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Help How do i find the cows

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:02 am
by maedhros21
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?














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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:09 pm
by Robnark
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.

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:48 am
by garazdawi
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 :D :D

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:59 am
by maedhros21
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

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:54 pm
by Robnark
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.

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:38 am
by Craig
It's on the same difficulty that you completed the game in, be well prepared becuase their are hundreds of herds of cows.

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:35 am
by pliz
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?

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:48 pm
by C Elegans
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.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:35 pm
by MaNiAc
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 :D

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:15 pm
by sparky_kat
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

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:29 pm
by Piff
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:05 am
by garazdawi
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:32 am
by dairy
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.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:30 pm
by Varis
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...

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:22 am
by Grimar
if you kill cow king, you cant go back inn in that difficoulty. it's that simple!

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:28 am
by Deadalready
In my games whether I kill the cow king or not, I can't reactivate the portal :(

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:44 am
by moltovir
Most likely that's because someone killed the cow king while you were in Act 1, thus completing the quest for you.

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:09 am
by Deadalready
Oh no, that's impossible I don't play online.