Diablo 4: Opening the Cow Level – Step by Step

The first players have found the secret cow level in Diablo 4 – or at least what can currently be called that. MeinMMO explains step by step how to reach the secret level yourself.

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Since the release of Lord of Hatred the cow level has been available in Diablo 4, specifically a cow island linked to the achievement: “There is no cow level”.

Requirements: To open the level, you must grind for several hours. You also need access to Lord of Hatred and Vessel of Hatred (included in Lord of Hatred), as you need to farm some of the necessary items in Nahantu. Additionally, you need:

• the Horadric Cube, which you unlock in the campaign
• and you must have learned to fish

You can then open the level both in the seasonal and the eternal realm and on any difficulty. What you need and how to achieve the level step by step is explained in the guide, and we also provide a “quick start” to save grinding.

Cow level in Diablo 4 directly – Required items and rewards

To enter the cow level, you need to combine three items in the Horadric Cube:

• the stamina potion
• the rusty bardiche
• and Neyrelle’s hand

You may have already farmed the potion and the bardiche in Diablo 4 or Vessel of Hatred, and both items are tradeable. So if you have already looked for the level earlier, you may already have both in the chest in the eternal realm.

Alternatively, you can have the potion and the weapon given to you by other players if you don’t want to farm them yourself and know someone who can part with them. In this case, continue directly with step 3 of the guide. Otherwise, you will find the farming instructions below.

Note: The guide is illustrated as far as possible, but we have not yet entered the cow level ourselves. We rely on information and images from the “Not finding a Cow Level” Discord (via Reddit), the guide from wowhead, and the videos from Sliver of time (Part 1 on YouTube and Part 2 on YouTube).

Cow level guide step by step – Step 1: Farm stamina potion

For the first item on the list, you should plan the longest farming time directly because you need to kill hundreds of cows to obtain the stamina potion. You must follow several steps sequentially. First, you need three quest items. You will receive one such item guaranteed after killing 666 cows – depending on the area where you are for the last kill:

• the bloody wood splinter in Kehjistan or Hawezar
• the moldy foliant in the Shattered Peaks or Scosglen
• and the complex metallic fragment in the Dry Steppes

The first item is guaranteed after 666 kills; afterward, every cow has a chance to drop another quest item. However, YouTuber Sliver of time advises making use of the guaranteed drop. Farm with three separate characters and make the last kill in the respective area for the corresponding item.

Sliver of time recommends a farming route in the Dry Steppes, southwest of Farobru. Kill about 500 cows here before moving to another area to farm the last kills. Each round on this route involves about 5 cows; Sliver of time uses a simple online counter tool to know when to switch. Sliver of time explains the farming route in the embedded video starting around minute 4:02:

Once you have collected the items, you need to take them to the ox well in Ked Bardu. There, one of the statues is clickable. Stand in the middle of the water and drop the three quest items into the water. The other statues should then briefly light up. Interact with them, and you will receive the strange key.

With the key, you travel to the east of Scosglen, where the map looks like a cow skull:

You will find a door there that is normally locked. Interact with it, the key will be consumed, and you can enter the abandoned hut.

In this cellar, there are some cows that follow you with their eyes, and many corpses of villagers. Kill the cows, and you will obtain the stamina potion.