Crimson Desert Notes 1.04.01 (All Platforms Hotfix) (23rd April 2026)
A same-day hotfix follows 1.04.00, tackling crashes, a stamina recovery exploit, and a frustrating mount summoning bug.
Pearl Abyss didn't wait long. Less than a day after 1.04.00 landed, 1.04.01 is already live on Steam PC, with Mac to follow at a later time.
The two fixes players will feel most immediately are the stamina exploit and the Focused Aerial Roll slowdown. Sheathing and unsheathing certain weapons while sprinting was incorrectly restoring stamina, which in a game built around stamina management is a bigger deal than it sounds. Aerial Roll's flight speed had also dropped below intended values, so anyone who noticed their movement feeling sluggish wasn't imagining it. There's also a crash fix tied specifically to the Umbra boss fight when using a customised character, which is can completely derail a session at a critical moment.
On the quality-of-life side, the pet renaming button has been swapped from R3/RS to L3/LS, and a bug stopping owned mounts from appearing in the Quick Slot has been resolved. PlayStation and Xbox players also get the "Change Preset" display brought in line with the PC version. I'm glad to see Pearl Abyss moving fast on these fixes rather than letting them sit, though the Mac patch being delayed is worth keeping in mind if that's your platform.
Here's the full breakdown.
Full Patch Notes
Fellow Greymanes,
Here are the fixes and improvements that have been added this patch.
Update Schedule
Please refer to the Updates section below to see the state of the patch for each platform.
Update
Steam (PC): Patch available now
Steam (Mac): Patch available at a later time (in-progress)
Patch Notes Version 1.04.01
- \ Changed the button used to change the names of pets and horses from (R3/RS) to (L3/LS).
- Fixed an issue where certain owned mounts were not appearing in the Quick Slot, preventing them from being summoned.
- \[PlayStation/Xbox] Changed the "Change Preset" option to be displayed the same way as on PC.
- Fixed an issue where pets would eat wood or ore gathered with a logging axe or pickaxe.
- \[Keyboard/Mouse] Fixed an issue where furniture could not be placed while using housing mode in certain situations.
- Fixed an issue where crashes could occur while dyeing or changing customization.
- Fixed an issue where stamina would recover when sheathing and unsheathing certain weapons while sprinting.
- \ Fixed an issue where Blinding Flash was canceled in safe zones.
- \ Fixed an issue where the flight speed of Focused Aerial Roll became slower than intended.
- \[Oongka/Damiane] Fixed an issue where ranged weapons could not target anything other than bosses during boss battles.
- Fixed an issue where the game would return to the title screen when observing a skill that had already been acquired by consuming an Abyss Artifact while the inventory was full.
- Please note that if you were unable to recover an Abyss Artifact by observing an already acquired skill while your inventory was full, you can recover the Abyss Artifact by using the Reset All function.
- Fixed an issue where the game would crash during combat with a certain boss when using a customized character. (To avoid spoilers, the relevant boss is listed in the dropdown menu below.)
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- Umbra
Known Issues
- For known issues, please check the notice below:
- \[Crimson Desert Known Issues]
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