Crimson Desert Update 1.06 Adds Extraction, Mount Taming

Pearl Abyss released update 1.06 for Crimson Desert on Wednesday, bringing major quality-of-life improvements and new content to the open-world action RPG across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S platforms. The patch, now live for download, introduces an Extraction mechanic and a system for taming special mounts, addressing key player requests since the game's March launch.

The Extraction feature allows players to recover materials spent on refining equipment without destroying the items. Accessible at smithies throughout the game world, it refunds portions of resources based on material rarity: 100 percent for special items like Artifacts and Aeserions scale, and about 70 percent for common ones such as iron ore, copper ore, and bloodstones. Players can extract from a single refinement level or revert gear to its base state upon acquisition.

A highlight for many is the new Special Mounts system, enabling players to tame and register 12 animal types as mounts after subduing and feeding them to gain trust. The mounts include bears, boars, wolves, deer, mountain goats, kuku birds, iguanas, raptors, camels, lions, and tigers. A dedicated inventory tab tracks them, and their...