Whimsyshire
Whimsyshire is the Diablo III Secret Level, a humorous area that's a direct homage to the Diablo II Secret Cow Level.
The information and images on this page are spoilers. If you want to see the secret level with your own eyes, beware.
How to Enter
To gain access to Whimsyshire requires five special ingredients, and a Plan to teach the Blacksmith how to craft them into the Staff of Herding. This must be taken to the Cow King's Ghost, a spectral bovine located on Old Tristram Road, near that pit with the mysterious red glow from within.
After the Cow King's Ghost conversation, the glow changes to a rainbow color and it becomes a clickable dungeon entrance. As was the case with the Diablo II Secret Cow Level, characters must have defeated that difficulty level to enter the secret level, which is balanced to be about as difficult as Act 4.
Required Ingredients
Players must assemble the five ingredients and the Staff of Herding plan to enter the level.
- Black Mushroom -- Found rarely in a room on Cathedral level one, in early Act One.
- Leoric's Shinbone -- Found rarely in the fireplace in Leoric's Manor, in late Act One.
- Wirt's Cowbell -- An Act II vendor sells it for 100,000 gold.
- Liquid Rainbow -- Spawns in the Mysterious Cave in the Mysterious Chest in the Oasis, Act 2. Save the old man and he will open the chest.
- Gibbering Gemstone -- Random drop from Chiltara in the Caverns of Frost, Act 3. It’s in the Ballistae fight area. If you get Ice Caverns exit out try again. The mob is random.
- Plan: Staff of Herding -- To teach the recipe to Haedrig. Drops randomly from Izual, Act 4.
Videos
Two videos showing off the level in action.
This video shows the Cow King's ghostly conversation, then footage of the early battles in the level.
Another video with more footage, this one showing four player action. The soundtrack is a cheesy 80s song which the video creator says he used since the original audio was him and his friends laughing madly on Skype.
