How to Unlock the Kuku Rocket Pack and Fly Higher in Crimson Desert

If you have been searching for a “jet pack” or “rocket pack” in Crimson Desert and coming up empty, the naming is half the problem. The jet pack, the rocket pack, the Kuku Rocket Pack and the base Kuku Pack are all related, but they are not the same item — and the flashy one you actually want is a late-game traversal tool, not an early pickup. This walkthrough covers the whole chain: the prerequisites, the blueprint, the crafting materials, and the hidden research step that turns a slow drift into real vertical flight.

What the Kuku Rocket Pack is and who can wear it

The item you are chasing is the Kuku Rocket Pack, a crafted upgrade of the plain Kuku Pack. It is easily one of the best exploration tools in the game — it skips tedious climbing, saves stamina, and completely changes how you move across the map. But it only earns that reputation once it is fully upgraded; used raw, it just lets you float gently downward.

One thing to settle up front: the pack belongs to Oongka, not Kliff. Some early footage blurred that line and left players assuming Kliff could strap it on, but the equip and the flight are Oongka’s. Treat this as a late-game unlock — it sits behind main-story progress and a faction questline, so there is no shortcut to grabbing it in the opening hours.

Before the jet pack quest appears

The blueprint questline is gated behind main-story progress. You must have completed Chapter 7 and started Chapter 8, which opens up Pailune as a hub along with its faction quests. From there the route runs through the Pailune Militia faction chain: you are looking for The Giant’s Leap, and inside it the Fire Breathing Pack quest, which is what actually hands you the blueprint. Use the checklist below as a quick pre-flight before the full walkthrough.

If The Giant’s Leap has not appeared yet, run a couple of other Pailune Militia faction quests first and it should open up. Spellings for these areas wobble across write-ups — you may see Pailune rendered as Pyloon, or the crafting route named Kilnden/Kilnden — but they point at the same in-game locations.

How to unlock, craft, and upgrade the Kuku Rocket Pack in Crimson Desert

This runs the full chain in order — blueprint, base pack, materials, crafting, and the six researches that grant vertical flight.

STEP 1/16

Finish Chapter 7 and start Chapter 8

This opens the Pailune area and its new faction quests.

STEP 2/16

Open the Pailune Militia faction quests

Look through the militia chain until you find The Giant’s Leap.

STEP 3/16

Start the Fire Breathing Pack quest

It sits inside The Giant’s Leap; begin it from there.

STEP 4/16

Meet the man looking for a Greymane

Head to the marked Pailune location and Grimnir’s assistant walks up and gives you the blueprint.

STEP 5/16

Head south to the Sanctum of Penitence

You need the base Kuku Pack first, so zoom out and travel south to this Sanctum.

STEP 6/16

Grab the fusion reactor core

Follow the stairs up, Force Jump twice, and pick up the reactor core on your left.

STEP 7/16

Cleanse the Sanctum

Return to the central unit and place the core on the broken pillar.

STEP 8/16

Receive the Kuku Pack blueprint

A short cutscene with the witch Eloin plays, then the blueprint lands top-left.

STEP 9/16

Craft the Kuku Pack with a Peddler’s Pack

Buy the Peddler’s Pack from Totesmith Tannery south of Hernand for around 85 coin.

STEP 10/16

Farm Cogwheels and Small Batteries

Cross the bridge to the island and kill the robots — they drop batteries and lubricant in bulk.

STEP 11/16

Craft the Kuku Rocket Pack

Add your Copper Ore and Iron Ore, then craft the pack.

STEP 12/16

Go to the Delacia research center

It sits above the G of Gortek, just past Zargon Tank Works, marked with a question mark.

STEP 13/16

Activate the nearby fast travel

You will return here repeatedly, so unlock the travel point right next to it.

STEP 14/16

Give gunpowder to open the research center

A quick first-visit quest opens the center up.

STEP 15/16

Unlock the locked researches

Most of the six are locked, so run the Alessia and Flame Orcs faction quests marked on your map.

STEP 16/16

Complete all six researches

The sixth research grants Vertical Flight.

Video help

Every crafting material and where to find it

Keep this as a scannable shopping list — the exact routes live in the steps above. The Peddler’s Pack is the one item worth a dedicated trip, since it feeds directly into the base Kuku Pack, and the Cogwheels and Small Batteries come from the same robot-farm island in one pass. If you want to stockpile machinery parts for later, runs around Giant’s Whispers Cave in Delesyia are a good secondary farm.

Flying higher and the Vertical Flight upgrade

Basic use is simple: equip the Kuku Rocket Pack from the Tools tab, then press Jump twice while mid-air to fire the thrusters. That gives you boosted jumps and short vertical bursts straight away. The important part is what limits it — stamina, not fuel. There is no fuel gauge or overheating system to manage; the thrusters simply cut off when your stamina bar empties, so raising stamina is how you buy more airtime. Hunting down Abyss Artifacts is one route to more of it.

Extending your height and distance

Once Vertical Flight is unlocked, you can push distance further by leaning on the game’s movement tech rather than the thrusters alone. Because stamina is the real ceiling, the trick is stringing efficient inputs together instead of burning it all on raw bursts. A reliable combo players use: perform three Force Jumps in succession, transition into a Glide, then activate Focus and press forward plus dodge for a strong, low-loss speed burst.

Done cleanly, that chain lets you hold altitude and cover ground far longer than a plain glide, and it stacks nicely with the pack’s own vertical boosts. It is a technique for maintaining travel, though — not a free ride. Anyone promising truly endless, infinite flight is overselling it; stamina still runs the show, so plan your hops around where it will refill.

Mistakes that block the pack or make it feel weak

The most common wall is timing: looking for the pack before Chapter 8. It simply is not in the game world until Pailune opens, so no amount of searching earlier will surface it. Close behind that is grabbing the wrong faction quest — the blueprint only comes from Fire Breathing Pack inside The Giant’s Leap, and if that quest is not showing yet, you have not cleared enough Pailune Militia work to trigger it.

The rest are supply-chain slips. Forgetting the base Kuku Pack is a big one, since the Rocket Pack is built on top of it — arriving to craft without it, or without a Peddler’s Pack and the ore, cogwheels and batteries, just sends you back out farming. If you follow the written route instead of the Sanctum path, note that you may also need to examine the Letter from Grimnir in your inventory to make the blueprint appear; leaving it unread can silently lock it. And two assumptions to drop: Kliff cannot equip the pack — it is Oongka’s — and using it as a slow glide without the Vertical Flight research will always feel underwhelming, because that research is what makes it fly.