Watching paint dry is drab. Tired. Boring. Watching half a dozen virtual lil' guys chisel away at a big hunk of stone to turn it into a statue? Now that's entertainment, baby.
Crimson Desert is a lot of game, both good and bad—it's ambition and scale cut with frustration and bizarre design choices. For every basic videogame staple it's lacking, it has some absurd niche feature to make up for it. The one that's been garnering the most attention lately is by far the NPC statue building.
A big part of Crimson Desert is managing and expanding a camp to regroup and rebuild the Greymane faction. Scouring Pywel for freeswords who'll join your cause and later go out on a variety of different missions for you or in-need citizens. Most of those missions are simple enough—estate security, logging and mining, or bits of farming and production here and there.
More special missions are more involved, like erecting a statue for a nobleman or constructing a stone-carved symbol of the Greymanes that'll serve as a permanent reminder of Kliff and the crew's good deeds. And as one X user discovered (via
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