🛡️ Entry Requirement : Available once you reach 16,100 Combat Power

⚡ Effects & Benefits Applied in the Great Desert

The following item effects and buffs apply normally in the Great Desert field.

• Flute of Unity, Normal/High-Quality Cooking items, French Toast
• Lucky Black Dragon (increased field item acquisition rate)
• Ancient Relic Altar (increased field item acquisition rate, increased field combat EXP gain)
• Battlefield Statue, Great Desert Hot Time, Lucky Scroll effects

📍 Broken Altar (Quick Travel)

Broken Altars that can be activated are scattered throughout the Great Desert. Approaching an altar activates it, and you can instantly travel to any other already-activated Broken Altar at any time.

🗺️ Great Desert World Map

Unvisited desert areas are covered in dark fog, which clears once you activate a Broken Altar. Discovering and interacting directly with a temple marked with a question mark (?) records that temple's information on the World Map.

• 🔒 White Temple Icon : Temple you cannot enter (tapping it auto-moves you there)
• 🔓 Yellow Temple Icon : Temple you can currently enter
• ✅ Black Temple Icon : Temple you have already cleared

⚔️ Great Desert Outlaw Zone

The deep outskirts of the Great Desert form an Outlaw Zone where adventurers can freely engage in unrestricted PvP combat. It's a far fiercer and more dangerous battlefield, but you can obtain much more valuable and special loot compared to normal fields.

📖 Great Desert Story & Desert Expedition Log

The Great Desert offers its own mysterious story along with a Desert Expedition Log that resets monthly. Each time you complete a log entry — defeating nearby enemies, excavating, and more — the Great Desert's hidden ancient temples gradually unlock, granting special rewards essential for your core growth.

🎓 About Knowledge & Growth

Each time you discover new Knowledge about ecology, characters, terrain, or scholarship, your Attack Power, Defense, and Camp Worker Skill permanently increase by a fixed amount. There's also a special bonus that greatly increases your maximum Energy once your total Knowledge reaches a certain threshold, so we recommend completing your Collection whenever you get the chance.

💧 Purified Water & Exhaustion System

Purified Water is absolutely essential to safely explore the scorching desert. You can claim it for free once a day at 00:00 (holds for 20 minutes).

🏕️ Safe Shelter, the Desert Tent

Setting up the Tent from your bag lets you rest safely without your Purified Water depleting near the area where it's installed.

• 🏕️ Tent Duration : Stays installed for up to 10 minutes
• ⏳ Tent Re-installation Cooldown : 60 minutes
• 💎 Advanced Desert Tent : Instantly buy Recovery Items and use the Appraisal Shop from inside the tent (available for purchase in the Pearl Shop)

🐪 The Desert's Essential Companion, Mounts

In desert fields, the Sand Bind debuff greatly reduces your movement speed, so riding a dedicated mount is essential.

Dream Horse Dine (Top-Tier Dream Horse)

• 🌍 Earth's Sprint : Desert-exclusive acceleration and top-tier high-speed sprinting
• 🛡️ Earth's Protection : Fully negates the Sand Bind effect for 30 minutes, reduces damage taken from other players by 5%
• ⚡ Enables high-speed space warping within the Great Desert (unusable in normal fields, cannot connect to Wagon Stables)
• 🎒 Can excavate the ground immediately while still mounted on Dine

⏳ Blessed Sand

Consuming the 'Blessed Sand' item permanently grants a Light Footwork buff that, just like Dine, completely blocks the desert's unique debuff, 'Desert Shackles' (reduced movement speed).

⛏️ Desert Treasures: Excavation & the Black Rock Altar

As you traverse the desert field, you'll come across various forms of ancient traces.

⛏️ Ancient Relic Excavation

When an excavation item is nearby, the compass icon flashes with a '!'. You can spend Energy to dig up the ancient find, and the appraisal item you obtain can be appraised through an Oasis Merchant to receive Edana's Coin and Unidentified Runes.

⚡ Black Rock Altar

Defeating the enemies near a Black Rock Altar — found close to clusters of desert monsters — makes an Offering possible. Spending 10 Energy to make an Offering at the altar lets you take high-value loot useful for growth, such as Edana's Coin and Chaos Crystals.
* Once your Fairy learns 'Great Desert Black Rock Altar Auto-Offering,' you can enable automatic Offering without manual taps.

📜 Morco's Great Desert Monopoly

Morco of the Crow Trading Company obtained the exclusive right to sell 'Luminescent Crystal' — found only in the desert — as payment for resolving a secret order from the Valencian royal family.

🕒 Wandering Merchant Appearance

• 📅 Appearance Days : Appears at random, at any time from Monday 00:00 through Friday 23:59 every week
• 🧭 Map Display Rule : Not shown on the normal minimap or the Great Desert World Map under normal circumstances — the World Map icon switches once you discover him.
• ⏳ Time Limit : If he goes undiscovered until the appearance window runs out, he automatically disappears for that week.
• 🏆 Special Reward : Each week's first adventurer to discover him is awarded the 'Morco's Gift Box' title and the exclusive title 'Morco My Beloved.'

📜 Legend of the Black Rock Shrine

A shrine that generously grants the power of ancient relics to those who offer Edana's Coin,
it can only be summoned with a dedicated Altar Activation Scroll obtained by defeating Laytenn, who reigns in the heart of the desert.

⚙️ Key Guide to Shrine Offerings & Summoning

• Summon it using a location-specific Offering Scroll (obtained by defeating Laytenn, the Black Sun, etc.) at one of the 3 Black Rock Shrines that permanently exist throughout the desert.
• When a shrine is summoned, an alert and a travel button appear on the minimap, letting you travel there instantly.
• Once activated, a shrine can be offered to for 30 minutes, and multiple shrines can also be summoned at the same time.

💎 Black Rock Shrine Offering Rewards by Region

We recommend using the Black Rock Shrine that appears in Hystria Chambers.

📜 The Vanished Caravan, Evonatt's Mystery

Just as rumors of its sudden disappearance — whether a treasure's curse or a Gahaz Bandits raid — were fading from memory,
expedition teams began reporting sightings of a faded Evonatt Chest appearing around the Great Desert's Outlaw Zone.

📦 Evonatt Acquisition & Unlock Rules

• The treasure chest appears only in the Great Desert's Outlaw Zone, at an extremely low chance.
• Opening the chest takes 30 seconds and consumes 10 Energy.

🛡️ Once you obtain and appraise the appraisal item: instantly receive Edana's Coin, Elion Rune, and Luminescent Crystal

⚡ Ancient Weapon Laytenn

A powerful ancient weapon occasionally found in the Great Desert.
The moment it appears, the surrounding area turns into a combat zone, and you receive contribution rewards based on your cumulative damage ranking.

🐋 Apocros

A creature that roams freely through the sand and skies far along the horizon of the Great Desert's Outlaw Zone.
A massive orange pillar of light appears above wherever it spawns.

A successful takedown grants 'Wings of Apocros', which you can bring to a Katan Soldier to exchange for a reward chest, once per week. (Valid for 5 days once inside your Loot Bag.)

🌀 Mirage Rules Guide

You can enter once you complete the Family quest 'Pilgrim's Chest.'
In the Mirage, defeat the waves of enemies closing in within the 5-minute time limit to earn rewards.

• ⚔️ Inside the Mirage, only the 'pure base damage of the skill itself' applies — not your Combat Power.
• 🗺️ There are 9 in total, one per major habitat, and their locations change every month due to the sandstorm. (Limited to 1 completion per habitat, per month)
• 🔑 Entering always consumes 1 'Trace of the Mirage'. (Obtained through Expedition Log quests)

📜 Trace of the Mirage Rewards by Expedition Log Stage

🏆 Exclusive Titles for Completing the Mirage

🚶 Convenience Feature: Mirage Family Dispatch

If manually fighting every single time feels like a hassle, you can use the
Family Dispatch feature to complete it by sending a Family character instead.

• 🔒 Unlock Requirement : Clear the Mirage directly more than 10 times
• 🛡️ Family Character Combat Power : 42,000 Combat Power or higher
• 🔑 Dispatching consumes 1 Trace of the Mirage.

💡 Temple Types & Grade Rules

• 🟡 Yellow Light : Regular Temples (6 types total)
• 🔴 Red Light : Higher-tier Special Great Temples (3 types total)
• Temples unlock sequentially, stage by stage, each time you clear 3 cumulative Desert Expedition Log entries.

🏛️ Great Desert Regular Temple Overview

🌋 Top-Tier Great Temple Overview

🚶 Great Desert Temple Family Dispatch Convenience Feature

You can conveniently use Family Dispatch to clear temple combat zones all at once, sparing you the trouble of clearing them one by one every time the monthly sandstorm resets them.

• 🔒 Unlock Requirement : Surpass Knowledge Level 300 for 'Gates of Atovator'
• 🛡️ Total Combat Power of Dispatched Characters : 191,400 or higher