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The Fossil-Finder 3000

The Fossil-Finder 3000 is a quest for level 15-30 in Un'Goro Crater. It is step 20 of 29 in the Un'Goro Crater storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Un'Goro Crater at 31.8, 50.3. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

One of the things I hate the most about digging is the fact that half the time, all you find is dirt. That's why I've been spending most of my time out here tinkering instead of digging.

Let me show you what I've invented: the Fossil-Finder 3000. I just put the finishing touches on it. If it works properly, it should find the largest fossils in the area. I know, sweet, huh?

Test it out and see if you can find some ridiculously big dinosaur bones.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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

1
166836+36via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Click the item you get, it will turn you in the direction you need to go for a fossil. Additionally it tells you in the chat pane how close you are "You are very close". At some point it startet turning me always around when I used the item and after about 3 times turning on the spot it said "you should dig here" and a big bone appeared wich was lootable. The Fossil-Finder thing works when mounted.

3
BigRed+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

So let me get this straight - there's this goblin who has a device that works better than the finder we use for archaeology - points us in the right direction, informs us of distance...but we don't get to use it apart from this quest?

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapUn'Goro CraterTurn-in marker at 31.8, 50.3, 13 mapped points
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.

Un'Goro Crater Quest turn-in 13 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #78 31.8 50.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inUn'Goro Crater 31.8, 50.3/way #78 31.8 50.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Un'Goro Crater 36.1, 70.9/way #78 36.1 70.9

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 Un'Goro Crater map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Un'Goro Crater, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Un'Goro Crater:

  • Mossy Pile, Un'Goro CraterAlliance and Horde · about 510 yards north-east
  • Marshal's Stand, Un'Goro CraterAlliance and Horde · about 960 yards east
  • Cenarion Hold, SilithusAlliance · about 1,500 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 530 yards south

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

Un'Goro Crater

Part 20 of 29.

Previous: Roll the Bones · Next: A Tale of Two Shovels

  1. 15Flowing to the North
  2. 16Bouquets of Death
  3. 17Aberrant Flora
  4. 18The Eastern Pylon
  5. 19Roll the Bones
  6. 20The Fossil-Finder 3000
  7. 21A Tale of Two Shovels
  8. 22The Western Pylon
  9. 23The Shaper's Terrace
  10. 24Ever Watching From Above
  11. 25An Important Lesson
  12. 26The Evil Dragons of Un'Goro Crater

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 29.

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.

  • Roll the BonesUn'Goro Crater · Level 15-30

    You'd think that being chief digger for Marshal Expeditions means I like digging. There might be worse things to do in this world... but none really leap to mind. We were supposed to be digging in Terror Run - FANTASTIC name by the way - for dead stegodons and diemetradons.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Tale of Two ShovelsUn'Goro Crater · Level 15-30

    Hey wait a minute, this bone has pickax marks on it. These aren't yours, are they? No, I recognize this mark... this must be that blasted dwarf! Gah! Let me step back for a minute and explain. There's another archaeologist south of here named Durrin Direshovel.

The storyline at a glance

Un'Goro Crater has 29 steps, from Crystals of Power to The Ballad of Maximillian.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Un'Goro Crater (29).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Un'Goro Crater 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.

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