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Lava Beetle
Cooking
Verified US market
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Lava Beetle details
| Type | Cooking |
|---|---|
| Item level | 60 |
| Requires level | 1 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 3 silver |
| Expansion | Dragonflight |
| First seen in our data | build 12.0.7.68887 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
In-game tooltip for Lava Beetle: "A common reagent acquired by herbalists and often refined for use by chefs in Dragon Isles cuisine. Can be bought and sold on the auction house."
What Lava Beetle is used in
Cooking
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Assorted Exotic Spices | Dragon Isles Cooking, Ingredients, grey at 25 | 2 |  Assorted Exotic Spices | 78 silver | 55 silver | |
| Salad on the Side | Dragon Isles Cooking, Ingredients, grey at 60 | 2 |
|  Salad on the Side | 4 gold | 3 gold |
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Lava Beetle
Lava Beetle goes into 2 recipes: 2 in Cooking. All of them are Dragon Isles Cooking recipes.
The highest-listed product is Salad on the Side, from Dragon Isles Cooking, at 4 gold45 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Salad on the Side takes 2 Lava Beetle plus 1 Hochenblume and 1 Saxifrage; at current prices those reagents cost 3 gold per craft.
Lava Beetle is about 3% of that reagent bill at its current price; Hochenblume and Saxifrage make up the rest.
The cheapest craft that uses Lava Beetle is Assorted Exotic Spices (Dragon Isles Cooking): its reagents cost 55 silver and Assorted Exotic Spices lists at 78 silver.
All 2 distinct products have a current US commodity price.
Further down the chain, Salad on the Side is itself a reagent in 43 recipes, such as Drake Kebab Platter, Twice-Baked Potato and Cheese and Quackers.
Further down the chain, Assorted Exotic Spices is itself a reagent in 12 recipes, such as Filet of Fangs, Seamoth Surprise and Salt-Baked Fishcake.
Leveling and recipes for Lava Beetle
Leveling with Lava Beetle: Assorted Exotic Spices (Ingredients) turns yellow at Cooking skill 20 and grey at 25. Salad on the Side (Ingredients) turns yellow at Cooking skill 55 and grey at 60.
Recipe items that teach these crafts: Recipe: Assorted Exotic Spices and Recipe: Salad on the Side.
Recipe: Assorted Exotic SpicesReagents used with Lava Beetle
Lava Beetle is most often combined with Conveniently Packaged Ingredients, which shares 1 of its 2 recipes; next come Hochenblume and Saxifrage.
Conveniently Packaged Ingredients 1 shared recipe
Hochenblume 1 shared recipe
Saxifrage 1 shared recipe
What Lava Beetle is crafted into
Assorted Exotic Spices (Cooking). Made with Assorted Exotic Spices, 2 Lava Beetle per craft.
Salad on the Side (Finishing Reagents). Made with Salad on the Side, 2 Lava Beetle per craft.
Lava Beetle: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 29% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 5 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 1 silver Sep 2 |
| 30-day high | 1 gold99 silver Sep 1 |
| 30-day median | 7 silver |
| 7-day median | 12 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 676 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Lava Beetle by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 5 silver | 415 | 155,813 |
| Europe (EU) | 10 silver | 134 | 113,567 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Lava Beetle
Dragon Isles Cooking has 51 recipes. Besides Lava Beetle, the reagents they call for most are Assorted Exotic Spices (11 recipes), Pebbled Rock Salts (10 recipes), Islefin Dorado (9 recipes), Basilisk Eggs (8 recipes), Maybe Meat (8 recipes), Conveniently Packaged Ingredients (7 recipes), Pastry Packets (7 recipes), Ribbed Mollusk Meat (7 recipes), Aileron Seamoth (5 recipes), Cerulean Spinefish (5 recipes).
Cooking & Food priced near Lava Beetle
Goretusk Liver Pie5 silver
Chunk of Boar Meat5 silver
Moonberry Juice5 silver
Bear Meat5 silver
Brilliant Smallfish5 silver
Sickly Looking Fish5 silver
Zesty Clam Meat5 silver
Raptor Flesh5 silver
Holiday Spirits5 silver
Crunchy Spider Surprise5 silver
Mag'har Mild Cheese5 silver
Hot Buttered Trout5 silver
About Lava Beetle
Lava Beetle is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Cooking. When a recipe that uses Lava Beetle spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.