How to farm money in Crimson Desert

There's plenty of methods in Crimson Desert to farm money – some easier or riskier than others – but ultimately I'd say the best method early on is based around slaying certain bands of Goblins and pawning the items they drop. There's a particular item dropped by an early game enemy that's almost weirdly expensive, and by slaying and selling quickly, you can easily rack up to a hundred silver in about ten minutes. Here's the best money farming method in Crimson Desert.

Best money farm in Crimson Desert

To farm money in Crimson Desert, you should do the following:

Head to the Sunrise Plains, a region south of the Greymane Camp in Howling Hills.
Here you'll find bands of random enemies called "Fundamentalist Goblins". They're relatively easy to kill, especially later on.
Ride around on your horse to quickly find groups of Goblins and quickly kill them.
Search their bodies and the areas around them for Crude Devil Masks. These are special pieces of headwear that they have a chance to drop – roughly 25% chance per Goblin killed.
Ride around the Sunrise Plains until either your inventory is full, or until you can find no more Goblins to fight.
Use the Crimson Desert fast travel system to get back to any merchant, and sell all your Crude Devil Masks.
Either play the game or skip time until the Goblins respawn, then repeat the process. I found it took about two in-game days for them to come back.

Crude Devil Masks are bizarrely valuable – you can sell them to any merchant for 13.71 each, and it's easy to come away from ten minutes of Goblin slaying with an inventory stuffed with them.

Admittedly, it takes a little time for the Goblins to return, but considering you'll probably have made up to 100 Silver on every run, that should more than tide you over until the next one. It's also a money farm that requires very little preparation or setup, as the Sunrise Plains are pretty easy to find early on and fighting enemies is very straightforward.

The other money farm that might work is to find gambling dens, save your game before you play, then bet everything and play wildly. If you lose, just reload your save and try again! It's cheap, but it can work. There's a gambling den upstairs in the Hernand tavern if you want to try it.

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