Crimson Desert Pickpocket Notes

I've been collecting gold bars for a couple of hours now to fund my endeavors around Pywel and I can't help but applaud the developer who gave me a hunk of cheese instead of a gold bar recently. I guess they are all in rabbit disguises after all.

Overall, I must say that the Demenis Wildlife Park is the best place to pickpocket nobles. You can easily run off and re-join the crowd without any issues. I have 5 bars now in just a couple hours of work. It makes for an easy rotation for a quick break from work.

Here's a quick screen grab of a visitor with bars since I had a tough time finding one. It takes some time but be patient. Grab the bar, run off, and come back for more (make sure to save your game after you get one). Quick note, I did manage to get 2 bars from one visitor. If you look closely, you can see that some have stacks of 2 or 3 bars. Apparently, you can get more than one - quite the haul! They appear to either be carrying a copper pouch, a quill or perhaps a key, nothing, or 1-3 gold bars.

I can't say what the refresh time is for each visitor getting new loot, only that it's not long. I make a round and come back, and they seem to have changed. Maybe I should just stand next to one and keep scanning over and over to see if it's different each time. Perhaps it's an RNG each time you scan someone. My results so far from attempts only on people with bars are cheese, jade, 1-2 gold bars.

My guess is that what they are carrying changes every 2-3 minutes and lasts a few seconds depending on what it is. If you see a bar, grab it quickly or you will end up with a random item. I think the longer you wait (taking screenshots) the less chance you have of getting the bar.

Save your game before closing

Apparently, after crafting some stuff yesterday, I closed the game (PC Platform) before it had a chance to auto-save. When I logged back in today, a lot of stuff (including a book that I learned) is all missing. I'd suggest manually saving before closing up for the day.

Crimson Desert Travel Tip

Today I learned that you could press the right-stick to change the map to the Abyss so you can teleport up there even from the very beginning. You don't have to progress to Chapter 5 where you go back up there in the story (yes, there's a story).

This allows you to free-fall to a lot more places on the map without the long horse journey.

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So, I purchased Crimson Desert for PlayStation and I have to say that I'm kind of addicted right now. I know I have bought many games in the past and played them for a few minutes and given up, but the similarities between this game and Red Dead are enough to keep me going. I can't say that I'll be as heavily invested at this point, but there are sure to be some posts about it and some RSS Feeds added to the news sections. For now, I'll be taking a break from other games as I figure out how much Crimson Desert has to offer. I can say that the map is huge and a bit overwhelming. The intro is a joke, and you have to learn a lot of the game from outside sources, but it's new and they appear to be actively patching it so that's a good sign. As for now, I'll keep at it. I'm in chapter 4 now and just starting to explore the rest of the map. I thought I had combat figured out until I ventured out to neighboring regions and found enemies with large shields and was quickly put in my place. It's time to look for a good spear and figure out how to switch quickly.

Gus material list

I find myself frequently looking this up so here's a clip from the Red Dead Wiki about Gus.