You can get by in Crimson Desert’s early game by simply scavenging and looting whatever gear you can find, but eventually you are going to need money itself and in significant amounts. Fortunately, money is not that hard to accumulate as long as you know what you are doing.
This guide is all about earning copper, silver, and gold quickly and efficiently in Crimson Desert.
Red Croton Farming
Right from the start you have access to a resource farming location right next to a fast travel point. Head into the woods south of Hernand to find the Abyss Nexus in The Witchwoods. In the vicinity is an abundance of Red Crotons, a flower that you can store and sell in stacks of 50. Look around for any other farmable materials or resources, once you have stripped the location clean of the flowers themselves.
The Abyss Nexus can conveniently take you right back to Hernand to sell your wares for quick cash. Return to this location after a week or so, in order to farm it all over again.
Selling Loot
You will be amassing way more gear and equipment than you know what to do with, so simply dispose of it all with any merchant you come across.
Attempt to expand your inventory at every opportunity, just so that you can bring more loot home for selling.
Hunting
Wild fauna are a nice passive source for sellable materials, given that they will not fight back. Those materials will also come in handy for upgrades at some point.
As a matter of fact, you might be better served by first upgrading any armor you intend on selling, for a better profit margin.
Ore Farming
Most minerals are not quite abundant in Pywel, and so it is preferable to retain them for upgrades early on, even though they eventually respawn. If you need a quick infusion, and are confident you will not need the ores any time soon, feel free to exchange them for money.
Diamonds, however, are relatively more disposable in the early game as you will not be needing them in the short term, and by the time that you actually do, they will have respawned again anyway. Find a convenient diamond mine at a cave in a crater, west of Unicorn Cliff in Hernand.
At just over two and a quarter silvers per diamond, and up to eight diamonds per node, you can quickly amass a small fortune.
Bear in mind that the entirety of the map is open for almost immediate exploration, so there’s practically nothing stopping you from mining rare minerals in distant regions, well before you would normally come across them by following the natural story progression.
Thievery
Burglarizing the Hernand bank is a viable strategy, even in the early game, and you may randomly acquire close to a hundred silver by doing so. However, this is not recommended as it will tank your Hernadian Contribution in town, and hamper your progress until you course correct through questing.
You will need a Mask to accomplish this, which allows criminal behavior and can be either looted from defeated bandits, rewarded by a specific bounty, or purchased from Grimrak at the Back Alley Shop.
A Key is also required, and can be either a random drop, or a purchase from Grimrak.
The chests in the bank will respawn after a few days, but the strongboxes do not.
Gold Bar Alchemy Recipe
You can also make Gold Bars by acquiring the blueprint for it and then visiting the Witches or the Blacksmith. The required crafting materials are:
- Brimstone x3
- Mercury x3
- Silver Ore x10
Head to Silver Wolf Mountain in Pailune. The location of the blueprint is inside a well-hidden cave with a narrow entrance, situated in the WItch’s Hideout.
While viewing the map, this point of interest is in a straight line south of the ‘U’ in Pailune, and east of the ‘I’.
Those are some of the best ways to grind for money in Crimson Desert.
