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.

The camp functions as a self-sustaining ecosystem, featuring dedicated zones for meat production, vegetable patches, market stalls for trade, cooking facilities, and alchemy stations. Unlike traditional RPGs with instant resource collection, players must physically perform actions. Logging involves chopping trees by hand, gathering food from the farm requires picking crops, and livestock must be managed directly.

Housing

Unlocking the Camp

The Greymane Camp becomes available during Chapter 3 of the main story. After speaking with Marquis Serkis, Kliff is directed to a new camp location at Howling Hill. A soldier on horseback leads you to the camp site at Howling Hill. Marquis Serkis is the one who formally grants the land to the Greymanes, while Marshal Middler oversees the camp and introduces Damiane.

The quest "A Fresh Start" (the 32nd main mission) requires players to complete four construction tasks to establish the camp. These objectives can be done in any order:

Finishing these tasks establishes the functional camp base, which becomes essential for all future progression.

House Location

Kliff's personal house is located southeast of the main Greymane Camp, across a small ravine. Once the camp is established at Howling Hill, head east along the ravine path and up toward the clifftops to find it. The house is marked on the map after completing the Rustling Hill quest in Chapter 3. A large hole in front of the house leads to an underground area connected to an Abyss Nexus puzzle. Solving it unlocks a fast travel point right next to your home, which makes returning to the camp area much faster throughout the rest of the game.

Inside the house, a small house icon appears in the quick menu. Selecting it opens a bird's-eye furniture placement view with the roof removed, letting you freely position and rotate decorative items before confirming their placement. Any item marked with a house icon in its inventory tooltip can be placed inside your home.

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.

Upgrading the camp directly improves character stats, unlocks new skills, and expands the roster of available companions. Camp expansion is unlocked after completing the "A Gentle Touch" main quest in Chapter 3. Both the Alchemy lab and Dye Crafting stations must be unlocked through the base upgrade system via the "Restore the Greymane Camp" main story quest. Until that quest is completed, these crafting stations remain unavailable even if the player has the required resources.

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.

Furniture can be purchased from vendors or found during exploration. Players craft furniture from gathered materials at the camp's workshops. The housing system does not affect combat stats, but it provides a way to personalize the camp and create a distinct home base.

Collectibles

Collectibles are handcrafted items that serve both decorative and social purposes. Players can use them to decorate their home at the Greymane Camp or gift them to various NPCs around the towns of Pywel. Collectibles can be found by exploring towns and interacting with environmental objects, or by purchasing them from vendors. Some can also be stolen from other people's homes and sold for money.

There are several categories of collectibles:

Gifting Collectibles to NPCs

Beyond decoration, collectibles can be given to NPCs as gifts to increase their trust. Higher trust with NPCs may lower item costs when buying from them or grant access to new quests and requests. This makes collecting and gifting a practical way to unlock discounts and story content. Collectibles can also be sold to vendors for currency if the player has no use for them. See the Collectibles Guide for full locations and NPC gifting details.

Housing Benefits

The player's residence at Howling Hill provides several practical benefits beyond simple decoration:

Item Storage and Inventory Notes

Crimson Desert does not feature a traditional item bank or storage chest at launch. Your personal inventory is the only general-purpose storage available, which makes inventory management an important concern. The Supply Chest at camp is limited to receiving dispatch rewards and recovering missed loot; it does not accept player-deposited items.

To free up inventory space, speak with Carl at the Greymane Camp to donate unwanted gear. Donated items convert into Camp Resources used for facility upgrades. You can also cook meals or craft items to consolidate loose materials into finished products.

Pearl Abyss has confirmed that housing storage furniture will arrive in a post-launch update, allowing players to store items in their house at camp. Until then, expanding inventory capacity through quest rewards (Inventory Expansion Tools, which add 3 slots each) and purchasing Small Bags from general goods vendors (50 Copper each, adds 1 slot) is the primary solution.

Camp Fast Travel

The Abyss Nexus for Howling Hill is not immediately available when you first establish the camp. The teleportation pad is hidden near Kliff's house. If you step out the front door and go left, you will reach a short drop. Along that edge, between two trees, is a pile of thick, thorny bracken covering the pad. This fast travel point requires a central component that can only be obtained in Chapter 4 or later.

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites and Activation

• Reach Chapter 4 or later in the main story

• Learn the Focused Force Palm skill (obtained during the Scholastone quest in Act 4, by observing an Axiom spirit demonstration in a cavern with multicolored stone)

• Obtain the Kuku Pot from the dwarves at Kilnden Workshop after repairing it

• Complete House Roberts side quests, including clearing Karin Quarry of Bleed Bandits and defeating the boss Marni's Excavatron

How to retrieve the teleportation stone:

1. After defeating the Karin Quarry boss, use the crane to extract a buried relic. This creates a hole leading underground.

2. Descend into the underground area. Use Focused Force Palm to break through the special destructible walls (marked as Abyss walls).

3. Retrieve the large hovering wheel (the Abyss Transporter) using your Axiom tether, then store it inside the Kuku Pot.

4. Return to the teleportation pad near Kliff's house at Howling Hill.

5. Place the stone over the pad and use Force Palm to connect it to the device.

Once activated, fast travel to and from the Greymane Camp is permanently unlocked. This lets you quickly teleport home to stock up on supplies, sell items, deposit resources, check dispatch mission results, and cook meals between adventures.

Named Facilities

Farming

Unlocking the Farm

The farm is unlocked through the Grounds of the Sunrise faction questline. After progressing to the "A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post" quest, players meet an NPC named Kamu. Speak with Kamu to begin the farm unlock sequence:

1. Accept Kamu's request to perform the Apple Picking Mission at Glenbright Farm.

2. Complete the Apple Harvest Mission (also at Glenbright Farm).

3. Dispatch a construction mission at Howling Hill to build the farm facility.

Once the dispatch mission completes, the farm becomes a permanent fixture at the camp with dedicated crop plots.

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. Gathering food from the farm requires you to physically pick the crops rather than collecting through a menu.

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

The farm supports a variety of grains and vegetables that supply the cooking system. Grains are edible seeds used as core ingredients in many cooking recipes. The following grains have been confirmed:

In addition to grains, the farm includes vegetable patches. Harvested crops feed directly into the cooking and alchemy systems at camp.

Farm Expansion and Efficiency

The farm starts with a small number of crop plots, but expands as you complete camp upgrades. Each camp expansion tier adds more plots and potentially new crop varieties. By the third expansion, the farm supports enough plots to maintain a self-sufficient food supply for the entire camp operation, including dispatch mission costs.

Crops grow on an in-game timer. After planting seeds and watering them by hand, you wait for the plants to mature before harvesting. Crops that are not watered regularly take longer to reach maturity. Plan your farming around dispatch mission timers so that both systems produce results at roughly the same pace.

In the late game, the Magic Sickle becomes available. This tool lets you cut an entire row of crops in a single swing, dramatically reducing the time spent harvesting compared to picking each plant individually. The Magic Sickle does not automate watering or planting, but it removes the most tedious part of the farming loop. Combined with the Large Farming Scythe available from Provisioner vendors, these tools transform farming from a slow chore into a quick routine.

Farm Building Prerequisites

Constructing the farm requires recruits with the Builder skill. Without a Builder in your roster, the farm construction dispatch mission at Howling Hill remains locked. Only one construction mission can run at camp at a time, so if you are building both the farm and the ranch, you must wait for one to finish before starting the other.

A recommended approach is to build the farm first. Apple trees take real in-game time to mature, so starting the farm early lets your first batch of crops grow while you complete Ben's ranch tutorial missions. By the time the ranch construction finishes, your crops will be close to the first harvest.

Ranching

Unlocking the Ranch

Like the farm, the ranch is unlocked through the Grounds of the Sunrise questline. During the "A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post" quest, players meet an NPC named Ben. Speak with Ben to start the ranch unlock chain:

1. Ben requests you complete the Milk Harvest Mission at Bloomwood Ranch via dispatch.

2. Dispatch another mission to Howling Hill to construct the ranch facility.

3. Complete Ben's Request mission, which teaches fundamental ranch management: catching wild goats, registering livestock at the ranch, and slaughtering animals for meat.

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. An NPC named Bram operates the camp ranch. One of the Sealed Abyss Artifact challenges, "The Herder's Lament," requires selling 3 goats to Bram at the Camp Ranch.

Ranch Animals

Several types of livestock can be raised at the ranch. Each animal produces different resources:

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.

Bram and Livestock Sales

An NPC named Bram operates the camp ranch alongside Ben. While Ben handles the initial setup quests and livestock tutorials, Bram serves as the day-to-day ranch operator. You can sell surplus livestock directly to Bram for silver, creating an additional income stream beyond dispatch missions and trading.

One of the Sealed Abyss Artifact challenges, "The Herder's Lament," requires selling 3 goats to Bram at the camp ranch. Keep this in mind before selling all your goats elsewhere.

Ranch Expansion

Like the farm, the ranch expands with camp upgrades. Higher expansion tiers allow more animal types and increase the maximum number of livestock you can keep at once. Expanded pens accommodate larger herds, which in turn produce more ingredients per in-game day. Ranch expansion is especially important because animal products (milk, eggs, meat) are used in many of the higher-tier cooking recipes that provide the strongest combat buffs.

Products

Livestock produce cooking ingredients and crafting materials. Combined with farm-grown crops, the ranch creates a self-sufficient food supply. The following meat types have been confirmed in the game:

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. You can kill cows, sheep, and chickens in the wild for different types of meat, which can be used to cook food for yourself and your companion animals.

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 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.

Camp Donations and Resource Conversion

The camp's donation system, managed by Carl at the Supply Management office, converts items and silver into camp resources that fuel upgrades, dispatch missions, and passive camp growth. This is separate from the loot stored in the Supply Chest. Donations are permanent and cannot be reversed, so always check whether you still need a material before committing it.

To donate, speak with Carl and select "Manage Provisions," then choose "Camp Provisions." Your inventory opens with donation values displayed next to each eligible item. Items convert into one of five resource categories:

Donating resources also increases your camp's donation level. Higher donation levels reward you with newly placed decorative items and objects around the camp, giving visual feedback on your investment. These rewards are separate from mission-related resource spending. Regular donations are a practical way to repurpose duplicate gear and surplus materials that would otherwise sit unused in your inventory.

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.

7. Upgrade existing equipment for higher stats. See Crafting.

8. 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.

As you recruit NPC campmates, you can dispatch them on missions to gather resources passively, creating a steady stream of materials during late-game play. The Dispatch Coordinator at the Greymane Camp lets you choose missions from a single screen and manage your team without having to use the map.

Some dispatch missions require up to 18 in-game hours to complete and reward valuable resources for camp upgrades. Use the bed in your house to advance time while waiting for dispatch results. See the Companion Dispatch Guide for detailed mission types and strategic tips.

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.

Tips

• Always use the grindstone and anvil at camp before heading into major boss fights. The temporary Reinforcement stat boost can make a significant difference in tough encounters.

• Start farming and ranching as early as possible. The passive ingredient generation saves time that would otherwise be spent gathering in the wilderness.

• Use the food shop for quick restocking before heading into dangerous areas, but rely on cooking for long-term sustainability.

• Donate unwanted gear to Carl at the Supply Management office. The camp resources you receive in return are essential for facility upgrades.

• Dispatch companions on timber and ore missions to maintain a steady supply for camp upgrades, especially in the early-to-mid game when upgrade demands are highest.

• Choose your bed rest duration carefully. There is a cooldown between rest sessions, so you cannot sleep repeatedly to skip large amounts of time in quick succession.

• Unlock the camp fast travel point as soon as you reach Chapter 4. Having the Abyss Nexus at camp saves considerable travel time for the rest of the game.

• Check the Supply Chest regularly. Dispatch rewards and loot from cleared strongholds accumulate there and can be forgotten.

• The camp grows more populated as you reunite with Greymane members. More companions mean more dispatch slots and a livelier home base.

Abyss Cell Seed Planting

Abyss Cells collected from enemies throughout the world can be converted into seeds and planted at the camp farm. To do this, open your inventory, select an Abyss Cell, and choose "Use" to convert it into an Abyss Seed. Plant the seed in an available farm plot.

Growth Timeline and Yields

Each Abyss Seed grows into a full tree in approximately three to four in-game days. Once mature, each tree yields about five Abyss Cells when harvested. Using fertilizer (obtained from completing the Queen of Spiders and Restore Factory quests in Hernand) can increase this yield. The fertilizer item has unlimited uses, so apply it every time you visit your farm.

If you dedicate two full rows of farm plots to Abyss Seeds, the harvest every few in-game days produces a large number of cells. After harvesting, replant immediately to keep the cycle going. This turns every single Abyss Cell you bring home into roughly five more, making it one of the most efficient passive resource multipliers in the game. Use the surplus cells to craft Abyss Cores at a Witch NPC or to enhance Health past Level 11 on the skill tree. See the Best Farming Locations guide for the full breakdown of all top farming methods.

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