Pets

Overview

Pets are friendly creature companions that follow you throughout Pywel and assist in both exploration and combat. The pet system revolves around building trust with animals you encounter in the world. Once you reach maximum trust with a creature, you can register it as a companion. Registered pets follow you on your journey, automatically loot defeated enemies, and can even fight alongside you. You can register multiple pets and manage them through the Inventory menu.

Obtaining Pets

Building Trust

To turn a wild or town animal into your pet, you need to build your trust level to 100. Trust is earned through two primary actions: petting and feeding. Each animal has a daily cap on how much trust you can earn, so taming is a multi-day process for most creatures. Repeatedly performing the same action has diminishing returns within a single session; mixing petting with feeding yields trust more efficiently.

• Petting: Approach an animal and interact with it to pet it. This grants a small amount of trust each time, up to a daily limit of around 25 trust per day.

• Feeding: Remove food from your inventory, hold it in your hand, and place it on the ground next to the animal. The animal will eat it and gain trust. Higher-quality food grants significantly more trust than basic food.

Food Quality and Trust

The type of food you offer matters. Dogs accept any type of meat, while cats prefer milk. Better food items yield more trust per feeding.

You can feed a pet up to three times per in-game day. Combining three feedings of high-quality food with regular petting can bring you to the 100-trust threshold in just a few days.

Registration

Once you reach 100 trust, a prompt appears to register the animal as your companion. On PlayStation, press the Square button to confirm. The pet is then added to your companion list and will follow you everywhere. You can manage your active companions through the Inventory menu.

Introduction Quest

The faction quest "Fang Without a Master" serves as the introduction to the pet system. During festivities in the city, you are guided through the process of taming your first dog companion by purchasing meat, feeding it, and petting it until it trusts you. Three pieces of meat combined with petting is enough to claim the dog. After completing this quest, the full pet system opens up, allowing you to tame any compatible animal across Pywel.

Pet Roles

Automatic Looting

The most practical benefit of having a pet is automatic loot collection. During and after combat, your pet automatically picks up items dropped by defeated enemies. This saves time and ensures you do not miss valuable drops during hectic battles. Looting is passive; you do not need to command your pet to do it.

Combat Assistance

Pets join you in fights and engage enemies alongside you. While they deal less damage than Kliff or other playable characters, they can distract enemies, interrupt weaker foes, and contribute chip damage throughout encounters.

Pet Care

Healing Injured Pets

Pets can be hurt during combat. An injured pet may be unable to run or fight effectively. To heal a wounded companion:

• Clear all enemies from the immediate area so you are out of combat.

• Approach your injured pet.

• Use the Healing Force Palm ability to restore their health.

Keeping your pet healthy is important; an injured pet cannot loot items or assist in fights until healed.

Pet Armor

You can equip specialized armor on your pets to increase their defensive capabilities. Pet armor reduces the damage they take in combat, keeping them in the fight longer and reducing the frequency of healing. Armor can be purchased from vendors like Rhett at the Equipment Shop in Hernand Town or crafted through crafting systems.

Available Pets

The following animals can be tamed and registered as pets in Crimson Desert. All of them are also cataloged on the Lifeforms page.

Dogs

Cats

Tips

• Always carry some high-quality food in your inventory so you can start building trust with any animal you encounter during exploration.

• Focus on taming your first pet early, ideally during the "Fang Without a Master" quest, so you benefit from automatic looting throughout the rest of the story.

• Equip pet armor before heading into difficult encounters. Replacing an injured pet mid-battle is not possible.

• If your pet gets hurt, retreat from combat before attempting to heal it. The Healing Force Palm ability requires you to be out of combat.

• Dogs eat any meat, but cats prefer milk. Stock up on the appropriate food type before trying to tame a specific animal.

• You can register multiple pets through the Inventory menu and switch between them as needed.