Help How do i find the cows

maedhros21 · Post by **maedhros21** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:02 am

Help , I keep reading about the secret cow level , How do i get there ? Is it available in single player mode? Are there any special requirements or equipment needed?

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:09 pm

well, you know that a corpse in tristram drops a peg leg - Wirt's Leg - that can be used as a weapon? keep it. after you finish one difficulty level, go to act 1 (I'm not sure if it has to be on the higher difficulty level or not, but still...) and put Wirt's Leg and a tome of town portal into the horadric cube and merge 'em. it'll open up a special portal to the secret cow level.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:48 am

just make sure you don't kill the cow king as you then can't enter again and do more cow runs for more XP and loot

maedhros21 · Post by **maedhros21** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:59 am

thanks

so i have to play through the game one time and then play again to get the cow level? Do i have to play at a certain difficulty then

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:54 pm

all I know for a fact is that after you complete the game in one difficulty level, you'll be able to activate the secret cow level in the next difficulty level. I'm not sure if you have to do use it in the next difficulty level up, but I always have and it works.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:38 am

It's on the same difficulty that you completed the game in, be well prepared becuase their are hundreds of herds of cows.

pliz · Post by **pliz** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:35 am

oops. i made a new thread asking a question about this because i didn't think of searching. i completed all quests on all 3 levels. all 3 times i finished a level and starting a game on that same level leaves me at the barbarian town. i talked to all the NPC's til they had nothing else to say and checked all acts to verify all quests were done. I even went back to normal level (because i wanted to do a quick test) and killed baal again which brings me to another question. is it normal to kill these bosses, go to their lairs again and they're back?

how do i get from Harrogath to the rogue camp where i can combine these items?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:48 pm

Don't worry Pliz, I'll delete your other thread.

In Diablo, no monsters are dead forever, on the contrary it is part of the game that you go back and replay certain areas over and over again in order to find items. Boss monsters such as Baal and Mephisto drop better items than ordinary monsters, so many players go back and kill the bosses many, many times.

In order to reach the Secret Cow level, use the Waypoint and go back to Rouge Camp, which is the first town where you started the game. You need to do this on each of the 3 difficulty levels. When you log on, your character should be in the town where you last finished playing the game, let's say in Harrogath for instance. You don't need to talk to anyone, just take the Waypoint to the Stony Field area in Act 1. There, you remember you went to Tristram through a red portal. Take the red portal again and go to the northeast part of the area, and you will find a clickable treasure that spawns money and this item Wirt's leg. Bring Wirt's leg back to Rouge Camp. Buy a Tome of Town portals, put it together with Wirt's leg in your Horadric Cube and merge them as Robnark said above. Then a new red portal will appear, and that will take you to the Cow level.

MaNiAc · Post by **MaNiAc** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:35 pm

hmmmm some1 told me that all u needed was wirts leg and tome of portals and transmute them. o yea u need to beat diablo. thats all i know..idk if its correct but it might

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:15 pm

i actually saw this on a diablo II site, to open cow portal, must complete all acts up thru Act V, kill Baal (diablo) then port back to Act I rouge encampment, put wirts leg (from tristram quest) and a tomb (book) of town portal together in the horadric cube and trans, can only do once per level.
sorry i can find the site right now, if i do, i will post later for spoiler

Piff · Post by **Piff** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:29 pm

Just woundering if you dont kill the cow king and you quit the game and jioned back in a while later would the portal still be there or not.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:05 am

I don't think it would be open, but you can for sure open it again. That way without killing the cow king you can make as amny cow runs as you want to.

dairy · Post by **dairy** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:32 am

the cow level is very simple.

if you beat diablo (or baal for the expansion) on normal, you can create a normal game, use wirts leg and a tome of tp to open the portal. if you kill the cow king, or anyone else kills the king in a portal you made, you wont be able to make the portal anymore. the same goes for nightmare and hell. the cow portal, once made, will stay up as long as that game is up, regardless of how many people are in the game, if the cows are dead or alive etc. happy cow plowing.

Varis · Post by **Varis** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:30 pm

Back in the days when I played Diablo II without the expansion, I remember being able to do cow runs over and over again. Does anybody know if it has been changed by LOD pack, or one of the patches?
I suppose it's LOD that changed the thing, bud I'd like to get sure without having to reinstall whole the game...

Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:22 am

if you kill cow king, you cant go back inn in that difficoulty. it's that simple!

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:28 am

In my games whether I kill the cow king or not, I can't reactivate the portal

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:44 am

Most likely that's because someone killed the cow king while you were in Act 1, thus completing the quest for you.

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:09 am

Oh no, that's impossible I don't play online.