WoW Forever new items: Graverobber’s Shovel, Violet Dust, camp buffs and where Muln Earthfury is

Six things to do first: the shovel, Violet Dust before November 12, and camp buffs

• Shovel: run The Stockade and kill Dextren Ward. It is a 23 DPS mace with +12 Attack Power, doubled against Undead, so it is a real leveling weapon even before you dig anything.
• Digging: players report the graves give Grave Moss or a hostile Disturbed Ghoul. Nothing rarer has been reported yet.
• Violet Dust: link Twitch to Battle.net, leave a World of Warcraft stream with drops enabled running for 4 hours, claim it, then check your Toys tab.
• Use the dust first: players report the two hour bonus only sticks if you use the pouch on the fire before anyone adds an object and before you sit.
• The Violet Dust offer ends November 12 at 4:30 p.m. PST. After that you can still use a pouch you claimed until the Launch Celebration ends in early December.
• Camp buffs: click off a class buff that matches a camp object if it is about to expire, or the camp version will not apply.

Graverobber’s Shovel drops from Dextren Ward in The Stockade

The shovel is new to Forever. Lead Software Engineer Nora Mills showed the tooltip on stage with one line of explanation: “For when you want to dig a grave.” You can read the full slide breakdown in our news post on Forever’s new items.

Blizzard has not published a drop source, but the live loot table lists one: Dextren Ward, a level 26 elite in The Stockade, the prison dungeon in Stormwind. That matches the first beta report and what players have said since launch. Loot data collected from players puts the drop at about 2.8 percent, so plan on many runs, not a few.

What digging a grave gives you

The best record so far is a beta tester who spent all 20 charges around Raven Hill Cemetery in Duskwood, including the grave the Grave Robber mobs stand on. The results: 9 Grave Moss and 11 level 30 Disturbed Ghouls. The ghouls gave no experience and dropped nothing. A second player who used every charge reported the same split, and others who dug a few times only got moss.

That test ran on a beta build, where some loot tables were switched off, so treat the ghouls as unfinished rather than final. The Disturbed Ghoul is in the live game as a level 30 Undead in Duskwood, so expect to fight them. No live dig results have been posted yet. Nobody has posted a dig from the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard yet, and nobody has reported a rare item from a grave.

Grave Moss is an Alchemy herb, so the shovel is a small, steady moss source, not a gold farm. With a 2 minute cooldown and a ghoul on roughly every other grave, it works best as something you click while questing in Duskwood.

Pouch of Violet Dust: 4 hours of Twitch before November 12 doubles camp buffs to 2 hours

The Pouch of Violet Dust is a launch week toy. Using it turns a campfire purple and extends every camp benefit from one hour to two, for every player resting at that camp, not just you. Our Violet Dust news post has the full campaign rules from Blizzard’s announcement.

How to get it

1. Link your Twitch account to Battle.net at account.battle.net/connections.
2. Watch 4 hours of any eligible stream in the World of Warcraft category between November 4 and November 12 at 4:30 p.m. PST. You can switch channels without losing progress. Watching several streams at once does not speed it up.
3. Claim the drop on the channel or in Twitch’s Drops Inventory.
4. Log into the Battle.net region you want it on. It goes to the first region you log into after claiming and can take up to 24 hours.

YouTube only counts on the official World of Warcraft channel, and console or smart TV apps do not earn drops.

Players report the toy lands in the Toys tab, not your bags, and that a client restart made it appear when it was claimed but missing.

How to make the two hours stick

Several players report using the pouch and still getting a one hour buff. The fixes they found:

• Dust first, then sit. Use the pouch on the fire before you /sit. One player who sat first and dusted second only got an hour.
• Dust after the objects go down. One player reports the flames went back to normal when a First Aid object was added after the dust, and the buff came out at one hour. Let everyone place their object, then dust.
• Mind the cooldown. The toy’s tooltip confirms a 30 minute cooldown, so a wasted use costs you half an hour.
• Try someone else’s fire. One player reports the dust failing on their own campfire but working when thrown on another player’s fire. Another found it only works on player-placed fires, not the permanent ones near towns. Neither is confirmed by Blizzard.

The toy only works during the WoW: Forever Launch Celebration, which ends in early December. Blizzard then removes it from every collection.

Campsite buffs: three profession objects per Basic Campfire, one hour each

Camping is Forever’s social trade skill system. The old Cooking Fire is now the Basic Campfire. Placing one creates a campsite with vendors, repairs and profession workspaces, and anyone who sits there gets one hour buffs. Our BlizzCon campsite report covers the panel in full.

A Basic Campfire holds up to three crafted objects, one per player. Each profession has three objects learned at different skill levels, and all camp objects share a one hour cooldown. The first objects are learned at skill 20, from camping NPCs or your profession trainer. Advanced objects come from Blueprint recipes that drop from specific dungeon bosses. Cooking also makes upgraded campfires: the Journeyman Campfire holds 5 objects (kit needs Cooking 140) and the Expert Campfire holds 10 (Cooking 220). Both are taught by Blueprints: the Journeyman one drops from Lord Serpentis in Wailing Caverns at under 1 percent, the Expert one from Slavecrusher Grox at about 6 percent. The live tooltip also confirms that you get the buffs by sitting or crafting near the fire for 1 minute.

At BlizzCon the Sharpening Wheel showed +34 Strength. Blizzard’s later camping post describes it as increasing Attack Power, so check the tooltip in game. The Fishing object is confirmed: the Fish Bowl (Fishing 20) gives 8 percent increased stats and is mutually exclusive with Blessing of Kings, and the Fishing Rack at 140 adds uncommon fish for an hour. The First Aid Kit (First Aid 20) and Mining Lodestone (Mining 20) exist in game, but their buff numbers do not show in the item data yet. Players report the First Aid Kit gives Stamina and a Skinning object gives crit; neither is confirmed.

Why your camp buff did not apply

• A class buff is blocking it. Camp buffs are variants of class buffs and do not stack. If Blessing of Wisdom or Mark of the Wild is on you, the matching camp buff is skipped. Players suggest clicking off a class buff with a few minutes left so you get the full hour.
• The fire timed out. Players report that if you are already seated when a fire disappears, you still get the buffs as long as you stay down for the full timer. Objects placed at a dying fire are wasted.
• A launch bug. Some players report the buff showing and then vanishing, or only one of three objects applying. Spamming /sit fixed it for some.

Blueprint drops confirmed in the live loot tables

Beta players reported these drop sources, and the live loot tables now confirm them:

• Blueprint: Greenhouse (Herbalism 140): Shadetooth in Excavation Site: Wetlands, about 7 percent. Grows herbs from planted seeds and replaces the Incense Candle.
• Blueprint: Rock Garden (Mining 140): the Relic Guardian in Excavation Site, about 7 percent. Spawns a common mining node over time and replaces the Lodestone.
• Blueprint: Tanning Rack (Leatherworking 140): Razorclaw the Butcher in Shadowfang Keep, about 0.5 percent.
• Blueprint: Spinning Wheel (Tailoring 140): an Unstable Sentinel elite in the Alterac Mountains, about 9 percent. It keeps the Faction Banner’s buff and makes certain reagents.

Rates come from loot data collected from players. None of the Blueprint tooltips say they bind, which fits player reports that they are tradeable, so check the Auction House.

If you level a Legacy perk tree, Reagent Economy makes Tier 1 camping features free to craft. It sits deep in the Resourcefulness tree; our Legacy system post explains the point budget.

Over 600 new recipes, and crafted food now adds 5% kill XP

“There are over 600 new recipes across all professions and level ranges,” Senior Game Designer Josh Greenfield said at BlizzCon. The details are in our 600 recipes post.

The change most players will feel is food. Almost all crafted food now gives a stat boost plus a small XP buff. The Well Fed example shown read experience from kills increased by 5 percent. Stay seated for at least 10 seconds while eating and it lasts 15 minutes, and Blizzard calls campfires the place to refresh it.

Spider Swarm, Cliff Jumpers and the reworked world epics

Principal game designer Kris Zierhut split Forever’s loot pass into four parts: better dungeon drops, new quest rewards, stronger world epics and new rare creature drops. Our re-itemization post lists every card shown.

Rare creature drops

• Spider Swarm (level 21): a five charge item that summons spiders to protect you for 10 minutes, on a 30 minute cooldown. It drops from Creepthess, a level 24 rare spider in the Hillsbrad Foothills, at about 5 percent in collected loot data.
• Cliff Jumpers (level 39): leather boots with +12 Agility that reduce falling damage.
• Wintersaber Hide Lined Gloves (level 54): mount speed up 6 percent in Winterspring.

World drop epics and updated classics

• Hurricane (bow, level 48): every ranged auto attack conjures an icy bolt for 6 to 10 Frost damage. BlizzCon showed 6 to 11; the live tooltip reads 6 to 10.
• Skullflame Shield (level 54): 3 percent chance when struck in melee to steal 270 life (275 at BlizzCon), and the old 2 percent chance to deal 90 to 140 Fire damage around you is still there.
• Ankle Slicers (thrown, level 58): +12 Attack Power, +9 Stamina and a chance on hit to slow movement by 30 percent for 6 seconds.
• Tidal Charm (trinket, level 36): now a 3 second stun, 5 seconds on naga with 80 percent of its 15 minute cooldown refunded. It still drops from Prince Nazjak, the naga rare in the Arathi Highlands.
• Whitemane’s Chapeau (level 39): +10 Intellect, +9 Stamina, +12 Spirit, up to 20 healing, and 20 percent faster resurrection casts. It drops from High Inquisitor Whitemane in Scarlet Monastery.

These numbers came from BlizzCon in September and have been checked against the live tooltips; the two that changed are marked. Two days before launch Blizzard dropped Classic power budgets and raised class damage across the game, so check tooltips before you plan around an exact value.

Muln Earthfury waits at the Skywatcher Plateau in Mulgore for Horde players

Muln Earthfury, the tauren leader of the Earthen Ring, was barely in the original game. At BlizzCon, Josh Greenfield said he was “active but offscreen” in the vanilla era and will “have a role to play in new stories” in Forever. The panel did not name a zone or questline; our Muln Earthfury post has what was said.

He is now confirmed in the live game. Horde players meet him through the Excavation Site chain: the dungeon’s last boss can drop a Titan Relic, which starts Elder Knowledge (take it to the Elder Rise in Thunder Bluff). The follow-up, Earthen Echo, sends you to Muln Earthfury at the Skywatcher Plateau in northwest Mulgore. It rewards 3,150 XP, 60 silver and a choice of Heavehammer, Healer’s Staff or Furs of the Earthen Ring.

The relic does not always drop (about 27 percent in collected loot data). Alliance players get a parallel chain to the Explorers’ League in Ironforge instead. Whether Muln appears in other quests has not been confirmed.

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Source and credit: Blizzard’s BlizzCon panels, launch posts and player reports

Item stats, camping rules and recipes come from Blizzard’s BlizzCon 2026 What’s Next and Deep Dive panels, Blizzard’s Gather Around the Campfire preview, and Blizzard’s Pouch of Violet Dust announcement. Images are Blizzard’s BlizzCon panel slides. Drop sources, drop rates and the changed tooltip values were checked against the live game’s item and loot data on November 9, 2026. Fixes marked “players report” come from players on the World of Warcraft: Forever and Classic WoW communities and are not confirmed by Blizzard.

Our coverage: new items and the shovel, camping reveal, campsite buffs, 600 recipes and XP food, re-itemization and Pouch of Violet Dust.