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Whimsyshire is the Diablo III Secret Level, a humorous area that's a direct homage to the Diablo II [[Secret Cow Level]]. It requires the Staff of Herding to enter, a special object that can only be assembled from multiple [[legendary materials]] and a special crafting recipe.
[[Patch 2.1]] for the PC/Mac and [[UEE]] added rare rainbow goblins who appear randomly throughout the game and when dying will sometimes open a portal to "Whimsydale." This area is identical to Whimsyshire, with a different name for technical reasons. This makes the rainbow special land more accessible for players who don't care enough to farm up the required legendary materials, such as [[Seasonal]] characters.
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[[File:Easter-whimsyshire-enter.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The entrance to Whimsyshire.]]
Reaper of Souls desegregated Whimsyshire via [[Nephalem Rifts]]. In those randomly-generated Rifts it is possible to get the cute Whimsyshire monsters in normal game tilesets, and/or normal game monsters in the Whimsyshire tileset.
[[Patch 2.1]] increased access to this secret level with the introduction of rare [[Rainbow Treasure Goblins]] who sometimes open up portals to Whimsydale.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/rainbow-whimsyshire-goblins-greed-farming]
* These rainbow goblins and their portals are similar to the Patch 2.1 addition of [[Greed's Domain]], reached via yellow portals from treasure goblins.
* Rainbow goblins have been sold[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/exclusive-blizzard-merch-for-comiccon-2014] as a [[merchandise]] item, and the in-game versions are exactly modeled on the plushies. (Not just rainbow-colored versions of normal [[Treasure Goblins]].
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File:Whimsyshire-rift-twinkleroot1.jpg|Whimsyshire monsters in a Nephalem Rift.
File:Whimsyshire-greater-rift1.jpg|Whimsyshire color-shifted in a Greater Rift.
File:Goblin-portal-double.jpg|Golden and Rainbow portals.
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==Whimsyshire Overview==
The secret level is a fully-playable area of the game. There are monsters (cute ones), gold and item drops, health orbs (which look like giant pink cupcakes), random Elites and elite bossespurple Unique monsters, and even an amazing, baby's-blanket looking minimap.
Though the area is accessed through Act One, prior to the [[difficulty is balanced to be ]] scaling introduced in [[D3v2]], the difficulty of Whimsyshire was equivalent to late Act Four. Thus a low level character will be slaughtered instantly, even in the normal difficulty version of Whimsyshireand players were initially able to use it for [[end game]] farming.
===Items found in Whimsyshire=How to Enter==
In D3v there were four types of Staff of Herding, corresponding to Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulty levels. That system was simplified in D3v2 and currently there is only one Staff of Herding, with the monsters in Whimsyshire scaling to the player's level, as do all other monsters in the game.
[[Patch 2.1]] added special ultra-rare Rainbow Goblins, who will sometimes leave a rainbow portal open when they die. Players can use this to enter Whimsydale, even if they have never crafted a Staff of Herding.
==How to EnterDiablo 3 Console Differences==
==Items found in Whimsyshire works == Monsters in the secret level drop just like any other monsters in the game. Prior to the difficulty-scaling added in [[D3v2]] the same monsters in Whimsydale were equivalent to Act Four, making them considerably higher level than any enemies in Act One. There are a number of special features and visuals in Whimsyshire, most of them clickbles:* Presents - Often empty, seem to have less of a drop rate for items than [[chest]]s.* Pot o' Gold - A golden pot that, when clicked, drops gold and possibly other items.* Smiling Couds - When clicked on, your character does an animation that appears to be a fist bump to the air above your head, and the clouds drop items and bounce with bigger smiles on their faces. They also giggle.* Pinata - the Whimsyshire version of a [[Resplendent Chest]], this Diablo 3 consolepinata is found hanging from a tree in one random corner of the map. ====Legendary Materials==== For a time in Reaper of Souls, two types of [[Legendary Material]]could *only* be found from purples in Whimsyshire. The entire Legendary Material system was removed from the game in Patch 2.0.5 and while these monsters remain in the game, but they will no longer drop special Legendary Materials. * The [[Eternal Power Capsule]] was required to craft the materials [[Arcane Barb]] crossbow and could only be dropped by [[Evil Oliver]], a Cuddle Bear.* The [[Mystical Source]] was required to gain entrance are different. craft items from the [[LeoricSage's ShinboneJourney]] Item Set, and the could only be dropped by [[Creampuff]], [[Midnight Sparkle]], or [[Liquid RainbowNightmarity]] , the three Members of Team Unicorn: Miss Hell, R'Lyeh, Killaire and Maulin Sorely. ===Monsters=== There are not several special monster types found in Whimsyshire that never appear elsewhere in the console version game (except randomly and rarely in Rifts). They are not required appropriately cute and cuddly in appearance, but fight like any other deadly enemy and can be quite dangerous. They also have especially gory and bloody death animations, to create the Staff of Herdingcontrast humorously with their cute appearance.
All these... horrors can spawn in elite packs. There are a few special unique bosses that can spawn that are similar in function to most other random purple-named monsters in the game.
Two videos showing off the level in action.
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<br>Video with cow king and whimsyshire play footage
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<br>This video shows the Cow King's ghostly conversation, then footage of the early battles in the level.
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==Whimsyshire's Music==
The music played in the level is a famous piece of classical music for the piano, Ravel's ''Gaspard de la Nuit - Le Gibet''. (Video of [http://www.youtube.com/embed/3PQ-H1PjrWQ that composition here].) This was first revealed in the following video; the backwards playing begins around the 0:38 mark.
==Screenshots==
File:SoH_plan.jpg|The Staff of Herding plan dropped by Izual.
File:Superunique_chiltara.jpg|Chiltara, who drops the gibbering gemstone.
File:Cowmodel.jpg|An unused cow Infernal Bovine model with ; sometimes seen from a large axeCursed Chest in Whimsyshire.File:Whimsyshire-rift-twinkleroot1.jpg|Whimsyshire monsters in a Nephalem Rift.File:Whimsyshire-greater-rift1.jpg|Whimsyshire color-shifted in a Greater Rift.File:Goblin-portal-double.jpg|Golden and Rainbow portals.
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