must be claimed from your mailbox and used before December 9 regular maintenance.

  • You may use the Tuvala Conversion Stone for each corresponding piece of gear until December 9, 2020 (Wed) before maintenance. After December 9 regular maintenance, all Tuvala gear will be automatically converted.

    • All adventurers who have graduated from the season may still complete the quest "[Perilla's Star] Fughar's Woe" by talking to the Black Spirit (,).

    • Perilla's Star is a special alchemy stone obtainable by season characters who were created during the Autumn Season.

    • "[Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon" obtained after graduation can now be used after the end of the Season Server.

    • Graduated characters can now progress and receive special rewards for "Fughar's Secret to Success" whenever they want.

    • Black Spirit Pass and Season Pass objectives have all been deleted. Any unclaimed rewards from the pass are gone.

    • After Maintenance on Dec 9, 2020 (Wed.), all Season-related items are scheduled to be automatically converted or deleted: Tuvala Enhancement Material, Tuvala Conversion Stone, Unconverted Tuvala gear, and other Season-related items.

• Changed the conditions and time period for retrieving the rewards when reaching levels 60 and 61 with a season character.

  • Before: Can be retrieved by a Season character before December 2, 2020 maintenance

  • Now: Can be retrieved by a normal character before December 9, 2020 maintenance

  • ※ Only Season characters that have reached Lv. 60, 61 before December 2 maintenance are eligible for retrieving rewards by December 9.

• From today's maintenance as Autumn season has concluded, these Season Servers will convert back to the following servers:

  • NA/EU_Season1 → NA/EU_Kamasylvia1

  • NA/EU_Season2 → NA/EU_Kamasylvia2

  • NA/EU_Season3 → NA/EU_Kamasylvia3

  • NA/EU_Season4 → NA/EU_Kamasylvia4

  • NA/EU_Season(PVP) → NA/EU_Kamasylvia5

 

 

[Game World]

• Fixed the issues with topography of Scarlet Sand Chamber where World Boss Kutum appears.

• Changed the placement of moving Calpheon Protesters so that they are not too close to the residence.

• Changed the placement of Kansha in Pit of Undying so that he doesn't obstruct matches.

• Fixed the issue where World Map (M) would abnormally display topography.

• Fixed the issue where vegetation would be placed abnormally in North Kaia Mountain and Olun's Valley.

 

• Added a new function that can transport mounts to where the adventurer is currently located.

  • You can transport mounts held in another Wharf/Stable to the current Wharf/Stable. Guild mounts are excluded from this function.

  • Transporting a mount costs 1 million Silver and will take 10 minutes to complete.

  • Transporting mounts with trade or barter goods in their inventory have a certain chance to lose all those items, so please take note.

  • Large ships cannot be transported to areas they cannot traverse to (i.e. rivers).

 

To bring a mount in a different region, you would previously have to log onto a different character located close to where that mount was stabled to send them to your current character. We've created this function to address the inconvenience of the existing method of transporting mounts.

After the introduction of the Naval Fame system, many adventurers found themselves unable to retrieve their ships from certain wharfs due to the drop in their Naval Fame. Now, with this function, adventurers with "Pirate" Naval Fame can still transport their mounts stored in other locations to the Kuit Islands.

• Optimized effects of Mythical Arduanatt.

 

• Doubled the chance of obtaining Mass of Pure Magic at the Crypt of Resting Thoughts node.

  • The chance of obtaining Mass of Pure Magic at the Crypt of Resting Thoughts node is now the same as that of obtaining it at the Star's End node.

• Mass of Pure Magic has been found at the Mountain of Division node.

  • Added Mass of Pure Magic to the Excavation node.

  • The work speed at this node is fast, but there is less chance of obtaining Mass of Pure Magic. However, the ratio of obtained Mass of Pure Magic amount by time is similar to that of Star's End – Excavation node.

• You can now use Manufacture on La Orzeca Armor with sockets.

  • However, you won't be able to use Manufacture if there're any crystals equipped to it, so you will need to extract the crystal(s) first before crafting.

• Using another Golden Pig's Blessing while one is active will now remove the current effect and apply the last Golden Pig's Blessing only.

• For details on the newly added Pearl Shop Update, please click < Here > !

 

• Guild Boss Ferrid has absorbed the heat of the hottest lava in Omar Lava Cave and become even more ferocious and powerful.

  • Ferrid's attacks, which contain the full might of its power, shake the cave and stimulate the unstable lava, causing a destructive explosion.

  • When this overflowed lava creates a swamp, Ferrid's attacks will cause explosions and continuously produce Ferrid Talis.

  • Ferrid Tali is very dangerous as it approaches its nearby adventurers and spits out its lava.

  • There's a low chance <Volcana Magma> Ferrid Tuny will appear in the Lava Swamp.

  • When <Volcana Magma> Ferrid Tuny reaches Ferrid, it will pass on its energy of lava to the Ferrid, making the latter more powerful.

  • When the Grapple or the CC status effect is applied to <Volcana Magma> Ferrid Tuny, it will immediately vanish, but if it's near Ferrid at this point, it will still be able to pass on its lava energy of lava to the Ferrid.

  • As Guild Boss Ferrid has become more powerful, the chance of obtaining Energy of All Creations has increased as well as the drop rate of other loots.

 

 

 

[Quest]

• Added Kamasylvia Main Quest completion as a possible requirement in the quest acceptance description for Suggested Quest "[Lv. 58] Call of the Ocean: Journey to the Deep Sea" in Quest List (O).

• Changed NPC and monster spawn location for Valkyrie Succession Quest so that it is more convenient to complete.

• Added description in "[Crow Shop] Combat/Skill EXP Exchange Coupon" quest summary and dialogue notifying that the expiration date is applied immediately upon receiving the Exchange Coupon.

 

• Skill Add-on window has been updated.

 

• Fixed the issue where effects would remain on screen when opening inventory after closing Mount Information window by pressing ESC.

 

• Fixed the issue where placing furniture in parts of the Velia 2-3 residence wasn't possible due to irregular objects.

• Fixed the issue where Transfer Ship wouldn't display the amount of time consumed.

• Improved the line break of the Dark Rift description in World Map (M) for German.

• [Ninja] Fixed graphical issues with wearing the Crimson Sable outfit.

• Fixed the issue where the opening description of [Lahn] Venecil Dress Set would also appear when opening [Lahn] Splat Fisher's Hat (7 Days).

• Fixed the issue where [Hashashin] DUO (II) Green Grade Weapon would not suffice for completing Dorim Morgrim's Secret Journal Volume 1, Chapter 3.

• Fixed the issue where opening Marni's Research Box obtained by defeating Valencia Guard Captain would give Marni's Stone from another hunting ground.

• Fixed the issue with Morning Star skill Enable/Disable button would be displayed abnormally after using Fairy Appearance Coupon.

• Fixed the issue where the residence's function appeared abnormally in World Map (M) Residence UI from time to time.

• Fixed the issue where the slot background for the Alchemy Stone Growth menu would be displayed abnormally.

• Fixed the issue where node information and node name UI would remain on screen after pressing the "Go Back" button while viewing node information in World Map (M).

• Fixed the issue where the Anvil would not be repaired occasionally with an error message.

• Fixed the issue where the item quantity input window would not appear occasionally when Sticker UI was enabled in Inventory (I) window.

• Fixed the typo in Elion's Tears knowledge.

• Fixed the issue where furniture could not be placed on the floor of Bartali Farm 1-1 Residence.

• Fixed the issue where the Ash Sap quantity required for crafting Magic Crystal of Infinity - Armor in "[Alchemy Lv26] A Crystal That's Missed" quest description differed from what was described in crafting notes. Both descriptions have been changed to Ash Sap x4 for consistency.

• Fixed the issue with abnormal routes when auto-navigating to Southern Guard Camp Stable Keeper.

• Fixed the issue where Finding NPC function in Serendia Shrine to locate the nearest General Goods Vendor would guide the player to an incorrect location.

• Fixed the issue where the NPC for quest progression would not appear when enabling Hide NPC and proceeding with "Mysterious Painting 1: Restored Painting" quest.

• Fixed the issue with Quest Sort Settings that wouldn't work properly after reconnecting.

• Fixed the issue where changes made to settings (for example chat window, quick slot, UI) did not load properly for some adventurers after restarting the client and pressing the Redownload Last Saves Settings button in ESC > Settings > Setting Archive (button located top-left corner of the window) to bring back previously saved settings. This issue occurred typically for adventurers using GeForce Now but please click the Redownload Last Saves Settings button to have your previously saved settings applied to your client.

 

• We are aware of the issue where transporting mounts held in Wharf/Stables of some areas including Kuit Islands and Narcion to the current Wharf/Stable is not possible. This issue will be resolved with December 9 regular maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

• We are aware of the issue where you cannot recover your Naval Fame when it is changed to Pirate status while having no character who has taken out a large ship in your family. Please contact customer support in the case you encounter this issue and we will provide you the assistance. This issue will be resolved with December 9 regular maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.