{"id":77317,"date":"2026-05-05T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77317"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:36:27","slug":"diablo-4s-cow-level-found-at-last-and-it-rewards-the-most-ludicrous-item-in-diablo-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77317","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4&#8217;s Cow Level Found At Last, And It Rewards The Most Ludicrous Item In Diablo History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of searching, the hunt for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/diablo-iv\/\">Diablo 4&#8217;s<\/a> secret cow level is at its end, and the reward is what is without a doubt the most ridiculous item in Diablo history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/there-is-no-cow-level-might-be-true-in-diablo-4-at-least-at-launch\/1100-6513009\/\">Blizzard insisting it didn&#8217;t exist<\/a> (itself a cow level tradition), the hunt for Diablo 4&#8217;s cow level began as soon as the game first launched in 2023. In the past three years, players have been acquiring mysterious items thought to be associated with the cow level, with steps that required killing 666 cows, hidden timers, and riddles that took players all across Diablo 4&#8217;s world. But all the items discovered at the end of these breadcrumb trails had no real immediate use, leading to dead ends.<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2A9zqEj79kg\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F2A9zqEj79kg%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2A9zqEj79kg&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2A9zqEj79kg%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That changed with the release of Diablo 4&#8217;s new Lord of Hatred expansion and its addition of the Horadric Cube. By combining items like the stamina potion and rusted bardiche (both references to Diablo 2&#8217;s cow level), as well as a new item, the Hand of Neyrelle, players have been able to access a new island off the coast of Skovos. Inside a cellar on the abandoned island is ring of cows that look to be preparing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of searching, the hunt for Diablo 4&#8217;s secret cow level is at its end, and the reward is what is without a doubt the most ridiculous item in Diablo history. Despite developer Blizzard insisting it didn&#8217;t exist (itself a cow level tradition), the hunt for Diablo 4&#8217;s cow level began as soon as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":77319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77317","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\/77317"}],"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=77317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77320,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77317\/revisions\/77320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}