All Mounts & Pets in Crimson Desert: Complete List and How to Get Each One

Crimson Desert has 25 permanent mounts — eight horse breeds, eleven tameable beasts and six legendary or story unlocks — plus 20 pets you can register through the trust system, rising to 21 if you count the legendary Phoenix. Every one of them is listed below with its obtain method, location and, where the numbers exist, base stats.

This list is current as of August 2026 and Patch 1.06, the update that let players subdue bears, wolves and other wildlife and keep them as permanent special mounts. Pearl Abyss’s open world has shifted six million copies in 83 days since its 19 March 2026 launch, and completionists are now sweeping the map for every collectable — mounts and pets included.

All horses in Crimson Desert — every breed

There are five ordinary breeds and three legendary horses. Your first horse, the Herspia, is given to you during the main quest Unknown Space straight after the prologue. Everything else is tamed in the wild, bought from a stable or stolen from an NPC — yes, stealing works, but it raises your wanted level.

Stat figures are level-5 baseline values recorded by community trackers and can drift slightly with patches. Horses also gain experience simply by being ridden, which raises their defence, speed and stamina over time.

How to tame and register a horse

Taming is a minigame, not an item check. The same routine works for every breed, including the legendaries:

• Approach a wild horse from behind while it is unaware — sprinting straight at it from the front spooks it instantly.
• Mount it to trigger the taming minigame.
• Hold the left stick (or direction keys) opposite to the direction the horse is facing until the taming bar fills.
• If you are thrown off, try again immediately — there is no cooldown.
• Keep at least six points of stamina before attempting a legendary horse; they buck harder and drain the bar fast.
• Ride the tamed horse to any stable and register it. An unregistered horse is temporary and disappears when you switch mounts or reload.

Best horse in Crimson Desert: Royler vs Rokade vs Camora

Short answer: Royler is the best horse for exploration, and Rokade and Camora are the best for combat. The three legendaries split the stat table between them, and no ordinary breed beats all three at anything.

If you want a strong mount before the legendaries are reachable, the Elantrima is the best common breed: 720 HP and 330 stamina at level 5, available from stables or wild herds in the mid-game.

Best horse gear — all five tack slots

Every horse has five equipment slots, and each slot boosts a different stat. Gear is bought from Saddlery vendors (there are eight known saddleries across Pywel, always next to a stable), crafted at a blacksmith from blueprints, or exchanged for Contribution Points. There are 97 unique pieces of mount equipment in the game across six grades.

All special mounts — bears, wolves, camels and more

Since Patch 1.06, eleven wild animals can be registered as permanent special mounts. The routine is the same for all of them: subdue the animal with Force Palm, mount it, feed it raw food until trust reaches 100, then choose Take In. Registered special mounts are summoned from the Special Mount tab in your inventory and logged under Fleeting Companions in the Knowledge menu.

The raptor and the camel are the two most-requested entries in the game’s most-played Steam title forums — the camel because it is a guaranteed quest reward rather than a random spawn.

Legendary and story mounts — Blackstar Dragon and the sigil path

Six mounts sit above the rest: one story reward and five legendary hunts. Five of them follow the same loop — hunt the animal, skin it for a trophy item, take that item to a Witch NPC, craft the Sigil of Solidarity under Craft Abyss Gear > Special Items, then use the sigil from your inventory to register the mount permanently.

The Blackstar Dragon is the only flying mount in the game and arrives at the end of Chapter 11, just before the final chapter — there is no way to obtain it earlier.

Temporary mounts and vehicles

These cannot be registered permanently (with the wagon and Cloudcart being craftable exceptions), but several are worth knowing for specific routes.

All pets in Crimson Desert — the full list

Pets are registered through trust, not taming minigames: feed and pet an animal until trust reaches 100, then hold the selection button and choose Take In. You can register up to 30 pets, but only one can be active at a time. Every pet auto-loots nearby items and enemy drops after fights; differences between breeds are purely cosmetic.

Rare pets — Phoenix, Iron Eagle, Baby Wyvern and Abyss Heuklang

The four exotic pets each need a small quest chain rather than a few feedings.

Pet taming: trust, daily caps and the 30-pet limit

The trust maths is worth knowing if you are chasing the Natural Collector trophy for registering 30 distinct pets:

• Petting gives +5 trust, up to five times a day — a maximum of +25 per animal per day.
• Feeding gives +10 trust with ordinary food and +35 with the animal’s favourite food. Drop the food on the ground near it.
• Daily petting and feeding limits reset at midnight in-game time.
• Fastest possible pet: the white dog by the bulletin board in central Hernand. Three pieces of Fine Meat from the grocer plus five pets registers it in a single in-game day.
• Shortcuts: Bones instantly tame dogs; the Golden Carp — found in the lake below the “P” of Pailune on the map — instantly tames cats.
• Up to 30 pets can be registered; only one follows you at a time, and it auto-loots after every fight.
• Pet Armour is sold at Tailor Shops but is cosmetic only — no stat benefit.

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