Quest Log

Hands Off Me Dig!

Hands Off Me Dig! is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 76 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 47.2, 88.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

Look at the chaos down there, <name>! I've instructed the foremen to save what artifacts they can. Who knows what treasures these tauren animals are like to make off with.

Can you help get a handle on things? Kill the raiders and save what artifacts you can.

While you're at it, look for my missing tools. A few quick repairs and I can get this flying machine up and running again.

Rewards

Money10

Experience4,100 XP

ReputationIronforge +250

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

NeoBlackheartNov 28, 2010+8via Wowhead

The Raiders are everywhere, The artifacts are in containers that sparkle and are easy to find. The hardest part will be the tools. They are located right beside Feegly the Exile which is for anouther quest. they are under the edge of the statue type thing.

jake74Dec 7, 2010+4via Wowhead

Tools are at 49, 89.4.

GobbogossipOct 8, 2024+1via Wowhead

While you are here might as well kill the Dig Rat critters for the uncommon cooking recipe.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	4,100
Money	Gold	10g 50s
Reputation	Ironforge	+250

Reward details

Reputation: Ironforge +250

This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Ironforge reputation: Report to Twinbraid (+75), No Bull (+250), Digsite Status (+75), Feegly the Exiled (+250), Marley's Final Flight (+10), He Needs Ale! (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Southern Barrens	Turn-in marker at 47.2, 88.5, 15 mapped points
Objective area	Thousand Needles	1 mapped point

World Map

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.

Thousand Needles map showing where to go for Hands Off Me Dig! — **Thousand Needles** Objective area 1 mapped point

Coordinates

Turn-inSouthern Barrens 47.2, 88.5/way #199 47.2 88.5
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 47.7, 87.8/way #199 47.7 87.8
Objective areaSouthern Barrens 49.0, 89.4/way #199 49.0 89.4
Objective areaThousand Needles 38.8, 6.9/way #64 38.8 6.9

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 Southern Barrens map

Honor the Flame about 810 yards
Desecrate this Fire! about 1,150 yards

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Southern Barrens, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

Fort Triumph, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,000 yards north
Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards east
Shadebough, FeralasAlliance · about 2,400 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 50 yards north-east
Objective areaabout 60 yards north-east
Objective areaabout 140 yards 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Southern Barrens

Part 76 of 89.

Previous: Digsite Status · Next: Feegly the Exiled

Showing steps 71 to 82 of 89.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Digsite StatusSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30
The patrol's been quiet today. And that's got me worried, <name>. Ever since the Alliance sacked Taurajo, none of our positions are secure. You look like you can handle yourself - can you scout around for me? Check in with my son Marley outside the Bael Modan excavation, southeast of here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Feegly the ExiledSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30
Saddest story I ever heard told, <name>. Feegly was one of our fastest diggers, until he got a hold of that - thing. "The Tear of the Moons" we called it. It changed him. Remade him. I wish it had stayed buried.

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Southern Barrens Quests Complete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.
Southern Barrens Quests Complete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens map

Northern Barrens62 steps, starts with In Defense of Far Watch
Battle Pet Tamers18 steps, starts with Zunta, The Pet Tamer

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.

Community notes from Wowhead · 6 comments

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Handling It: Shadowed Dreamleaf

Handling It: Symbiotic Glowspore Grip

Handling It: Taut Tethercoil

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