Over the weekend, Daum disabled shovels and empty bottles in Black Desert. Why? The “team discovered a bug with the current implementation” — that’s the official statement.
Players on Reddit and the forums, however, have accused “top players” and guilds of a shovel-related “infinite gathering” exploit that’s been abusable since the release of Valencia months ago. Writes one accuser,
“They would go and auto shovel with a completely full inventory and have 2 of the slots be a hard and a sharp stack (the rest being junk that couldn’t be gathered from shoveling). The result being that it would only use an energy if a hard or sharp was dropped and added to the stack. Infinite gathering. Add the drop event and a tree buff with that and your talking billions of silver just for afking. Let me paint this picture for you….say they ONLY did it for 8hrs a day (while they slept or something) and each hour they only got 5 sharp/hards (probably more) and well say that on avg each sold for 5 mill (prices back then were 7mil alone for sharps) THATS 200 MILL A DAY WHILE BEING AFK. multiply that by 3 months worth and your talking almost 20 BILL.”
Daum has apologized for the inconvenience and suggests that during the investigation, players “will still be able to purchase Purified Water from the Auction House and/or use Thinning to convert Cactus Sap into Purified Water” and can access Kunid’s Vacation Spot and Leical Falls nodes for bags of muddy water, which is probably the most unusual sentence I’ve had to type this year.
Daum has not confirmed the existence of the exploit or discussed how it will address exploiters.
