The players hunting for Diablo 4's secret cow level have suffered a major setback, but you'd be a fool to think that's stopping them

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Diablo 4's latest patch has smashed the reset button on the search for the secret cow level.

The D4 — Not Finding A Cow Level Discord has been searching for a cow-themed joke level in Diablo 4, hoping that Blizzard snuck one in just like it did with Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.

The official word from Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson is that no, Diablo 4's cow level doesn't exist, but that hasn't stopped anyone on the Discord from unturning every stone and mutilated corpse looking for clues.

And neither has this week's patch 1.0.3, which removed code for a quest that involved a cleansing ritual for «The Oxen Gods». The quest steps were the framework for how the Discord community assumed you'd unlock the secret cow level. It involved collecting a handful of unique relic items to perform a cleansing ritual in Ked Bardu that would reward you with a key to unlock a secret cellar. Inside that cellar, players assumed, would be the portal to the cow level.

Many of the same clues remain, but the connective tissue that ties them together is now gone. Discord members have various theories on why the quest scripts were removed. Some think they were leftover from an earlier version of the game (perhaps there was a cow level that got scrapped or is coming in a future patch), while others believe they could still hint at something real.

«It is entirely possible that we have gotten nowhere in almost a month considering we are essentially restarting the search,» one of the heads of the Discord, Chef, wrote yesterday. «Acknowledge this but bear in mind we all now know substantially more about not