Some like the Kuku Bird or the Red and Green Iguana, while others prefer a Crimson Desert Tiger mount. The Tiger mount in Crimson Desert is one of the flashiest rides in developers Pearl Abyss’s popular RPG, but it’s also one of the easiest to miss forever. The main reason is simple: it’s tied to a single rare encounter, and if you wipe it out at the wrong time, you can lose your chance.
Here is the only known location for the Crimson Desert Tiger mount, what can block the spawn permanently, and the exact steps to tame one as a permanent Crimson Desert mount.
Spawn Location for Crimson Desert Tiger Mount
There’s currently only one known Tiger spawn point in Crimson Desert: an unnamed lake next to Giant’s Yard Watchtower, in the Peninsula south of the Crimson Desert region. It sits north of Beardtree Gorge and southwest of Red River.
Here’s the catch. The regular tigers here don’t appear as normal wildlife. They spawn as summoned defenders for a Legendary White Tiger that shows up in that area.
That makes this mount extremely time-sensitive. If you already killed the Legendary White Tiger, the encounter does not come back, and the defending tigers won’t return either. If that’s the case, the only workaround is loading an earlier save from before the White Tiger was defeated. If it’s gone in your current file, you can’t obtain a regular tiger mount from that spot.
How to Tame Tigers in Crimson Desert
Taming a tiger works the same way as other Special Mounts.
First, fight the tiger until you’ve done enough damage to stun it. Once it’s in the right state, you’ll see the prompt to “Ride” appear above it. Mount the tiger immediately.
While you’re riding, open your inventory, select meat, and choose “Feed.” Feeding increases the tiger’s Trust. Keep doing it until Trust reaches 100. Once it hits 100, press Y/Triangle to “Take in” the tiger and register it as a permanent special mount.
The big perk of the Crimson Desert Tiger mount is that it keeps fighting even when you get off it. It behaves like an allied combat companion and will attack nearby enemies instead of just standing there.
It’s not immortal, though. Large groups can bring it down quickly. If your tiger is defeated, it respawns after about five minutes of real time.
That’s everything you need to know to secure the Crimson Desert Tiger mount before the opportunity disappears. For more Crimson Desert content, stay tuned to RetroNoob.
