Narima's Horn
Narima's Horn is a craftable consumable in Crimson Desert that instantly resets the Blackstar Dragon's summoning cooldown, enabling unlimited dragon flight.
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Narima's Horn is a craftable consumable item in Crimson Desert. When used, it instantly resets the summoning cooldown for the Blackstar Dragon, allowing the player to call the dragon again without waiting through the standard 50-minute cooldown period. It is one of the most valuable consumables for players who rely on dragon flight for travel and combat.
A horn crafted using a dragon's fang. Its distinct sound is said to allow communication with a dragon. Immediately readies Blackstar for summoning.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Category | Consumable |
Type | |
Effect | Instantly resets Blackstar summoning cooldown |
Using Narima's Horn immediately resets the Blackstar Dragon's summoning cooldown to zero. Under normal circumstances, the Blackstar can only be ridden for approximately 15 minutes before it departs, at which point a 50-minute real-time cooldown begins before the dragon can be summoned again. Narima's Horn bypasses this wait entirely, making the Blackstar available for summoning right away.
This makes Narima's Horn significantly more powerful than the Dragon Claw Horn, which only reduces the remaining cooldown by 10 minutes rather than resetting it completely.
Narima's Horn is crafted at a Witch's Workshop. Before the item can be crafted, the player must first obtain the crafting recipe. The recipe requires the following materials:
Material | Source |
|---|---|
Dropped from dragon-type enemies | |
Obtained by hunting birds or purchased from the Provisioner's Shop in Hernand | |
Mined from cave walls in the Hernand Highlands Cavern |
The crafting recipe for Narima's Horn must be found before the item can be crafted. Like other crafting manuals in the game, the recipe can be discovered through exploration or obtained from specific NPCs. Players should check Witch's Workshops and crafting manual sources throughout Pywel for this recipe.
Dragon Claw Horns are obtained as drops from dragon-type enemies. These can also be used on their own as a lesser alternative to Narima's Horn, reducing the Blackstar's remaining cooldown by 10 minutes per use.
Feathers are a common crafting material dropped by birds when hunted. Birds can be found across the open world, from forests to mountains to deserts. Feathers can also be purchased from the Provisioner's Shop in Hernand starting in Chapter 4, with stock refreshing daily at midnight.
Stalactite is a rare mineral gathered from cave walls using a pickaxe. The best farming location is the Hernand Highlands Cavern, south of Hernand City near Howling Hill. Stalactite nodes glow on cave walls when ready to harvest, and the cavern also contains diamond nodes for co-farming.
Because the Blackstar Dragon's 50-minute cooldown runs in real time and cannot be skipped through in-game mechanics like resting, Narima's Horn is extremely valuable for players who want to fly continuously. By farming the required materials and keeping a stock of Narima's Horns on hand, players can effectively achieve unlimited dragon flight.
A recommended farming loop involves gathering Stalactite from the Hernand Highlands Cavern, collecting Feathers from birds encountered during travel, and stockpiling Dragon Claw Horns from combat encounters. With enough materials prepared, players can craft multiple Narima's Horns and use them back to back for extended aerial exploration and combat.
Crimson Desert features two consumable items that affect the Blackstar Dragon's summoning cooldown:
Item | Effect | Type |
|---|---|---|
Narima's Horn | Instantly resets cooldown to zero | Crafted |
Reduces remaining cooldown by 10 minutes | Available |
Narima's Horn is the superior option for players looking to resummon the Blackstar immediately. The Dragon Claw Horn is more accessible but requires multiple uses to fully clear a 50-minute cooldown, whereas a single Narima's Horn does the job instantly.
Because Narima's Horn is crafted rather than dropped, the hardest part of maintaining a stockpile is unlocking the recipe in the first place. Community testing confirmed by the 300-hour walkthrough video shows that the most reliable source for the Narima's Horn blueprint is the Timeworn Ruins Excavation dispatch mission. The mission sits in the compass-icon expedition list and rewards a random item drawn from the Timeworn Ruins abyss gear pool, which includes several blueprints that cannot be bought, such as the Narima's Horn recipe and the Infinite Arrows recipe.
Important distinction: there are two versions of the Timeworn Ruins activity. The first is a clear-the-ruins encounter that you, as the player, complete on foot. The second is the Greymane expedition version, where you send Greymanes to excavate the ruins over several in-game days. Only the expedition version rewards the blueprint pool, so be sure to clear the ruins yourself first if the expedition has not yet unlocked, then open the dispatch chain and queue the excavation from the map.
The Timeworn Ruins Excavation reward is rolled at the moment the dispatch completes. The reward is fully randomized on each completion, which means you can manipulate the outcome with a hard save and a reload. This lets you reroll the reward repeatedly from a single expedition completion rather than farming the mission from scratch every time.
The procedure is straightforward:
Send Greymanes on the Timeworn Ruins Excavation dispatch the normal way. The full mission runs for roughly three in-game days.
Wait until the mission shows less than 12 in-game hours remaining. The exact hour count does not matter as long as it is below 12, so a value like 9 hours left is a good target.
Perform a hard save from the pause menu before you sleep. Do not rely on autosave or the sleep save; you need a named save slot you can reliably load.
Sleep to fast-forward the remaining time. The dispatch will finish and the reward will appear in the Greymane Camp stash (or already be listed in the dispatch results screen).
If the reward is the Narima's Horn blueprint (or another blueprint you want), stop there. If not, load the hard save and sleep again. The reward re-rolls every time the dispatch resolves from that save.
This method also works for any other rare blueprint in the Timeworn Ruins pool, including the Infinite Arrows blueprint and several other abyss gear effects. Because the reroll takes only the time it takes to sleep and check the stash, a handful of retries is usually enough to surface the blueprint you want. Once the recipe is in your crafting list, you can craft Narima's Horn on demand forever after, so this is a one-time farming run rather than a repeating chore.
Before farming the expedition, also check your Witch's Workshop crafting list. Players who have already completed the Timeworn Ruins Excavation once may find that the Narima's Horn recipe has already been unlocked silently in the background. If the craft is already listed at the witch, you can skip the reload trick entirely and move straight to gathering materials.
Once the blueprint is in hand, Narima's Horn is crafted at any witch from three components. Each component has a distinct farming path, and the Dragon Claw Horn is by far the most time-gated of the three.
Dragon Claw Horns are produced exclusively through the Dragon Claw Horn Production dispatch site, located on the southern edge of Delesyia, just below the "S" in the map label. The dispatch location appears on your world map after you discover it during normal travel. Until you unlock the gathering research, the site will show that dispatches are locked.
To unlock the Dragon Claw Horn Production dispatch, complete the Efficient Gathering Research project at the Pororin Research Institute. This is the only research requirement; you do not need to progress any other institute to farm Dragon Claw Horns. Once the research is finished, the dispatch at the Delesyia site becomes active and produces 3 Dragon Claw Horns per 1 in-game day of dispatch time. Since Narima's Horn uses 3 Dragon Claw Horns per craft, one day of dispatch yields exactly one craft's worth of horns.
Stalactites come from the Hernand Highlands cave system south of the Greymane Camp. Enter the cavern and look for glowing nodes on the cave walls; use a mining drill or any pickaxe to gather them. The cave is close enough to camp that a few visits will keep you stocked, and the same area also rewards diamond nodes as a secondary drop.
Feathers are the easiest component. You can hunt wild birds anywhere in Pywel for drops, or sacrifice chickens at your ranch. Each chicken sacrificed yields roughly 6 feathers, so a handful of farmed ranch chickens provides enough feathers for many Narima's Horns in a single sitting.
Once crafted, Narima's Horn fully resets the Blackstar Dragon summoning cooldown. In the 300-hour walkthrough, the author confirms that the item "fully resets the whole cooldown, the whole 60 minutes" immediately, even when the dragon cooldown bar is completely full at the moment of use. There is no partial reduction and no sliding scale; the moment Narima's Horn is consumed, the dragon is available for resummoning.
Combined with the Dragon Claw Horn Production dispatch and the Hernand Highlands stalactite trips, this turns the Blackstar's long real-time cooldown into a non-issue for late-game play. Stockpiling five to ten horns before a long exploration session effectively grants unlimited dragon flight without resorting to mods or external tools.