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Camp Guide and Features
This is a guide to camp management in Crimson Desert. Check out our complete list of camp features, learn how to unlock and upgrade the camp, and discover more camp management tips here.

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Camp Features Explained

Check IconDeploy Missions To Accumulate Resources
Check IconRest at the Bed
Check IconPrepare Food and Purchase Ingredients
Check IconPlant Crops and Raise Animals
Check IconBuy and Sell Gear
Check IconTrade Packaged Goods
Check IconRecover Lost Items
Check IconStore Items in the Private Storage

Deploy Missions To Accumulate Resources

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You can assign your Freeswords to missions in a region, which provides resources and other rewards upon completion. Progress in missions is dependent on in-game time, so you can either rest or perform other tasks until they finish.

Each Freesword stationed at the camp has a unique set of skills that allows them to perform well on some missions and poorly on others.

You can check your Freesword's skills and the missions you can send them on by speaking with Ross at the camp.

How to Dispatch Comrades on Missions

Deploy Freeswords at Blockades

Deploy Freeswords to Missions

As an alternative, you can deploy Freeswords to fight in the blockaded regions. This reduces the number of enemies, making some areas more manageable when you visit them.

Rest at the Bed

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You can relax on your camp bed to pass the time. It functions like any other bed, but with the added convenience of its proximity. The same rules apply for resting, meaning you cannot rest consecutively.

How to Pass Time

Prepare Food and Purchase Ingredients

Prepare Food and Purchase Ingredients.png

You can cook dishes using the pot and purchase ingredients from the cook, which makes meal preparation much easier. The cook also sells prepared dishes, albeit with limited stock that is refreshed daily.

The cook also sells recipes that you can buy and use to prepare the dishes repeatedly, as long as you have the necessary ingredients.

Plant Crops and Raise Animals

Grow Crops and Raise Animals
Additionally, the camp's facilities allow you to grow your own crops and raise animals on the ranch. This makes farming a lucrative activity that allows you to procure ingredients at your own pace.

Buy and Sell Gear

Tranan the camp blacksmith

You can unlock Tranan, the camp blacksmith, who buys and sells gear with limited stock. He also sells ammunition, as well as refinement items, which can be convenient if you're engaging in ranged combat often.

Trade Packaged Goods

Trading Center

After unlocking the wagon, you can convert provisions into packaged trade goods with Carl, and either store them or sell them at the trading center. Since prices can differ, monitor them closely to maximize profits.

Recover Lost Items

Recover Items
You can retrieve items you left behind by speaking with Carl, the Base Camp Provisions keeper. This differs from the Private Storage Chest in that it only counts items you dropped but didn't pick up.

Store Items in the Private Storage

Private Storage

You can store items in the Private Storage Chest, which has a maximum capacity of 230 slots. Since you can also claim loot that you failed to collect in the Private Storage, make sure to check it often to ensure that it doesn't exceed its limit.

How to Upgrade Camp

Complete Expansion Missions

Do Expansion Missions

Completing Expansion Missions unlocks subsequent quests that allow you to recruit more Greymanes to your camp. For this reason, prioritize these missions above all others to upgrade your camp.

Do Greymane Quests and Missions

Complete Greymane Missions

Enlist any Greymanes you can find right away by doing the missions associated with them. They'll serve as a useful freesword that you can dispatch on missions, while some also additional features in your camp.

Complete Timberturner Wainright Missions

Complete the Timberturner Wainwright Missions

Completing the Timberturner Wainright missions allows you to unlock and upgrade the Wagon. Try to finish this mission once you obtain a freesword with the Engineering skill to gain access to trade.

Do the A Rumor at Glenbright Farm Mission

Rumor at Glenbright Farm Mission

Both the Cook and the Quartermaster are simultaneously unlocked upon finishing the A Rumor at Glenbright Farm Mission, so try to finish it as soon as you can in order to gain access to their facilities.

Always Have a Mission Active

Deploy freeswords on missions whenever possible, as it is the best way to earn resources. Missions can be completed while you are doing other activities in other places, making it one of the best passive ways to accumulate resources.

Donate Unwated Items to Carl

You can donate unwanted items to Carl, such as weapons, armor, materials, and coin. Donating items also boosts camp growth and supplements its expansion if you have the coins and resources to spare.

If you lack the resources to dispatch your freeswords on a mission, you can make up the difference by donating to him.

Steal the Gold Bar in Lioncrest Manor

Map Location Bank Entrance
Map Location
Lioncrest Manor Window

It is recommended to steal the Gold Bar in Lioncrest Manor, as in order to fund the costs of the camp's dispatch missions if you're running low on on coin.

If you have a steady income from dispatch missions and don't need coins or other resources, you can donate to Carl to help the camp grow.

How to Steal Items

When Can I Upgrade the Camp to Level Two?

Available at the End of the Embers of Return Questline

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You can upgrade the camp to level two expansion after progressing the Embers of Return faction questline. The mission will be titled Expanding the Camp and will be the seventh and final quest that will unlock the camp's second expansion.

List of Faction Quests (Side Quests)

How to Unlock Camp

Complete Howling Hill Main Quest

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In order to unlock the camp features, you first need to progress through the main quest until you complete Homestead, which unlocks the camp itself.

Unlocking the camp lets you rercruit the scattered Greymane members, and reunite them under your banner, but you'll have to progress the main quest in conjunction with Greymane quests in order to unlock it's features.

For this reason, you should progress through the main quest line until you reach the Pioneering quest. This will allow you to unlock more camp features by completing the additional Greymane Faction Quests.

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