Crimson Desert Kuku Pot Guide: How to Get It, How It Works, and All Upgrades

The Kuku Pot is one of those systems in Crimson Desert that the game hands to you during the main story and then largely leaves you to figure out. It starts as a simple storage container for Abyss objects, but it branches into one of the deepest progression systems in the game.

From the Kuku Pot you can produce unique weapons, utility backpacks, elemental armour, and even components for your dragon mount. This guide covers how to get it, how it works, and what every upgrade path unlocks.

Quick Links:

• When To Start Using The Kuku Pot
• How To Get The Kuku Pot
• Furnace Puzzle
• How the Kuku pot works
• Upgrading the Kuku Pot
• The Enhanced Kuku Pot

When to Start Using The Kuku Pot

You can start using the Kuku Pot as soon as you receive it in Chapter 4. For the upgrades, the earliest meaningful crafting opens up in Chapter 5 once you begin the Witch questline. Aim to get the Sanctums done early and collect materials as you explore. Everything should be in motion well before Chapter 10; some upgrade paths become harder to complete after that point.

For the farming materials you'll need in bulk (Batteries, Cogwheels, Lubricant, Clockwork Insects), the best spot is Delesyia in the southeastern corner of the map, which is crawling with robots that drop them.

How To Get The Kuku Pot

You receive the Kuku Pot during Chapter 4 as part of the main quest called Mysterious Pot (quest 49). It sends you to the Kilnden Workshop, located due west of Hernand, where you'll meet a dwarf called Grimnir. Before he hands it over, you need to repair his workshop. You will return here during Chapter 7, just after you stopped playing as Oongka. In fact, this might be why you are stuck, because if this is the first time you have actually been back to the Workshop, it can be a very strange experience.

Pro Tip: Once you unlock the Workshop, you can send your Greymane Comrades to the location on missions to craft a new Kuku Pot.

Fixing the Kilnden Workshop

Before we get into how the Workshop works, here is how you unlock it.

There are three kilns to repair, plus a furnace:

1. Furnace (Chimney Puzzle): Align the stone rings so the runes match. Rotate the dial left, middle, or right until all runes glow blue. A click sound confirms correct positioning.
2. Disconnected Kiln: Attach the cable, then push the lever left until the fires ignite.
3. Dismantled Kiln: Use Axiom Force (grapple) to align the flat piece first, then attach the top section. The top section is located behind the furnace as if it had "blown off". Climb the structure and use an aerial Force Palm to lock the pieces into place.
4. Fuel Kiln: Find and insert five fuel cores using Axiom Force. Two sit beside the kiln, one is in the water, one is inside a bird statue's eye (pull it out with Axiom Force), and the fifth is near a tunnel entrance. If it's not visible, save and reload.

This is how the Dismantled Kiln looks when done.

Once all three kilns are repaired, return to Grimnir, and he'll craft your first Kuku Pot. He'll then direct you to Togrum nearby to learn the basics of how it works.

Pro Tip: If you somehow miss picking up the pot or lose it, check your Camp's recovered items first. You can also craft additional pots at Grimnir's shop using Iron and Timber, or send Comrades on a dispatch mission to the Kilnden Workshop.

How The Kuku Pot Works In Crimson Desert

The Kuku Pot is not a normal inventory item. It holds 230 slots but only accepts Abyss-type objects, machine parts, and crafting components. No weapons, armour, food, or regular items.

What Can Be Stored In The Kuku Pot

Objects that can go in the pot will appear as a small white rune with a swirly symbol on your minimap. The main sources are:

• The Abyss: puzzle extras and components
• Fake Walls Made of Bismuth: hidden items behind destructible walls
• Sanctums: essential components for crafting most utility items
• Abyss Walkers (giant elemental creatures made of stone, ice, etc.): random crafting materials
• Giant Robots (large ones only): set crafting items
• Aserion's Scales: needed for upgrading equipment to max level
• Abyss Cells: used for both Kuku crafting and Abyss Gear farming

How to Seal and Retrieve Items

• To store: Use your Axiom Force (grapple) on a valid object. When "Seal" appears as an option, the item can go in the pot.
• To retrieve: Open the Kuku Pot and select "Discard"; despite the label, this doesn't destroy the item, it places it back in the world so you can use it. Be careful doing this in tight spaces, as some objects cause damage when released.
• Aserion's Scales and Abyss Cells use the "Take Out" option instead to put them directly in your inventory.

Note: Each Kuku Pot shares storage. You cannot just make lots of them to have infinite storage.

Upgrading The Kuku Pot

Every Kuku upgrade requires crafting another Kuku Pot as a base ingredient. All pots share the same inventory, so you never lose what's stored; you just need a fresh pot each time. Craft them at Grimnir's shop or dispatch Comrades to the Kilnden Workshop.

Important warning: Kuku-upgraded versions of equipment cannot be used to complete the Challenges associated with the base items. Before upgrading any of the following, either complete their associated challenges first, or make sure you have a spare unupgraded copy:

Grimnir's upgrade tree has four branches. Most recipes require Blueprints earned through Sanctum completions, faction quests, or specific NPCs, plus the materials to build them.

• Marni's Helm: No known second copy exists anywhere in the game; this is the critical one!
• Propellor Spear
• Lightning Spear
• Bismuth Spear

Weapons (Kuku Spears)

Combines the Kuku Pot with elemental spears found throughout the game. The upgraded versions have twice as many uses as normal and unlimited durability, essentially turning limited-use weapons into permanent ones. Available variants include Fire, Ice, Lightning, Laser, and Petrification (Bismuth) spears.

Backpack (Kuku Pack)

The base Kuku Pack is crafted using a Peddler's Pack and the Kuku Pot, after completing the Sanctum of Penitence quest to get Blueprint I. From there, several specialised variants can be crafted at Grimnir's shop:

Equipment (Armour & Boots)

Elemental Chest Pieces (3 variants — Fire, Ice, and one more): These are among the most valuable Kuku upgrades. Each grants near-immunity to its element and passively triggers an explosion that can kill enemies when you take too many hits of that element. The Fire and Ice versions unlock as early as Chapter 5. These are considered essential for any full playthrough.

Boots (2 variants):

• Kuku Breeze-Step Boots: Creates short-lived platforms mid-air, making platforming sections and vertical exploration significantly easier
• Kuku Rishi's Boots: Improved dodge and double jump, particularly powerful on Damiane

Marni's Laser Helm: Shoots lasers. Also requires the Enhanced Kuku Pot (see below) to craft.

A.T.A.G Upgrades

Enhances your A.T.A.G mech with improved mobility and capabilities. Unlocked through the Ironflame Orcs faction from Chapter 10 onwards. The Kuku Pot can also be converted into a Small Kuku A.T.A.G, which is a component for the Abyssal Fusion, the mecha armour for the Blackstar Dragon mount. Use an empty pot for this conversion, as the entire unit gets consumed in the process.

The Enhanced Kuku Pot

Crafted using one Abyss Cell, the Enhanced Kuku Pot unlocks higher-tier recipes at Grimnir's shop, including the legendary elemental armour sets and the Kuku Marni Laser Helm upgrade. The standard pot cannot access these. Aim to craft this before pushing into the endgame.