How to Solve the Duskwood Hill Ruins Puzzle in Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert is full of puzzles, with many of them making themselves apparent in the early hours of the game. By the time you reach chapter five, there are dozens of them to complete that will get you various rewards to upgrade your skills.

To fast travel to some of the locations in the game, you will need to complete additional puzzles. One such puzzle can be found to the southwest of Hernand, and it is called the Duskwood Hill Ruins.

Like many of the puzzles in Crimson Desert, this one can be solved quickly, but it can be easily messed up, making it take much longer than it should.

Duskwood Hill Ruins Puzzle Location

If you have not discovered the location of this puzzle yet but are on the search for all the fast travel locations, you can locate the Duskwood Hill Ruins by heading southwest of Hernand.

Once you leave the town, you can travel west to the Kilnden Workshop. From here, travel south to where the river is located. The Duskwood Hill Ruins near the river, making them difficult to miss.

Duskwood Hill Ruins Puzzle Solution

The first thing you will notice when you reach the Duskwood Hill Ruins is that they are completely covered in vines. These vines will be hiding the five pillars and one central dial in front of the pillars.

To rid the ruins of these vines, you will need to use the blinding flash ability using the bumper buttons on the controller or CTRL and left mouse button on PC. While this ability is active, use the light to burn away the vines. This may take a few minutes to do as the vines can burn slowly.

With the vines clear, you will need to interact with the central dial to move the pillars and make them align with the one on the far left. Stabbing the dial with your sword will allow you to spin it, moving the pillars up and down. Depending on where you stab the dial, different pillars will move.

You can tell which pillars will move by looking at the tops of them. The pillars that are glowing when you stab the dial will move when you rotate the dial. Interact with the dial in the following ways:

1. Stab the left side of the dial, then walk clockwise a few steps. This will move the three rightmost pillars. You want these to stick slightly up from where they were. You only need to take two steps for this to be accomplished.
2. Move to the left of the hole you stabbed on the dial in the first step. This will activate the three central pillars. Again, walk clockwise around the dial. Raise these pillars until the two higher of the group are aligned with the leftmost pillar that remains stationary.
3. Move to the left around the dial to the next slot and stab it. This should activate two pillars: the second from the left and the farthest right. Raise these two pillars until they are in line with the rest of them.

When the pillars are all aligned, the puzzle will be completed, and then Abyss Cresset will unlock. This will allow you to return to this location at any time in the future via fast travel. This is not the only puzzle in Duskwood, as there is also the Waterside Ruins Puzzle.