Crimson Desert All Horse Challenges

There are 10 Horse Challenges in Crimson Desert. They are part of the Mastery Category. Finishing all Horse Challenges unlocks the Tamer of Legends trophy & achievement.

Note for most Horse challenges you need to do the entire requirement without getting off your horse, or the challenge is reset.

Challenges Overview:

• Crimson Desert Challenges Guide

Harmonious Hooves 1

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at the 4-way intersection southwest of Stonewell Farm.
  
  
• Challenge: Tame 2 wild horses.
• How to Complete: When encountering wild horses in the game world you can chase then and hold interact  to jump on and try to tame them. Hold the left stick in the direction their tail is pointing to tire them out, then you have to option of keeping them or sending them to the stable. Do this with any two different horses.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Companionship I

Harmonious Hooves 2

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at intersection northeast of St. Halssius’s House of Healing.
  
  
• Challenge: Hunt 5 animals within 5 minutes while riding a horse.
• How to Complete: While being on the horse, kill 5 animals. This is best done using the bow while riding.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Bond I

Harmonious Hooves 3

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at intersection east of Ironwood Farm.
  
  
• Challenge: While riding a horse, defeat 20 enemies within 5 minutes without stopping.
• How to Complete: Go to big enemy camps/fortresses, ride around on your horse and don’t stop fully, kill 20 enemies either with melee or ranged attacks. Don’t get knocked off the horse by the enemies.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Headstart II

Harmonious Hooves 4

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Hernand, on the side of the road in the forest north of Sunset Valley.
  
  
• Challenge: Go to Sunset Valley to Varnia on horseback in 40 minutes.
• How to Complete: As stated, you must ride from Sunset Valley to Varnia on horseback, in under 40 minutes. Sunset Valley is in the very south corner of Hernand region, Varnia is in the very north corner of Crimson Desert region (see start and end point in images below). Make sure your horse is the maximum level (5) so that it can go as fast as possible and has the highest amount of stamina. You can increase the horse level by spending time riding it and petting it regularly. You can comfortably do this in around 25 minutes even without a max level horse though, so the main thing to be aware of is if you get off your horse at any point the challenge will be reset and you need to start over. Be careful in areas with enemies as they can knock you off. Having Legendary Horse Royler is good for this as it has the highest starting stamina and speed.
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Artifact

Harmonious Hooves 5

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at intersection on the west side of of the fields around Springdale Farm.
  
  
• Challenge: Successfully mount a horse 3 times while descending from the air.
• How to Complete: While gliding you can land directly on your horse from above, instead of needing to interact with it to mount it. Do this a total of 3 times to complete the challenge.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Abyss Artifact, 1x Ascent I

Harmonious Hooves 6

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Demeniss, at intersection directly east of Church of West Demeniss.
  
  
• Challenge: Travel from Silvermoon Tradehouse to Vellua within 10 minutes while on horseback.
• How to Complete: Like challenge 4, this one requires you travel from Silvermoon Tradehouse which is located southeast of the city of Demeniss, to Vellua which is a village at the south edge of Hernand. This is the tightest of the three travel requirements as you only have 10 minutes, but is still easily doable with a fully leveled horse. You will want to take shortcuts across areas instead of just following the road the whole way, but make sure to watch for cliffs when you are closer to Vellua as if you go off too high of a drop you will be kicked off your horse and need to start over. Having Legendary Horse Royler is good for this as it has the highest starting stamina and speed.
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Haste II

Harmonious Hooves 7

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Hernand, at third intersection directly west of THE IRONWOOD text on map.
  
  
• Challenge: Ride a Priden, Brianto, Numont, and Elantrima for over 100m.
• How to Complete: This trophy requires riding four different types of horses for a distance of 100 meters each. Horses can be found in the wild and tamed, purchased from stables found throughout the game world, or stolen from NPCs. This challenge only requires riding the horse, not keeping it, so if you find one of the breeds and just want to ride it to complete the requirement you don’t need to keep it after.
  • Priden – The stable south of the city of Delesyia sells a Priden.
  • Brianto – The Legendary Horse Camora counts as a Brianto. Damiane and Oongka also both ride Briantos by default.
  • Numont – The stable in Tomaso sells a Numont.
  • Elantrima – The stable north of Calphade (northwestern Hernand) or the stable in Pailune after it is liberated both sell Elantrimas. Pailune has 4 different versions.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Bond II

Harmonious Hooves 8

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Pailune, on the road inside Ridgehunter Tannery. You will need to clear this location of enemies first before you can pick up the Sealed Artifact.
  
  
• Challenge: While riding a horse, ram into and subdue 30 enemies ahead within 5 minutes.
• How to Complete: Charge is an ability that only certain horses have, which allows them to run into enemies and damage them when they are equipped with a champron (horse head armor). All three of the legendary horses unlock Charge at level 2, so it is easiest to do this requirement with one of them. You can purchase the Hernandian Champron from the Saddlery north of Hernand if you didn’t acquire one elsewhere.
  
  Once you have a horse with Charge and have equipped it with a champron, you will need to find an area with enemies you can do this against. The Charge attack isn’t extremely strong, so depending on what early game locations with enemies you still have available this can be much more annoying. Bleed Bandits throughout Hernand should die in one hit with the Hernandian Champron equipped, so if you either still had Karin Quarry held by enemies, or if you didn’t clear any of the areas around Fort Perwin these are both very good locations to do this. If you don’t have any early game locations left, you can also more easily defeat enemies by playing as Damiane and shooting them once with her gun, then running into them which should then kill stronger enemies with one Charge hit.
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Abyss Artifact, 1x Stamina Transference

Harmonious Hooves 9

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Delesyia, at intersection west of Steelspike Armory.
  
  
• Challenge: Leave the City of Delesyia at night and arrive at the City of Pailune before sunrise on horseback.
• How to Complete: This challenge requires traveling from the City of Delesyia to the City of Pailune in one night (in-game time). The game considers night to be from 9PMto around 4AM, so you have 7 in-game hours, or around 15 minutes real time. This requirement isn’t as tight as challenge 6, but it is harder the earlier in the story that you attempt to do it, as you are required to go through all of the areas with hostiles present at all times, prior to them being liberated during the story. Having Legendary Horse Royler is good for this as it has the highest starting stamina and speed.
  
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Haste II

Harmonious Hooves 10

• How to Unlock: Pick up Sealed Abyss Artifact in Crimson Desert, on the side of the road south of Timeworn Ruins Ironcrawler Station.
  
  
• Challenge: Tame the legendary steeds Royler, Rokade, and Camora.
• How to Complete: See All 3 Legendary Horse Locations.
• Reward: 1x Abyss Artifact, 1x Faded Abyss Artifact, 1x Companionship III