Crimson Desert

Best Items to Keep, Buy, and Sell

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Last updated on: March 21, 2026 05:32 AM

This is a list of best items to keep, buy, and sell in Crimson Desert. Check this guide to see why these items are worth having or selling for money.

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Best Items to Keep
Best Items to Buy
Best Items to Sell
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Best Items to Keep

Unique Weapons

Special Equipment

Crafting and Refinement Materials

Abyss Cores

Food

Tools

Unique Weapons

Unique Weapons are special weapons that have no duplicates and require their own refinement materials for upgrades. Because these are exclusive weapons you cannot obtain anywhere else, it is worth keeping them around.

List of Weapons

Special Equipment

Use Mask to Steal Items
Special Equipment are items that offer unique gameplay features allowing your character to execute certain mechanics. These items are essential as their usage depends on whatever situation you find yourself in, like mining for ore or stealing items with a mask.

Crafting and Refinement Materials

You need materials to craft and upgrade your weapons, so crafting and refinement materials are always worth accumulating in your inventory. It helps to gather all sorts of materials whenever you can as each weapon has its own material requirements for refinement.

Abyss Cores

Abyss Cores are excellent augments to your gear as they provide extra stats and effects. It is recommended to keep them in case you want to attach them to certain gear for particular builds. Abyss Cores can also be purchased from vendors, so they are another type of item worth buying.

Best Abyss Cores

Food

Food
It is always handy keeping food in your inventory as it is your primary mode of healing during combat. Whether eaten cooked or raw, you can always rely on food to restore your HP whenever you need to.

List of All Food

Tools

Chop the Tree Vertically
Tools are items that you need to engage in certain activities in Pywel. These tools (like logging axes and fishing rods) have their own unique mechanics, and many of them are used for more mundane activities like logging trees, fishing, and mining for ore.

List of All Tools

Best Items to Buy

Small Bags

Abyss Artifacts

Food and Ingredients

Recipes, Crafting Manuals, and Blueprints

Small Bags

Small Bags provide additional storage to your inventory, which is already scarce as the game has no storage chests or item boxes to store your items. Each merchant offers one stock of a Small Bag, so it is highly recommended to buy a Small Bag when you find a merchant who sells one.

How to Store Items

Abyss Artifacts

Buy Faded Abyss Artifacts from Elowen
Abyss Artifacts are items used to unlock and upgrade your skills, while Faded Abyss Artifacts are items used to reset your characters' skill trees if you wish to reorient them for better investment.

Both these items are quite rare, so it is worth obtaining them if you find a vendor who sells them, like Elowen the Witch.

Best Ways to Farm Abyss Artifacts

Food and Ingredients

Cooking Food
As they are necessary to heal yourself, it is a good idea to buy food and ingredients to stock up on healing consumables. It is also recommended to buy ingredients as they are cheaper and you can use them to cook food, which lends more HP restoration.

Recipes, Crafting Manuals, and Blueprints

Read Fish Porridge Recipe
Buy recipes, cooking manuals, and blueprints to unlock more food to cook. With more food available, you can cook them to obtain more effective consumables for restoring HP.

Best Items to Sell

Documents

Collectibles

Damaged Gear

Gear Found in the Environment

Documents

Sell Books and Documents
Documents are Key Items necessary for advancing quests. Oftentimes, you obtain these items during the quest itself. After completing the quest, the items become irrelevant and you can sell them to save space in your inventory.

Not all Key Items can be sold. If an item cannot be sold, it will be marked as such in your inventory.

List of All Key Items

Includes Recipes and Crafting Manuals

After reading a recipe or a crafting manual, you will acquire its information and you do not have to read the item again to review its contents. With this, you can sell these items and fetch a high price for some that are worth silver.

Additionally, it is a good tip to buy a recipe or manual from a vendor and then sell it to them for half its price. Because these items can be expensive, selling them is a good way to get some of your money back.

Collectibles

Collectibles are unique items you can use to decorate your home or gift to NPCs. If you wish to earn more money, however, collectibles are good items to sell as you come across several as you explore the open world.

List of All Collectibles

Damaged Gear

Damaged gear are items that cannot be repaired, so all you can do is sell them. You can obtain damaged gear from your own damaged equipment or by looting defeated enemies.

Gear Found in the Environment

Gear picked up from the environment are also extra things you can sell for a good price. Just remember not to sell any Unique Weapons you happen to find.

Crimson Desert Related Guides

Crimson Desert - Wiki and Guides

Crimson Desert Guides

Meta Guides

Best Ways to Farm Money	Best Skills to Get Early	Best Places to Visit Early
Best Abyss Gears	Best Ways to Farm Abyss Artifacts	Best Armor
Best Weapons	-	-

Beginner Guides

Beginner's Guide	Early Progression Guide	Is There Transmog?
How to Fast Travel	Where to Store Items	Can You Skip Cutscenes
How to Steal Items	How to Pass Time	How to Log Trees
Can You Hide Your Helmet?	Death Penalty Explained	Trust System Explained
How Long Is Crimson Desert?	How to Heal Your Horse	How to Equip Abyss Cores
All Missables and One-Time Events	How to Play Duo	How to Infiltrate Guarded Areas
Best Items to Keep, Buy, and Sell	Wanted System Explained	Best Side Quests to Complete
What Are Mysterious Energies?	How to Unlock and Get Pets	List of Trophies and Achievements
How to Fish	How to Clear Fog of War	How to Deal with Cold and Hot Climates
How to Respec Skills	How to Find the Room the Key Opens	Refinement Guide
How to Craft Equipment	How to in Win Arm Wrestling	How to Change Characters
How to Save	How to Sheathe Your Weapon	Camp Features
How to Enter Waterfalls	Do Enemies and Gatherables Respawn?	List of Puzzles
How to Burn Vines	How to Make Fire Arrows	How to Cook Food
Story Explained	How to Mine Ores	Mouse and Keyboard or Controller?
How to Dye Armor	Trading System Explained	Why Does Your Lantern Glow Blue?
Where to Turn In Bounties	Supply Chests Locations	HUD Explained
Is There New Game Plus?	How to Slide	What Are Unequippable Equipment?
How to Tame Horses	-	-

Character Progression Guides

How to Unlock Core Slot	Leveling System Explained	How Many Skill Points Can You Get?
How to Equip Abyss Cores	How to Increase Health	How to Increase Spirit
How to Increase Stamina	How to Unlock Elemental Skills	-

Combat Tips

How to Beat Flying Enemies	How to Heal	Can You Defeat Myurdin? (Tutorial Boss)
How to Perfect Dodge	How to Parry Attacks	How to Lock On Targets

Settings Guides

List of All Controls

Best Settings

Difficulty Explained

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Best Items to Keep, Buy, and Sell

Best Items to Keep

Unique Weapons

Special Equipment

Crafting and Refinement Materials

Abyss Cores