In Black Desert, where Adventurers journey across a vast continent, horses are essential.
Their fast speed and strong stamina make them ideal for long-distance travel, and there’s something too appealing about the sense of speed you get when sprinting through the wind.
Additionally, the varied uses of horse skills and horseback combat, among other things, make the horse a real companion for adventure.

Thus, owning a horse is not optional, but a necessity.
In this page, we'll take a look at everything, from how to tame a horse, to how to raise it into a mighty steed.

You can go about anywhere within the world of Black Desert if you’ve got a horse.

How to Tame a Wild Horse

Horses can be obtained by purchasing a horse emblem from a Stable Keeper NPC. However, it may be difficult to make that horse into a superstar as only tier 1 horses can be obtained through this method.

You may be better off seeking out wild horses that roam freely throughout the world, as they can quickly be tamed and turned into tier 6 to 7 horses. 

You can distinguish the tier of a wild horse by its appearance. A muscular horse is higher in tier than a slim horse.

 

There are a couple of materials you will need to tame a wild horse: capturing rope, and several lumps of raw sugar.

 

Materials	How to Obtain
Capturing Rope	Purchase from Stable Keeper NPCs.
Lump of Raw Sugar	Heating (hotkey: L) on: (Raw Sugar x10) and (Mineral Water x1)    Both ingredients can be purchased from vendors who sell food ingredients.

◈ Horse-Taming Minigame

Right click on a capturing rope in your inventory (hotkey: I) and approach a wild horse with the rope equipped. Press LMB when your cursor is aligned with the horse to throw the rope. Then press Space to reign in the horse and start the minigame.

When the mini-game starts, press Space over the blue portion of the gauge to begin wrangling the horse.

Press W to advance and continue taming the horse using your rope. When it stands on its hind legs, the red gauge must be maintained at 50% or higher by pressing Space repeatedly.

After successfully winning the tug-of-war and getting within reach of the horse, the Interact menu will be activated. Instead of mounting the horse right away, feed them lumps of raw sugar. Even if you feed the horse with only one lump of raw sugar, you will definitely succeed in capturing it.

◈ Wild Horse Locations

Wild horses can be found everywhere within the world of Black Desert. Most wild horses are tier 6, but you can occasionally find tier 7 horses as well.
You have a notably higher chance to find a tier 7 wild horse in Drieghan.

Breeding your captured wild horse will lead to future generations of fine horses.

In the locations below you will find where to tame wild horses. These locations will be helpful in your taming pursuits, but they are not the only locations where you will stumble upon wild horses on your adventures.

Please press the name of each territory to see the list of locations.

Serendia & Balenos

Near Marino Farm, in the Fleme Hills.

 

South of Port Epheria.

 

Balenos Mountains, near the town of Olvia.

 

South of the Fogan habitat, between the Bloody Monastery and Serendia Shrine.

 

South of Marni Farm Ruins, on the road between Calpheon City and Keplan.

 

West of Treant Forest, to the north of Trent.

Drieghan & Kamasylvia

South of Duvencrune, and west of Gayak Altar.

Near the Sherekhan Necropolis.

South of the Navarn Steppe, between Old Wisdom Tree and Grána.

Mediah

Near Mediah Shore, east of Sarma Outpost.

 

South of the Wandering Rogue Den.

 

Near the Rumbling Land, between The Mausoleum and Elric Shrine.

 

Near Tungrad Forest, on the road to Drieghan.

The growth direction can be predicted based on the base stats of the horse at level 1. The types of horse are as follows:

- Agile: Speedy horses possess high speed and acceleration, with their highest growth being in those areas.
- Control: Drifters have high brake and turn stats, with their highest growth being in those areas.
- Balance: Balanced horses have stats that are balanced all around including their growth.

◈ Resurrecting Horses

When your horse has died, you can go to the closest Stable Keeper NPC and revive it. However, you can also revive the horse on the spot by using the Tears of the Wind item.
The horse will be revived with full health and stamina at that location.

Tears of the wind do not only apply to horses, but also to all personal mounts, such as a miniature elephants and Epheria sailboats. It will be a useful just-in-case item to keep in your inventory.

This item can be obtained from the Loyalties tab of the Pearl Shop, and costs 500 loyalties.

◈ Skill Training Minigame

After you’ve learned the skills, a minigame will appear at a set probability when you use the skills. Completing the minigames will increase your proficiency with the skill.
You may be launched off your horse upon failing the minigame, but if successful at the game, you will earn greater proficiency with that skill.
When you have acquired 100% proficiency with the skill, the minigames will no longer appear.

As you reach a higher training level, your horse will gain more EXP, and your chances of taming a wild horse will be increased. You do not need to worry about increasing your training level, as this will naturally occur as you raise your horses. You can also speed up this process through taming wild horses.

◈ Leveling a Horse

The quickest way to raise your horse is to travel around with it manually, but it is also recommended that you set up looped auto-pathing during the times when you’re not playing the game.

Hold the Alt key while on the World Map screen and right-click to set the destination of an auto-pathing route. Then right click to your current location to create a looped route.
Alternatively, right click on a location in the world map, and then press the Set Loop button that appears below.

While holding the Alt key you can also right click other locations to add checkpoints and extend the auto-pathing route.

The auto-pathed route is indicated in green, so check the color to make sure it has been set up properly.

After you’ve mounted your horse, press the T key to automatically travel through the marked path and activate the function to auto-feed your horse carrots. If you have enough carrots in your inventory, you will find yourself automatically moving back and forth on the set route while using carrots to automatically recover stamina.

Straight paths are the best as auto-pathed routes, but be mindful of the potential threat of being killed by another Adventurer (PK-ed). It is wise to set a shorter route between towns, or even within a single town.

◈ Items that Help Your Horse’s Growth

You can also increase the horse’s EXP gain by using elixirs, such as the elixir of training, but these have a short duration and it does not increase the EXP significantly, so it is best to use it when truly necessary.

You can obtain the above shown items and silver as rewards upon delivering a horse to the imperial court.

The following items, as seen above, can be exchanged at NPC Breesman, in Calpheon City.

Additionally, you can exchange x1 of these golden seals at NPC Shamhain in the Stonetail Horse Ranch, Mediah, to obtain swaying wind shards and rumbling earth shards, used for awakening a courser into a dream horse, and x12 with 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 different types of these seals in the [Golden Seals] page.

You need special materials for courser training. These are: Pure Forest Breath, Rainbow Gem Fruit, Breezy Conch Seaweed, Deep Blue Hoof Root, Stonetail Fodder, and Spirit Pouch of Ferocious Beast. They are obtainable by carrying out life skill activities, such as gathering and fishing, or by defeating monsters.

Use these materials to increase a courser’s skill, elegance, and strength.
When all training categories add up to 200%, the courser can now attempt dream horse awakening.

You have to feed the courser at least two of the following materials to reach a total of 200% in training.

Above you can see the Courser Training UI. Train each category (Skill, Elegance, Strength) to reach a total of 200% in training.

Please note that the percentage of Skill, Elegance and Strength will reset when failing an awakening attempt. Only 50% of the total training percentage will disappear when failing an awakening attempt using cron stones (but any decimal amounts will be removed).
Every time you fail, the chance to succeed in future awakening attempts will increase.

When you succeed in awakening, your tier 8 courser will be reborn as one of the three dream horses: Arduanatt, Diné, or Doom.

Arduanatt has 3 unique skills from birth:
Courser's Spirit, which automatically recovers HP and stamina little by little when unmounted, Double Jump, and Wings of Wind for gliding.

As you level up, your horse can learn skills according to a certain probability.

Diné is born with Earth of Life, which recovers 300 HP as well as 300 MP/WP/SP every 3 seconds for 60 seconds for the owner and up to 9 of their allies, along with the skills Courser's Spirit and Double Jump.

Doom is born with Dark Flame Steps, a powerful melee attack that can inflict flame damage to nearby enemies, as well as Courser’s Spirit and Double Jump.
Additionally, the skill Dark Sprint can be learned according to a certain probability.
Dark Sprint is a skill in which you can move faster during S: Instant Accel and inflicts damage to nearby enemies, surrounding them with flames.
On top of that, Doom is the only dream horse that can learn the Two-seater skill.

All of the above skills can be learned by mounts, but are only available depending on their tier.
You can check the skills a mount can learn in a stable or via the Mount Information window.

All wild horses you can encounter will be tier 6 and above.
 
The appearance of horses that are tier 6 or higher that you will encounter as wild horses or through breeding are the following:

– Tier 6

Learnable Skills

               

 

– Tier 8

Learnable Skills

                  

 

 

 

From 8-3 to 8-5: 

– New horse appearances for tier 7 and 8

A newly spotted tier 7 Wild Horse.

 

2 newly spotted tier 8 horse appearances.

◈ Mythical Horses

Arduanatt, Diné and Doom can attempt to ascend to an even higher tier via mythical horse awakening.

Mythical Arduanatt

Mythical Diné

Mythical Arduanatt

➤ You can read more about these mounts on the [Mythical Horses] page.