What to do
Assess the situation at the Sludge Fields.
The quest giver's words
This farm is under lockdown! Nothing gets in and nothing gets out! We're still assessing the situation to try and figure out exactly what happened, but my theory is that the laborers ate the mushrooms and somehow mutated into hideous undead monsters. I mean, how else could this have happened? This is just a farm! We grow mushrooms here! And sludge! Yes, sludge!
Take a look around, <class>, because now that you're here you can't leave until this issue is resolved.
See for yourself!
Completion
As you can see, they're all monsters! Most of my guards died and the ones that managed to escape are now holding down the barricades, preventing any of these potentially dangerous creatures from getting out.
We need your help!
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- Experience
- 1,650
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at level 26 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–26 1,650 100% 27 1,300 80% 28 1,000 60% 29 650 40% 30 330 20% 31–89 170 10% 90 none level cap The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,650 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Undercity +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 21, requires level 19
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Welcome to the Machine #28096 · any one of these
After this
- Do the Right Thing #28189
- The Battle for Hillsbrad #28196
- Discretion is Key #28197
- For Science! #28199
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Warden Stillwater npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.362, 0.611
- Hand in to
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- Warden Stillwater npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.362, 0.611
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Warden Stillwater
Starts the quest · 36.2, 61.1
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Warden Stillwater
Hand the quest in · 36.2, 61.1
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 4 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 1,815 XP, done around level 22.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Hillsbrad Foothills), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.360, 0.610 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Turn in
- 0.360, 0.610 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.