This quest is bugged, if you are online when the timer for your compost completes, the quest will not tick over, you need to log in with the compost timer completed for the quest. If you use the completed fertilizer on the plant before the quest ticks over, you'll have to combine a new fertilizer and wait another 3 days.
Quest
The Right Food...
A World of Warcraft quest in Emerald Dream. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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5 x Tel'Abim Banana sold by [npc=207627]
3 x [item=209416] looted on ground in [npc=210195] area.
5 x [item=208644] looted from [npc=210772].
Use [item=208644] to combine the 3 ingredients to make [item=208646] that takes 3 days to compost.
Edit: WARNING
I have read reports of a bug in the next step. Although mine worked, others say that their fertiliser didn't register but was still consumed after 3 days when used on the Sprout. A theory is "being online when [item=208646] hatches". No idea if correct or of any workaround (maybe relogging before applying), but be aware.
Part of the quest chain to obtain the [item=210774].
- Buy one stack (of 5) Tel'Abim Banana from [npc=207627] at /way #2200 49.8 61.6 Saelienne (Tel'Abim Banana)
- Loot 3× [item=209416] from [Turtle Egg] (object) around /way #2200 41.6 77.2 Turtle Egg object (Turtle Eggshell Shards)
- Loot 5× [item=208644] from [npc=210772] around /way #2200 55.6 52.2 Fenblossom Lashling (Lasher Plant Matter)
- Use [item=208644] once to create one [item=208646].
- Wait three days (72h) for the compost to complete, then fly back to the [npc=209458] at /way #2200 48.68 67.9 Dewy Sapling
- Speak to it, spread the fertilizer, tell a joke or recite a poem, and turn in the quest with the plant, resetting the wait timer.
Note: Many players had an issue with the fertilizer item’s timer not finishing when being logged-in. I set a timer when to log out, and at the next login, everything was fine.
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Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(77697))
What to do
Description
<The plant is now a promising sapling and has thrived with the attention you've given. Peering closely at the plant's leaves, you see its exterior brimming with dew. Perhaps the right food will help the plant even further.>
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.
Objective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2200 48.7 68.1
Coordinates
- Objective areaEmerald Dream 48.7, 68.1
/way #2200 48.7 68.1
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 Emerald Dream map
- Between Fyrakk and a Hard Place about 200 yards
- Lost to the Flame about 210 yards
- It Starts With a Stone about 270 yards
- Dreams Unified about 290 yards
- The Ember Still Smolders about 300 yards
- The Bloom Begins about 300 yards
- The Looming Cinder about 300 yards
- A Multi-Front Battle about 300 yards
- Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope: Fyrakk about 300 yards
- Tactical Withdrawal about 300 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Emerald Dream, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Emerald Dream:
- Central Encampment, The Emerald Dream
- Verdant Landing, The Emerald Dream
- Wellspring Overlook, The Emerald Dream
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.
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Flightstonesx 10
Other quests on the Emerald Dream map
Reward details
Currency: Flightstones x 10
Earned from completing world quests, raids, dungeons, battlegrounds, arena matches, and other activities. Used to upgrade max-level gear.
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.
Storyline
A Mix of Hope, Care, and Patience
Part 3 of 5.
Previous: A Dash of Minerals... · Next: And a Pinch of Magic
- 1Some Water...
- 2A Dash of Minerals...
- 3The Right Food...
- 4And a Pinch of Magic
- 5A Little Hope is Never Without Worth
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.
- A Dash of Minerals...
I think we have a chance with this one, <name>. But we'll need to begin revitalizing the soil if we want to see this plant flourish. Head to the Eye of Ysera and harvest fish bones from the Fathomless Lurkers in the depths of the water. They're rich in minerals and degrade easily.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- And a Pinch of Magic
The diligence you've shown here is astounding, <name>. I never suspected that someone who couldn't even find their own bucket, could do something like this. I think the sapling is almost there, and with my help we can bring it the rest of the way.
The storyline at a glance
A Mix of Hope, Care, and Patience has 5 steps, from Some Water... to A Little Hope is Never Without Worth.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Emerald Dream (5).
Other storylines on the Emerald Dream map
- The Emerald Dream
- Eye of Ysera
- Enter the Dream
- A Dream of Fields and Fire
- Emerald Dream Campaign
- Ice and Fire
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.