Overview
The Tech Gloves are a Rare pair of Gloves in Crimson Desert. On the surface they look like an ordinary piece of self-defense equipment, but a complex clockwork mechanism is hidden beneath the metal plates. Small mechanical arms can spring from gaps in the armor and skillfully manipulate the pins of any lock, letting the wearer open doors without a key.
What makes the Tech Gloves especially prized is the All-Purpose Arm ability they carry. Many players consider these gloves "broken" because of how powerful this ability is in practice, granting on-demand access to locked doors throughout the world. The gloves are hidden inside the Aeronautical Research Base, a secret location accessible through Marni's Laboratorium on the east side of Delesyia.
Stats
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Type | |
Rarity | Rare |
4 | |
Attack | 14 |
Special Ability | All-Purpose Arm |
All-Purpose Arm
The Tech Gloves come with the All-Purpose Arm ability. When activated, it allows the player to open and lock any door at will. This works on all door types in the game, including locked entrances that would otherwise require specific keys or quest progression to bypass.
The ability operates on a 10-minute cooldown after each use. Because of how broadly it works, many players refer to the Tech Gloves as "broken" gear. The ability to freely pass through locked doors opens up exploration shortcuts, alternate routes during quests, and access to areas that are normally gated behind other requirements.
Practical Value
The All-Purpose Arm ability lets you open any locked door for free every 10 minutes, completely eliminating the need for keys. Since keys are consumed on use and can be expensive to stock up, the Tech Gloves pay for themselves very quickly. The 10-minute cooldown resets while you explore, so in practice you rarely have to wait.
How to Obtain
The Tech Gloves are found at the Aeronautical Research Base, which is reached through a hidden path inside Marni's Laboratorium. The laboratorium is located on the east side of Delesyia. Follow these steps to reach the gloves:
Reaching Marni's Laboratorium
Travel to the east side of Delesyia and locate Marni's Laboratorium.
At the laboratorium, look for a point where you can jump up to a higher level.
From the top, drop down on the other side. There is a small door leading inside.
Sprint through the hallway. On the left side you will find a teleporter.
Using the Teleporter
Before stepping into the teleporter, make sure you have the Vision Stone equipped. The Vision Stone is a key item that must be in your inventory and active for the teleporter to function. Without it, the teleporter will not activate.
Once the Vision Stone is equipped, interact with the teleporter. It sends you through a "light-speed tunnel" and drops you at the Aeronautical Research Base.
Note: The item required is specifically the Vision Helmet. Make sure it is equipped in your headgear slot before stepping onto the teleporter. Without it, the teleportation will not trigger. The Lelesia region where Marni's Laboratorium is located becomes accessible in Chapter 11 or earlier depending on your exploration path.
Inside the Aeronautical Research Base
You land on top of a flying wagon high in the sky.
Below the wagon is a flying pterodactyl ship. It may not appear immediately. If it is not there, try teleporting around or waiting until the ship shows up below you.
Jump down and land on the pterodactyl ship. Be careful: enemies with guns are stationed on the ship and will shoot at you. It is easy to get knocked off the edge and fall.
Recommended: Create a save file before attempting the jump. Falling off means you have to repeat the teleporter sequence.
Once on the ship, attack the pterodactyl with your spear or sword. You need to destroy it by striking it until you "saw it in half."
After the pterodactyl is destroyed, a hatch opens up. Go inside.
Inside the hatch, destroy the last bubble (a destructible object). The Tech Gloves are yours.
The Giant Bird
The flying platform takes you to a giant bird, the same creature visible in the game's trailers. This enormous avian is the final obstacle before obtaining the Tech Gloves.
After landing on the bird, locate the green domes on its body. Stab each dome with your weapon to make it explode. The bird will thrash and try to shake you off periodically, so hold onto the platform using your stamina to cling and crouch. If you get flung off, you will fall and have to repeat the approach.
Once all green domes are destroyed, enter the hold of the bird through the opening. Inside, destroy the main core to complete the encounter. The Tech Gloves are awarded immediately after the core is destroyed.
Tips
Save before jumping. The jump from the flying wagon to the pterodactyl ship is dangerous. Enemies shoot at you and one misstep sends you falling. Having a save file ready saves a lot of time.
Equip the Vision Stone first. Forgetting to equip it before using the teleporter is a common mistake. Make sure it is active in your key items before you step in.
Watch the cooldown. The All-Purpose Arm has a 10-minute cooldown, so plan your door openings ahead of time rather than using it impulsively.
Pair with stealth builds. The ability to open any locked door makes the Tech Gloves an excellent choice for players who favor infiltration and exploration over direct combat.
Worth the trip. Despite the difficulty of reaching the Aeronautical Research Base, the Tech Gloves are widely regarded as one of the strongest utility items in the game.
Aerial Approach With the Dragon
In addition to the teleporter route through Marni's Laboratorium described above, the encounter that drops the Tech Gloves can also be reached directly from the air by riding the Dragon Mount. The giant mechanical bird that holds the gloves patrols the eastern side of Delesyia surrounded by a flock of smaller airplane-shaped escorts. There is no fixed map marker for the patrol route. You scan the eastern sky from dragonback until you spot the formation.
To summon and use the Dragon, you must first complete the prerequisite quest line. See How to Unlock the Dragon and Taming Dragon for the unlock steps. There may be ledges along the eastern Delesyia coastline that allow a glide-drop into the encounter without the Dragon, but the dragon approach is the most reliable way to reach the formation while it is still in the air.
Clearing the Smaller Bird Escorts
From dragonback, lock onto each smaller airplane-shaped bird in turn and strafe it with the Dragon's fireball breath. The escorts mostly do not return fire while you remain mounted, so the strafing run is the safest part of the entire approach. Stay airborne and keep firing until each one breaks apart.
Important: Any small bird left alive when you dismount onto the giant bird will start shooting at you the moment you land. Clean the entire flock before committing to the platforming on the main target. Skipping this step is the most common reason players get knocked off and have to start the approach over.
Boarding the Giant Bird
Once the escorts are gone, fly the Dragon up to the giant bird and dismount onto its back. There are small turrets mounted on its frame, but the damage they deal is very low. You should not need to constantly heal during the encounter. Bringing a small stack of healing food is a reasonable safety net but is not required if you are confident with the platforming.
Six-Orb Pierce Pattern
The exterior of the giant bird is studded with six green orbs, arranged three on each side. These are the same green domes referenced in the Inside the Aeronautical Research Base section above; the patrol-version of the encounter exposes the full set on the outside of the airframe rather than gating them behind the pterodactyl ship phase.
Use the piercing stab attack on each orb in turn. Stick the sword into the orb, then pull it out: the orb will detonate. The attack pattern matches the piercing prompts that appear during several other set-piece encounters in Crimson Desert, so the input should already be familiar by the time you reach this fight.
Hatch Drop and Inner Core
After all six exterior orbs are destroyed, a hatch on top of the airframe pops open. Drop inside. A single large green orb is mounted in the central chamber. Pierce that orb the same way you pierced the exterior orbs, then pull the sword out to detonate it. Triggering the inner orb plays a cutscene in which the entire bird tilts out of the sky and crashes. The cutscene ends with the player character knocked unconscious during the fall.
When control returns, you wake up on the ground at the crash site and the Tech Gloves are added to your inventory automatically. There is no extra fight on the ground after the cutscene; the encounter is over the moment the inner orb breaks.
Combat Notes
Concern | Notes |
|---|---|
Smaller bird escorts | Clear all of them with dragon fireballs before dismounting. Any survivors will start shooting once you land on the main target. |
Turrets on the giant bird | Damage output is very low. You can largely ignore them and focus on the orbs. |
Healing food | Optional. Bring a small stack as a safety net, but you should not need to use it if you cleared the escorts. |
Stamina use | Manage Stamina while clinging on the airframe so you do not get shaken off between piercing prompts. |
Saving | Use the Save System before the dragon flight so a single failed pass does not cost you the full retry. |
Choosing Between the Two Approaches
The teleporter route through Marni's Laboratorium described in the How to Obtain section is the canonical, story-aligned path for first-time players: it places you directly above the encounter and does not require the Dragon Mount. The aerial approach in this section is best when the Dragon is already unlocked and you want to skip the teleporter setup, or when you want to retry the fight without backtracking through the laboratorium each time. Both paths drop the same Tech Gloves at the end.
Quest framing: On a fresh playthrough this encounter still belongs to the Wings Across the Sky quest line that fights Ren X, described in the How to Obtain Tech Gloves section below. The dragon approach above is the same boss reached from a different direction; quest progress and rewards are not affected by which path you choose.
See Also
How to Obtain Tech Gloves
The Tech Gloves drop alongside the key item Grant's Knowledge of Delesyia from defeating Ren X, the mech boss fought during the Wings Across the Sky quest at the Aeronautical Research Base in southeast Delesyia. You reach the base by gliding in from the Chapter 11 Mani teleporters, so progression to that point in the main story is required before the encounter opens up.
Ren X Fight Walkthrough
The Ren X fight is a glider-platforming encounter layered on top of a boss fight. Glide up onto its back during openings, then use the stab attack on R2 to break each of the green glass orbs lining its spine. Each broken orb weakens the mech and exposes the next phase. After you have shattered every outer orb, drop into the hole that opens along the spine, where one final inner glass orb waits. Breaking the inner orb ends the fight.
Unlock Animation
Once equipped, the Tech Gloves unlock one door for free every 10 minutes using a unique scripted animation. Any locked door in the world counts, which makes the gloves an excellent infiltration tool for stealing runs, vault rooms, and side-quest shortcuts that would otherwise require picking kits or scripted keys. Plan your route so the 10-minute cooldown lines up with the specific door that matters most on that run.