Black Desert Online September 20 Patch Notes

Black Desert Online, a popular MMORPG developed by Pearl Abyss, has rolled out an extensive update on September 20, 2023, introducing major changes to its season server system.

Gone are the days when season servers had a fixed duration. Now, adventurers can start and graduate from a season whenever they want. Those who graduated from the 2023 Summer Season can immediately start the new season, while those who didn’t can now graduate at their own pace.

With the introduction of the new season, players will receive two Season Character Tickets, allowing them to create new season characters. These tickets are pivotal, as they determine the number of season characters one can create. For those unfamiliar, season characters are a unique type, made specifically for the revamped season servers, offering faster leveling compared to regular servers.

For the complete patch notes, check below:

Patch Notes – September 20, 2023

• Revamped the season servers to no longer end after a certain period of time, but so Adventurers can start and graduate whenever they please.
  • If you’ve graduated from the 2023 Summer Season, you can start the new season immediately and graduate whenever you wish.
  • If you’ve yet to graduate from the 2023 Summer Season, you can now graduate whenever you please.
    • Once you’ve graduated from the 2023 Summer Season, you can immediately start the all-new season.

• Issued 2 Season Character Tickets with the opening of the all-new season.
  • You’ll find the Season Character Ticket counter displayed in the Character Selection window after logging in.
  • You can hold up to 5 Season Character Tickets at a time.

• Season Character Tickets are used to create new season characters for the always-open season servers.
  • As long as you have a ticket, you can create a season character whenever you please.
    • A ticket will be consumed when you graduate with a season character.
  • You can only create one season character at any given time.

• Season servers are special servers designed with novice Adventurers in mind. Leveling is also faster compared to normal servers.
  • You will need to create a season character to log into the now always-open season server.
  • Season characters can log into both season and normal servers.

• You can level your character faster than normal due to the following buffs active on the season servers.

• You can equip the season-exclusive Tuvala defense gear and weapons with your season character on the season servers.
  • Tuvala defense gear and weapons are exclusively available on the season servers, and, once enhanced to PEN (V), boast stats identical to those of TET (IV) boss gear.

PEN (V) Tuvala Longsword		TET (IV) Kzarka Longsword

• You can obtain season-exclusive enhancement materials to enhance your season-exclusive gear on season servers.

Major Season-exclusive Enhancement Materials
Time-filled Black Stone	Refined Magical Black Stone	Tuvala Ore

• Complete the following Season Pass challenge to obtain the Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon.
  • Season Pass Challenge: Reach Lv. 10 with your season character.
  • Season Pass Reward: Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon x1

• Adventurers who enjoyed completing the season servers will be able to claim special gifts as they return to the normal servers.
  • You can choose from the following gifts and claim them once per season.

Season	Special Reward
2020 Summer	PEN (V) Capotia Earring or PEN (V) Capotia Ring
2020 Autumn	Perilla’s Star
2020 Winter	PEN (V) Capotia Belt
2021 Summer	PEN (V) Capotia Necklace
2021 Season+	Advice of Valks (+100)
2021 Winter Season: Drakania Season: Dawn of Dragons 2022 Autumn Winter Spring 2023 Summer	Advice of Valks (+100) Box
[Opening Special] All-New	Advice of Valks (+150)

• Once you feel your season character has grown enough, it’s time to graduate from the season servers.

• • Upon graduation, season characters will be converted into normal ones, and each piece of your season Tuvala gear set with the highest enhancement level will be converted into normal Tuvala gear, and all other duplicates removed (except for rings and earrings which will have a maximum of two of each converted).

Requirements to Graduate	Complete all Season Pass challenges & claim all Season Pass rewards (this includes Black Spirit Pass challenges and rewards if purchased)
How to Graduate	Once the above requirements are fulfilled, click the “Graduate” button

• You can tag two characters in your Family, which allows you to instantly switch between the tagged characters.
  • Tagged characters will share their in-game location at all times.

• • You can only tag normal characters.

• The tag system has been revamped to allow tagged characters to now share EXP gains.
  • By alternating between tagged characters, you could potentially level up multiple characters at a time.

• The all-new season awards all adventurers with 2 Season Character Tickets, meaning you can start and graduate from the season twice.
  • You can also complete the Season Pass twice, meaning double the rewards to claim.

• Maximum character slots have been increased from 30 slots → 31 slots in light of the all-new season.

• The following will be issued via in-game Mail (B) during the Sept 20 (Wed) maintenance.
  • To all Adventurers: [Event] Fughar’s Special Gift Box x1, Advice of Valks (+60) x7, Advice of Valks (+40) x7
  • To Adventurers yet to graduate from 2023 Summer Season: [Event] Fughar’s Special Season Gift Box

[Event] Fughar’s Special Gift Box		[Event] Fughar’s Special Season Gift Box
Inventory +8 Expansion Coupon x1 Item Collection Increase Scroll x10 Combat & Skill EXP 300% Scroll x10 [Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit x1 Cron Stone x500 [Event] Enhancement Help Kit III x1 Advice of Valks (+60) x2 2,000 Loyalties Mount All Skill Training Coupon x1		Items helpful during the season: PEN (V) Tuvala Earring x1 (season character-exclusive) PEN (V) Tuvala Ring x1 (season character-exclusive) Refined Magical Black Stone x300 Tuvala Ore x500 Frozen Tides Black Stone x1 Boiling Tides Black Stone x1 Enhancement Aid Box x1

*  [Event] Fughar’s Special Season Gift Box

• Changed the name of a fish catchable from certain regions to Plump Coelacanth.
  • The following name change occurred during the Sept 13, 2023 (Wed) maintenance: [Season] Coelacanth → Plump Coelacanth
  • Descriptions referring to this name in certain Fughar quests have been updated accordingly.
  • You can no longer exchange Plump Coelacanth for Time-filled Black Stones.

• Changed the vendor value of the following seasonal items to 10,000 Silver.
  • Time-filled Black Stone, Refined Magical Black Stone, Tuvala Ore

• Integrated the rewards from various quests and challenges in the Season Pass.
  • Season Character Leveling Challenges (Lv. 50-60)
  • New/Returning Adventurer Challenges
  • Region quests (skill point rewards, etc.)
  • Advice of Valks Tuvala enhancement (TRI & TET) quests via NPC Fughar
  • Season graduation quests
  • Fughar’s Fishing Rod quest

• Removed the following content.
  • Season Atoraxxion Clearing Challenges (excluding weekly quests)
  • Fughar’s Timepiece quest

• Added nostalgic customization options.
  • Added 1 face type for Musa.
  • Added 1 face and 1 hair type for Ranger.
  • Added 1 face and 1 hair type for Tamer.

Musa

Ranger

Tamer

Berserker

Awakening

Black Spirit: Devastation (I to IV)

• Fixed the issue where the damage reduction in PvP only was displayed incorrectly.

Valkyrie

Awakening

Hastiludium

• Fixed the issue where you would take fall damage when performing the skill downwards from too high a platform.

Black Spirit: Terra Sancta

• Fixed the issue where certain attacks appeared to be dealt closer to the character than where their visual effects appeared.

• Fixed the issue where the damage reduction in PvP only was displayed incorrectly.

Vindicta

• Fixed the issue where there was no mention of the Down Attack debuff being applied in the description.

Ninja

Awakening

Bloodthirst: Katana Shower (II to IV)

• Fixed the issue where the Floating debuff was applied twice during the skill.

• • The Core version of the skill will also no longer apply Floating twice as well.

Witch

Succession

Prime: Earthquake: Destruction

• Fixed the issue where learning Prime: Elemental Flow would prevent you from holding the skill when performing Magical Evasion while casting the skill.

Striker

Main

Rising Blast Combo

• Fixed the issue where you could activate the skill even when Somersault (IV to Absolute) was on cooldown.

Guardian

Succession

Prime: Savage Hack

• Fixed the issue where the description was displaying the incorrect key commands.

Sage

Common

• Fixed the issue where pressing ↓ after moving forward with RMB while out of combat would cause your character to move abnormally.

Corsair

Awakening

Core: Sea Mist

• Fixed the issue where you couldn’t combo into Close Quarters: Suppress from the last attack.

Core: Crow’s Mark

• Fixed the issue where the Black Spirit version of the skill would activate even when locked.

Woosa

Awakening

Netherstrike

• Fixed the issue where attack 2 wouldn’t activate if attack 1 hits were cast too quickly.

Maegu

Common

• Fixed the issue where recommended skills weren’t added to the Quick Slots during character creation.

• Changed the workload for crafting Sunset Black Stone.
  • Workload 600 → 200 (approx. 10 min based on a work speed of 150).
  • Crafting Location: Iliya Island – Chiro’s Ship Part Workshop / Nampo’s Moodle Village – Byukgye Ship Part Workshop

• Improved Lv. 1 barter items to now be exchanged directly with Verdant Black Stones instead of Crow Merchants Guild’s Barter Vouchers.
  • Exchanging Lv. 1 barter trade goods with the following NPCs will give you Verdant Black Stones.
    • Port Epheria: Ruvinia
    • Velia: Rovinia
    • Iliya Island: Revinia
• Added location information to the description of Verdant Black Stone.

• Increased daily acquisition of Design: Epheria Sailboat and Design: Epheria Frigate from 1 to 5.

Quest Name	Quest Requirement	Quest Completion Reward
[Daily] Falasi Family’s Kindness (Port Epheria, Philaberto Falasi)	Deliver cargo to Sebastian 2 times	120 Contribution EXP   ▼ Choose one of the following Design: Epheria Frigate x5 Design: Epheria Sailboat x5 Gold Bar 1G

• Changed the following to allow for barter daily quests to be done on Iliya Island instead of Oquilla’s Eye.
  • Removed the following quests from Oquilla’s Eye.
    • Ravikel, Wharf Manager of Oquilla’s Eye: [Daily] Ravikel’s Test
    • Serendian Soldier of Oquilla’s Eye: [Daily] For the Serendian Soldiers

• • • Added new quests to Iliya Island.

• Changed the basic rewards from the quest you can receive from Iliya Island’s Wharf Manager Dario.
  • This quest can be accepted and progressed simultaneously with [Daily] Lively Iliya Island I-III, [Daily] Barter Goods Support I-II.

• Improved the exploration quests you can receive by anchoring a ship.
  • The following fishing and subjugation exploration quests can no longer be accepted.
    • [Exploration] Request from a Castaway, [Exploration] Request from Island Villagers

• • Doubled the change to receive the below [Exploration] Request from a Child on an Island quest and added selectable rewards.
    • You have a chance to receive 1 of the below exploration quests.

• Changed the quests to be given by Wharf Managers to make them more intuitive.
  • Wharf Manager Croix of Velia now handles these quests instead of Rovinia.
    • Removed the following quests from Rovinia.
    • [Daily] Supplies Delivery (Iliya Island), [Daily] Supplies Delivery (Oquilla’s Eye)
    • Added the following quest to Croix.
  • [Daily] Supplies Delivery (Iliya Island)
    • Wharf Manager Dario of Iliya began trades with the Old Moon Guild and is sending supplies to Oquilla’s Eye.
    • Added the following quest to Dario.
    • [Daily] Supplies Delivery (Oquilla’s Eye)

• Improved issues where the below monsters sometimes teleported to different locations during combat.
  • Hekaru, Ocean Stalker, Nineshark, Candidum, Black Rust, Saltwater Crocodile
  • Young Hekaru, Young Nineshark, Young Candidum, Young Black Rust
• Changed the Lost Cannonball Supply Box obtained from Margoria Phantom Battleship to be character-bound.

• Added emphasis color to Silver cost of ship supply, repair, and damage restoration.
• Added the Ship Upgrade Info button to the Ship Information window.

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Green Artisan (gathering mini-game) – Fluid Collecting

• Changed the number of successes for the fluid collecting Green Artisan mini-game.
  • Mini-games can now end in success (x10 items) with fewer successes.

Obtain 10 times the rewards from a single gathering!            
After completing the following questline and obtaining the knowledge of the Green Thumb, you will be able to play a mini-game at a set probability while gathering.            
Winning the mini-game will consume 10 Energy, and you will obtain 10 times the amount of items you’d originally gathered.            
“ex.) If you’d obtained Lamb Meat x10, Hard Black Crystal Shard x1, Black Gem Fragment x2,
you will obtain Lamb Meat x100, Hard Black Crystal Shard x10, Black Gem Fragment x20 upon winning the mini-game.”            
Failing the mini-game will consume 1 Energy, and you will not receive any extra items.

Quest Name and Condition	Quest NPC	Quest Completion Reward
[Green Thumb] (At least Gathering Artisan Lv.1)	Nampo Moodle Village [Chorong Merchant Guild] Hyunyong	Obtain knowledge “Green Thumb” (Profile (P) → Life → Details → activate “Green Thumb” from the Gathering category.)

‘Profile (P) → Life → Details → activate “Green Thumb” from the Gathering category to play the mini-game at a set probability.

• Fixed the Black Shrine icon on the World Map (M) to give more precise navigation guides Black Shrine content locations.

• Changed the below of the boss Songakshi for both the Black Shrine and Land of the Morning Light’s main questline.
  • Fixed the issue where the ranged attacks of Songakshi hit targets not in the direction she faces.
  • Fixed the issue where some melee attacks by Songakshi did not match location of the visual effects.
  • Changed Songakshi to not attack right after a target dies from her AoE attack.
  • Changed the three pronged attack into one so that there are no locations where there could be overlapping attacks.
  • Changed a special mechanic for C-6 and above to not hit Songakshi’s illusion when successfully countered.

• Changed the quantity of the junk item Outlaw’s Mark obtainable on Padix Island.
  • Before: 2-3 → After: 2-4
• Added Red Coral Earrings to the loot table of Padix Island monsters.

• Fixed the issue where waves including Bloodthirsty Khalk and Khalk of Darkness were sometimes repeated after using the Magic Lighthouse.

• Changed the following Season Pass quest & adventure log category.
  • Before: Complete [Main] [Valencia] Clean Revenge
  • After: Complete [Main] [Valencia] Edana’s Descendant
• Added text to the quest objectives for [Atoraxxion] What’s in the Undergrounds and [Atoraxxion] Yolu and Orze to mention that you need at least 5 Energy.
• Improved the quest objective for Mysterious Painting 4: Pirates Dreaming of Revenge to read more clearly.

• Reduced maximum revive cooldown for Tier 1 Node Wars: 60 sec → 30 sec
  • As mentioned in a previous update, the four recovery center annex buildings are no longer constructable during this tier of Node Wars.

• Removed the following items from being used for repairing a fort/command post/field HQ during Node/Conquest Wars.
  • Impeccably Polished Stone, Fine Black Stone Powder, Miracle-Imbued Stone

• Improved the fort, command post, and field HQ to now all require 1 Polished Stone for repair during Node/Conquest Wars.
  • One repair attempt will repair the same amount of durability as a Miracle-Imbued Stone: 1%.
  • With fort repairs now requiring 1 Polished Stone, you can no longer repair the command post and field HQ with Black Stone Powder.
    • Updated the following item description accordingly.

• Changed recovery centers to be able to recover mounts during Node/Conquest Wars.

• Certain soldiers in Heidel’s Northern Guard Camp have begun conducting tests with their seige weapons.
  • A questline to test-fire a prototype ballista, inspect a flame tower, and assemble and test-fire a cannon has been added.
    • Shai can begin the questline with Cannon Hear a Sound at the Northern Guard Camp.

• Changed the Black-Robed Man in Velia to temporarily deny his services to adventurers from 15 minutes leading up to and during Node/Conquest Wars.
  • This only applies to servers with Node/Conquest Wars underway.

• Improved the method of crafting the registration item for the guild mount, the Cadria Elephant.

• Added a mass processing recipe for materials required to craft the registeration item for the guild elephant.
  • You can purchase [Guild] Old Moon Reagent for 10,000 Guild Funds though guild vendors, which, combined with 50 portions of a recipe, will allow you to mass process up to 50 attempts worth of items at once.

• Improved the crafting of the above [Guild] items to no longer produce 1 additional item according to a set probability, but now to have a guaranteed chance to produce 2 items per attempt.
• The same applies to when mass processing with the above items.
• (For example, mass processing [Guild] Parchment 50 times will produce [Guild] Parchment x100.)

• Added the following replacements for the Rough Translucent Crystal used when crafting [Guild] Seals.
  
  • Rough Mud Crystal, Rough Red Crystal, Rough Black Crystal, Rough Blue Crystal, Rough Violet Crystal
• Added Rhino Hide as a replacement for Ox Hide when crafting [Guild] Parchments.

• Astrologists who frequent the Rakshan Observatory have reported increased sightings of baby elephants in the area.
  
  • Reduced the respawn timer of Baby Elephants in Valencia to 1-1.5 hours.

• Changed the process of crafting the [Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant.
  
  • Changed the process of crafting the [Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant.
    
    • You will now require a Baby Elephant to craft the [Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant.

• Changed the following quests to no longer be acceptable due to the removal of the Valencia Elephant crafting process.
  
  • [Guild] Gathering Everyone’s Strength, [Guild] Gathering Strength Once Again, [Guild] Our Guild’s Capability

• Added the following quest to obtain the [Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant.

Quest NPC	Objective	Reward
Yan in Valencia * Guild Masters only	Hand over [Guild] Cadria Elephant Drinking Water x500 Hand over [Guild] Cadria Elephant Food x1,000 Hand over [Guild] Registration: Valencia Elephant x1	[Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant

• The “[Guild] Registration: Valencia Elephant’ will be issued to their guild storage.

• Improved the Cadria Elephant to have learned all 5 skills upon initial registration.

• Fixed the issue where the interaction UI did not appear in certain directions when trying to repair the Command Post.

• Villagers of Velia started construction work for adventurers who enjoy fishing.
  • The Giant who was fixing Velia’s storage installed wooden stairs to the old wharf.
    • Now you can go straight to the storage keeper from the old wharf.
  • Hans the guard installed wooden stairs going up from Velia beach to storage keeper Ernil.
    • Now you can go straight to the storage keeper from Velia beach.
  • Crio also moved some furniture out of the way.

• Added visual effects to the Architect’s Kyvelan Hexahedron in [Solo] Enter Atoraxxion to make it stand out more.
  • Talk to the Architect’s Kyvelan Hexahedron to receive help in solving the threads of Atoraxxion.

• Added a button in Chat Settings to open Chat Group.

• Rearranged buttons at the bottom right of Inventory (I) by most used.
  • Alchemy Stone, Dehkia’s Lantern, Dye, Totem, Processing

• Adventure Log Bookshelf can now be set as a Quick Hotkey.
  • Advenuturers who are progressing the Adventure Log can now easily access them.

• Added text to horse and worker trade registration informing players that you cannot cancel registration for 15 minutes after registration.
  • Horses and workers are displayed on Horse Market and Worker Exchange 10 minutes after registration.
  • Registered horses and workers can be canceled 15 minutes after registration.

• Improved Hotkey Help.
  • Added descriptions to the bottom of the Hotkey Help window.
  • Added a button in the Hotkey Help to move you to Quick Hotkey Settings.

• Added Lovely Bloom’s exclusive standby action as a Social Action.
  • Equip the Lovely Bloom Armor and enter /Cheers! or press the Social Action button.
  • Social Action:  Cheers!

Social Action: Cheers!

• Rearranged some menus in the Adventurer’s Camp website.
• Changed the IP security description in the launcher.
• An external browser will now open when logging in with Facebook in the launcher.
• Fixed the issue where purchased package items could be purchased again in certain situations.
• Added description to Bundles that they can only be purchased once per account.

• Fixed the issue where gear or outfit parts dyed via the below method with the Color Palette (RGB Eye) in Dye (J) reset after you restart the game.
• When dyeing multiple parts, apply Color Palette (RGB Dye) to a part and then dyeing other parts with dye colors from Merv’s Palette.
• [Guardian] Fixed the issue where the main and sub-weapon were being exposed when equipping the Bubbly Diving Suit.
• Fixed the issue where the Red Snow Crab was categorized as a Saltwater Fish instead of a Crustacean.
• Fixed the item description of the Red Snow Crab regarding its usage.
• Fixed the issue where interacting with books for certain quests caused your character to read with their weapons drawn.
• Fixed the issue where the position of grass appeared abnormal in a specific area of Acher Guard Post.
• Fixed the issue where the position of trees appeared abnormal in a specific area of the Mountain Top Guard Post.
• Fixed the issue where the entrance of the Heidel 8-1, Rm. 5 residence was displayed abnormally.
• Fixed the issue where characters were unable to smoothly move away from a specific location in Cron Castle and [Elvia] Rhutum Outstation.
• Fixed the issue where some floors and grass in Land of Morning Light Nampo Shipyard and Honglim Base appeared abnormal.
• Fixed the issue where some rocks in the Nampo Sea of Land of the Morning Light appeared abnormal.
• Fixed the issue where the Quick Slot registration was being removed when reconnecting after equipping Liana’s Tool Bag.
• Fixed the issue where the Look closer popup of the image was not displayed when the text in the Photo Gallery spanned multiple paragraphs.
• Fixed the issue where character transport between O’draxxia and Asparkan was not possible.
• Fixed the issue where the event messages (such as Secret Sailing Book, Ship Durability change) displayed in the top left corner of the screen while sailing were being obscured by other UIs.
• Fixed the issue where the control setting was incorrect for the mining [Green Artisan] minigame in French.
• Removed season end deletion text from the Black Spirit’s Pass, Fughar’s Fishing Rod, and Fughar’s Riding Crop.
• Fixed the issue where the sword disappeared when the exclusive standby action for [Guardian] Arditeir Armor was used repeatedly.
• Fixed the issue where you could not check Marni’s Realm server status while in gamepad UI.
• Fixed the issue where inspecting Soybean Paste in the jangdok platform of a purchasable residence would display the description for Soy Sauce instead for gamepad UI mode.
• Fixed the issue where you couldn’t select the Ship Upgrade Info button for gamepad UI mode.
• Fixed the issue where you couldn’t move your character with the Ship Upgrade Info window open for gamepad UI mode.
• Fixed the issue where you couldn’t hire any more sailors if you had let a sailor go with your crew close to the max limit.
• [Woosa, Maegu] Fixed the issue where dying part 4 of the Lucien Blanc Armor would also dye part 5.
• Fixed the issue where copied gear would prevent you from logging into a tagged character.
• Fixed the issue where the Cyclops wasn’t spawning correctly.
• Fixed the issue where talking with certain NPCs would display the “This character does not exist, or is out of range” message.
• Fixed the issue where characters’ appearance appeared abnormal under certain circumstances.