If it’s your first time in Black Desert, you’ve likely created a Season Character.

From the server selection screen, enter a Season server and follow the objectives from the Season Pass to grow your character. 

Party: Up to 5 Adventurers can group up in the Party feature.

Platoon: Up to 20 Adventurers can group up in the Platoon feature.

* Use the ESC Menu → Community (F9) or, search the “Find Party/Platoon” feature in the ESC menu to join one.

Advantages to being in a Party/Platoon:  

1. When proceeding with a weekly subjugation quest in the Season server, you can party up with another Adventurer to have their defeated monster numbers also count towards your weekly quest, so take advantage of this by working together! 

2. Party members are displayed on the World Map screen (hotkey: M) and on the minimap at the top right corner of your screen.

What’s the difference between the Party & Platoon system?
1. In a Party, you obtain the shared EXP gained by another Adventurer in the group.
In a Platoon, however, you cannot obtain the shared EXP of another Adventurer.
 
2. From [Season] Rift’s Echo, you can obtain various season-exclusive items.

Form a Party with different Adventurers and tackle Rift’s Echoes to obtain more rewards. In a Platoon, however, you cannot attempt Rift’s Echoes!

When using Item Collection Increase Scrolls obtained from Season Passes or Challenges (Y), the Item Collection Gauge UI appears.

When the Gauge UI is activated, the increased item collection effect is applied, which increases the rates for various accessories, season-exclusive items (Time-filled Black Stone, Refined Magical Black Stone, Tuvala Ore, etc.) and more depending on the increase rate applied.

Effects based on Activated Level:   

Level 1 Activated: Item Drop Rate 100%, Item Drop Amount  50% 

Level 2 Activated: Item Drop Rate 100%, Item Drop Amount 100% 

* When Level 2 is activated, 2 seconds of charged time will be deducted for every 1 second of real time. 

Adventurers should have a Sealed Compass (120min) from progressing in the Season Pass as well as from arriving in the Valencia Desert.
 
In the desert, your current location is not marked in the world map and the minimap, so you must proceed with caution. If you are not sure where you are, you can use the Sealed Compass to check your location in the world map (M). 
 
You can also purchase 3 Explorer’s Compasses from the Central Market and open your Inventory (I) and arrange in a [-] position to combine them (+). Combining the parts results in an Ancient Explorer's Compass (which provides the same effects as a Sealed Compass). 

Sealed Compass (120 min) 

• Upon use, your location will be visible in the Desert and Great Ocean areas on the world map and minimap for 120 minutes. 

In the desert, you are susceptible to illnesses based on night/day. When your character is affected by the illness debuff, your health continuously decreases, and may even result in death once health reaches 0. 
 
But fear not! You can use items to cure hypothermia/heatstroke.  

Use Purified Water for heatstroke, and Star Anise Tea for hypothermia. 

You can purchase Purified Water and Star Anise Tea from the Central Market. 

Contribution: You can use contribution mainly to invest in nodes and to purchase houses. You can also rent a variety of items such as Hunting Matchlocks, Flutes, and other special items. 

You can generally obtain Contribution EXP by completing quests. 

You can refer to the [Contribution Guide] for more information.

Energy: Energy is mostly used to become friends with NPCs, to acquire knowledge entries, and for certain life skill activities such as gathering, fishing, tanning, etc. 
You can increase your maximum energy limit by obtaining knowledge. 

Please refer to the [Energy Guide] for more information! 

There are a total of 9 World Bosses in the Black Desert world. World bosses spawn in all servers except for Olvia and Arsha servers.

World Bosses appear at specific locations, meaning anyone can join to take them down.

However, we recommend that you have enough DP to stand your ground against general attacks, and enough AP to be eligible to receive loot for defeating the bosses.

You can hover your mouse over the chat window and click on the settings (gear icon) on the top left to select which chats you wish to see.