Black Desert Online Patch Notes for October 25

A new Black Desert update rolled out on October 25, and we’re here to break down what’s included. From new features in the Great Ocean to a handy Disembark function, the update brings a mix of tweaks and additions that should improve your experience. You can find the patch notes below:

When embarking on a nautical voyage into the Great Ocean, we felt some terrain markers were missing to make for a more enjoyable sea adventure. Hence we implemented the deep water terrain in the Great Ocean that will keep your ship moving at its original speed. We also added the Oquilla Current which will increase the speed of your vessel and also be displayed in the terrain information.

• Changed the terrain information displayed on the upper right-hand corner of the minimap to differentiate between shallow water and deep water when sailing in the Great Ocean (Margoria).
  • Improved ships to maintain their original speed when sailing in deep water terrain in the Great Ocean.
• Changed certain sea terrain in the Great Ocean to be displayed as Oquilla Current.
  • Ships sailing in the Oquilla Current will move at greater speeds as before.

• Improved the descriptions of terrain displayed on the upper left-hand corner of the minimap for when your character is submerged, and added deep water and ocean current terrain.

We’ve added the Disembark function, which will instantly teleport your character from your ship to the nearest wharf manager. Now when your ship is near a wharf, you’ll be able to quickly move to land regardless of how many ships are anchored nearby. (Any adventurer atop your ship will be able to use this function as long as there is a wharf manager nearby.) We’ve also allowed for this function to be hotkey-ed, so we hope many of our bartering-enthusiasts and partied adventurers will enjoy this quality-of(-a-pirate’s)-life improvement.

• Added the Disembark function.
  • Any adventurer atop a ship will be able to see and press the Disembark button to instantly teleport on land as long as there’s a wharf manager nearby.
    • If you’re on the wheel, you will need to press the Disembark button once to take you off the wheel, and press it again to move to the wharf manager.
    • The Disembark button has a 5 sec cooldown.
  • You can set this button to a hotkey via Settings → Interface Settings → UI Hotkeys.

We’ve made it so you can now employ the services of your maids and butlers within Atoraxxion and the Pit of the Undying. You can now transfer meals, elixirs, exchangeable items, and others from your storage/Central Market warehouse within these instances as you please.

• Improved so you can now use storage/transaction maids/butlers within Atoraxxion.
  • You can employ the services of storage/transaction maids/butlers to transfer items to and from your storage/Central Market warehouse.
  • Your storage maids/butlers will access the storage of Valencia City from Atoraxxion.
    • If you’ve completed the Abyss One: The Magnus content, you’ll be able to access storage of other regions as well.

• Improved so you can now use storage/transaction maids/butlers within the Pit of the Undying.
  • You can employ the services of storage/transaction maids/butlers to transfer items to and from your storage/Central Market warehouse.
  • Your storage maids/butlers will access the storage of Velia from the Pit of the Undying.
    • If you’ve completed the Abyss One: The Magnus content, you’ll be able to access storage of other regions as well.

• Changed some of the following seed prices sold by Noyoung the seed vendor.
  • Perilla Seed: 3,140 Silver → 4,480 Silver
  • Rice Seed: 1,440 Silver → 5,230 Silver
    • Seed bundle prices containing the aforementioned seeds have been adjusted accordingly.

We’ve dealt with the case where monsters affected by Dehkia’s Lantern would continue to linger in the field. This led to reducing the range of the lantern’s effects, but we’ve maintained the range of unsummoning the lantern so you can still recover any remaining loot and items as before. We also changed some of the lantern spots for Ash Forest and Olun’s Valley away from other adventurers without lanterns just like those in Tunkuta and Thornwood Forest. Last but not least, we also reduced the lantern’s cooldown so you no longer have to wait as long to reuse it.

• Improved Dehkia’s Lantern so monsters affected by the lantern’s affect will no longer continue to linger in the field even after you’ve dismissed the lantern’s summon.
  • Reduced the range of the lantern’s effects by 60%.
    • The range of unsummoning Dehkia’s Lantern remains the same at 100m.

• Changed the cooldown of Dehkia’s Lantern as follows.

• The item description was adjusted accordingly.

With slightly reduced DP, the monsters spawning in Cyclops Land and Thornwood Forest affected by Dehkia’s Lantern will be somewhat easier to defeat. We’ve also unified the debuff applied by these monsters, which we hope will encourage many more adventurers to utilize the lantern in their PvE adventures. However, we felt the profits gained from using the lantern at Thornwood Forest was comparably higher compared to the other monster zones, so we made some tweaks to the drop rate of artifact items and Agris Fever point consumption. Such is how we’ve changed some of the Eye of Despair’s conditions for summoning monsters. We also removed any Invincibility-applied motions for Khalk so it wouldn’t interrupt the Eye of Despair when summoning monsters.

• Slightly reduced the DP of spawned monsters.

• Slightly reduced the DP of spawned monsters.
• Changed the following monsters’ hits to now only apply the Knockback debuff.

• Changed the following monsters to no longer be affected by Agris Fever points.
  • [Corrupt Voidtouched] Dark Knight
  • [Void Tainted Elite] Ahib Salun Bear Spearmaiden, [Void Tainted Elite] Ahib Salun Wolf Spearmaiden
• Changed the conditions for the [Corrupt Voidtouched] Eye of Despair to summon the following Ahib groups.
• Changed the [Corrupt Voidtouched] Eye of Despair to summon the following Ahib groups when there’s a smaller number of monsters left than before.
• Improved the [Corrupt Voidtouched] Eye of Despair to now recover health during combat.
• Greatly reduced the drop rate of Marsh’s Artifacts – Magic/Ranged/Melee Accuracy when defeating the following monsters.
  • Ahib Beast Trainer, Ahib Dark Chaser, Ahib Condemner, Ahib Dark Mage, Ahib Dark Sorcerer, Bloodthirsty Khalk, Khalk of Darkness
• Removed the Invincibility buff during the animations for when [Void Possessed] Bloodthirsty Khalk and [Void Possessed] Khalk of Darkness detected the adventurer.
• Increased the detection range of [Void Possessed] Bloodthirsty Khalk and [Void Possessed] Khalk of Darkness by 1.25 times.

We’ve changed Ash Forest to now have designated spots where you can use Dehkia’s Lantern. We’ve also implemented the aforementioned change of unifying the debuffs applied by monsters on hit, thus slightly reducing the danger of these zones. In addition, whereas other monsters wouldn’t spawn until you defeated Volkras’ split entities, we’ve made it so that Volkras will no longer split, but spawn many more monsters at the beginning of combat so you can gain greater amounts of loot on average.

• Changed this zone to now have designated lantern spots.
  • Use Dehkia’s Lantern near [Sealed] Rift Seed to summon forth [Voidtouched] Rift Seeds.

• Changed [Voidtouched] Volkras to now apply the Knockdown debuff instead of Knockback on hits.
• Changed so defeated [Voidtouched] Volkras will no longer split.
• Changed Ash Forest monsters affected by Dehkia’s Lantern to no longer repeat certain hit motions.
• Changed so Ash Forest monsters affected by the lantern will no longer react if you attack the Rift Seed.
  • [Voidtouched] Gairas who awakens from attacking the Rift Seed will now appear at the beginning of combat.
• Changed so monsters near the [Voidtouched] Rift Seed will no longer be affected by Magic Lighthouse.

• Changed this zone to now have designated lantern spots.
• Changed so using Dehkia’s Lantern near [Voidtouched] Olun’s Power Tower will summon forth Olun’s Golem.
  • Certain monsters have been removed from the [Voidtouched] Olun’s Power Tower’s vicinity.

[Voidtouched] Olun’s Power Tower

• Changed Ulutuka’s roaring attack to now activate more slowly.
• Improved [Chaos Spreading] Turo Charm and [Chaos Spreading] Turo Totem to now recover health during combat.

• Changed the debuffs inflicted by the following monsters.

• Reduced the respawn timer of monsters by 50%.

• Reduced the number of monsters spawning in Marni’s Realm by 35%.

• Changed the health and attack power of Illezra’s dark shadow that spawns during the succession questline of all classes as follows.
  • HP reduced by 30%.
  • AP reduced by 30%.

• Relocated some Saunil patrols in the Saunil Camp to no longer harass auto-navigating Adventurers.

• Improved the main and suggested quests displayed by interacting with the Black Spirit (/).
  • Changed some quests with little relation to progressing through main quests into suggested quests.
  • Changed not-so-important suggested quests to now require you check the relevant quest type filter (Combat, Life, etc.) to be visible.

• Changed [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapters 1 to 6 to now offer navigation to level-appropriate monster zones.
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 1: Swamp Naga Habitat, Altar Imp Habitat
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 2: Biraghi Den, Khuruto
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 3: Bree Tree Ruins, Mask Owl’s Forest
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 4: Keplan Mine, Marni’s Lab
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 5: Saunil Camp, Primal Giant Post
  • [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 6: Catfishman Camp, Rhutum Outstation

• Added a speech bubble to Mister Turt during the What the Dead Fox Left Behind quest of the Tale of Imoogi in the Land of the Morning Light.

• Fixed the time zone displayed on the launcher to be at UTC+8 during maintenance.

• Changed and unified the following term in English:            
  
  • Person Thinking of Oze → Oze’s The Thinker

• Fixed the issue where the tax-exempt benefit (T marker) didn’t apply when registering the following items onto the Central Market.
  • Value Pack, Blessing of Kamasylve, Secret Book of Old Moon, Merv’s Palette, Sealed Book of Combat/Life, Premium Horse Appearance Change Coupon, Trainer’s Flute
  • The above items are now available for purchase/registration on the Central Market.
• Fixed the issue where item descriptions weren’t displaying for items in the Central Market.
• Fixed the issue where using the Find My Item function with the Storage window open would cause your storage to arrange its contents abnormally.
• Improved characters progressing through simplified main questlines to now be able to proceed with the following quests.
  • Investigating Rumors, Calpheon Resource Report
• [Musa] Black Spirit: Dragon Bite – Fixed the issue where using Awakening skills after this skill would cause the Tiger Blade visual effect to remain.
• Fixed the issue where your mouse cursor would disappear after gaining Amity through the Amity minigame.
• Fixed the issue where grass was growing in irregular areas of Tungrad Forest.
• Matched the Rock Head Bison’s knowledge icon with its actual spawning location on the World Map (M).
• Fixed the following issues for gamepad UI mode.
  • Dream Horse Diné’s Protection of Okiara skill displayed the wrong key guide.
  • Fixed the issue where the Party Matching button didn’t display in the Atoraxxion entrance UI.
• Added Woosa and Maegu to the list of classes who can open the Bloody Outfit Box mentioned in the box’s description.
• Fixed the issue where repairing a Panokseon with an Emergency Ship Repair Kit would sometimes stop prematurely.
• [Ranger] Fixed the issue where wearing the Lovely Bloom Armor and Priyah Bikini together would cause your appearance to appear abnormal.
• Fixed the issue where the shortsword and sheath of the Tamer statue displayed in the Battle Arena’s Solare Hall of Fame was placed in awkward positions.
• [Woosa, Maegu] Fixed the issue where some parts of the Marnist Outfit appeared awkward.
• [Maegu] Fixed the issue where the character appears awkward when wearing Salanar Armor on certain body shapes.
• [Shai] Fixed the issue where shadows appeared on the character’s face in customization when you apply tattoo 11.
• [Female Classes] Fixed the ends of the Wonderland Armor appearing abnormal when worn.
• [Nova, Corsair] Fixed the issue where wearing the Marnist/Wonderland Outfit would display an abnormal idle motion.
• Fixed the description text of Dandelion Foxtail Fans.
• Fixed the category type of the Boss Defense Gear Box.
• Fixed the issue where certain parts of the Season Pass could not be completed.