Diablo 4 Season 6 Cow Level Item Farm & Rusted Bardiche Progress Guide (Vessel of Hatred)

Welcome to the Diablo 4 Season 6 Secret Cow Level Item Farm & Progress Guide! In this guide, we'll walk you through the cryptic steps required to unlock hidden rewards and discover the Cow Level, along with the mysterious Vessel of Hatred puzzle. This process is highly complex and requires patience, as it involves solving a series of obscure clues and completing various tasks. Here's everything you need to know to progress through this intricate secret quest.

Diablo 4 Season 6 Secret Cow Level Updates & Changes

The Cow Level, a long-running Easter egg in the Diablo franchise, is back in Diablo 4 Season 6 - but it's not easy to access. The Vessel of Hatred puzzle is incredibly cryptic, requiring players to collect multiple hidden items, solve complex riddles, and perform specific actions in particular areas of the world.

Be aware: this quest is extremely difficult and time-consuming. The tasks involved are so obscure that you will need to follow a detailed guide, and even then, solving the puzzle may require significant effort.

Items to Collect for Unlock Cow Level in Diablo 4 Season 6

To progress through the Cow Level puzzle, you will need to collect three key items:

1. Jabbering Gemstone

2. Rusted Old Bell

3. Crooked Staff

These items are tied to various puzzles and world events, and obtaining them will unlock the unusual key required to access the hidden Cow Level area.

How To Progress & Farm Cow Level in Diablo 4 Season 6?

1. Obtaining the Jabbering Gemstone

The Jabbering Gemstone is one of the key items needed for this puzzle.

• Start by heading to a specific location where there are three gravestones.

• You must perform a thank you emote in front of the gravestones in a very specific order:

• Middle grave,

• Left grave,

• Right grave.

If done correctly, the Jabbering Gemstone will drop. It’s important to follow the order precisely, as the item will not appear otherwise.

2. Rusted Old Bell Puzzle

The Rusted Old Bell is another crucial piece of the puzzle.

• Travel to a series of specific locations on the map where birds are present. You don’t necessarily need to find the birds, but you must visit the locations to trigger the event.

• Follow a circular path through these locations, and when you return to the start, the Rusted Old Bell will drop.

This part of the puzzle is tricky because the birds are hard to spot, and sometimes their exact locations are not clear. However, the event completion is triggered as long as you visit the right spots.

3. Defeating the Elite for the Crooked Staff

The Crooked Staff is perhaps the most difficult item to obtain.

• You need to find a specific elite enemy in the Nantu region.

• Here’s the catch: you must defeat the enemy using only basic attacks, meaning you cannot use any skills or advanced abilities.

• The best way to do this is by creating a new level-one character, as it will make the fight much easier. Remove all skills from your bar and engage the elite with basic attacks only.

Upon defeating the elite, the Crooked Staff will drop as a quest item.

4. The Black Mushrooms and Cordyceps Zombies

Once you have the Jabbering Gemstone, Rusted Old Bell, and Crooked Staff, you need to perform one more task to progress.

• Seek out Cordyceps Zombies in specific areas of the map. These zombies are slow-moving and have green growths on them.

• You must gather three of these zombies together and defeat them simultaneously near each other.

• When they die close together, they will spawn Black Mushrooms.

• Drop the three key items (Gemstone, Bell, and Staff) onto the mushrooms. The items will glow purple, indicating you’ve successfully completed this step.

5. Unlocking the Unusual Key

After completing the Black Mushroom step, head to a shrine in the Far Laor Burrow area.

• Place each of the three relics (Gemstone, Bell, and Staff) into the shrine. Doing so will grant you an Unusual Key.

This key is essential for accessing the Cow Level.

6. Entering the Cow Level

With the Unusual Key in hand, travel to a hidden Cellar in the Far Laor Burrow. Inside, you will find a secret wall that can be opened using the key.

• Behind the wall lies the fabled Cow Level, filled with dangerous cows and a slain villager.

• You can fight the cows for loot, and one of the final rewards is the Rusted Bish, a polearm described as “badly damaged and decayed.”

The Rusted Bish doesn’t seem to have any practical use at the moment, but it's likely a part of the larger puzzle that may be expanded on in future content updates.

The Diablo 4 Cow Level puzzle is one of the most challenging secrets in the game. It involves obscure clues, hidden items, and specific actions that are not intuitive. However, for those who manage to unlock the Cow Level, the rewards include rare cosmetic items and potentially more as Blizzard continues to expand on this mysterious questline.

As more information becomes available, we’ll update this guide with any new discoveries. If you’re feeling adventurous, dive into the puzzle and see if you can uncover the final steps of this intricate mystery.