How to get pets in Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert pets - Dog — (Image credit: Pearl Abyss)

Working out how to get a pet in Crimson Desert will likely be one of your first priorities when you step into Pywel. After all, you're immediately greeted by a friendly bulldog when Kliff wakes up on the riverbank. If you can't resist the urge to pet the little fella, you'll notice that doing so increases your trust with the animal.

Where there's trust, there's a pet system. When you travel to Fernand city a short while after, you'll begin encountering even more dogs and cats which you can befriend and turn into pets. First, though, you'll need to know how the process works.

How to get a pet in Crimson Desert

Image 1 of 2

Crimson Desert pets - Cat — You can pet an animal five times per day to increase trust(Image credit: Pearl Abyss)

To turn an animal into your pet in Crimson Desert, you have to reach 100 trust with it. When you pick up a cat, say, and pet it, you'll see a little trust meter go up by +5 points on the left side of the screen.

Article continues below

"Well, why can't I just pet the cat 20 times?" I hear you ask. Besides stroking it to death, there's a limit on how much trust you can gain through specific activities per in-game day.

This works as follows:

You can pet a cat or dog five times per in-game day at +5 trust per time, maxing out at +25
You can feed a cat or dog three times per in-game day and that quality of the food changes how much trust you get. For example, feed a dog tough meat and you'll get +10, but feed it fine meat and you'll get +35, so it's worth shelling out a little more

While dogs aren't very picky and will eat any meat, cats prefer milk. You can buy either at the Grocer's Shop or Butchery in Hernand, just south of the inn, though feel free to experiment with other foods too.

To feed an animal, go into your inventory and discard the food in-question, though be careful if there are other animals around, since they might potentially snaffle the grub instead.

If you can't make an animal your pet in a single day with petting and higher quality food, remember that you can pass time to get it done faster.

Image 1 of 2

Crimson Desert pets - Take in — Choose the 'Take in' option when the animal reaches 100 trust to make it your pet(Image credit: Pearl Abyss)

Once you reach 100 trust, put the animal down, if you're carrying it, and hold E to "Take in". The animal will become your pet and will now appear under the "Pets" section in the inventory menu.

Here are some basic rules for pets:

You can summon and unsummon them in the pet menu
They'll follow you while summoned but disappear when you ride your horse
Your pets will also hang out at your camp once you acquire it in Chapter 3
You can untie them in the pets menu which removes them as your pet
You can have up to 30 pets
Some pets, like dogs, will loot items for you while they're summoned

Safe with that knowledge, enjoy befriending every cat you come across in Fernand.

Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.

You must confirm your public display name before commenting

Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.