Crimson Desert's latest patch steals your dragons, but Pearl Abyss is working to fix it "as quickly as possible"

Update: Shortly after this article was published, Crimson Desert received a hotfix, solving "an issue where certain owned mounts were not appearing in the Quick Slot, preventing them from being summoned," so it sounds like players' beloved dragons are back.

Amusingly, the hotfix also irons out "an issue where pets would eat wood or ore gathered with a logging axe or pickaxe" – perhaps they were just hungry. Other changes include a fix for a bug where "stamina would recover when sheathing and unsheathing certain weapons while sprinting," and crashes that "could occur while dyeing or changing customization." You can read the full patch notes here.

Original story:

Crimson Desert's latest patch brings with it some massive and welcome additions to the open-world behemoth, but one bug sneaked aboard the update and accidentally deleted many players' legendary mounts. Pearl Abyss promises you won't need to wait too long to ride your dragons again, though.

As bought to our attention by Twitch streamer Ramez, one notable bug that snuck into Crimson Desert's 1.04.00 patch causes lots of players' legendary mounts to go entirely missing, "including your dragon if you had one." Some players online report that certain legendary mounts, like Rokade, are seemingly unaffected by the culling, while other mounts are just nowhere to be seen.

Developer Pearl Abyss quickly jumped onto social media to note it's "identified an issue where certain owned mounts are not appearing in the Quick Slot, preventing them from being summoned." The studio promises it's "currently working on a fix and will do our best to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."

The new Crimson Desert patch is almost certainly the game's biggest update so far – it's practically overflowing with new difficulty modes, pet types, home layouts, bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and an essential feature that finally lets cats perch on your shoulder for much longer. With so much good stuff included, it's maybe unsurprising that a few bugs also came along for the ride too.

In the meantime, while you're missing your dragons, you can try to find the new pet birds that just got added. They're almost as cool and they both have wings, except you can't ride the poor birds and their lifespans are about 400 times shorter.

Crimson Desert players keep losing boss fights to a haunted book that forces you to read it over and over again: "I'm gonna blow my top."