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Excavation: Buried in the Riverbed

A World of Warcraft quest in Ohn'ahran Plains. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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1
Oceandust+22via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Can't figure out what to do for this quest? Yay! You're not alone!

1. Go to a yellow dot on your mini map and look for a dirt cloud on the ground.
2. Click the Archivist's Water Totem icon (either from your bags or the icon beside the world quest itself). This will spawn a water elemental beside your character along with a physical totem on the ground.
3. Now click the physical totem beside your character on the ground - this will make the water elemental unearth an artifact from the dirt cloud.
4. Click on the artifact - if it's a fake artifact you'll just be able to loot the item. If it's a real artifact you'll have to play the mini game of keeping the elements balanced by either clicking on the totem to add water or clicking on the ground to add more earth. Now spam the artifact on the ground while the elements are balanced until the yellow bar over the artifact is filled to 100%.
5. Repeat this until you unearth 2 artifacts.

Edit:
Note: You MUST drop a totem at each dirt cloud location.
Note: You MUST play the mini game to get the 2 artifacts.

3
Snoutfair+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I occasionally have trouble with this particular WQ where the elemental doesn't correctly channel the disturbed earth after the totem is clicked. Leaving the area and immediately returning didn't fix it. Leaving to do something else and returning ~15 minutes later did.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 70
SideBoth
SharableNo
Added inDragonflight
Quest ID78645

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(78645))

Requirements

Quest typeWorld Quest

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

  • Finds Unearthed x 2
  • Artifact Bunny 1
  • Artifact Bunny 2
  • Monster Bunny 2
  • Monster Bunny 1
  • Rock Bunny

Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Ohn'ahran Plains Objective area 13 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #2023 68.2 46.9

Coordinates

  • Artifact Bunny 1 (centre of the marked area)Ohn'ahran Plains 66.2, 47.4/way #2023 66.2 47.4
  • Objective areaOhn'ahran Plains 67.3, 47.6/way #2023 67.3 47.6

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Ohn'ahran Plains map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Ohn'ahran Plains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Ohn'ahran Plains:

  • Maruukai, Ohn'ahran PlainsAlliance and Horde · about 360 yards north-west
  • Emberwatch, Ohn'ahran PlainsAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north
  • Pinewood Post, Ohn'ahran PlainsAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south-east

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Related

Community notes from Wowhead · 13 comments

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Where this quest fits

Other storylines on the Ohn'ahran Plains map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.