Money, such as Copper, Silver, and Gold Bars, is crucial for buying gear, inventory expansions, mounts, skills, and other items in Crimson Desert. The game’s economy mixes various grinding, trading, gambling, and other methods. This guide will provide you with the best of them, so you don’t waste any time.
Robbing Banks, Trading, and Mining
In the beginning, you need to make money as fast as possible, but the opportunities are scarce, so your best option is to rob the Hernand Bank. Follow these steps:
- Head to Hernand and sneak in via a backdoor or side entrance to avoid front guards, but do save before entering in case guards spot you.
- Wear a thief mask, which you can buy from an underground merchant southeast of Hernand or just loot it from bandits, and bring lockpicks for extra boxes.
- Loot the vault and strongboxes inside for at least 30–50 Silver in just a few minutes.
You can also steal a free Gold Bar from the Lion Crest Manor in the northeast of Hernand. Sneak in through an upstairs window, head downstairs to the fireplace, use your lantern to reveal and steal the hidden Gold Bar, and sell it at the bank for 500 Silver.
If you value your reputation and don’t want to rob banks, then opt for diamond mining at a nearby diamond cave. You can easily get 10 Diamonds and 20 Stalactites for a total of 40-50 Silver in one quick run. Also, be sure to pickpocket nobles outside places like Oakenshield Manor during daytime hours for better odds.
Lastly, in the early game, you can find wagons on roads, often guarded by NPCs or bandits, steal them, and sell them at trading posts or black markets. Each wagon yields about 5-10 Silver and bears low risk.
Bounties, Hunting, and Ranching
Once you shift into the midgame, the best way to make money is to complete bounties from Bounty Boards. Check purple markers on your minimap or boards in major cities, and hunt those bandits for rewards and loot. After looting bandits or goblins in the wild, sell their weapons and armor to vendors and open all coin pouches. For example, Fundamentalist Goblins drop Crude Devil Masks that have very good sell value. Besides, you can hunt deer and boars for hides, meat, and horns, and sell them all to butchers or traders.
As soon as you unlock your camp’s ranch system, you can make a good income by ranching and farming. Here’s how to unlock it:
- Progress through the main “Grounds of the Sunrise” faction questline.
- Reach the “A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post” quest, which introduces Ben, ranch handler, and Kamu, farm handler.
- Complete Ben’s introductory requests, including the “Milk Harvest” mission at Bloomwood Ranch and dispatch a worker there via the camp menu.
- Dispatch another mission in Howling Hill to physically build and upgrade the ranch building in your camp.
Once your ranch is up and running, you can sell captured livestock, as well as produce meat, eggs, milk, etc.
Gambling and Bank Investments
In the late game, you can try out riskier but more rewarding gambling and investment mechanics. You need to locate taverns in towns and learn the rules. Make cheap best first to practice, then you can bet higher and win up to 70 Copper or 1-2 Silver per round. Of course, cheating mechanics are also available, but they yield serious risks.
While gambling may be a harder thing to profit from, bank investment is something every player should adopt in the endgame. Since banks appear in most major settlements, you can never leave a town without money. Here’s how it works:
- Convert 500 Silver into 1 Gold Bar at the bank.
- Buy a Personal Strongbox Permit for 100 Silver.
- Invest more Gold Bars for passive interest and profit over time.
- But use high-risk options carefully, which turn early stolen Gold Bars into compounding wealth.
