The Farmer's Orchard

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The Farmer's Orchard is a very simple quest that gains your character access to the Hive, the first area added in Hellfire.

The Farmer's Orchard

• Quest Name: The Farmer's Orchard
• Triggered By: Entering the Caves (level 9) or reaching level 15.
• Frequency: Every game in Hellfire.
• Given by: Lester the Farmer
• Location: Town
• Reward: Auric Amulet (allows you to carry 10k gold per inventory slot when equipped)

Lester the Farmer is a new NPC added in Hellfire. He can be found in the pasture near the cows. Lester asks your character to do him a favor, and to blow up a strange hive-like eruption in the ground that's blocking his cows from walking to another pasture. He gives you a rune bomb for this purpose, and when dropped on the spot by the new bridge east of town it explodes and creates an entrance to the Hive level.

Characters must be level 15, or have moved into the Cave levels (dungeon level 9) before Lester will give them the bomb.

Once the bomb has gone off successfully, return to Lester and he will drop the Auric Amulet, an item added in Hellfire. It's worn in the amulet slot, and doesn't provide any stat bonuses, but does allow your character to carry 10,000 gold per slot (up from 5,000 in Diablo) when the amulet is equipped. This makes it possible to save more gold from one game to the next, and to purchase items that take up 6 spaces in the inventory (such as full plate mail) that cost more than 170,000 gold. (This was impossible in Diablo, since the game required you to have enough free space to hold the item you were buying, even if all your gold was going to go away in the transaction.)

The Auric amulet can be sold for 25 gold to Adria.

Strategy Tips

There's no strategy involved. Get the bomb, carry it to the lower bridge, and drop it. The quest isn't available until level 15 since the Hive is equivalent to the Caves in difficulty, and lower level characters would get slaughtered there.

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