Greetings Adventurers,
Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on July 17, 2025 (Thu). Today’s patch contains 74 updates and is approximately 1.27GB.
Events
- Event 1. Extra Weekly Rewards! Head to Atoraxxion Co-op! - [More Details]
- July 17, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance - July 30, 2025 (Wed) 23:59 (UTC)

- Event 2. Fast-Track to Ornette’s and Odore’s Spirit Essences! - [More Details]
- July 17, 2025 (Thu) after maintenance – Aug 7, 2025 (Thu) before maintenance

New Additions and Improvements
Character


- Improved to allow immediate follow-up attacks if an enemy is in front while moving during skill use.
- However, at the start of the skill, when slamming your pole and leaping into the air, you will still pass through enemies as before.


- Improved to enable smoother comboing into the skills after Upheaval or Buddha's Finger.

- Improved to allow smoother comboing into other skills.

- Fixed the skill so that pressing LMB will combo into the skill once more.
- [Wukong] Scorch - Fixed the issue where, while in Fighting Buddha state, comboing into Extend right after the skill wouldn't trigger the Charge Attack from the Wukong's Hair effect.
Item
- Adjusted Klau's Old Moon Seed Pouch so it can now only hold seed items.
- Any non-seed items already stored can be moved to your inventory.
- Any non-seed items already stored can be moved to your inventory.
- Improved the description of some items regarding "Damage from Monsters" as follows:
- Damage from Monsters -N% → Monster Damage Reduction Rate +N%
Before | After |
![]() |
![]() |
- Deleted the line from the Canon Awakening Weapon's description about exchanging it for a Narchillan Awakening Weapon via quest.
- You can now complete the Narchillan Awakening Weapon exchange quest without turning in a Canon Awakening Weapon.
- Fixed the issue where the looting method for the result differed when exchanging Rough Lustrous Gems with an NPC individually versus exchanging all at once.
- Adjusted Rough Lustrous Gem so you can now open it instantly from your inventory, no NPC appraisal needed.
- As a result, any adventurers who exchanged Rough Lustrous Gems with an NPC between June 19 and July 17, 2025, will receive the same number of gems back during the July 24 maintenance.
- Changed certain box items obtained through NPC exchange so they can now only be traded one at a time.
Reliable Adventurer's Earring Box | Reliable Adventurer's Necklace Box | Reliable Adventurer's Ring Box |
Reliable Adventurer's Belt Box | Offensive Sub-weapon Box | Grunil Defense Gear Box |
Rosar Sub-weapon Box | Rosar Main Weapon Box | Rocaba Defense Gear Box |
Magic Crystal of Infinity Box | Bares Main Weapon Box | Defensive Sub-weapon Box |
Heve's Defense Gear Box | Seleth Main Weapon Box | Styd Main Weapon Box |
Azwell Main Weapon Box | Ain Main Weapon Box | Agerian Defense Gear Box |
Elsh Main Weapon Box | Yuria Main Weapon Box | Accuracy Sub-weapon Box |
Zereth Defense Gear Box | Kalis Main Weapon Box | Krea Sub-weapon Box |
Krea Main Weapon Box | Taritas Defense Gear Box | Talis Defense Gear Box |
Fortuna's Luck Defense Gear Box | Hercules' Defense Gear Box |
- Adjusted event items so you can now exchange them with NPCs one at a time.
[Event] Fine Porcelain | [Event] Special Alchemy Tools | [Event] Damaged Porcelain |
- Added the ability to craft the Wukong-exclusive Karlstein outfit.
- You can craft the Karlstein outfit at the Old Moon Costume Mill in any major city.
- Changed the description for the [Event] Unforgettable Journey Outfit Box received from Heidel Ball 2025 Login Rewards.
- Improved so that you can view the contents of the outfit box.
Monster
- Changed so that you can enter Black Shrine - Hwanghae (Party) even after all your Boss Blitz attempts are used up.
- However, if you enter after using all your attempts, you cannot obtain any boss rewards.
- However, if you enter after using all your attempts, you cannot obtain any boss rewards.

Quest & Knowledge
- Changed so that completing the Topography - Ulukita - Southern/Northern Ulukita knowledge categories each grants Max Energy +1.
- 'Fixed so that you now receive the "Fighting Buddha's Heir" title as a reward for completing the "[Wukong Ascension] Fighting Buddha's Heir" quest.
- If you've already completed this quest, talk to the Black Spirit to claim your title.

Mount
- Adjusted the cooldown for Doomcaller's Oath from 2 hours to 1 minute.
- Now, you can summon up to 2 Doomcallers at once, based on how many are registered with the Guild Mount Manager.
UI

View Family Characters on World Map
- Press the "View Family Characters" button on the World Map to see all characters in your Family at a glance.

-
- Your characters' locations are now shown on the World Map (M), either by node or territory, depending on your zoom level.
-
- Selecting a character in the list will move the camera to their location.
- However, if a character is in an area where navigation is not possible without a compass (like the Desert or Great Ocean), the camera will not move.
- Selecting a character in the list will move the camera to their location.

- Right-click a character to open the menu, where you can manage the character.

-
- ① Switch to Character - Log out of your current character and log in as the one you choose.
- ② Move Character - Send your character to a new location.
- However, you can only move the character to nodes where you've already discovered and gained knowledge.
- Moving to a node costs 5,000,000 Silver, while moving to a major city is free.
- Moving a character takes 20 minutes regardless of distance.
- You cannot move a character if their mount is carrying trade goods.
- If your current character does not have a compass, you cannot move a character into or out of the Desert or Great Ocean.
- You cannot move tagged characters.
- With this update, the character transport button in the Character Selection window has been removed.

-
- ③ View Character's Inventory - Check the selected character's inventory, and if you have a storage maid/butler, you can move items.

-
- ④ Add Note - Leave a note for any character.
- Notes will be displayed in red above the character's name.
- ④ Add Note - Leave a note for any character.

-
- ⑤ Delete Note - Remove any notes you've written.

Web
- Improved the appearance of the icon in the mobile phone number verification UI.
- Fixed the issue where the "Continue Search" button would still appear in the Community (Forum) when there were no more search results.
- [Gamepad Mode] Fixed the issue where the View Guild Information button was not displayed in the Guild Invite window.
- Fixed the issue where an awkward tree was placed at a specific location in the Southern Neutral Zone.
- Fixed the issue where an Everlasting Herb was floating in the air at a specific location on Mount Ahshi.
- Fixed the issue where a building at Oze's House node was in an awkward position on the World Map.
- Fixed the issue where characters would get stuck on a fence at a specific location in the Golden Pig Cave.
- Fixed the issue where the page turning function did not work in Rental List when renting more than 21 mounts.
- Fixed the issue where the icons of stored items were displayed awkwardly when Morco's Gear Bag was stored on a ship.
- [Archer] Steady Breath, Exhale - Fixed the issue where using [Event] Sweet Peach or [Event] Sour Peach would incorrectly apply a cooldown to these skills.
- [Wukong] Fixed the issue where dye could not be applied to Slot 1 of the Goldscale Dragoon Helmet.
- [Wukong] Fixed the issue where the character’s unique animation wouldn’t play when wearing BD9 N or BD9+ N outfits.
- [Wukong] Fixed the issue where progressing up to the Forest Wolves quest without skipping would hide the weapon appearance.
- [Ranger] Fixed the issue where the lower body appearance of the Summer Getaway (Bikini) outfit looked awkward.
- [Tamer] Fixed the issue where a dot would remain above the head when wearing the Summer Getaway Hairdo.
- [Musa, Sage] Fixed the issue where hiding the cape after wearing the Summer Getaway Outfit would also hide the torn appearance of the pants.
- Fixed the issue where trees appeared to be floating in the air at certain locations near the Loopy Tree Forest.
- [Berserker] Fixed the issue where the appearance looked awkward when hiding the cape while wearing the Summer Getaway outfit in Awakening.
-
[Updates] Patch Notes - July 24, 2025 Combat system overhaul, Adventure Log improvements & reward changes, and more! Jul 24, 2025 (UTC)
-
[Updates] Update Details - July 17, 2025 Jul 17, 2025 (UTC)
-
[Updates] Patch Notes - July 10, 2025 AP increase adjustments for Sovereign weapons per Enhancement Level, and more Jul 10, 2025 (UTC)
-
[Updates] Patch Notes - July 2, 2025 New class Wukong, and more! Jul 2, 2025 (UTC)