{"id":41247,"date":"2025-01-28T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/diablo-4-dev-confirms-secret-cow-level-hunters-are-on-the-right-track-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:32:51","slug":"diablo-4-dev-confirms-secret-cow-level-hunters-are-on-the-right-track-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/diablo-4-dev-confirms-secret-cow-level-hunters-are-on-the-right-track-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4 dev confirms Secret Cow level hunters are on the right track &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4 dev confirms Secret Cow level hunters are on the right track Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo 4 players crusading for the coveted Secret Cow Level should not be dismayed. One of the game\u2019s developers recently hinted that they\u2019ve found the correct trail. Diablo 4\u2019s Secret Cow level is the game\u2019s Holy Grail. More so than any Harlequin\u2019s Crest or Mad Wolf\u2019s Glee, the zany Easter egg that originated in Diablo 2 is the truest prize on offer. Players have actively hunted for the Secret Cow Level since Diablo 4\u2019s launch despite an initial insistence from devs that it did not exist. Since then players have uncovered an intriguing trail of breadcrumbs achieved through the slaughter of 1,998 cows. Now new information has come to light regarding the cloven-hoofed conundrum. In an interview with IGN, Associate Game Director Joe Piepiora, and Production Developer Tiffany Wat hinted that those on the perilous quest should hold fast. At first Piepiora and Wat play coy with interviewer Matt Kim with side-steps and puns. \u201cSounds udderly ridiculous,\u201d Wat said when asked about the Secret Cow Level. \u201cI mean, I think I have heard that a lot of players have been out there slaying cows,\u201d she continued. \u201cJust poor innocent cows in the countryside of Diablo?\u201d Piepiora asked in mock surprise before Wat dropped the hint. \u201cSanctuary is not a good place to be, even as a cow,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI will say, however, if people have picked up any items from their cow campaign\u2026 cow slay-age campaign\u2026 they should hang on to them.\u201d The items they\u2019re referring to are likely the Bloody Wooden Shard, Musky Tome, and Metallic Fragment you get from slaying 666 respective cows across Sanctuary\u2019s various locales. These items are used at the ox altar in Ked Bardu to summon a key to the Forlorn Hovel filled with sinister cows. Killing all the cows in the Forlorn Hovel gives you a couple of Stamina Potions you can\u2019t use and the trail stops there. Of course, it seems like this trail has been added to the game in recent updates given the initial insistence that there was no Secret Cow Level. There\u2019s no telling when the next installment in the journey will come or when it will end but there\u2019s room for speculation. Diablo 4\u2019s first expansion Vessel of Hatred looks set to be a throwback to Diablo 2 where the Secret Cow Level originated. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4 dev confirms Secret Cow level hunters are on the right track Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo 4 players crusading for the coveted Secret Cow Level should not be dismayed. One of the game\u2019s developers recently hinted that they\u2019ve found the correct trail. Diablo 4\u2019s Secret Cow level is the game\u2019s Holy Grail. More so than any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}