Global Lab Updates – 31st October 2025

Black Shrine – Bamboo Legion C8-10

• The difficulty levels of the Black Shrine – Donghae (Solo) Bamboo Legion boss, calamity 8, 9 and 10 has been added.

• The bosses of each difficulty level must meet the following stat requirements to proceed with the challenge.

• The weekly boss loot you can earn when defeating bosses at each difficulty level is as follows:
  • Depending on the boss subjugation ranking, you can obtain up to 1st rank subjugation loot. The higher the rank of the loot, the more guaranteed loot you will obtain, and the higher the probability of obtaining loot obtained randomly.
  • Items with no quantity listed will receive 1.

C-8 Blitz Reward: Bamboo Legion (1st to 9th rank)
Loot that is guaranteed to be obtained	Loot obtained by chance
– Tear of Illusion – x17~20 Embers of Hongik – x8-15 Memory Fragments – x104-110 Sangpyeong Coin – x38~44 Black Stone – x5 Sealed Black Magic Crystal – Imperfect Lightstone of Wind – x10 to 17 Trace of Nature – x18-19 Essence of Dawn – Trace of Thunderbolt (when opening a 1st-grade loot item) – x2 Gold Bar 1,000G	– Dahn’s Gloves – Deboreka Earring – PRI Deboreka Earring – DUO Deboreka Earring – Flame of Hongik – Faint Origin of Dark Hunger – Essence of Taebaek – Crystal of Harmony – Crystal of Darkness – Crystal of Bitterness – Crystal of Decimation – Bonghwang’s Tear – Haetae’s Tear – Girin’s Tear – Resplendent Lightstone of Wind – Trace of Thunderbolt (when opening 2nd to 9th grade loot)
C-9 Blitz Reward: Bamboo Legion (1st to 9th rank)
Loot that is guaranteed to be obtained	Loot obtained by chance
– Tear of Illusion – x17~20 Embers of Hongik – x8-15 Memory Fragments – x104-110 Sangpyeong Coin – x38~44 Black Stone – x5 Sealed Black Magic Crystal – Imperfect Lightstone of Wind – x10 to 17 Trace of Nature – x18-19 Essence of Dawn – Trace of Thunderbolt (when opening a 1st-grade loot item) – x2~3 Gold Bar 1,000G	– Dahn’s Gloves – Deboreka Earring – PRI Deboreka Earring – DUO Deboreka Earring – Flame of Hongik – Faint Origin of Dark Hunger – Essence of Taebaek – Crystal of Harmony – Crystal of Darkness – Crystal of Bitterness – Crystal of Decimation – Bonghwang’s Tear – Haetae’s Tear – Girin’s Tear – Resplendent Lightstone of Wind – Trace of Thunderbolt (when opening 2nd to 9th grade loot)
C-10 Blitz Reward: Bamboo Legion (1st to 9th rank)
Loot that is guaranteed to be obtained	Loot obtained by chance
– Faint Origin of Dark Hunger (when opening the 1st-grade loot) – Tear of Illusion – x17~20 Embers of Hongik – x8-15 Memory Fragments – x104-110 Sangpyeong Coin – x38~44 Black Stone – x5 Sealed Black Magic Crystal – Imperfect Lightstone of Wind – x10 to 17 Trace of Nature – x18-19 Essence of Dawn – Trace of Thunderbolt (when opening 1st to 9th grade loot) – x3 Gold Bar 1,000G	– Dahn’s Gloves – Deboreka Earring – PRI Deboreka Earring – DUO Deboreka Earring – Flame of Hongik – Faint Origin of Dark Hunger (when opening 2nd to 9th rank loot) – Essence of Taebaek – Crystal of Harmony – Crystal of Darkness – Crystal of Bitterness – Crystal of Decimation – Bonghwang’s Tear – Haetae’s Tear – Girin’s Tear – Resplendent Lightstone of Wind

※ This information cannot currently be confirmed at the Black Desert Lab, and will be updated in the future.

Edania Boss Changes

• The Aetherion Castle Weekly Boss Jordine has been changed as follows:
  • The time it takes for Jordine to test Edana and reveal himself has been reduced by 30% compared to before.
  • Changed so that the defense reduction effect is applied when successfully performing the mechanic that occurs when Jordine’s health is at 75%.
    • Accordingly, Jordine has been changed to use this mechanic only once at most.
  • The health of the Black Wings has been reduced by 15% compared to before.
  • After using the Black Wings flying pattern, it has been improved to apply a long-term stun state by consuming all power.
  • Jordine’s health when fighting with Black Wings has been reduced by 30% compared to before.

• The Orbita Castle Weekly Boss Enslar has been changed as follows:
  • [Phase 1] Enslar’s health has been reduced by approximately 15% compared to before.
  • [Phase 1] The number of times the corrupted darkness generated after the sacred flame burns has been reduced from 3 to 2.
  • [Phase 2] In the pattern where Enslar summons Enslar’s Shadow, the number of summons has been reduced and the number of Enslar’s Shadows summoned has been increased.
  • [Phase 2] Improved Enslar’s ability to fall from the air when hitting certain attacks that cause knockdown, lift, and bound status effects.
  • [Phase 2] Enslar’s knockdown status effect duration has been increased by approximately 2 seconds.
  • [Phase 2] The pattern that activates when Enslar’s health is below 50% has been changed to summon all of Enslar’s shadows and then Enslar will descend to the ground.

• The effects and appearance of the recovery orbs that appear during battles with the five bosses in the weekly quest ‘[Edana’s Throne] The Seat of Power’ have been changed.
  • When you acquire a recovery bead, you can restore your character’s health and resources, as well as charge the Black Spirit’s rage gauge.

Before change	After change

• After completing the weekly quest boss battle for ‘[Edana’s Throne] The Seat of Power’, the following changes have been applied to speed up the completion of the weekly quest.
  • After completing the weekly quest boss battle for ‘[Edana’s Throne] The Right to the Throne’, your character will now automatically move to the front of each throne.

Dark Rift Changes

• The five bosses of the Dark Rift, Red Nose, Dastardly Bheg, Muskan, Dim Tree Spirit, and Ahib’s Griffon, have been changed to always appear in the same location.
  
  • Due to these changes, the existing Dark Rift bosses will disappear during the regular maintenance on Wednesday, November 5th in Korea and Thursday, November 6th globally, and a new Dark Rift boss will appear in the new location.
    • Even if you had defeated the Dark Rift boss before the change took effect, a new Dark Rift boss will appear immediately after the scheduled maintenance.

Content Changes

• The actions during processing have been simplified, and the processing time has been reduced accordingly.
  
  • Processing time: 21 seconds → 11 seconds

Before change	After change

• To ensure a smooth gaming experience, a 5-second re-summoning wait time has been applied when you directly unsummon your My Attendant maid.
  • A waiting time only occurs when using the Summon Release function button.
  • During the waiting period, the maid will not appear when you log in, enter the residence, or summon the maid (central market/warehouse).

• Added the ability to summon your My Attendant maid with a simple shortcut key.

Item Changes

• The following pet foods that previously had a beneficial effect on pet level growth have been removed:
  • Balanced Feed
  • Brady’s Nutritious Feed
  • Silk Honey Grass Supplement
  • Brady’s Supplement Powder

• When opened, the contents of the box that would grant x10 of Advice of Valk’s instead of Advice of Valk’s have been changed to match the rules.
  • This change was applied in the September 10, 2025 (Korea) and September 11, 2025 (Global) updates, but is an additional measure for some items that were not applied at that time.
    
    • The descriptions of box items have been modified to comply with the change rules.
  • During the regular maintenance on November 5, 2025 (Korea) and November 6, 2025 (Global), if you have 10 Advice of Valk’s that are not obtained by opening the corresponding box, they will be changed to 10 Advice of Valk’s and paid out.
    • If you do not have the advice of the relevant Valks, no separate action will be taken.
  • Examples of items that change

Item name	Components before change	Components after change
Custom Reinforcement Box I	Valks’ Advice (+35) x1	Valks’ Advice (+40) x1
Black Spirit’s Support Package	Advice of Valk’s (+10) x5 Advice of Valk’s (+15) x3 Advice of Valk’s (+20) x2 Advice of Valk’s (+25) x1	Advice of Valk’s (+10) x5 Advice of Valk’s (+20) x3 Advice of Valk’s (+20) x2 Advice of Valk’s (+30) x1

• The description of the Cron Stone item has been improved.
  • Added details on preventing equipment from being destroyed or downgraded when equipment enhancement using Cron Stones fails.
  • A description has been added to the Cron Stone item description stating that when awakening a mount, the Cron Stone must be moved from the enhancement inventory to the regular inventory.

Monster Changes

• During the 8th, 9th, and 10th levels of the Black Shrine, the vibration effect of falling rocks has been reduced.

Node/Conquest War Changes

• The tiers, number of participants, and days for some nodes in the Calpheon/Mediah/Kamasylvia territories have been changed in the node war
  • To apply the changes, please note that the node information for Calpheon, Kamasylvia, Mediah, and Valencia territories will be reset during the regular maintenance on November 5, 2025 (Korea) and November 6, 2025 (Global).

Calpheon
Node name	Change progress tier  (Common to occupation/construction methods)	Changed Max number of Participants (Construction method)
Catfishman Camp	Tier 4 → Tier 3	45 people / Monday → 55 people / Sunday
Longleaf Tree Sentry Post	Tier 5 → Tier 3	80 people / Sunday → 50 people / Tuesday
Kuruto Cave	Tier 3 → Tier 4	50 people / Tuesday → 45 people / Monday
Quint Hill	Tier 3 → Tier 4	55 people / Sunday → 70 people / Thursday
Trina Fortress	Tier 4 → Tier 5	70 people / Thursday → 80 people / Sunday

Mediah
Node name	Change progress Tier (Common to occupation/construction methods)	Changed Max number of Participants (Construction method)
Abandoned Iron Mine	Tier 5 → Tier 3	50 people → 40 people
Tungrad Forest	Tier 5 → Tier 3	55 people → 45 people
Wandering Rogue Den	Tier 5 → Tier 3	55 people → 40 people
Mediah Northern Highlands	Tier 3 → Tier 5	40 people → 50 people
Sausan Garrison	Tier 3 → Tier 5	45 people → 55 people
Canyon of Corruption	Tier 3 → Tier 5	40 people → 55 people

Kamasylvia
Node name	Change progress Tier (Common to occupation/construction methods)	Changed Max number of Participants(Construction method)
Ash Forest	Tier 5 → Tier 3	75 people → 50 people
Loopy Tree Forest	Tier 5 → Tier 3	65 people → 55 people
Tooth Fairy Forest	Tier 5 → Tier 3	65 people → 45 people
Polly Forest	Tier 3 → Tier 5	55 people → 65 people
Lake Flondor	Tier 3 → Tier 5	50 people → 75 people
Navarn Steppe	Tier 3 → Tier 5	45 people → 65 people

• When using horse skills while riding a horse with your weapon out, the weapon will now be automatically put away.

• Improved readability of sailor levels in the sailor list.
• Added sound when turning the Nader’s Belt page in the Enhanced UI.
• An area has been added to the Arena of Solare Victory Pose selection window to check the currently selected victory pose.
• The image of the alarm message displayed when first subduing the Black Shrine – Hwanghae-do (Individual) leader has been applied as a leader-only image.
• Added an effect when selecting a weapon slot in the Reforge Stone Management UI.
• Weapon icons have been added to empty weapon slots in the Reforge Stone Management UI.
• The Reforge Stone Management UI has been modified to only show the number of active items at the bottom of the weapon slots.
• A phrase confirming the weapon to be registered has been added to the message that appears when registering a reforge stone in the reforge stone management UI.

• An issue where you could see the character names of friends who were logged in to private mode from your friends list in a specific way has been fixed.
• An issue where gathering items at certain locations in the Longleaf Forest area was not smooth has been fixed.
• The issue where stones placed in specific locations in the Land of Echoes would float in the air has been fixed.
• The awkward subtitles in the cutscene during the quest ‘[Zephyros] In Search of Clues’ have been fixed.
• The issue where you could not proceed with a conversation with the NPCs when acquiring knowledge about the Hongyeon/Cheongsu/Yeongin Shrines has been fixed.
• The issue where Ulu people in the Ulu-Kita region could not obtain the Shen Merchant Association Distribution Management knowledge has been fixed.
• An awkward phrase in the knowledge description for Mejugwisin and Charred Tree has been corrected.
• Fixed an issue where two maids would appear on your screen when attempting to dye your own maid while you were unable to do so.
• The issue where the number of maids owned in the UI was displayed as 25/30 when connecting to a PC room server without a maid/butler in possession has been fixed.
• The issue where the PC room maid registration button would be displayed when reconnecting even though the PC room maid was already registered has been fixed.
• An issue where the My Maid Accessory (head, ears/eyes/nose, mouth, chin) costume was being equipped in the wrong slot has been fixed.
• An issue where certain social action movements of My Maid would cause collisions with characters has been fixed.
• The issue where your own maid would be summoned in an awkward location depending on the terrain has been fixed.
• The ability to load round-trip routes on the world map has been fixed to no longer be available during the Red Battlefield campaign.
• An issue where notification messages about items obtained from monsters by other people were displayed multiple times in the chat window has been fixed.
• Arsha: The issue where the names of other adventurers’ mounts were exposed on anonymous servers has been fixed.
• The issue where Tinbera Island’s base manager, Shanjo NPC, was being attacked by monsters has been fixed.
• The request UI for sudden subjugation requests in the Edania region has been improved to display the request according to the hunting ground location.
• The issue where the icon in the top notification message was displayed awkwardly when crafting furniture items in the Crafting tab of the Processing UI has been fixed.
• In the information window for crops being grown, the pruning and pest information has been modified to be displayed in one line instead of two.
• Fixed an issue where some UI text would have a highlight effect applied when hovered over it even though it was not abbreviated.
• The issue where the Win/Lose text was abbreviated during the power struggle in the horse capture minigame has been fixed.
• The issue where the combat skill key guide was abbreviated during the tutorial after character creation has been fixed.
• The issue where warning messages were abbreviated during base battles has been fixed.
• The issue where the World Map (M) Stronghold/Occupation War status UI was being abbreviated has been fixed.
• The issue where the sudden barter text was being abbreviated has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue where interest text would appear as an abbreviation when around an NPC.
• The issue where the alarm icon that appears when obtaining Millennium Ginseng was not centered has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the effects of the current character’s relic set were displayed in View other character’s bag → View equipped modifications → View details has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] Fixed an issue where the Y button (View Items) would not work in the Patrigio Secret Shop.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the key guide at the bottom of the equipment/bag search pop-up in Exit Game → View Bag was abbreviated has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the area where silver coins were displayed in the My Home Purchase Management UI on the World Map (M) was being abbreviated has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the list of house filters on the world map (M) was being abbreviated when selected has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the key guide was abbreviated when selecting Request → View Details has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where some text was being abbreviated in the crop information pop-up window has been fixed.
• [Pad Mode] When moving between main/sub categories using the LB, RB, LT, and RT buttons in the hunting ground information UI, it has been improved so that you can now move from the end to the beginning or from the beginning to the end.
• [Pad Mode] Fixed an issue where there was no key guide for preset name initialization in the Retraining Stone Management UI.
• [Pad Mode] The issue where the description of the control keys was incorrectly displayed during the cutscene for the quest ‘[Aetherion] Stone Slab Fragment’ has been fixed.