Crimson Desert has opened the stable doors a lot wider with update 1.06, adding special mounts that let players tame and ride more than the usual fantasy horses.
According to Pearl Abyss' official patch notes, certain animals can now be registered as special mounts after players gain their trust. The supported list includes bears, boars, wolves, deer, mountain goats, kuku birds, iguanas, raptors, camels, lions and tigers.
Ferocious animals need to be subdued and fed before they can be tamed, while some species have their own taming conditions. Pearl Abyss also says feeding animals that cannot be tamed will not raise their trust level, so players will still need to learn which creatures can actually be brought into the mount system.
Once tamed, special mounts have their own inventory UI tab and can use equipment. Saddles for different animals are sold at saddleries across several cities, including wolf and bear saddles at Hernand Saddlery, iguana saddles at Tommaso Saddlery and camel saddles at Varnia Saddlery. Only one regular mount and one special mount can be assigned to the mount quickslot at a time.
Patch 1.06 is rolling out across Crimson Desert's platforms. The official update page currently lists Steam on PC, Steam on Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store as available now, with the Mac App Store version still in progress.
The mount changes are the most immediately visible addition, but this is not just an animal update. Patch 1.06 also adds an extraction feature that lets players recover materials used to refine equipment by visiting smithies. Special materials such as Artifacts and Aeserion's scale are recovered at 100 percent of the amount used, while common materials such as iron ore, copper ore and bloodstones are recovered at about 70 percent.
Oongka has new unarmed combat skills under the Fists section of the skill menu, with unarmed skills for Damiane planned for the next update. The patch also adds sword sheaths and a Display Sheath option, plus a Sigil of Valor item that makes pet dogs attack enemies when equipped.
On the visual and comfort side, the new Night Tone Mode softens and darkens the game's overall colours while slightly brightening shaded areas. Pearl Abyss describes it as an option for easing eye strain when playing in darker surroundings.
The update lands less than two months after Crimson Desert's March 19 launch on Steam, where Pearl Abyss describes the game as an open-world action adventure set on the continent of Pywel. The game's post-launch patches have already tackled combat, UI, graphics, localization and boss fixes, and 1.06 continues that pattern with another broad pass across systems, convenience features and bug fixes.