Housing and farming

Overview

Crimson Desert includes a housing and farming system that lets players build personal living spaces, cultivate crops, and raise livestock. These systems operate within the Greymane Camp. Pearl Abyss showed the mechanics in the Features Overview #3: Life in Pywel trailer.

The resources produced by farming and ranching feed directly into cooking and crafting. Growing your own ingredients is an alternative to buying from vendors or gathering in the wild. When field resources are scarce, the farm and ranch provide a self-sustaining supply.

Housing

Construction

Buildings at the Greymane Camp are constructed in real time. Players contribute materials and watch structures go up post by post. Lumber from logging and minerals from mining are the primary construction materials.

When Kliff first arrives in Hernand, the camp is a handful of tents. Every building that eventually stands there was placed and built by the player's investment of resources and currency.

Furniture and decoration

Individual buildings can be decorated with furniture and props. Players physically place items inside their housing, arranging interiors by hand rather than selecting from preset layouts.

The decoration layer is cosmetic, but the buildings themselves are functional. A kitchen enables cooking. Workshops enable crafting. The customization station enables dye work and hairstyle changes.

Named facilities

Farming

Crop cultivation

The farm has dedicated plots where players grow crops. Crops need to be watered by hand. The gameplay loop is planting seeds, watering plants over time, and harvesting when they mature.

Harvested crops are ingredients for cooking recipes and crafting materials. Growing your own supply removes the need to buy from vendors or spend time gathering in the field.

What you can grow

Specific crop types have not been fully cataloged, but trading menus in gameplay footage list barley among the goods available at the camp trading center. The farm likely supports whatever ingredients the player needs for their preferred cooking recipes.

Livestock

Ranch operations

The ranch sits alongside the farm. Players raise livestock for meat, hides, and other animal products used in cooking and crafting. Animals need care, and the player interacts with them directly.

Physical animal handling

Pearl Abyss has specifically shown pig handling: Kliff physically picks up pigs and carries them on his shoulders to move them between pens. The Features Overview #3 trailer shows the protagonist hoisting a pig and walking it to a different plot. This is not a menu interaction.

Products

Livestock produce cooking ingredients (meat, animal products) and crafting materials (hides). Combined with farm-grown crops, the ranch creates a self-sufficient food supply.

Hunting

Hunting is another source of meat and crafting reagents. Players track animals with bows and can equip stealth gear for better results. Hunted animals yield meat for cooking and reagents for alchemy. Unlike farming and ranching, hunting requires leaving the camp and exploring the wilderness.

Cooking

Meals are cooked at the bonfire at the Greymane Camp. Each meal provides buffs to one or more of three stats:

Recipes are collected throughout Pywel. Hands-on previews confirm at least one named consumable: Veal Burgers, described as a restorative item usable even during boss fights. The full recipe list has not been revealed, but the trading center's inventory (barley, meat jerky, salt-grilled fish, fruit juice) gives a sense of the ingredient variety.

See Cooking for the full recipe and buff breakdown.

The resource loop

Housing, farming, and ranching connect to a larger resource loop:

1. Gather raw materials through exploration, logging, and mining.

2. Hunt animals and fish in rivers for additional ingredients.

3. Build facilities at camp using those materials.

4. Farm and ranch to produce cooking and crafting ingredients.

5. Cook meals at the bonfire for Health, Spirit, and Stamina buffs.

6. Craft gear at the Smithy. Upgrade existing equipment for higher stats. See Crafting.

7. Upgrade the camp further, unlocking better facilities and expanding the companion roster.

Companion contributions

Greymane companions who have been reunited contribute to camp operations. The dispatch system lets companions gather timber, ore, and other materials in the background while the player is elsewhere. More companions means more productive facilities.

See the Greymane Camp article for companion management and dispatch.

Automation hint

One scene in the Features Overview #3 trailer shows Kliff reactivating an old machine with a conveyor belt, where items move along an automated production line. Pearl Abyss has not explained this in detail. Whether this is a late-game upgrade, a separate facility type, or a one-off quest scene remains unconfirmed.

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