Golden Seal
You may have obtained a golden seal during your adventures. If you’re curious about these items, read all about them here!
You can obtain golden seals by selling specific trade goods and horses to Imperial Delivery NPCs, supervising workers, and from other various activities. You can exchange these seals for useful items such as black essences, horse equipment, mounts, and many more.
Simply put, Adventurers need to actively take part in various in-game activities (like trading, fishing, etc.) in order to acquire golden seals.
How to Acquire Golden Seals
Adventurers can get golden seals by selling specific trade goods, horses, and fish to certain Imperial Delivery NPCs. Aside from selling items to NPCs, certain types of golden seals can be acquired by defeating bandits that appear to threaten trade routes, and others by simply having workers collect materials for you.
Some of the golden seals are guaranteed to be obtained in a 1:1 ratio exchange. For example, each cooking box sold to an Imperial Crafting Delivery NPC will net you an imperial cuisine golden seal. However, this is not the case for all the activities one can partake in to get seals. If you sell 5 fish to an Imperial Fishing Delivery NPC to obtain imperial fishing delivery golden seals, you are not guaranteed to get 5 seals.
The following sections will detail how to acquire each type of golden seal currently available.
Golden Seal - Imperial Cuisine & Alchemy
Imperial crafting delivery is an activity that allows Adventurers to sell packaged dishes (made via cooking) and elixirs (made via alchemy) to Imperial Crafting Delivery NPCs. You can use the imperial cuisine and imperial alchemy processing options (hotkey: L) to package these items into boxes. You can then sell the boxes for 250% of their base price.As seen above, a family can sell a limited amount of items through imperial crafting delivery per day. The good news is that you don’t have to compete with other Adventurers in this type of imperial delivery, as there is no limit to the boxes the NPCs can receive. As such, you can prepare the boxes to turn in beforehand, or take your time and prepare them whenever you want to sell them.
The following items can be exchanged in the Manage Currency UI.
Seal Type and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x50 |
Milk x50 |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x50 |
Egg x100 |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x100 |
Sunset Dyed Wool |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x200 |
Spellbound Tool Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x400 |
Black Essence: Cobelinus |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x500 |
Supreme Cooking Utensil |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x10,000 |
Manos Cook’s Clothes |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x10,000 |
Manos Butcher Knife |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Cuisine] x10,000 |
Manos Tanning Knife |
The following items can be exchanged in the Manage Currency UI.
Seal Type and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x40 |
Magical Shard |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x50 |
Imperial Trace Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x80 |
Spellbound Tool Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x100 |
Supreme Alchemy Tool |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x100 |
Scorched Fragment |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x250 |
Black Essence: Hystria |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x5,000 |
Manos Alchemist’s Clothes |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x5,000 |
Manos Fluid Collector |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Alchemy] x5,000 |
Manos Hoe |
The higher the grade of the box you sell, the more silver you’ll earn. To package boxes of a higher grade you will need to level up its related life skill. As an example, if you want to sell professional’s cooking boxes, your character must have reached the cooking level of professional 1 at the very least.
Additionally, both your character’s cooking and alchemy mastery play a part in the silver you obtain from selling boxes to an Imperial Crafting Delivery NPC. The higher the mastery in those life skills, the more extra profit you’ll obtain!
Lastly, you might see that the item description of all cooking and alchemy boxes tell you about how to mass package them. Complete the requirements listed there and you will be able to pack up dishes and elixirs 10 times as fast as you normally would.
Golden Seal - Imperial Conquest
Imperial conquest differs from other golden seals. We mentioned before how you can get many of these seals by selling goods (packaged boxes, fish, horses). However, for these seals, Adventurers have to deal with bandits on the road in order to directly acquire the imperial conquest seals as items dropped by them upon defeat.
You will see in the World Map screen (hotkey: M) that several red bandit icons are constantly on the move.
If you travel there, however, you usually won’t see any bandits. This is because they’re hidden, and only appear when they see a merchant approaching their position. To lure them out of hiding, you will need to have a trade good item on you. That said, keep in mind that carrying a trade good on your character will make it impossible to fight! Thus, we recommend traveling with a wagon with trade goods on it, and dealing with the bandits that appear as you travel through the lands. In this way, you can obtain imperial conquest golden seals.
The following items can be exchanged at NPC Valks, in Calpheon City.
Type of Seal and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x20 |
Black Essence: Black Spirit Crystal |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x50 |
Spellbound Tool Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x50 |
Ancient Kamel Statue |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Hystria |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Cobelinus |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Addis |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Carmae |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Viper |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x80 |
Black Essence: Harphia |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x100 |
Ancient Artifact Pot |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x100 |
Ancient Slate Ornament |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x100 |
Ancient Artifact China |
Tip!
Remember that bandits will also appear when you have a trade good on your mount. By using a mount, be it a horse or a wagon with several horses attached to it, one can level up training and trading, as well as obtain the golden seals from imperial conquest by defeating the bandits that appear on the road, and imperial training by leveling up a horse and selling it.
Golden Seal - Imperial Training
Adventurers can sell horses that are level 15 or above to the imperial court through imperial horse delivery, and in exchange acquire silver and golden seals. In particular, Adventurers tend to sell low tier horses, or horses with undesirable skills, via this form of imperial delivery, as other, finer horses tend to be more valuable and sell for a higher price in the horse market.
The amount of imperial training golden seals you obtain for selling horses depends on the horse tier. For example, you will get 6 seals for trading a tier 6 horse, but the higher tier a horse is.
Additionally, by selling horses this way you will also obtain other valuable items, such as flowers of oblivion employed to craft items used in the awakening process of a mythical horse.
What many Adventurers do, and we recommend trying at least once, is obtain a wagon, attach several low level horses to it, and travel throughout the world of Black Desert with the wagon. This is because all horses attached to the wagon will obtain training experience. This way, you can level up several horses at the same time, instead of just one by one.
The following items can be exchanged in the Manage Currency UI.
Seal Type and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x1 |
Fighting Spirit Horse Gear Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x2 |
Storm Horse Gear Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x2 |
Courser Training Reward Box |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x5 |
Fine Horse Trainer’s Clothes |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x12 |
Black Essence: Viper |
Golden Seal - [Imperial Training] x40 |
Stonetail Wind's Meal |
Golden Seal - [Imperial Training] x40 |
Stonetail Tonic |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x50 |
Granverre Feather Champron |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x50 |
Granverre Leather Barding |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x50 |
Granverre Leather Saddle |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x50 |
Granverre Metal Horseshoe |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x50 |
Granverre Leather Stirrups |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x100 |
Manos Trainer’s Clothes |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x100 |
Manos Riding Crop |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x100 |
(One time exchange) Grand Prix Ver'a Scroll * Used to change the name of your mount. |
Additionally, you can exchange x1 of these golden seals in the Manage Currency UI to obtain swaying wind shards and rumbling earth shards, used for awakening a courser into a dream horse, and x12 with the NPC Variel at the Old Wisdom Tree, Kamasylvia, for Powder of Ascension x1, which is required to complete a quest to obtain mythical feathers, needed for the mythical awakening process, the step after obtaining a dream horse.
Lastly, you can also exchange x5 or x15 of these seals with any stable keeper in the territory of Valencia to obtain the two types of camels currently available.
➤ You can read more about the life skill in the [Training] page.
Golden Seal - Imperial Fishing
You can obtain these golden seals by selling blue grade fish or higher to the various Imperial Fishing Delivery NPCs found throughout the land. Imperial fishing delivery managers can only purchase up to a given amount per each type of fish per event cycle, and you have to compete with other Adventurers selling fish to the same NPC. However, if you are successful, you can sell your fish to the Imperial Fishing Delivery NPC for 250% of its normal market price.
Unless you need the fish for another purpose, we recommend that you sell your catch to the Imperial Fishing Delivery NPCs for a higher profit.
The following items can be exchanged in the Manage Currency UI.
Seal Type and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x25 |
Breezy Conch Seaweed |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x40 |
Epheria Sailboat: Brass Figurehead |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x40 |
Epheria Sailboat: Enhanced Plating |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x40 |
Epheria Sailboat: Julia Cannon |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x40 |
Epheria Sailboat: High Winds Sail |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x50 |
Epheria Frigate: White Horn Figurehead |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x50 |
Epheria Frigate: Light Plating |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x50 |
Epheria Frigate: Lillia Cannon |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x50 |
Epheria Frigate: Red Breeze Sail |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x70 |
Gold Key |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x250 |
Black Essence: Carmae |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x250 |
Black Essence: Addis |
Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x2,000 |
Manos Fisher's Clothes |
➤ You can read more about the life skill in the [Fishing] page.
Golden Seal - Work Supervisor
You can learn these golden seals by supervising workers. You’ll obtain them at a fixed chance when your workers return from each work cycle. As a result, you’ll acquire these seals at a much faster rate the more workers you assign to a task, such as collecting resources from the world.
These seals are obtained automatically, and are kept at the storage of the town the worker resides in. They’re mostly used to obtain better workers.
The following items can be exchanged in the Manage Currency UI.
Type of Seal and Required Amount |
Exchangeable Items |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x500 |
Fighting Spirit Horse Gear Box |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x1,000 |
Storm Horse Gear Box |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x5,000 |
[Velia] Worker Contract Box I |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x5,000 |
[Heidel] Worker Contract Box I |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x5,000 |
[Calpheon] Worker Contract Box I |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x5,000 |
[Altinova] Worker Contract Box I |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x10,000 |
[Velia] Worker Contract Box II |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x10,000 |
[Heidel] Worker Contract Box II |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x10,000 |
[Calpheon] Worker Contract Box II |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x10,000 |
[Altinova] Worker Contract Box II |
Golden Seal – [Work Supervisor] x10,000 |
Imperfect Lightstone of Flora |
* The content of the game guide may differ from the actual game content, depending on the update and content changes.