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11 Tumbleweeds are an atmospheric prop added in Patch 1.04.00. They drift across the desert regions of Pywel as part of the patch's open-world detail pass, which also added wells, ore nodes, livestock vendors, and a wider variety of NPC reactions to nearby events. They have no gameplay effect; the addition is cosmetic and adds environmental ambience.
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33 Where They Appear
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55 Open desert plains in the Crimson Desert region.Roads through Trader's Expanse and similar windy desert stretches.Outskirts of desert settlements where the camera framing benefits from drifting props.
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77 Why it Matters
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1010 The tumbleweeds are not interactive: they cannot be gathered, and walking through one does not knock the player back. Their purpose is presentation. They sit alongside the wider 1.04 environmental pass: improved long-distance rendering, larger detail patches, and a new variety of NPC ambient reactions. Players running tight performance modes should not see a measurable framerate impact from the addition.
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1212 See Also
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1414 Patch 1.04.00 - patch that introduced them.
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1616 World Map - desert region overview.