Fashion & Mounts

1. What you can change about your look

Two things are settled on the Equipment page and are not repeated here at length: equipped armour cannot borrow another piece's look, and the one visibility control there is a per-character toggle for face accessories; and since patch 1.13, Kliff and Oongka can wear nearly all of each other's clothes. The other boundary: there is no character creator. Kliff, Oongka and Damiane are fixed characters, and what can be personalised is hair, tattoos and outfit colours.

The barber

Eric the Barber sets up at the camp after the quest The Greymane's Cabin, part of the Solid Foundation questline of the Greymanes' faction quests. He changes hairstyles and hair colour for all three characters, eyebrows too; beards for Kliff and for Oongka once he is unlocked (Damiane has no beard category); and adds face and body tattoos to all three, with a choice of colour.

Hiding the helmet, lifting the visor

Patch 1.02.00 added a Display Headgear option under Languages and Gameplay in the settings, with four choices: Always Show, Show in Combat, Hide in Cutscenes and Always Hide. The same patch notes promised an option to hide the weapons carried on the back; no patch note up to 2.03.02 says it has arrived. Separately, helmets with a visor can be opened and closed from the gear quick menu (hold left on the d-pad, or T on PC); with the visor down, the character's voice comes through muffled.

2. Armour sets

As of patch 1.13, counted on 21 September 2026, there are 92 sets Kliff and Oongka can wear and 11 for Damiane alone. The premise is the one the Equipment page records: armour of a given material has the same defensive stats and the same Abyss Gear sockets per slot, so the choice between sets is a choice of look. The three materials, in brief: Plate has the highest Defense, plate headgear gives Daze Immunity and plate cloaks three levels of Fire Resistance; Leather sits in the middle and gives a level of Lightning Resistance per piece (three on the cloak); Cloth has the least Defense and two levels of Movement Speed. Many sets mix materials, marked as hybrids. Since 1.13 every set once exclusive to Kliff is open to Oongka, bar some helmets expected to follow.

The table gives each set's name, material, resistance and source region, and condenses how the set is obtained or, where only the look is described, what it looks like. "Armors of the World" means the crafting manuals on the Crafting page. Where a set is also named on the Equipment page or tied to a Kuku item, that is added in brackets.

Kliff and Oongka (92)

Damiane only (11)

Two things this catalogue does not carry, and so this page does not either: per-set stats (the Equipment page has the numbers for individual pieces, including the twenty-five pieces patch 1.13 added) and set bonuses, which Game8 says do not exist and Fextralife hints at; both readings are on that page. The old page's capes and mantles were three invented items; the catalogue treats the cloak as one piece of a set and the glider is not a garment in any source.

3. Dyes, recipes and Dyehouses

To dye armour, get a dye by brewing it in a cauldron from a recipe or by buying it, then press Use on it in the inventory, since a dye that has not been used cannot be applied. Then visit a Dyehouse (Theoric's, the nearest to Hernand), speak to the Dyer, choose Dye, pick the piece on the left and the colour on the right, press Dye and pay. The sources read the shades differently: Game8 says using a dye unlocks every shade of that colour at a Dyer; VULKK, that a hue has ten rows of shades and each bottle unlocks two of them, five bottles per hue named Bright, Rich, the plain name, Dark and Deep. A Dyehouse changes hue, shade, material and repair level on most of an outfit, most weapons and secondary weapons (dyeable since patch 1.13.00) and the horse's armour; each Dyehouse works in one hue with one alternative material; and a colour cannot be applied until you have met its Dyehouse, even with a bottle consumed. Oliver the Dyer, at the Greymane Camp after its third upgrade and the quest A Rumor at the Inksworth Bindery, can apply any hue, shade or material you have already come across, which makes the regional Dyehouses a first visit rather than a habit. Bottles come from Dyehouses (each sells one shade of its hue) and Provisioners, from NPCs labelled Dyer or Expert Dyer at 100 Trust, from houses and shop tables (taken, or bought by picking them up), and from the cauldron. The Equipment page's summary of all this stays as it is; the tables here are the detail.

The 31 dyes, with where they are and how they are brewed

Every dye but Pure White has a recipe, and fourteen have a known source. The recipes name the pigment as a Medicinal Herb of a colour, chosen from a short list, so the table abbreviates: pink herb means ten Medicinal Herbs from Peony, Pink Rosemary or Begonia; yellow herb Dunbaria, Marigold, Yellow Rosemary or Yellow Lavender; white herb False Starwort, Snapdragon, Dendrobium Orchid, Satintail Root, White Rosemary or White Lavender. Every Dyehouse bottle costs 1.50 Silver.

The recipes follow a rule: the pigment pair is fixed per hue and the shade is set by the beetle ratio (three Longhorn Beetles for Bright, two Longhorn and one Stag for Rich, one and one for the plain shade, one and two for Dark, three Stag for Deep), so any dye can be improvised at a cauldron with Y/△/F once you know its hue's pair. Beetles cling to trees at about shoulder height and fly off if you get too close. One recipe differs between sources: the Teal pair is Blue Lavender and Shrubby Sophora for Game8, Lavender and Shrubby Sophora for VULKK.

The ten Dyehouses, with the vendor for each

The ten greys

Greys have no Dyehouse of their own: each grey bottle unlocks a single row at the top of another hue's swatch, none of them can be brewed, and each is sold by one vendor, some of whom appear only after a quest: Pure White, the Provisioner's Shop in Timberton (Wilmer, 15 Silver, after the Blackwater Oil Merchant Guild quest); Bright Grey, the Back Alley Shop at Saltroad Camp on the road between Urdavah and Varnia, after the Crimson Desert Commission Principles of the Saltroad Merchants; Silver Grey, the Provisioner's Shop in Kharonso, south of Scholastone; Medium Grey, the Provisioner's Shop at St. Halssius's House of Healing, east of Anvil Hill; Grey, the reward for Naira's Scattered Embers quest Brightening the Spirits, which starts by the Cooking Pot in Howling Hills; Shadow Grey, the Provisioner's Shop at Senia, south of the Hernand Highlands and the Witchwoods, and Oliver the Dyer; Cloud Grey, the Provisioner's Shop in Tariv, north-western Demeniss, after the Tariv Sorcerers quest The Light of Tariv from Furlington Farm; Deep Grey, the Back Alley Shop at the Communal Training Grounds south-west of Hernand Town; Dark Grey, the Provisioner's Shop in Odeck, north-western Pailune, which may need The Forgotten General quest first; Black, the Back Alley Shop in Muiquun, after the Commission Muiquun's Black Market from the Wagon Fence nearby.

4. Horses

The taming minigame is in our FAQ: climb on, and pull the stick against the horse's movement until the circle fills yellow; the direction is opposite the way the horse is facing. Sneak up crouched to catch a horse unaware; running out of stamina during the struggle throws you off and resets it. Wild horses are scarce, keep in small herds near fresh water away from people, and are worth stalking crouched before a sprint; on a controller pull the left stick away from where the head points and leave the camera alone, on mouse and keyboard hold S and turn the camera so the tail faces you; the lasso interface is the progress bar, yellow for tamed, red for bucked. Tilting the camera top-down helps. What taming gets you: a horse that costs nothing and is registered on the spot. A stable-bought horse is also registered at once but costs money and comes from a small stock; a stolen one (the great majority of horses in the world are somebody's) must be ridden to a Stable before it is yours and wanders off if you dismount on the way, and, like any theft, stealing one needs a Mask on. Horse Fences buy stolen horses and are a good place to steal from.

The eight breeds

Five ordinary breeds and three legendary horses. Numont's base stats are not published, so they are not given.

Every breed shares Dash (Lv 2), Drift and Back Kick (Lv 3), Sprint (Lv 4), and Swimming III, Quick Start and Double Jump (Lv 5); legendary horses get Double Jump at Lv 2 (one Camora page also moves Quick Start to Lv 3) and the extra skills above. On taming the three, Stamina Lv 6 is the floor (Lv 8 is safer, and a failed attempt sends the horse off until you leave the area and return); respec with a Faded Abyss Relic for stamina and drink Honey Tea or Astrid's Elixir just before mounting. Legendaries also seem slower to build Trust. Their Knowledge entries give each a legend: Royler brought to Pywel by a merchant on a golden ship and never beaten in a race, Rokade a black dragon in another form that leapt into a river when its master died, Camora the mount of an invincible general.

Trust, skills, feed and tack

A horse's level is called Trust and tops out at 5, by which point all its skills are unlocked. It rises by riding, by feeding (Oats, Apples, Hay and Sugarbeet, given from the inventory while mounted with the Feed Horse option) and by petting (hold L1/LT looking at the horse and press A/X). The Companionship I–III Abyss Gear speeds Trust. The horse's own inventory, stats and equipment are reached from the inventory with R1/RT for Game8, R2 for Fextralife. Whistle for it with H or the d-pad; switch registered mounts at a stable, where since patch 1.18.00 horse gear can also be equipped. Horse Tack is five dyeable, non-upgradeable pieces sold by Saddleries, related quests and Contribution shops, each raising one stat: the Barding adds Defense (5, 10 or 20), the Champron Attack (5, 7 or 10), the Saddle Health (50, 100 or 200), Stirrups Health regeneration (about 0.4 or 0.6 a second) and Horseshoes Attack (1 to 5) with Stamina regeneration (1 to 4 a second). Saddleries also sell Horse Feed (stimulants, tonics and vegetables) for recovery, stamina and Trust.

A wounded horse cannot run and only limps, and blood or dirt on its coat is the sign. It is healed with Force Palm Heal after summoning it, at a cost in Spirit, or for nothing at any Stable, which also sells, swaps and retrieves horses; the stable manager also restores a mount too badly hurt to ride.

5. Other mounts, and Blackstar

Since patch 1.06.0 (Game8; Fextralife says 1.01.00), some wild animals can be beaten into submission (use Force Palm until they stop moving and a ride prompt appears), then fed raw food from the saddle (hold Use on the food and choose Feed) until Trust reaches 100 and the Take In option registers them as a Special Mount, summoned from the Special Mount tab of the inventory. Bears work the same way, and without the feeding the animal carries you until you dismount, then turns on you again. These animals do not level up or learn skills, but fight (sweeping attacks, charges, fire), and that any mount stolen from an NPC needs the Mask and a quick exit. The Knowledge Journal files the temporary ones as Fleeting Companions: eleven, ten Wildlings and one Machine.

A few more mounts are listed with stats but no directions: a Tiger, a Large White Wolf and a Swift Wolf, a Grizzly Bear, a Bear and a Captured Bear, a Calphadean Scout's Horse, a Hernandian Soldier's Horse and a Race Horse; and Blackstar is listed at 2,500 Health, 300 Stamina, 50 Attack and 1,000 Defense.

Two mounts hatched from eggs

Leaping Kuku Bird. The birds the Blinding Arrows ride are the fleeting kind; the permanent mount, added in 1.06.00 and reworked in 1.10.00 to start as a chick, is hatched. A Kuku Bird's Egg sits in a makeshift nest inside a tower at Bloodsteel Camp in the Steel Mountains, behind the spot where Bradie Gu, the Blinding Arrows' leader, is fought, under a trapdoor opened with Cling, Resist and Force Palm; a second egg, which respawns, is in unmarked ruins on the coast south-east of the camp. For VULKK the egg only hatches in one nest, under a dead tree by the cliff east of Bloodsteel Camp, and only if it is not scorched and you have a free Pets slot; press Use on the egg to carry it, drop it in, and the hatch prompt comes after an hour of in-game time. Game8 has it hatch instead in the forest between Kingshield Dig Site and Grey Rock Quarry, north of Demeniss, after about five minutes of in-game time. Feed the chick fruit and insects (Pineapples and Desert Melons are its favourites) three times a day; at level 3 the Grow button turns it into the mount, so two eggs are needed to keep both a chick and a bird. A Kuku Bird Saddle and an adult Eggshell hat are sold at the Demeniss Saddlery, and share one slot. Not fast, but it lands unhurt from any height.

Wyvern. Since update 1.10, VULKK says, there are two Wyvern Eggs in Delesyia, both at Wyvern's Cradle north-west of Fort Windridge, one in the cave that also holds the Skyblazer helm chest, opened by aiming Focused Force Palm at the Abyss Gear in the stone and releasing when the screen flashes yellow, the other at the cradle's north-western end. Carry an egg to the marked nest a few metres south-west of the cave and hatch it; the Baby Wyvern is yours at once, no taming. As a pet it hovers over you and loots bodies; feeding it meat, with a daily cap, raises it to level 3, when it can be grown into a full flying mount that shoots, aims, rides on the ground, can be called in cities where Blackstar cannot, and can be mounted in the air with Axiom Force. Its size means landings can raise Vandalism notices. A Small Wyvern Aviator Hat is sold at the Pororin pet store and a Wyvern Saddle at the Saddlery south of the City of Delesyia. Game8 and Fextralife, written before 1.10, list the wyvern only as a temporary mount: Fextralife has a single egg, behind a Bismuth Ore barrier at Three Brothers' Cliff in south-western Delesyia, and Game8 says registering it as a permanent mount comes in a future update.

Blackstar

The dragon of Chapter 9, where Kliff rides it once to purify it, becomes his own mount at the Nest of Valor at the end of Chapter 11; it is called from the character wheel with up on the d-pad, and Chapter 12 is fought partly from its back. Since patch 2.00.00 a Flying Mount Controls option (Others, Input) sets how it and the Wyvern steer: Camera, where they fly where the camera faces, or Manual, where they ignore the camera and climb or dive with their own inputs. How long it stays is disputed: VULKK says ten minutes whatever its remaining health, then a seventy-minute cooldown; Fextralife, Game Rant and Vandal, fifteen minutes of riding and a fifty-minute cooldown. Two consumables shorten it. A Dragon Claw Horn takes ten minutes off, so seven reset a seventy-minute cooldown; a Crafting Mission to Tinkerton Dig Site in central Delesyia returns three for eight Greymanes (one with the Crafting skill), 24 in-game hours, and 1,200 Weapons, 1,000 Stone, 3,200 Timber, 14,000 Food and 17,000 Copper in camp currency; horns can also come from Medium Bags once you hold the maximum 240 inventory slots. Narima's Horn resets the cooldown outright and is crafted by a Witch from three Dragon Claw Horns, a Stalactite and two Feathers, but its blueprint only turns up as a random return from Exploration Missions, which is the unreliable part. Our Chapter 11 page records the same note in shorter form. The one cosmetic: Abyssal Fusion, crafted from the Small Kuku A.T.A.G., becomes armour for Blackstar, and the Crafting page has its materials.