How To Unlock Ranch And Farm In Crimson Desert

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TL;DR

Both the Ranch and Farm unlock through the Grounds of the Sunrise faction questline, available from roughly Chapter 4
Progress until you reach “A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post” — this introduces Ben (Ranch) and Kamu (Farm)
Each requires a Dispatch Mission to an external location (~16 hours), then a second Dispatch Mission to construct the facility at Howling Hill (~18 hours)
Build the Farm first — apple trees take time to grow, and starting it early saves you waiting
You can only build one facility at a time — Ranch and Farm construction cannot run simultaneously
Finishing “A Rumor at Glenbright Farm” also unlocks the Cook and Quartermaster at camp
Ranch animals beyond chickens require building 100 Trust with specific world NPCs before Ben will sell them
Ranch produce and farm crops feed directly into cooking — essential for staying healed through tough fights

The Ranch and Farm at Howling Hill are two of the most useful long-term systems in Crimson Desert. Once both are running, they give you a steady supply of meat, hides, milk, eggs, and crops without having to hunt or buy from vendors constantly. They take some effort to unlock, but the payoff is worth it.

This guide walks you through every step — how to reach the right quests, what to do with Ben and Kamu, how to build both facilities, and how to get the most out of them once they’re up and running.

Prerequisites — Unlock The Camp First

Before you can unlock the Ranch or Farm, you need to have the Greymane Camp at Howling Hill set up. This happens during Chapter 3: Howling Hill — Homestead, when Marquis Serkis grants the Greymanes a fief. From there, Kliff secures the camp, and the camp management systems open up.

However, the Ranch and Farm themselves are gated behind Chapter 4 progression. Even with the camp established, you will not be able to access the Grounds of the Sunrise Ranch and Farm questline until you have cleared Chapter 4 of the main story.

If you haven’t set up the camp yet, follow the main quest until the Homestead mission completes. See how to unlock camp in Crimson Desert for a full walkthrough.

How To Reach The Right Quest

Both the Ranch and Farm are locked behind the Grounds of the Sunrise faction questline. This is not a main story quest — it runs in parallel and you need to actively track it.

Here’s how to find it:

Open your Journal
Go to Faction Quests
Select Grounds of the Sunrise
Open the Gathered Will tab

Work through the quests listed here in order. The one you’re aiming for is called “A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post.”

If this quest doesn’t trigger when you visit the Goldleaf Trading Post, check your map. If there’s a disturbance notice in the area, it means bandits have occupied a nearby camp. Clear them out first and the quest will unlock. Liberating occupied territory is a recurring requirement throughout the Grounds of the Sunrise questline, so get used to checking for these notices.

How To Unlock The Ranch In Crimson Desert

Once “A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post” is active, you’ll meet two NPCs: Ben and Kamu. Ben handles the Ranch.

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Follow these steps in order:

Step 1 — Speak With Ben After meeting Ben during the quest, return to the Greymanes camp at Howling Hill and speak with him again. This starts the “Field of Abundance” quest.

Step 2 — Dispatch To Bloomwood Ranch Ben asks you to run a milk mission. Go to the Dispatch board, select Bloomwood Ranch, and choose Milk Harvest Mission. Send your recruits and wait for it to complete (roughly 16 real-time hours).

Step 3 — Build The Ranch At Howling Hill Once the Milk Harvest Mission is done, go back to the Dispatch board at Howling Hill. This time, select the option to build the Ranch. This is a construction mission — it requires recruits with the Builder skill assigned. Without the right skill, the mission won’t run. Check each recruit’s skill list before sending them. Construction takes roughly 18 real-time hours.

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Once that mission completes, the Ranch is open at camp.

Step 4 — Complete Ben’s Request Ben will walk you through the basics with his tutorial quest. Here’s what he asks you to do:

Talk to Ben
Catch a wild goat
Register the goat at the Ranch
Report the results
Slaughter livestock
Report the results of butchering

This teaches you the full Ranch loop: catching animals in the wild, registering them, and eventually slaughtering them for meat and hides. The Ranch NPC Bram manages the facility day-to-day after this is complete.

One thing to note: you’ll physically move animals between pens by picking them up and carrying them — the game doesn’t handle this through menus. Kliff can hoist a goat or pig onto his shoulders and walk it to where it needs to go. For larger animals like cows, you do not need to carry them.

How To Unlock The Farm In Crimson Desert

The Farm unlocks through the same quest — “A Rumor in Goldleaf Trading Post” — and the steps mirror the Ranch process, just with Kamu instead of Ben.

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Step 1 — Speak With Kamu Talk to Kamu after the quest triggers. He’ll ask you to complete an apple picking mission. The farm quest is called “Land of Dreams.”

Step 2 — Dispatch To Glenbright Farm Go to the Dispatch board, select Glenbright Farm, and choose Apple Harvest Mission. Wait for the mission to complete (roughly 16 real-time hours).

Step 3 — Build The Farm At Howling Hill Return to the Dispatch board and select the option to build the Farm at Howling Hill. Same rules apply — assign recruits with the Builder skill. Construction takes roughly 18 real-time hours.

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Step 4 — Complete Kamu’s Request Kamu’s tutorial covers the Farm basics:

Talk to Kamu
Plant an apple seed
Wait for the apple tree to fully grow (approximately 3 in-game days)
Harvest the apples
Hand them over to Kamu

The waiting step is the key one. Apple trees take approximately 3 in-game days to mature. You can sleep at a campfire or bed to advance time faster, but you’re still waiting regardless.

Important: You cannot build the Ranch and Farm at the same time. Only one construction mission can run at Howling Hill simultaneously. If the Ranch is still being built, you must wait for it to finish before starting the Farm construction.

Build The Farm Before The Ranch

This is the most important tip in this guide.

Build the Farm first. The apple tree needs approximately 3 in-game days to grow before Kamu’s tutorial quest can be completed. If you build the Ranch first and then start the Farm, you’ll end up sitting around waiting for the apple tree while Ben’s ranch tutorial could already be done.

Starting the Farm construction first means the tree is growing while you work through Ben’s ranch tutorial. By the time you’re done with the Ranch quests, the apple tree will be close to or fully grown, and you can wrap up Kamu’s tutorial without delay.

What You Get When Both Are Unlocked

Finishing the “A Rumor at Glenbright Farm” mission also unlocks the Cook and Quartermaster at camp — two important NPCs you’ll use constantly. The Cook sells recipes and lets you prepare meals at camp. The Quartermaster manages camp supplies and trade goods.

Ranch — What It Produces

The Ranch lets you raise six types of livestock: goats, pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, and ducks. The ranch starts with a capacity of 25 animals. Each animal type produces different resources:

Meat — used in almost every cooking recipe; essential for staying healed through boss fights
Hides — used in crafting armor and gear
Milk — used in cooking recipes and alchemy (from cows)
Eggs and Feathers — from chickens and ducks
Fleece — from sheep

Chickens are available immediately from Ben once the Ranch is built — no extra unlock needed. All other animals require building 100 Trust with specific world NPCs before Ben will add them to his shop inventory:

Animal	NPC Required	Location
Baby Pigs	Ben (Ranch Manager)	Howling Hill Camp — 100 Trust
Goats	Ibano (Ivano)	100 Trust
Lambs / Sheep	Willian	Bloomwood Ranch — 100 Trust; complete “Wooly” quest first
Calves / Cows	Bremer	Muckroot Ranch — 100 Trust
Ducks	N/A — must steal from NPC farms	Not found in the wild

Ben accepts Coin Purses as gifts (+5 Trust per gift) to build Trust. The other ranch NPCs follow the same pattern — interact with them and give gifts to push their Trust bar toward 100.

The best location to quickly fill your Ranch through wild capture is Muckroot Ranch, a short distance north of Howling Hill. Goats, cows, and ducks can all be found in and around this area.

Breeding is fully automatic — keep animals of opposite genders registered and they will produce offspring on their own over time.

Animal feeding note: Feed livestock grain or apples only — do not give them fish. Carrots work well for chickens, goats, and sheep. Sweet potatoes are preferred by chickens and cows.

Animals need regular care and interaction. Unlike many games, you interact with them physically — feeding, moving, and slaughtering through direct actions rather than menu prompts. The Sealed Abyss Artifact challenge “The Herder’s Lament” also requires selling 3 goats to Bram at the camp Ranch, so keeping animals registered matters beyond just food production. See how to open sealed abyss artifacts in Crimson Desert if you’re working through those challenges.

Farm — What It Produces

The Farm has 16 dedicated crop plots for growing fruits, vegetables, grains, and at higher tiers, rare herbs and Abyss-touched plants. Crops need to be watered by hand — it’s not a set-and-forget system. Once grown, you harvest by physically picking the crops from the plot. Crops and trees typically take around 3 in-game days to fully mature.

Seeds: Kamu operates a seed shop at camp. His starting inventory includes apple and grape seeds. Additional regional seeds become available by activating Seed Supply Contracts — these are tied to specific towns and regions across Pywel. Activating a contract adds that region’s native seeds to Kamu’s shop, so you can centralize all seed purchases at Howling Hill rather than hunting vendors across the map. Seeds can also be extracted from foraged fruit.

Watering tip: Watering your crops during rain provides a hidden growth speed bonus. Rain alone does not count — you still need to physically water each crop yourself — but the combination of manual watering during rainfall accelerates growth beyond what watering alone achieves.

To swap crops on an occupied plot, let the current plant finish its growth cycle, harvest it, and then chop the plant stump down before the plot becomes available again for replanting.

Farm produce feeds directly into cooking recipes. Combined with Ranch meat and hides, the two facilities create a largely self-sufficient food loop at camp. This means less time hunting or buying from vendors, and more resources going toward gear upgrades and other camp improvements.

As you expand the camp over time, the variety and volume of what both facilities produce increases significantly. The Farm tiers up with camp expansions — higher tiers unlock more plots and eventually the rare herb garden and Abyss-touched crop plots. Investing in camp upgrades early pays off in the long run.

Ranch And Farm Tips

Build the Farm before the Ranch. Apple trees take approximately 3 in-game days to grow — start that clock early.
Only one construction mission runs at a time. Plan your order before dispatching.
Assign Builders to construction missions. Without the right skill, the mission won’t launch.
Sleep at camp to advance in-game time. This speeds up both crop growth and mission timers.
Start building NPC Trust early. Getting Bremer, Willian, and Ibano to 100 Trust unlocks cows, sheep, and goats for direct purchase — a much faster way to fill the Ranch than wild capture. Gift them regularly every time you pass through their areas.
Water crops during rain for a growth bonus. You still have to water them manually, but doing it while it’s raining speeds things up.
Check the Supply Chest regularly. All dispatch rewards, including harvest missions, go into the Supply Chest behind Carl at camp. Don’t let produce pile up there uncollected.
Use Ranch meat for Hearty Grilled Meat. It’s one of the best early-to-mid-game healing foods and easy to cook in bulk at the camp kitchen.
Do not feed livestock fish. Only give animals grain or apples — fish will not be accepted and can disrupt feeding routines.
Combine Ranch and Farm output. The real value comes from using both together — meat plus farm-grown ingredients opens up better recipes that restore Health, Stamina, and Spirit simultaneously.
Recruit more Freeswords to speed up dispatch missions. More recruits assigned to a mission earns bonus rewards on top of the standard payout.

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