{"id":77264,"date":"2026-05-04T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77264"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:36:25","slug":"blizzard-sure-is-dragging-out-diablo-4s-secret-cow-level-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77264","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Sure Is Dragging Out Diablo 4&#8217;s Secret Cow Level Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/diablo-iv\/\">Diablo 4&#8217;s<\/a> new Lord of Hatred expansion added some tantalizing developments in the hunt for the game&#8217;s fabled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/diablo-4s-long-searched-for-cow-level-could-finally-be-real-in-lord-of-hatred\/1100-6539641\/\">secret cow level<\/a>, but so far, the level itself still remains illusive.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Players have been on the hunt for Diablo 4&#8217;s cow level, a Diablo franchise tradition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/diablo-4-secret-cow-level-mystery-just-had-a-major-breakthrough\/1100-6518576\/\">since the game first launched<\/a> in 2023. Both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 sported their own versions of the joke level (which was actually kind of lucrative), leading fans to assume Diablo 4 had one too, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/there-is-no-cow-level-might-be-true-in-diablo-4-at-least-at-launch\/1100-6513009\/\">despite Blizzard insisting it didn&#8217;t<\/a>. The base game and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/diablo-4-next-game-changing-update-might-finally-add-the-secret-cow-level\/1100-6526271\/\">first expansion<\/a> both offered new clues as to the level&#8217;s whereabouts and seemed to move the ball forward, only for secret hunters to to run into dead ends both times. Lord of Hatred, however, has changed that.<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GmGE-u4nRGE\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FGmGE-u4nRGE%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGmGE-u4nRGE&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FGmGE-u4nRGE%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As seen in the video above from a member of Diablo 4&#8217;s Not Finding A Cow Level Discord server, with the addition of the Horadric Cube (a crafting tool that granted access to versions of the cow level in previous Diablo games), dedicated cow-level truthers have finally found a use for previously discovered secret items like the stamina potion and rusty bardiche. Combining these in the cube along with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4&#8217;s new Lord of Hatred expansion added some tantalizing developments in the hunt for the game&#8217;s fabled secret cow level, but so far, the level itself still remains illusive. Players have been on the hunt for Diablo 4&#8217;s cow level, a Diablo franchise tradition, since the game first launched in 2023. Both Diablo 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":77266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77267,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264\/revisions\/77267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}