Crimson Desert: How to Put Fuel Into the Kiln at Kilnden Workshop

The fuel objective is the fiddliest part of Kiln Repair at the Kilnden Workshop, the Chapter IV main quest where Kliff patches up Grimnir’s broken pottery operation. Five electrified spheres are scattered around the workshop, and the kiln will not light until every one of them is sitting inside a chute.

Quick answer: Grab all five blue glowing orbs with Axiom Force (hold L3 / Left Stick), roll each one into the round openings on the kiln’s exterior, then push the wooden lever beside the kiln to the left to power it on.

What you need before the fuel objective

Axiom Force is the only ability required here. You hold L3 / Left Stick to lock onto an object, then use the precise control inputs to pull, push, and rotate it while it floats in front of you. Holding L2 / LT pulls a locked object toward you, which matters for one orb in particular.

The fuel kiln is the objective marker furthest north, sitting northwest of the ancient generator you reactivated earlier in the quest. Open your map and zoom into your position and you will see five circular icons dotted around the kiln — those are the orbs, and they are all within a short walk.

Quest tracker showing the Kiln Repair objective telling the player to put fuel into the kiln to activate it — The quest tracker spells out the goal — put fuel into the kiln to activate it. Image: Pearl Abyss

All five fuel orb locations

Every orb glows bright blue, so they are easy to pick out once you are looking in the right direction. Two are effectively handed to you; the other three sit in the flooded ground around the kiln.

Fuel orb	Where it is
Orbs 1 and 2	On the ground directly beside the kiln, within a couple of steps of the chutes.
Orb 3	Lying in the shallow water of the marshy pond west of the kiln, below the kiln platform.
Orb 4	Set into the eye of the large bird-shaped stone statue standing in that same flooded area. The statue’s head glows blue.
Orb 5	In a small cave mouth or rocky crevice south-east of the kiln, in the direction of the hill where you activated the ancient generator.

The fuel kiln glowing and marked by a quest objective marker at the Kilnden Workshop — The fuel kiln itself, marked by the objective highlight. Image: Pearl Abyss

How to load the fuel into the kiln

Walk up to one of the two orbs sitting next to the kiln and hold L3 / Left Stick to lock it with Axiom Force. The orb lifts and floats in front of you, and the precise control prompts for pull, push, and rotate appear on screen.

Line the floating orb up with one of the round openings around the kiln’s exterior and push it in so it rolls down the chute. Release Axiom Force once it drops inside. If it bounces off the rim, back up a step and approach the opening straight on rather than at an angle.

Kliff lining up a glowing fuel orb with one of the round openings on the kiln — Guide each orb into one of the circular openings until it rolls inside. Image: Pearl Abyss

Repeat with the second nearby orb, then head down into the flooded ground west of the kiln and pick up the orb resting in the shallow water. Carry it back with Axiom Force and drop it into a free chute.

Find the bird statue in the same pond and stand off to one side of its head so you have a clear angle on the glowing eye. Hold L3 / Left Stick to lock onto the eye, then hold L2 / LT to pull until the orb pops free of the beak.

The put fuel into the kiln objective still active while searching the flooded ground near the workshop — The objective stays active until all five orbs are loaded. Image: Pearl Abyss

Head to the small cave mouth south-east of the kiln for the last orb, tucked into the rock. Grab it and float it all the way back to the kiln — you do not need to carry it by hand.

The fifth orb hides in a rocky crevice and has to be hauled back to the kiln. Shown at 01:26 in Mystery Man’s video. Image: Pearl Abyss

With all five orbs inside, walk into the wooden lever on the side of the kiln and push it to the left. The kiln fires, venting smoke and flame, and the objective ticks off.

Tip: an orb only counts once it has rolled fully into a chute. If the lever does nothing, walk a lap of the kiln and check whether one sphere is still sitting on the lip of an opening.

Fuel orb missing or not spawning

One orb — the one near the cave entrance, in the direction of the hill with the ancient generator — occasionally fails to spawn. If the map shows fewer than five circular icons and you have searched the spot with nothing there, restarting the game is the first thing to try.

If a reboot does not bring it back, load an older autosave from the end of the previous quest and play the section again. That reliably restores the missing sphere.

Fuelling this kiln is one of three repairs in the quest, alongside reconnecting the cable on the disconnected kiln and rebuilding the dismantled one with aerial Force Palm. Once all three are burning, return to Grimnir up by the ancient generator and speak with him to close out the quest and move on to the pot he owes you.