Adventurers,

The latest update to hit Black Desert is here, and with it brings new places to explore in Protty Cave, Sycraia Underwater Ruins and Padix Island, a new life skill in Bartering and new boats allowing you to sail the seas like never before. Check out the details below for more information.

● The Great Expedition has begun!

 For the full information about the Great Expedition, check out the Great Expedition Patch Notes here.

● A new area has been discovered deep beneath the Arsha Sea, as the Sycraia Underwater Ruins have been added.

- 230 AP is recommended for Adventurers looking to explore this area. You can access the ruins by diving into the sea and swimming down to the entrance of the ruins.

- It is recommended that you use items or costumes that will help increase your underwater breathing since you need to dive to the ocean floor.

- Memories of the Deep Sea drop here, and they can be used to open the door to enter the Abyssal Zone.

- The Abyssal Zone is recommended for experienced Adventurers only, as the recommended AP is 280, and there are many monsters here that will apply debuffs to attack/casting speed.

- To get to the Abyssal Zone, you need to have the 'Memories of the Deep Sea' item and interact with the Sealed Device.

- Escaping from Sycraia Ancient Ruins will place you next to the General Goods Vendor.

- When using spawn at safe zone in Sycraia Abyssal Zone, you will teleported to Racid Island.

- Sycraia Ancient Ruins falls under the Racid Island node.

● The new accessory, Tungrad Ring, has been added to the game, and is dropped in Sycraia Underwater Ruins.

● Tungrad Rings have been added to the following: Mysterious Chest (Ring), Marni’s Supply Box, and Patrigio’s Black Market Shop.

● The Frenzy Draught has been added to the game.

- Requires Abyssal Essence, which is a rare drop in both Protty Cave and Sycraia Underwater Ruins.

- To craft a Frenzy Draught, combine Abyssal Essence x1, Elixir of Demihuman Hunt x3, Elixir of Frenzy x3 and 1 Tears of the Falling Moon through Simple Alchemy.

- Higher-grade versions of the same elixir can be used as a substitute at a 1:3 ratio.

- Frenzy Draughts give the following benefits: 

● Sycrid lives within the Sycraia Underwater Ruins, and is a new summonable field boss.

- Sycrid will not appear naturally, but must be summoned by combining Ancient Creature’s Scale (which is obtained from Sycraia Underwater Ruins) into the Form of an Ancient Creature. Sycrid will then appear 15~20 minutes after releasing the Ancient Seal (This boss can only be summoned once per week through the quest, but you can help out as often as you like).

- At first, Sycrid is invincible and cannot be attacked. You must defeat all summoned Sycraks in order to break this invincibility.

- Sycrid will attack any Adventurer in the area.

- Once Sycrid reaches a certain point, it will leave and Adventurers who participated in the battle can obtain items. (Top 20 Adventurers who help fight Sycrid will receive items).

- Sycrid drops items such as Tungrad Rings, Ancient Seal – Red, Ancient Seal – Black, etc

- You cannot summon 2 Sycrid’s at the same time or in rapid succession.

- If Sycrid disappears, you will not receive any items.

● New daily quests have been added for Sycraia Underwater Ruins.

- The following quests can be received by a level 60 or higher character which has completed ‘[Boss] Witch-Hunting' or ‘Looking for Adventurers’:

* [Daily] Preparations for an Escape I

* [Daily] Get Me Some Time!

* [Daily] Preparations for an Escape II

- The following quests can be received by a level 61 or higher character which has completed ‘[Boss] Witch-Hunting' or ‘Looking for Adventurers’:

* [Daily] Mysterious Investigation

* [Daily] Hostile Monsters (can be received after completing [Daily]Mysterious Investigation)

* [Daily] Origin of the Eerie Sound

● Great Marni Stone is introduced with Sycraia Upper Zone.

● The Marni’s Stone (Sycraia) and Marni’s Stone II (Sycraia) are also available.

● New titles have been added along with the release of Sycraia.

- Tough Interviewer

- Pirate Ruins Planner

- Dragon King of the Sea

● A small cave on Weita Island has been explored, revealing a new group of monsters to fight, the Protty.

- Protty Cave is recommended for Adventurers who have over 170 AP.

- Watch out for Kaz Protty, with it’s powerful Smash Attack combos.

- As the monsters in Protty Cave are slow, it is recommended to gather them together before unleashing your combos.

- Atanis Firefly is heavily recommended for Protty Cavern, as the area is pretty dark.

- Using the escape function or resurrecting at a Safe Zone from Protty Cave will move you to Weita Island.

● Protty Cavern can drop Ancient Spirit Dust, Ancient Seal – Red Shards, Sycrids Song and also the Rainbow Coral Ring.

● A New Questline is available which will take you to Protty Cave and Sycraia. ‘The Mortally Wounded Man’ is available for Adventurers who are level 58 and higher, and have completed the ‘Token of Lemoria Guards’ quest from Kamasylvia.

● The Protty Cave daily quests have been added. These quests are available to Adventurers who are level 58 or above, and have completed the ‘Witch-Hunting’ quest:

- [Daily] Detecting Danger

- [Daily] Threatening Monsters

- [Daily] Save My Rum!

- [Daily] Eerie Structures 

● A full list of the Agris Fever Points consumed in Protty Cave and Sycraia Underwater Ruins can be found on the Agris Fever GM Note.

● For more information regarding Sycraia Underwater Ruins and Protty Cave, check out our GM Notes here.

● Padix Island has been revamped to be a monster zone with a recommended AP of 270.

- A new strain of Mutant Loah Flowers have begun to bloom at Padix Island.

- Cox Pirates who inhale the Mutant Loah Flowers scent have become dangerously violent with a huge increase to their powers.

- Affected pirates can be recognized by the ‘[Addicted to Mutant Loah Flower]’ title over their heads.

- Defeating monsters at Padix Island will reward up to two Adventurers.

- Knowledge entries of the enemies on Padix Island are shared between the Addicted and non-addicted enemies.

- The Loah Flower Pots in the cave at Padix will release the heavy fragrance of the Mutant Loah Flowers at random intervals, causing the Cox pirates around them to become violent.

- Violent Cox Pirates have increased AP and DP, with some of their attacks ignoring Guard/Super Armor status. Their attacks also inflict Knockback.

- Interact with the Loah Flower Pots to add Mutant Loah Flower Neutralizers that will stop the pirates from being affected by the flowers, returning them to their normal AP/DP. This also has the added effect of removing their ignore Guard and Super Armor attacks.

- There is a chance that a large number of Mutant Loah Snakes will appear when a Mutant Loah Flower Neutralizer has been added to a Loah Flower Pot.

- Defeating the Mutant Loah Snakes give a higher chance of obtaining Ancient Platinum Coins, and a low chance for Ethereal Earrings.

● [Old] Mutant Loah Snakes are larger than the other Mutant Loah Snakes, and grant a higher chance of obtaining the ’Ethereal Earrings’ compared to the regular Mutant Loah Snakes.

● Added a Simple Alchemy Recipe for the new item, Mutant Loah Flower Neutralizer.

- Hazelnut, the General Goods Vendor of the Kuit Islands, sells Mutant Loah Flower for 1,200,000 Silver and Mutant Loah Flower Neutralizer for 3,000,000 Silver.

● Quest about the Cox Pirates of Padix Island have been added.

- Accept the quests from Lavine the Node Manager of Padix Island. You must be level 61 or higher to accept these quests.

● Ethereal Earrings have been added to the game.

- You can get Ethereal Earrings from monsters in the Padix Island Zone.

- Ethereal Earrings have also been added to Patrigio’s Black Market shop.

● New titles have been added along with the Padix Island Revamp.

● For more information regarding the Padix Island revamp, check out our GM Note here.

Content Changes

This change was reflected in the 05/12 Update. We apologize for not highlighting it earlier. ● The Life Skill Nodes which were removed during a previous update have been readded.

● Added the ability to rename workers.

- The Workers’ names are visible only to you.

- The Workers’ names will reset once the worker has been registered to the Worker Exchange.

Item Changes

● Fixed an issue where the [Event] Magical Elixir items did not display their icons correctly in the Crafting Notes.

NPC, Background, Sound Changes

● Fixed the mini-map for the Glish Ruins in Serendia so that it appears as intended.

● Changed the topography in certain sections of Invernen Island and Tinberra Island.

Node War and Conquest War Changes

● The Participation rewards for Node War have been changed to Resplendent Medals of Honor.

- Shining Medals of Honor are no longer available as a participation reward. However, they can be exchanged for the same items in the same manner as before.

- The list of items exchangeable with the Resplendent Medals of Honor includes both the list of items exchangeable with the Shining Medals of Honor and newly added items below.

● A new Crystal can now be acquired through Simple Alchemy by using the Essence of Courage.

- Depending on the type of Crystal used as an ingredient, you can acquire JIN, BON and WON glorious Crystals of Courage with the same type of Ignore Resistance effect.

- Depending on the type of Crystal used as an ingredient, you can acquire JIN, BON and WON glorious Crystals of Courage with the same type of Ignore Resistance effect.

● Fixed an issue where any item placed in Node War could be removed by anyone in the guild.

Quest Changes

● Fixed an issue where the ‘Crippling Fear’ quest did not show in the Main Quest window.

UI Changes

● Added a ‘My Stable’ feature to view where your land mounts are from the World Map.

● When buying items with a purchase limit through NPCs, the message alerting you of the amount you can purchase will now appear in red if you have reached the maximum number of purchases.

● New Players who have the ‘Rookie Adventurer’ name will receive a new message through the loading screen after they change their family name.

● Workers will now immediately stop working when their work is cancelled.

● Changed the format of the Worker’s Promotion Test results sent by the Work Supervisor. The in-game mail will now display the upgraded rank of the Worker if they pass the Promotion Test.

● All instances in the UI with ‘Additional Copy’ have been changed to ‘Single Copy’.

● You can now repair Horse Gear with the Camp Site repair tool.

● Ancient Spirit Dust has been listed to the possible drops in Aakman and Hystria.

System Changes

● Fixed an issue where the Amity of an NPC would occasionally show 0 when swapping channels. The actual number was unaffected.

● Fixed an issue where when the ‘Hide other adventurers’ function was active, players with negative Karma were hidden too.

Other Changes

● Repositioned certain NPC’s in the Calpheon Northwestern Outpost to make them more natural.

● Fixed an issue where holding RB+LB/R1+L1 would make the camera unable to be moved.

● Fixed an issue where Wagon skills were unable to be locked.

● Fixed an issue where having a Celestial Horse Calling Horn in your inventory prevented your character from calling Guild Elephants to you.

- Guild Elephants within 50m are able to be called to you regardless of whether you have a flute item in your inventory.

● Ilyia Island NPC Lindby will now show as a Stable Keeper on the World Map.

● Fixed an issue where certain monsters could be trapped in the terrain around Bradie Fortress.

● Improved the textures on Guardian’s Spring Blossom Outfit to mesh together better.

● Fixed an issue with the [Archer] Corvanicus Outfit where it did not show in the Dye Window correctly.