Discover everything you need to know about getting the money fast in Crimson Desert, including the best possible ways.
Money in Crimson Desert is used for buying items, upgrading gear, paying for services, and trading with merchants. Silver is the main currency, and almost every activity in the game revolves around earning and spending it. The hidden gold bar inside the manor is the main prize; steal it and sell it or invest it for silver. Gold bars are high-value items that can be sold or used for banking systems. Use the best possible way to fill your pockets with money to buy the high-level gear and weapon upgrades in Crimson Desert.
How To Get Money
Getting the money from the beginning is essential to make the progression smooth and purchase the high-level items from the vendors. Gold bars are one of the most valuable early sources of money. You can find them in hidden locations and sell them to the vendors to get a huge chunk of Silver. One gold bar can sell for around 500 silver or more, which is enough for a perfect start early on.
Once you have a gold bar, you can open a bank account and invest it to grow your wealth over time. Stealing from houses and looting strongboxes, wagons, and NPCs also grants you silver. Completing bounty missions in Crimson Desert also rewards you with silver. Playing games like Duo and winning at card tables can earn silver. Make sure to focus on easy silver farms like looting bandits and picking up valuable resources.
How to Rob Hernand Bank
The game allows you to walk into the bank in Hernand and steal money from inside. Getting inside the room next to the tellers allows you to earn 100 silver if you take it without getting noticed. Make sure to equip a mask before stealing; without it, steal actions are disabled. You can obtain the mask from early bounties or specific vendors. A crime meter appears while stealing in Hernand Bank.
As long as NPCs don’t spot you while the meter runs down, you don’t get caught. I highly recommend robbing the bank in the evening because there is less foot traffic. Go inside the room on the left as you come into the front door. This room contains multiple chests on the floor that you can loot, but it also has safety deposit boxes all over the shelves.
After stealing one, go to your inventory and open up each box to get a huge amount of silver. Take a small hit to your contribution for each box you steal. Head into the main room and go all the way up the staircase to approach the wooden table. Reach the cabinet of small boxes and open each one of them to get silver and other useful items. Don’t try to steal when the guards are patrolling around this area.
How to Complete Bounties
Bounties in Crimson Desert are wanted missions where you find and capture the target. After that, you bring them back to a turn-in spot to get a silver reward. Completing the bounties is one of the reliable ways to earn money early in the game. Find a bounty notice on a board or in a town and read the notice to accept the bounty. You get the target’s location to complete your objective. Make sure to progress the main story to at least Chapter 2 before bounty missions become available.
You need to travel to the marked area on your map where the outlaw or wanted NPC is located. Keep in mind that some specific targets only appear at specific times of day or after certain conditions are met. After handing in the captured outlaw, you receive money (silver) and Contribution points. Contribution is a separate currency you can use to buy gear and items, which you can sell for silver.
How to Sell the Extra Items
You can sell most items you pick up from enemy loot, plants, fish, bugs, damaged gear, and recipes. NPC vendors can buy the items in towns and settlements from you, letting you earn silver. The rarer the selling item, the more silver you get. Items like recipes can sell for a decent chunk of silver once you’ve learned them, making it one of the best ways to earn money fast.
Vendors are scattered throughout towns and marked on your map, so open the map and search for the merchant icon. Sell the items to the blacksmiths and traders in Hernand. Certain merchants or trade posts buy trade goods and unpackaged items at a good price. Once you reach Chapter 3, you unlock wagons and begin larger-scale trading.
How to Pickpocket
The game locks pickpocketing until you equip a mask in Crimson Desert. Successfully pickpocketed NPCs may have coin purses, copper pouches, jewellery, or trade goods. Pickpocketing gold bars from certain NPCs in places like the Wildlife Park allows you to get money. You can either sell the gold or invest it in the market for a huge profit, making it the best way to earn money fast.
A mask can be purchased from certain vendors or dropped by bandits upon defeating them. You need to sneak from behind towards the noble’s pouch to get the gold bar. If you’re seen, the crime fails, or guards get alerted. If you fail or are caught, you can be arrested or teleported to jail. First, you’ll need to identify your mark based on what they are potentially carrying.
You can do this by either using your blinding light or pointing your lantern at NPCs in the area. This lets you reveal a glowing silhouette of what they might be carrying. Pouches are often coin purses, while scroll-looking silhouettes can range anywhere from food items to valuable recipes. You can even get multiple off a single NPC, making this one of the most profitable methods of farming silver with an actual in-game system.
To successfully pull off a pickpocket, your mark needs to be standing, and you need to have some momentum and brush into the NPC. Simply unchath your weapon and guard if the mark is sitting down. As soon as you rush into them and the NPC staggers, you get a very quick prompt to pickpocket them. Immediately have an escape route in mind and quickly run to escape the theft circle that appears, avoiding as many other NPCs and guards as possible.
How to Exploit Gambling
Earning money in Crimson Desert early on can be easy if you take part in gambling activities. One of the easiest, albeit RNG, ways to make money in Crimson Desert is to exploit the gambling system. Save your game before playing or investing. If you lose or don’t get a good payout, reload the save and try again. This applies both to gambling outcomes and to bank investment returns.
One exploit method revolves around the Five-Card game. The AI opponents in the Five-Card game follow predictable patterns. They rarely initiate betting but will call or raise almost any bet you make. This exploit lets you farm Silver quickly by repeatedly winning bets. The table with the highest betting pool is found in Beighen, north of the Castle Hernand. Once there, make your way to the west-most house to find the table where this game is played. Make sure to save the game in case it does not go your way when you play.
The rules make it seem a bit complicated, but the overall strategy is simple. Just start up the round, and wait to see the hand that you are dealt. If it is a bust or anything below 5 points or so, either check or fold on our turn. If you have anything above five points, or especially if you have any “pairs,” you should go all in on your turn. If you win, though, then you must leave the table and save the game, then load up that new save.
Find the Treasure Goblins
Goblins are a type of enemy that can drop high-value items, including gold bars. This makes it worth a lot of silver and great for your bank or selling. Once you defeat a Treasure Goblin and get items like gold bars or valuable loot, sell the gold bar or valuable items to a merchant for silver. Use gold bars for investments to generate more silver over time.
Your best chance of forcing this to happen is by always trying to ride along the roads. You might run into a treasure goblin, a seemingly innocuous NPC with a large red treasure chest on its back. If you simply draw your sword on him, he drops his chest and eventually gets on his way. When you loot the chest, you’re one gold bar richer every time.
Loot Lioncrest Manor Gold Bar
The big money you can get from Lioncrest Manor comes from a hidden gold bar inside the manor in Crimson Desert. There’s a hidden compartment under a fireplace’s lion head mantlepiece inside Lioncrest Manor that holds a gold bar. That gold bar can be sold or used to open a bank account, which then lets you invest it to earn more money.
Lioncrest Manor is located northwest of Castle Hernand and near where the Archery competition is held. You can’t go in through the main door, but you can climb up the wall and open the window on the right. After that, climb in through there and make your way down to the main living room, where a fireplace is located.
You need a mask, and these can often be looted from defeated bandit enemies. Focus on the fireplace and aim your lantern’s spotlight at it, then hit the steel input to grab the 1x Gold Bar. This bar can respawn after some time or another trigger. The banker gives you 500 Silver Coins for 1 Gold Bar.
