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Developer’s Latest Updates (feat. Hardcore Server, Orzekea)

From the Hardcore Server, where you need to earn points to survive, to Atoraxxion’s final chapter, Orzekea.
We also have news on the Loyalties Shop revamp and new outfits!
Watch the developer’s latest updates to find out more!

We will always strive to bring joyful news and content to our beloved Black Desert Adventurers.
We hope you look forward to the updates coming soon! (´▽`)

New Mount: Duskwing! Plus, This Week's Events and GM Notes!

This Week's GM Notes

[h2][color]Where to Adventure Next?[/color][/h2]
Need help figuring out what to do next in Black Desert? Follow our guide for helpful tips on what adventures to dive into next!
Check out the guide here!
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[h2][color]New Snowfall Crasher Slope - Powder Rush![/color][/h2]
New Snowfall Crasher Slope: Powder Rush!

The latest course for pro shredders, Snowfall Crasher: Powder Rush, is now open!
Read the full GM note here!
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This Week's New Events!
[Click here for all on-going events]


[h2][color]Enter the Dragon... in Velia?![/color][/h2]
  • Enter “Duskwing,” a majestic mount soaring the skies of Black Desert!
  • Master the skies atop Duskwing, navigating altitudes and flying free, embarking on a thrilling adventure like never before!
  • Feb 13, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Feb 27, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]
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[h2][color]Special Login Rewards to Test Your Luck![/color][/h2]
  • Special login rewards just for logging in!
  • Log in and get a total of 3,000 Cron Stones!
  • Event Period: Feb 13, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Mar 6, 2025 (Thu) 23:59 (UTC)
[h3]Learn more![/h3]
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[h2][color]Velia's Dating Advice Center is Now Open![/color][/h2]
  • Learn the art of expressing your feelings! Cupid of love awaits you in Velia!
  • Event Period: Feb 13, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Feb 27, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]

New Events & Doctor's Without Borders Donation

Spreading Light with Kindness
Back in December 2024, thanks to the Adventurers who helped Lara, the tree shone brightly in the Black Desert world!

Your warm spirits reached across the globe.

With Black Desert Online and Black Desert Mobile Adventurers surpassing the goal of 3,000,000 to reach 4,481,809, we donated 100 million KRW to Doctors Without Borders.

This donation event has been running strong for 6 years since 2019. A heartfelt thanks to all the Adventurers who have generously contributed each year.
Read the full GM Note here!
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New Events at a Glance!
[Click here for all on-going events]


[h2][color]Get the Most Popular Rewards! Daily Special & Special Pass![/color][/h2]
  • Receive a variety of rewards every day just by logging in!
  • Purchase the Daily Special Pass from the Pearl Shop to activate the extra rewards!!
  • Daily Special Pass Sales Period: Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Feb 20, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
  • Daily Special Reward Collection Period: Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Mar 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]
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[h2][color]Snowfall Crasher - Powder Rush Time Attack 🥇[/color][/h2]
  • Get ready to shred down the Snowfall Crasher slopes! Feel the rush as you try and break record times!
  • Event Period: Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance - Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]
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[h2][color]Lunar New Year's Greetings from Velia![/color][/h2]
  • To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Velia residents share their stories with adventurers and the Lunar New Year's Adventure Log returns!
  • Event Period: Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance – Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]
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[h2][color]Festival Noise Awakened the Fearsome[/color][/h2]
  • Festival Noise Awakened the Fearsome Yeti Piku from Long Slumber!
  • Event Period: Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance – Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
[h3]Learn more![/h3]

Events at a Glance feat. New Dream Horse Voltarion

Transcending Space and Time, the Lightning-Fast Voltarion
[color]Voltarion's Tale

Voltarion, imbued with the power of lightning, is a descendant of Narc, the ancient spirit of rain, and a godchild blessed by Krogdalo.

With the speed of light, Voltarion could surge across the land, running faster than anyone else.

As none could match its speed, Voltarion developed a fiercely independent nature, allowing only those it deemed worthy to stand by its side.

Voltarion cherished solitary exploration of this world, driven by an insatiable desire to tread uncharted paths. One day, it resolved to embark on a new endeavor: to leap through space using its light-speed prowess.

Though it succeeded in traversing the realms, Voltarion found itself trapped between spaces, slowly fading from the world's memory as it lingered in the darkness.

After a long trek through the deep shadows, Voltarion emerged, yet the world had changed beyond recognition, leaving it to continue its quest.

People have discovered traces of lightning across the land, heralding the return of the long-forgotten Voltarion to the world.[/color]

[h2][color]New Dream Horse Voltarion[/color][/h2]
  • Upon breaking free from the confines of space and time, the world of Black Desert felt the electrifying presence of the lightning steed, Voltarion.
  • With unparalleled speed, Voltarion leaps across space, striking with lightning fury and descending to the ground in an instant. A swift and powerful steed, it brings devastating debuffs while surging into battle.
  • Collect Traces of Thunderbolt to accept the quest from the Black Spirit and claim Voltarion as your own.

[h2][color]Voltarion's Stats[/color][/h2]
Voltarion's stats are as follows.

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Type
Stats
Arduanatt
Diné
Doom
Voltarion
Accel. (%)
137.5%
133.0%
130.0%
140.5%
Speed (%)
137.5%
133.0%
130.0%
140.5%
Inherent Stats
(at Lv. 1)
Turn (%)
122.5%
127.0%
139.0%
119.5%
Break (%)
122.5%
127.0%
139.0%
119.5%
HP (%)
2,640
2,676
2,772
2,616
Stamina (%)
3,541
3,529
3,497
3,551
* As Voltarion levels up, its stats (Accel., Speed, Turn, Brake) mirror the growth of Arduanatt, Diné, and Doom, with a potential to increase up to 1.3% per level.[/expand]
[h2][color]How To Obtain Voltarion[/color][/h2]
Added "Trace of Thunderbolt," the item required to obtain Voltarion. Traces of Thunderbolt can be obtained from the following content.

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  • War of the Roses
  • Conquest War
  • Node War (Unlimited)
  • Black Shrine (Donghae) - Sangoon Calamity 8 - 10
  • Black Shrine (Hwanghae) - Deposed Crown Prince (Hard)
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[h2][color]Voltarion Acquisition Quest[/color][/h2]
Collect Trace of Thunderbolt x300 to accept a quest from the Black Spirit to obtain Voltarion. (Quest Type: General)

[expand]Prerequisite Quests
  • [Voltarion] Where Lightning Converges (from the Black Spirit with Trace of Thunderbolt x300 in possession)
  • [Voltarion] Forgotten Dream
  • [Voltarion] To Paradise
  • [Voltarion] Struck by Lightning
  • [Voltarion] Let Thunder Roar
Quest Name
Objective
Rewards
[Voltarion] Flash of Fate
(Available from Voltarion after completing the above prerequisite quests)
Hand over Trace of Thunderbolt x300 to Voltarion
▼ Select one from below
- Horse Emblem: Voltarion (Male)
- Horse Emblem: Voltarion (Female)

* If you collect another Trace of Thunderbolt x300 after completing the above quest, you can interact with the Water of Verti to obtain a Voltarion Horse Emblem through the [Repeat] [Voltarion] Lightning Strikes Again quest.[/expand]

* Voltarion cannot be registered on the Horse Market.
* Voltarion can be sold through Mount Sales and Imperial Delivery.
* If Voltarion attempts to enter castles surrounded by the Dekrogda relic barrier using Double Jump, Lightning Charge (Airborne), or Thunderfall (Airborne), it will be immediately affected by the Dekrogda relic's waves and fall, just like Mythical Arduanatt and Mythical Diné.
[h3]Click here to learn more about Voltarion![/h3]

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Events at a Glance

[color]Click on the corresponding event image to learn more![/color]

[h2][color][Limited-Time Winter Event!] Snowfall Crasher is Open for Business![/color][/h2]
  • Experience the magic of a snowy wonderland at the Snowfall Crasher!❄️
  • Enjoy a variety of event quests like snowboarding and smelt fishing to feel the winter atmosphere!
  • Event Period: Jan 16, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance

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[h2][color]New Year’s Pearl’s Blessing![/color][/h2]
  • Get rewards from Pearl Shop - Pearl’s Blessing based on the number of Pearls spent!
  • Event Period: Jan 16, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Jan 31, 2025 (Fri) 23:59 (UTC)

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[h2]Lando’s Getting Ready for Snowfall Crasher![/h2]
  • Simply log in to claim your rewards!
  • Event Period: Jan 17, 2025 (Fri) 00:00 (UTC) - Feb 20, 2025 (Thu) 23:59 (UTC)

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[h2][color]Faster Mount Growth, Mount EXP Hot Time, and a Coupon![/color][/h2]
  • Faster mount and Training level growth in tandem with the mount stat gain increase update!
  • Event Period: Jan 16, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance – Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance


[h3]Check out more on-going events![/h3]

Check Out Your Decade of Records + Events at a Glance!


[h2]10th Anniv Special, Your Decade of Records[/h2]
Step by step, see the marks you've left in the world of Black Desert!
Discover the records of a 10-year journey shaped by your unique adventure style.
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[color][NEW!][/color]
[h3][color]My Decade of Records[/color][/h3]
[color]#MyFamily'sWealth #FindMyAdventureStyle #MyFavCharacter #FindMyPercentile[/color]

* Click the image to see My Decade of Records. (* Login Required!)
* Compiled using data up to the 3rd week of Dec 2024.

[h2][color]❷[/color][/h2]
[h3][color]Infographic for All Regions[/color][/h3]
[color]#HighestLevel #WhoCompleted160kQuests #MostPopularHoroscope #HottestPropertyHeidel1-1[/color]

* Click the image to see A Decade of Records.
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[h2][color]Thank You, Adventurers, for Black Desert FESTA[/color][/h2]
[h3]Forgot to grab FESTA coupon codes? Check them out here![/h3]

Primordial Hammer
Ancient Hammer
[Event] Black Spirit Fairy Appearance Change Coupon

[h2][color]TOANOTHER10YEARS[/color][/h2]
Expiration date: June 30, 2025 (23:59 UTC)


[Title] Friend

Cron Stone x10,000

J's Hammer of Loyalty

10th Anniversary Travel Kit

Advice of Valks (+200)

Advice of Valks (+250)

Sub-weapon Exchange Coupon

Weapon Exchange Coupon Box

Marni's Unstable Fuel x500

[h2][color]GRATEFULTENYEARS[/color][/h2]
Expiration date: June 30, 2025 (23:59 UTC)


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- Dec 24, 2024 (Tue) after maintenance - Always
A Mythical Horse, the mounts with the most special abilities, will be given to all Adventurers.
We hope your future adventures will be as relentless as the Mythical Horses galloping across the lands of Black Desert.

[h2]Mythical Horse Introduction[/h2]

[h5]Mythical Arduanatt[/h5]
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Main Skills: Mighty Leap, Soaring Wings, Wings of Swiftness
Mythical Arduanatt is a reborn of Dream Horse Arduanatt pair through Mythical Awakening.
Alongside Arduanatt's sky-gliding ability, it can charge forward through the air, hover in place, and dive faster while gliding.
[color]* If this is your first Mythical Horse, we strongly recommend you get the Mythical Arduanatt.
* For Mythical Arduanatt, its appearance is altered using Quturan's Fruit upon registration and cannot be changed to the red/black appearance.[/color]
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[h5]Mythical Doom[/h5]
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Main Skills: Shadows of Hellfire, Infernal Sprint, Infernal Legion
Mythical Doom is a reborn of Dream Horse Doom pair through Mythical Awakening.
Besides the Dark Sprint for a second sprint on the ground, it boasts Infernal Sprint for even faster and longer runs.
It can also summon Doom's Shadow, allowing you and your party/platoon members to ride, even with Two-seater skill.
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[h5]Mythical Diné[/h5]
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Main Skills: Quicksilver, Triple Jump, Protection of Okiara
Mythical Diné is a reborn of Dream Horse Diné pair through Mythical Awakening.
It can freely cross deserts with nature's energy and run on water using the Breath of Okiara.
It also jumps higher with Triple Jump and takes no fall damage from high places.
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New Events at a Glance!
[h4][color][Check out all ongoing events here][/color][/h4]


[h2]🌞[color]The year 2025 is here! Happy New Year and enjoy a month of Hot Time![/color][/h2]
- Jan 9, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Feb 6, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
Find out more!


[h2][color]Celebrating the Preonne Accessories Update and various Life Skills gift set![/color][/h2]
Life Mastery expansion, Preonne accessories update, and Life Skill all-in-one gift set!
- Jan 9, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance – Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
Find out more!


[h2][color]Search for the Trace of the Hungry Bear to Encounter the Hungry Bear![/color][/h2]
During the event, obtain [color][Event] Trace of the Hungry Bear[/color] through Gathering, Farming, and from defeating moles!! Find the traces and defeat the hungry bear for various rewards!
- Jan 9, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - Jan 23, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance
Find out more!


[h2][color]Lando’s Getting Ready for Snowfall Crasher![/color][/h2]
Take on the [Event] Lando's Special Thanks quest from Lando and give him 12🍺 beers!
- Jan 9, 2025 after maintenance - Feb 6, 2025 before maintenance
Find out more!