Crimson Desert Guide: How To Increase Camp Armor And Weapons Fast
Trying to fund a mercenary army by manually donating rusty swords is a miserable experience that will completely halt your progression.
If you are trying to run the high tier dispatch missions for Abyss fragments, you have probably hit a massive brick wall. The game suddenly demands upwards of 11,000 Camp Armor and Weapon provisions to deploy your troops. If you look at your current stockpile, you are probably sitting at a few thousand. Your first instinct is to open your inventory and start manually donating every single piece of useless gear you have looted over the last ten hours.
Do not do that. Relying entirely on manual donations is incredibly slow and will drive you insane. The Howling Hill base camp is designed to be an automated machine, but the game does a terrible job of explaining how to turn the engine on. If you want to stop micromanaging your inventory and start generating massive amounts of military supplies passively, you need to set up specific dispatch routes and leverage passive buffs. Here is exactly how to fix your camp economy.
Method 1: The Automated Dispatch Engine
This is the absolute fastest way to generate provisions. You need to stop doing the work yourself and force your Comrades to do it for you.
Head over to Ross at the Howling Hills camp. Open the Mission Dispatch menu and look for icons marked with an Anvil. These specific missions reward Camp Armor and Weapons. The absolute best early game option is the "Warspike Spearmaker" dispatch located in Hernand.
If you do not see this mission available, you have not completed the prerequisites. You must liberate the specific region in Hernand first, or finish the House Alfonso Faction Quests to unlock the node. Once it is unlocked, you have to assign the right crew. You need to deploy four Comrades, and crucially, at least one of them must have the Smith Skill. If you meet these conditions, this single mission will passively generate over 1,000 Camp Armor and Weapon provisions every 16 hours. You just log in, collect your massive payout, and send them right back out.
Method 2: The Manual Donation Grind
If you are just a few hundred provisions short of a massive upgrade and cannot wait 16 hours for a dispatch to return, you have to resort to manual donations.
Go talk to Carl in the Howling Hills camp. Select "Manage Provisions" and then click on "Camp Provisions." The menu allows you to dump Wool, Hide, Abyss Gears, Weapons, and Armor directly into the camp funds.
Because doing this manually is incredibly tedious, you need to automate your gathering process out in the field. You should never be stopping to pick up low tier weapons off dead bandits. Bring a tamed companion with you and rely on their auto-loot mechanic. Let your pet hoover up all the garbage weapons and armor while you focus on fighting. When your bags are completely full, fast travel back to Carl and dump the entire load at once.
Passive Multipliers And Research
If you are running the dispatches and dumping your loot but still feel like the numbers are climbing too slowly, you are missing the underlying passive buffs.
You need to head to the Gorthak Ironworks and complete the Taro Research task. Finishing this specific project applies a permanent multiplier to your camp's armor and weapon supplies. (Also check out our all research projects guide to see what other base upgrades you are missing).
Finally, do not ignore the Church. It sounds like a waste of raw currency, but making regular Church Donations applies a hidden buff that actively increases the total amount of supplies you pull in. Throw some silver in the collection plate, set up your Smith Comrades in Hernand, and let the game do the heavy lifting for you.
