How to get pets in Crimson Desert

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

You can pet an animal five times per day to increase trustPearl AbyssYou can feed them three times a day for trust alsoPearl 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.

“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 +25You 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.

Choose the ‘Take in’ option when the animal reaches 100 trust to make it your petPearl AbyssYou can summon or unsummon them in the pet section of the inventory menuPearl 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 menuThey’ll follow you while summoned but disappear when you ride your horseYour pets will also hang out at your camp once you acquire it in Chapter 3You can untie them in the pets menu which removes them as your petYou can have up to 30 petsSome 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.