BDO Processing Guide for Beginners (Black Desert Online 2019)

In BDO, the Processing Life Skill allows you to chop, heat, dry, filter, shake, and grind resources into processed materials. These refined items are often used in higher level crafting recipes.

Everyone is able to do basic T1 processing. However, if you would like to do the second level of processing, (to create plywoods, ingots, cloth, etc.), BDO requires you to obtain “Beginner” Processing Knowledge.

Get Started Processing!
To begin processing, press the L key. You will see all the options available. No tools are needed to process materials.

Processing Errors and Knowledge

It’s common to get processing errors as a new player. The reason for this is because you have to have certain Knowledge on whatever Tier or Processing you are attempting.

There are 3 tiers of processing: T1 for everyone, T2 Beginner, T3 Skilled.

Processing Knowledge is shared between all your characters, so you don’t need to repeat the quests on your alts if you don’t want to.

1. Because I Like You

Give Jemkas Wyrmsbane, Node Manager of Northern Heidel Quarry, 3 Iron Ore. If you did not bring the Iron Ore with you, gather them from rocks nearby using a Mining Pick tool. Tools can be purchased from a Material Vendor or the Marketplace, or crafted at a Tool Workshop house in major cities. If you did not bring 10 Rough Stone with you, be sure to mine enough rocks for that also as you will need them for the next quest.

2. Nothing Our Friendship Can’t Do

Open the Process Window (L key) and use Grinding to process 1 Polished Stone by grinding 10 Rough Stone. Give Polished Stone to Jemkas.

3. Settling Down In Heidel

Meet Luciano Pietro in Heidel , located near the Heidel docks.

4. Storage Keeper Amerigo

Meet Amerigo

5. Bustling Alejandro Farm

Meet Amadeo Alejandro . Follow the road west of Northern Guard Camp to reach Alejandro Farm.

6. Helping With the Pumpkin Harvest

Give Amadeo 5 pumpkins. If you did not bring the pumpkins with you, they can be gathered in the farms nearby or by killing Pumpkin Ghosts randomly. Using a hoe to gather the pumpkins works better than bare handed gathering.

7. A Threatening Scarecrow!

Give 1 Melted Iron Shard to Amadeo. (Processing is not necessary for this quest) If you did not bring the Melted Iron Shard with you, use Heating in the Process Window (L key) to heat 5 Iron Ore.

8. A Meat Dish For the Workers

Give 5 Kuku Bird Meat to Gurceau at Alejandro Farm. (cannot substitute chicken meat). If you did not bring the meat with you, you can find Kuku Birds north of the main road near the hills. Use a Butchering Knife to gather meat from the Kuku Birds.

9. In Search of Higher Processing Knowledge

Give 3 pumpkins to Ficy in Heidel. If you do not already have 3 pumpkins in your inventory, be sure to gather them at Alejandro Farm before you leave.

Requirements to begin Beginner Processing Questline: Certificate [Training Paradigm]

Gathering Apprentice 4+
OR
Completion of Beginner Processing Prerequisite Questline

1. Learning Higher Processing Skills

Open your Quest Log (O), Suggested Tab, and find the Certificate [Training Paradigm] questline.  Learn Beginner Grinding From Ornella, learn Beginner Chopping From Lebyos, and learn Beginner Heating From Flaviano. These 3 quests can be done in any order. This quest auto-completes if it has already been done once by another character in your family. Skip to quests 5-7 which can be done in any order. 

1a. Materials For Equipment Repair (Grinding Beginner)

Process 2 Polished Stone by Grinding Rough Stone. Give 2 Polished Stone to Ornella. Rocks can be found around Heidel, especially north of Heidel in the quarry area. It takes 10 Rough Stone per batch.

1b. Working the Ash Tree (Chopping Beginner)

Process 3 Ash Planks by Chopping Ash Timber. Give 3 Ash Planks to Lebyos. Ash trees can be found around Heidel. It takes 5 Ash Timber per batch.

1c. Pure Water For An Experiment (Heating Beginner)

Process 10 Distilled Water by Heating Bottles of River Water. Give 10 Distilled Water to Flaviano.

2. Filtering Feathers (Filtering Beginner)

Give 3 Lightweight Plumes to Dora. (Processing is not necessary for this quest) Use Filtering in the Processing window (L) to process Lightweight Plumes from Soft Kuku Bird Plume OR Soft Ferri Feather. It takes 5 soft animal feathers per batch.

3. Need Soft Hides (Dryng Beginner)

Give 3 Soft Hides to Techthon. If you did not bring the Soft Hides with you, use Drying in the Processing window (L) to process Soft Hides from Deer Hide, Sheep Hide, Fox Hide, Black Leopard Hide, OR Gazelle Hide. It takes 5 animal hides per batch.

4. Toys (?) For Kids (Shaking Beginner)

Give 3 Wheat Dough to Lara. If you did not bring the Wheat Dough with you, then use Shaking in the Processing window (L) to process Wheat Dough by shaking wheat flour with mineral water purchased from Constante, Golden Toad Inn Manager, located in the inn behind Lara.

Requirements to begin Skilled Processing Questline: Certificate [Skilled Paradigm]:

Processing Professional 5+
Gathering Skilled 10+
Have knowledge on Shaking: Beginner
Have knowledge on Drying: Beginner
Have knowledge on Filtering: Beginner
Have knowledge on Grinding: Beginner
Have knowledge on Heating: Beginner
Have knowledge on Chopping: Beginner

Requirements to finish the quest ‘The Best Hide’ and continue forward with the Skilled Processing questline:

Processing Artisan 1+
Shaking Skilled is collected through the Challenge Reward Window after reaching Artisan Processing. (See pic above)

These quests must be done in order from ‘Excellent Magnate’ to ‘Hunting to Extinction’.

1. Excellent Magnate

Open your Quest Log (O), Suggested Tab, and find the Certificate [Skilled Paradigm] questline.  Go to Keplan and speak with a villager who directs you to Vatudun in the mines beneath Keplan.

2. A Man Better Than Coal (Heating Skilled)

Process 2 Processed Coal with Heating, then give to Vatudun.

3. Materials For Skills

Process 3 iron ingots with Heating. You can bring the iron ore/melted shards with you, but process the ingots for the quest.

4. Pure Iron Crystal

Process Pure Iron Crystal by Heating the Metal Solvent that was given to you by Vatudun with the 3 Iron Ingots.

5. Looking For a Woodcutting Expert

Vatudun directs you to visit his buddy, Murghed, in Trent to learn Skilled Chopping.

6. Amazing Tree Art (Chopping Skilled)

Give Murghed 1 cedar plywood, 1 fir plywood, and 1 pine plywood. You can bring them with you, you don’t have to craft them for the quest.

7. Processing Wood With Fire

Process 1 Sturdy Cedar Plywood by Heating 10 Cedar Plywood with the Plywood Hardener that Murghed gave you. If Murghed does not give you a quest to continue onto Behr, open your Quest Log (O), Suggested Tab, and find the Certificate [Skilled Paradigm] questline and autopath to Likke Behr.

8. Pride of Behr (Drying Skilled)

Process 1 Find Soft Hide by Drying 10 Soft Hides. If you did not bring Soft Hides with you to Behr, gather hide from the deer just off the road heading south from Behr. Process Soft Hides by Drying 5 Deer Hide.

9. The Best Hide

After collecting the Artisan Processing Challenge Reward (Y) and obtaining the Shaking (Skilled), craft 1 Supreme Soft Hide for Behr by Shaking 3 Fine Soft Hide with the 5 Leather Glaze he gave you.

10. Geranoa’s Proposal (Grinding Skilled)

Give 1 Topaz to Geranoa, the Material Vendor in Calpheon.  You don’t need to craft the Topaz for the quest. To craft Topaz, Process (Grind) 5 Rough Topaz.

11. Gemstone Value

Process 1 Resplendent Topaz by Grinding 5 Topaz. If this is your first time crafting Resplendent Topaz, you will earn the title “Topaz Demon”.

12. The Best Jewel

Process 1 Gold Topaz by Shaking 7 Resplendent Topaz with 3 Gem Polisher given by Geranoa. If this is your first time crafting Gold Topaz, you will earn the title “Bringer of Hope”.

13. Troubled Oberen Farm (Thinning Skilled)

Visit Matheo Oberen at Oberen Farm

14. Gotta Pluck Them All

Gather 5 Soft Kuku Bird Plumes with a tanning knife.

15. Useable Feathers

Process 1 Lightweight Plume by Filtering 5 Soft Kuku Bird Plumes.

16. Need More Feathers

Process 1 Fine Lightweight Plume by Filtering 10 Lightweight Plumes.

17. Hunting to Extinction

Process 1 Supreme Lightweight Plume by Shaking 3 Fine Lightweight Plumes and the 5 Leather Glaze given by Oberen. Earn the title “Firm Machinist”.