Event

Event 1. Ramadan Cooking Festival!

Event Period   

- April 14, 2021 (Wed) after maintenance – April 28, 2021 (Wed) before maintenance  

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Event 2. Saving Snapshots of the Cooking Festival!

Event Period  

- April 14, 2021 (Wed) after maintenance – April 21, 2021 (Wed) before maintenance 

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Event 3. Happy Ramadan with the GMs!

Event Period  

- April 17, 2021 (Sat) 17:00  – April 23, 2021 (Fri) 

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● Added the new armor, Blackstar Shoes.

● Added "Max HP +100" to the Blackstar Armor 4-Set Effect.

※ Changes in Min & Max prices of Blackstar Shoes registered in the Central Market will be reflected faster than other gear for a 2-week period after April 14 (Wed) maintenance.

● Added the Blackstar Shoes crafting questline.

- You can complete the Blackstar Shoes crafting questline once per character.

- To start the Blackstar Shoes crafting questline, you will need the "Remnants of the Rift," which has a low chance to drop from Dark Rifts, and "The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah" knowledge. In addition, you will also need the "Specter's Energy," a special ingredient which also has a low chance to drop from monsters all over the world of Black Desert. "Specter's Energy" has a slightly higher chance to drop from monsters in Thornwood Forest.

- "Remnants of the Rift" has a low chance to drop from Dark Rift bosses.

- To learn "The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah" knowledge, you will require a Lv. 56 or higher character who has already completed the revamped Mediah main questline, then accept and complete the "The Three Blacksmiths" quest from Tulem. Adventurers who've previously completed the quest can interact with Tulem to gain the knowledge.

- This questline has a crossroads quest in the middle. Veteran adventurers can choose to face the powerful boss immediately, while other adventurers can opt to fight a weaker boss to complete the quest.

| CONTENTS

● Islin Bartali, owner of the Lunar Halo Inn, seeks Adventurers who can help her cook huge portions to feed the diligent sailors of Velia.

- Added the quest "[Bonus] Cooking for Velian Sailors I."

- This quest has 3 random variations, and you can complete it by talking to Islin Bartali. You can get either High-Quality Hot Pepper x500 or High-Quality Garlic x500 by completing it.

- You can get the quest by chance once you reach a certain cooking level for the dishes specified in the chart below. You can re-accept the quest immediately after completing it.

* [Bonus] Cooking for Heidelian Soldiers l (Reward: High-Quality Pepper x500 or High-Quality Onion x500)

* [Bonus] Cooking for the Calpheon Slums l (Reward: Milk x1000 or Egg x1000)

● Added bonus quests to appear when you cook the following O'dyllita dishes (listed in the table below) at a certain cooking level.

- The bonus quests that may be available to you are as follows:

- [Bonus] Cooking for Heidelian Soldiers l

- [Bonus] Cooking for the Calpheon Slums l

- [Bonus] Cooking for Velian Sailors l

● Some seasoned miners are talking about rumors of a special vein of ore you can discover while mining. You can get Rough Lustrous Gems by mining a special vein called "Starlight Vein." It was named as such for its beautiful sparkle.

- Starlight Veins can be discovered at a low chance while mining across all regions.

- The message "Your sharp miner's eyes have discovered a Starlight Vein!" will appear when you find it, and the vein will glow yellow around you.

- You can discover 3 - 5 Starlight Veins at a time, but the veins will disappear if you don't start mining them quickly.

- You can find additional Starlight Veins depending on your Gathering Mastery.

- You can hand over the Rough Lustrous Gem you obtained to a jeweler in each village for appraisal.

- However, you must have 200 amity with the jeweler NPCs to get an appraisal.

- You can find the NPCs above by searching for "crystal" or "jewel" in the Find NPC function left of the minimap.

● Added the chance to obtain the following items if you exchange Rough Lustrous Gem with the NPCs listed above.

● Added a feature that allows you to check the route that requires the least amount of Contribution Points to connect two nodes.

- Use this feature by pressing the Connect Node Directly button in the bottom right corner of the World Map window.

- Search for the two nodes you want to connect, and you will be able to see the required Contribution points, energy, and other details.

- You can invest Contribution Points immediately in the nodes on your searched route if your Value Pack (Distant Node Investment) is in effect.

● Tribute Wagon Departure times have been changed for Ramadan.

● Conquest War times have been changed for Ramadan

● World bosses will appear at a different time during Ramadan.

- Please refer to a separate notice for further details.

● The number of Total Likes for all Chat Groups will be reset on April 21 (Wed) maintenance.

- Adventurers who own either gold, silver, or bronze Black Spirit icons will receive a temporary title for 90 days for their diligent participation.

- Adventurers who own either gold, silver, or bronze Black Spirit icons in any of the 20 Hall of Adventurers Chat Groups will receive temporary titles as well.

- All Chat Group titles issued on Jan 20 (Wed) will be removed during the April 21 (Wed) maintenance.

● Detonative Flow - Fixed the issue where you couldn't combo straight to Flow: Magical Evasion and Teleport after using the skill.

● Fixed the issue where playing an instrument while under the effects of a debuff would cancel the debuff.

● Added Skill Enhancement - Rabam's Enlightenment

- Sage can obtain his first Enhanced Skill at Lv. 56 or higher, and the second at Lv. 57 or higher.

- Sage must learn the preceding skills to learn the Enhanced Skills.

- Sage can only learn one of the two Enhanced Skills available per level.

● Rift Chain - Fixed the following phenomenon: Use a skill > Rift Chain during the skill > Hit by debuff during attack animation after Rift Chain > Use Rift Chain at the end of debuff > First skill activates

● Form Shift - Improved to activate first when pressing W + RMB while Sprinting.

● Ator's Energy - Improved to activate Realm of Anguish with S + RMB after using the skill.

● Flow : Finishing Touch, Flow: Illusion Detonation - Fixed the issue where hits would not apply when rapidly rotating the camera while using the skills.

● Ator's Thorn - Fixed the issue where using the skill while mounted would apply a Critical Hit Rate buff.

● Spatial Collapse - Improved to activate Ator's Energy and Spatial Fissure first when pressing S + LMB and Shift + LMB after using the skill, respectively.

● Illusion Expansion - Improved to activate Ator's Fist and Spatial Collapse first when pressing W + F and S + F through Rift Chain, respectively, after using the skill.

● Ator's Energy - Fixed the issue where Atomagia would intermittently not activate through Rift Chain after using the skill.

● Ator's Thorn - Fixed the issue where Ator's Thorn would disappear after attempting certain motions when using the skill while mounted.

● Realm of Anguish, Black Spirit: Ator's Mark - Using these skills during the Old Moon Grand Prix will no longer bring out damage-dealing summons.

● Realm of Anguish, Form Shift, Void Gateways - Changed the skills so that they would be activated faster after Ator's Energy

● Added to the message that appears when you open a PRI (I) – TET (IV) Kzarka's Sealed Weapon Box, Dandelion Weapon Box, Nouver's Sealed Sub-weapon Box, and Kutum's Sealed Sub-weapon Box, to display the enhancement level (PRI (I) – TET (IV)) of the gear obtained.

● Added information regarding the success rates of learning individual skills to show when using Theiah's Orb to change your fairy's skills.

● Changed World Bosses to no longer drop "Response to Precious Courage" as loot.

● Added the following line to the item descriptions of [Mystic] Rakshande Armor and [Mystic] Rakshande Oufit Set:

● Fixed the issue where Al Rhundi summoned with the "Al Rhundi's Secret Orders" at Castle Ruins in Elva Realm disappeared.

● Changed the text of the button that opens the gear UI in the enhancement UI to 'Show Equipped Gear'.

● Added an alert for when you can obtain Black Spirit's Adventure dice.

● Added a Check Duplicates feature for Character/Family/Guild names.

● Added more menus that can be added to the ring menu.

● Added a feature that allows you to view item tooltips in the ring menu settings window.

● Fixed the message about Contribution Point ranges displayed when you choose the NEW Olvia server so that it shows more clearly.

● Changed default velocity to 100 when composing.

● Fixed the issue where Storage Maid would be summoned multiple times when using Storage Maid repeatedly for a short amount of time with a Quick Hotkey.

● Fixed the issue where you couldn't close Guild Storage and History for Guild Storage windows by pressing ESC.

● Fixed the issue where the World Boss Hexe Marie in the main quest could be damaged when she spotted her enemies.

● Fixed the issue where adventurers participating in guild war could not fight back against an enemy under Guild Protection that boarded a ship and used forced PvP to attack them.

● Fixedthe Knowledge (Ecology) target function so that it will be saved after reloading Settings Archives and changing characters.

● Changed tracking feature so that when tracking monsters on a category level, only the selected monsters will now be highlighted on the minimap.

● Fixed the issue where effects would not be displayed when equipping Tet (IV) and PEN (V) [Nova] Blackstar Sting

● Fixed the issue where the conquering Guild Master's Family Name would overlap in Territory Information when it went above a certain length.

● Fixed the issue where the following outfits would look awkward when equipped in certain situations:

- [Nova] Spring Blossom Outfit, [Lahn] Cartian Outfit, [Mystic] Rakshande Armor

● Fixed the issue where the products in the Pearl Shop search results couldn't be added to the Set Creator.

● Fixed the issue where the trade life skill EXP did not get transferred when using the Trading EXP Transfer Coupon.

● Fixed the issue where the number of products did not increase according to the character's life skill grade (Beginner, Apprentice, Skilled, Professional, Artisan, Master, Guru) when using Processing (L) > Chopping with Elder Tree Plank to make Elder Tree Plywood.

● Fixed the issue where the number of products did not increase according to the character's life skill grade when using Processing (L) > Chopping with Palm Plank to make Palm Plywood.

● Fixed the issue where the number of products did not increase according to the character's life skill grade when using Processing (L) > Heating with Elder Tree/Palm Plywood to make Sturdy Elder Tree/Palm Plywood.

● Fixed the issue where Adventurers who had completed the "[Event] Popular Love Boat" quest during the previous event period couldn't interact with the "flowers" given to Anya.

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert, thank you.