Crimson Desert All Life Challenges

There are 12 Life Challenges in Crimson Desert. They are part of the Life Category. Finishing all Life Challenges unlocks the Natural Collector trophy & achievement.

Challenges Overview:

• Crimson Desert Challenges Guide

Challenge 1: Between Herbs and Poisons

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Pailune, on side of the road north of Skallcove.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all mushroom (3), medicinal herb (22), and poisonous herb (6) knowledge.
• How to Complete: This challenge is for collecting all Mushrooms and Herbs knowledge. You can collect these on your own, but the easiest way to get all of these is to beat the boss Praevus the Ancient, located in Crimson Desert region. This boss gives an item called Memory of Ancient Nature, consuming it from the inventory immediately gives all Gatherables knowledge, completing this requirement.
  
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Blessing of Nature III

Challenge 2: Crystals in the Veins

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, on the side of the road north of Burnhand Quarry.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all mineral knowledge (18).
• How to Complete: There are 18 minerals – Stone, Fine Stone, Flawless Stone, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Silver Ore, Gold Ore, Bismuth Ore, Scolecite Ore, Bloodstone, Garnet, Azurite, Epidote, Diamond, Brimstone, Stalactite, Platinum, Mercury. You can also get all gatherables knowledge automatically by beating the boss Praevus the Ancient, located in Crimson Desert region. This boss gives an item called Memory of Ancient Nature, consuming it from the inventory immediately gives all Gatherables knowledge, completing this requirement. Alternatively, if you want to find all minerals manually, refer to the Crafting Materials Guide.
   
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Blessing of the Earth III

Challenge 3: Animal Meat

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Pailune, on the side of the road directly to the west of THE ANCIENT RIFT map text.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all meat knowledge (8).
• How to Complete: There are 8 types of meat – Tough Meat, Lean Meat, Fine Meat, Tender Meat, Marbled Meat, Lean Bird Meat, Bird Meat, Fish Fillet. You can scroll over the meats at the butcher in Hernand town. The remaining meat you can get from hunting. Bird meat comes from shooting birds with arrows and skinning them. Fish Fillet comes from catching a fish (can swim after it and catch with bare hands), then clean the caged fish from the inventory. You can also get all gatherables knowledge automatically by beating the boss Praevus the Ancient, located in Crimson Desert region. This boss gives an item called Memory of Ancient Nature, consuming it from the inventory immediately gives all Gatherables knowledge, completing this requirement.
   
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Gourmet III

Challenge 4: Tiny Citizens of Grasslands

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Pailune, at intersection directly north of Beast Hunter’s Camp in small wooden shrine.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all insect and arthropod knowledge (76).
• How to Complete: When you run around the world, pick up every little insect marked as “???” which indicates new ones you haven’t found before. Refer to Crimson Desert All Insect Locations.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Blessing of the Forest III

Challenge 5: Acquire Timber

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Crimson Desert, on the side of the road southeast of Well of Patience.
  
  
• Challenge: Obtain 5 pieces each of normal/fine/flawless timber.
• How to Complete: Buy a Logging Axe from the Provisioner’s Shop and use it to fell trees to get Timber. Using an Axe will give Normal and Fine timber.
  To obtain Flawless timber, you will either need to obtain a Chainsaw, or purchasing it late in the game. To obtain the Chainsaw, you’ll need to first progress to Chapter 12 to have access to the research facility at Dewhaven Keep in Deleysia. The second level research Electricity – Movement Conversion Mechanism Research awards you the ability to send an expedition to Steelspike Armory to produce 1x chainsaw per expedition. Once you have the Chainsaw, it is used in a similar manner to the Knuckledrill but to cut down trees, where you receive Normal and Flawless Timber.
  
  If you don’t want to or forget to obtain the Chainsaw, some vendors post story seem to sell Flawless Timber, such as the Provisioner’s Shop in Timberton > Delesyia.
  
  
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Blessing of the Forest I

Challenge 6: The Underwater Ecosystem

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at intersection west of Demeniss Sentry Camp, on the north side of Spire of Clockwork.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all freshwater (25), saltwater (15), legendary (5), and underwater wildlife (11) knowledge.
• How to Complete: See Crimson Desert All Fish Locations.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Abyss Artifact, 1x Surge III

Challenge 7: Provisions

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Crimson Desert, on the side of the road slightly northeast of the C in the CRIMSON DESERT map text.
  
  
• Challenge: Cook 3 Dishes using the Field Cooking Tool, and 3 meals that can only be made with a special cooking tool.
• How to Complete: Field Cooking Tools correspond to bonefires that can be found throughout the game world, and allow you to cook basic meals in the categories Grilled Cooking, Field Grill Cooking, and Field Pot Cooking. Most basic recipes you have or single ingredient dishes can be cooked like this.
  
  Special Cooking Tools correspond to the pot and dish that are set into stone counters you can find in the game world, such as inside certain houses in cities or at the Greymane Camp in Pailune after you move there. These allow you to cook meals in the categories Special Iron Griddle Cooking, Special Pot Cooking, and Feasts. These include all the most complicated dishes in the game, which require the most ingredients but have much higher bonus effects.
  
  If you aren’t going out of your way to pick up recipes throughout the game you may not have recipes to use, but you can improvise recipes to make the dish. One of the most basic  you can make is Grilled Meat Patties that uses 3x each of any Meat, Vegetable, Fruit, along with 3x Eggs and 3x Cooking Oil. If you improvise the recipe 3 times you also learn it permanently.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Gourmet II

Challenge 8: Equipment

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Hernand, on the side of the road on the edge of the forest north of Sunset Valley
  
  
• Challenge: Craft a one-handed sword and bow at the smithy.
• How to Complete: At any smithy craft at least 1 one-handed sword and 1 bow. You can find a blacksmith in the middle of Hernand town, on the map’s “Environment” tab he’s indicated by a “?” icon.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact

Challenge 9: Pets

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Delesyia, on the side of the road directly east of Delesyia South Gate.
  
  
• Challenge: Tame 30 unique pets.
• How to Complete: To tame pets you must pet them until you reach 100 trust with them. You can pet dogs and cats in towns repeatedly each day for up to 25 trust per day. You can also drop certain food or material items for both to increase trust to 100 in one day. Dogs will pick up dropped bones for 25 trust at a time (bones are obtained from hunting animals). You can drop 3 food items in a row, so for dogs can get 75 trust by dropping 3 bones and another 25 trust from petting them to reach 100 trust in one day. Cats will pick up grilled fish and grilled meat for 20 trust at a time. If you can’t find an animal again, fast travel back and forth until they spawn in. After you obtained your first pet you can view the list of recruited pets under Inventory > Pets. There’s a limit of 30 pets in the inventory.
  Note this requirement specifies unique pets. You can have multiple of the same breed of cat or dog, but they must look different. For example a Jindo that is white and a Jindo that is brown count as 2, but 2 brown Jindos don’t count. If you tame a duplicate pet you can release them from the Pets section of the inventory. It’s recommended to keep one of each unique pet until you fill your inventory, as you can’t otherwise track which you have tamed.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Companionship III

Challenge 10: The Fruit of Patience

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Delesyia, at intersection south of Coast Windmill Watchtower.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all grain (17), vegetable and fruit (37) knowledge.
• How to Complete: You can get all gatherables knowledge automatically by beating the boss Praevus the Ancient, located in Crimson Desert region. This boss gives an item called Memory of Ancient Nature, consuming it from the inventory immediately gives all Gatherables knowledge, completing this requirement.
   
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Blessing of Nature III

Challenge 11: Bounty of Meadows

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Delesyia, on west side of road, south of Silverbrook Ruins.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire all rare gatherable knowledge (8)
• How to Complete: There are 8 rare gatherables – Skyroot, Palmar Leaf, Brimstone, Stalactite, Platinum, Mercury, Golden Apple, Rubber. You can get all gatherables knowledge automatically by beating the boss Praevus the Ancient, located in Crimson Desert region. This boss gives an item called Memory of Ancient Nature, consuming it from the inventory immediately gives all Gatherables knowledge, completing this requirement.
   
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Abyss Artifact, 1x Fortune III

Challenge 12: Cave Exploration Log

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Pailune, along road northeast of Whisperleaf Fortress.
  
  
• Challenge: Acquire 100 Caves knowledge.
• How to Complete: For this you need to visit any 100 of the 133 Caves in the game, which will then appear with a cave icon on the map. Completed Caves get a checkmark on the map. Because the game has 133 Caves total you can skip any 33 of them. See Cave Locations Guide.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Abyssal Assimilation