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Kuku Pot
April 11, 2026 at 01:40 PM
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The Kuku Pot is a craftable collectible in Crimson Desert. It is a ceramic container that can be displayed as a decoration at the Greymane Camp or given as a gift to NPCs to raise their trust level. The pot is tied to the lore of Grimnir, the engineer at the Kilnden Workshop in the Hernand region, who restored an ancient Kuku Pot from nothing but a fragment of a memory image.
The Kuku Pot requires a crafting manual to unlock. Once the manual is in your possession, the recipe becomes available:
Material | Quantity | Source |
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5 |
The pot is crafted at a smithy or workshop station. The crafting manual for the Kuku Pot appears in the special items section of the crafting manual list. Look for it in vendor shops or as a reward from quests connected to Grimnir and the Kilnden Workshop quest line.
Place the Kuku Pot in the Greymane Camp to add it to your home area. Collectible decorations contribute to the visual customization of your camp, and some NPCs react positively when the camp is furnished with particular items.
The Kuku Pot can be given to various NPCs as a trust gift. Gifting raises the NPC's trust level, which can unlock new dialogue, side quests, and discounts at vendor shops. Because the crafting materials are relatively common, the Kuku Pot is a cost-effective gift option in the early game.
The Kuku Pot is connected to Grimnir, a brilliant but arrogant engineer who operates the Kilnden Workshop in the Hernand region. Grimnir wears a visione, a rare device in the region, and is known for his restoration work on ancient artifacts. His most notable achievement was successfully restoring an original Kuku Pot using only a memory fragment as reference. The pot's design originates from an older civilization, and Grimnir's recreation makes it available for the player to craft as well.
Iron Ore and Timber are both abundant in the Hernand starting area, so you can craft multiple Kuku Pots early on without much effort.
Keep a few Kuku Pots in your inventory as cheap NPC gifts. They are lighter on material costs than most other craftable collectibles.
Visit the Kilnden Workshop main quest to learn more about Grimnir and the history behind this item.
The Kuku Pot is obtained during Chapter 4: The Price of Knowledge as part of the Mysterious Pot main quest. Travel to the Kilnden Workshop, located west of Hernand, where the dwarf Grimnir tasks you with repairing a furnace and three kilns before he hands over the pot.
The quest requires solving a furnace alignment puzzle and repairing three separate kilns. Each repair tests a different game mechanic.
The furnace has three rotating rows of runes. Move the dial to the left, middle, or right position and pull the lever to rotate each row. The goal is to align every rune with the golden reference rune at the bottom. Listen for a click sound that confirms correct alignment. When all rows match, every rune glows blue and the furnace activates.
The first kiln has disconnected pipes on its left side. Reconnect the pipe, then activate the yellow levers to restore power. This is the most straightforward of the three repairs.
The second kiln is broken into three pieces. Use the Axiom Force ability (L3) to lift each piece near the kiln, then rotate it to fit into the damaged section. Once all pieces are positioned correctly, jump above the structure and perform an aerial Force Palm strike to fuse the parts together.
The third kiln requires five electrified fuel orbs scattered around the workshop. Their locations are:
Two orbs on the ground directly in front of the kiln, near clay jars
One orb below the kiln near a pond
One orb inside a stone bird statue's eye socket in the pond
One orb in a small cave along the pond's shoreline
Use Axiom Force to lift each orb and deposit it into one of the five open sockets on the kiln.
After all three kilns are repaired, return to Grimnir and pull the yellow lever at the stone pillar to receive the Kuku Pot.
The Kuku Pot provides 230 dedicated storage slots for Abyss-type objects, machine parts, and contraptions. It cannot hold regular items such as weapons, armor, food, or recipes. To store an object, use Axiom Force on a valid target (large metallic orbs, power cores, etc.). If the "Seal" action prompt appears, the item can be sealed into the pot. To retrieve a stored item, examine the Kuku Pot in your inventory and select "Discard" on the item you want to release.
The Kuku Pot serves as the foundation for the ATAG mech system. When a Kuku Pot is used to build a Small Kuku ATAG, any objects stored inside carry over into the mech's internal inventory. To access the stored items while an ATAG is active, dismiss the mech first, then examine the objects within.
Additional Kuku Pots can be obtained by sending recruits on dispatch missions from the camp. Grimnir himself offers further crafting options once you return to the Kilnden Workshop. In Chapter 5 and beyond, Witch characters unlock new crafting recipes that use the Kuku Pot, and in Chapter 10 the Ironflame Orcs expand the available crafting tree even further, including components for the Abyssal Fusion dragon armor.
