The Staff of Herding

This staff will allow you access into Whimsyshire, The secret cow level in Diablo 3 :o)

In order to create the staff the following items are required:

Please note all the items are rare and may require you to make multiple attempts before getting the item.
To do this, Leave your game, then click resume game and travel back to where you were. All enemies should have respawned to indicate that your game has reset.

* Black Mushroom
This Item can be found in the Cathedral Level 1. It will show as a patch of lightly glowing mushrooms. Act1.

* Leoric's Shinbone
Can be found inside the fireplace inside, Leoric's Manor. Act1

* Wirt's Bell - This can be found of a little girl vendor (peddler squirt) in the Caldeum Bazaar in Act 2. It is sold for 100,000 gold


* Liquid Rainbow This item can be a bit of a pain to find. It is Located in the Mysterious Cave with in the Dahlgur Oasis in Act 2.
Set to your game to the Blood is Sand game or later. Click the waypoint the the Path of the Oasis.

Once inside look for the Mysterious Chest warning it does not always spawn. It can spawn on either level so check the entire place!

* Gibbering Gemstone This item can be found in The Caverns of Frost on the Fields of Slaughter in Act 3. It will spawn as either the Caverns of Frost or Icefall Caves. If you get Icefall immediately leave game and then resume trying again. IF it is the Caverns of Frost You are now looking for a Purple Named boss Chiltara. This Boss will drop the Gibbering Gemstone but the boss might not always be in the dungeon.

* Plans: Staff of Herding This Items is obtained of Izual in Act 4. This is a random drop and he may or may not have the item. You will encounter Izual in the Great Span.  If you do nor get them try again.



* 50,000 Gold Self Explanatory

Once you have everything!. 

To craft the staff out of the above materials, You must go to Haedrig the blacksmith to have him learn the plans. This is easy Click on the blacksmith and once inventory opens, right click on the plans. Next create your staff for NORMAL Whimsyshire.

Take the completed staff to the The Old Ruins waypoint in Act 1 and head west down old Tristrim Road, Hugging the Southern wall. There you will come upon Skeletal remains of what appears to be a cow, next to an open crevices in the ground.  The Ghost of the cow king will appear with a quest marker above  his head. Speak to him and away you go :o)

Note: The upgrades for the staff for Nightmare and Hell do not require the above listed materials. Just the already made staff. The recipes for the upgrades can be purchased from Gorell the Quartermaster inside Bastion Keep. You have to be on or finished with the Prime Evil Quest to obtain the plans. The cost of the recipe is 1 gold. Crafting it on the other hand is rather expensive. 200,000 gold for Nightmare, 500,000 gold for Hell and 1,000,000 for inferno. 

Good Luck Getting your Staff and I hope this helps out slightly :o)