How to change appearance in Crimson Desert
To customise your appearance you need to find a barber or dyehouse in Crimson Desert
You can customise your appearance in Crimson Desert, although what you can change is limited to specific things like hair, beard, tattoos, and more. You will always be locked to a set protagonist and customizing, rather than actually creating a character from the ground up, but you can still change a lot. You will, however, need to find specific places and traders to make changes.
So you're largely tied to basic cosmetic and colour changes but you do at least have three Crimson Desert characters to play with, which gives you a little extra variety. You can tweak and adjust all their looks, giving you a range of options across the cast.
Whether you're starting Crimson Desert for the first time, or want to change your appearance after tens or hundreds of hours, here's everything you need to know about how customise your character and where to go.
Where to change appearance in Crimson Desert
You can change your appearance at camp by using a Barber Shop to alter your face and hair, and Dyehouses to alter clothes and armor in Crimson Desert. These will let you change the following attributes:
- Hair style
- Hair color
- Beard style
- Beard color
- Eyebrow style
- Eyebrow color
- Face tattoos and markings
- Body tattoos and markings
How to change your armor appearance in Crimson Desert
While you can swap out your gear at Dyehouses, including anything you've unlocked with Crimson Desert Twitch drops, you can also change the color and appearance of armor and weapons. That includes your horse's caparison and armor, and of the paint on your War Robot. Again, there's limitations here as it's basically just colour swapping, but it lets you add some personality to your look.
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