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Dragonblight The Liquid Fire of Elune Kill the Cultists The Favor of Zangus The High Cultist Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Into the Fold Blood Oath of the Horde Agmar's Hammer Victory Nears... Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde Flight of the Wintergarde Defender Return to the High Commander The Demo-gnome The Search for Slinkin The Bleeding Ore Leave Nothing to Chance Understanding the Scourge War Machine Rescue from Town Square Find Durkon! Secrets of the Scourge Mystery of the Tome Understanding the Language of Death A Righteous Sermon Into Hostile Territory Steamtank Surprise Scattered To The Wind The Chain Gun And You Plunderbeard Must Be Found! Plunderbeard's Journal Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery Finality An End And A Beginning To Fordragon Hold! Audience With The Dragon Queen Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus The Flesh-Bound Tome Koltira and the Language of Death In Service of Blood In Service of the Unholy In Service of Frost The Power to Destroy The Translated Tome Containing the Rot The Good Doctor... In Search of the Ruby Lilac Return to Soar Where the Wild Things Roam Strength of Icemist Chains of the Anub'ar Return of the High Chief All Hail Roanauk! The Might of the Horde Attack by Air! Blightbeasts be Damned! The Kor'kron Vanguard! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar Imprints on the Past Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore The Murkweed Elixir The Forgotten Tale The Truth Shall Set Us Free Parting Thoughts What Secrets Men Hide Frostmourne Cavern Return To Angrathar WANTED: The Scarlet Onslaught Blighted Last Rites Let Them Not Rise! Stealing from the Siegesmiths Need to Know The Spy in New Hearthglen No Mercy for the Captured Torture the Torturer Without a Prayer The Perfect Dissemblance The Rod of Compulsion The Denouncement A Fall From Grace The Truth Will Out Do Unto Others Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comment by Acku

You must be standing right up against the X on the tree in order to harvest lumber from said tree.
You can only harvest 3-5 lumber at a time.
Do this quest along with Harp on This!.

Comment by 63375

Only do this quest if there is noone else around doing it, or if your REALLY patient. Only like 1 / 20 tress are marked, and it takes forever for a mark to respawn. Fun quest, but it just takes way to long if your not alone.

Comment by 245828

This quest is pretty terrible, the trees are hard to find, you don't get many logs from each tree, the mobs have a relatively quick respawn, and you'd better hope no one else is trying to do it at the same time. I ended up dropping it after collecting 10 logs because it was taking a ridiculous amount of time.

Comment by 25321

Last night this quest was as badly as told in above posts, yet after the 5 am server restart this morning on EU realms, the chance on finding a tree seems to have multiplied by 10 while the respawns.... are like 30 seconds now.

Good luck, became a easy quest this morning, 5 minutes. while 4 others were doing it as well.

Comment by 246350

This quest is pointless really..
If you're that patient to spend like 30 mins on the quest.. Wow..
I got 45/50 in like 10 mins, then 2 people came and I spent 20 mins trying to find my last 5, guess what. Never happened.
Just don't do this quest when others are there, waste of time.

Comment by Amberseal

Spent about 15 minutes wandering around every area where the Harpies are and couldn't find a single marked tree.

Either the quest is bugged or it's just a colossal waste of time. Either way, avoid!

Comment by PieceOfSheet

it says this quest is for alliance faction. im horde and managed to pick it up. but i have not seen a single 'x' after 15 minutes.

Comment by Blutelf

There is not a single mark on the trees on EU Azshara right now. I have checked every single one of them.

Comment by jaxsonbateman

IMO, this has to be a bug, similar to the spore bug in Howling Fjord - the game is having trouble running something new, that is, spawning marked trees that have an action taken against them.

Someone mentioned that early in the morning not only was there less competition, but more trees were spawning. I'd imagine that some form of soft reset occured, and spawns continued normally until the bug crept in at some point.

Edit: I was worried that this quest chained onto the Zort quests; however, this one simply unlocks a bread-crumb quest to travel to Zort. Basically, you can still get the 105 quests in Dragonblight even if you are forced to skip this.

Comment by animadafemme

i did this quest last night, it was awful. it took forever and even that's an understatement.

Heres something I figured out as I was finally finishing up the quest. To find the marked trees faster because the robot moves so sloooow. Dismiss the robot, mount up, ride around, find the marked trees, summon robot, chop chop...Rinse and repeat.

I maintained my patience for this quest because I knew there were more quests upon completing this one. So, If you are someone like me that likes a sense of completion. This quest is for you. :)

Comment by 200036

I spoke to a GM and according to him the quest was 'working as intended'. He suggested I had to try again when there were less people.

EDIT: Seems to be working fine now :)

Comment by Atraira

Quest is working now. "X"s are on almost every tree, and even with 3-4 other people doing it I finished it in minutes. Very fun quest!

Comment by 247149

There is a bug with this quest where you will board the Shredder, but will be unable to use any of it's abilities. I was too lazy to figure out the exact cause of the problem but what I did was dismiss my pet (I'm a Felguard/sl/sl Warlock) and then disable all my add-ons and then the Shredder worked.

The add-ons I use are: Afflicted, Broker Factions, Cartographer, CCWatcher, Cirk's Rebar, MSBT, Omen, Outfitter, Postal, Proximo, Quartz, Recount, Telo's Lootlink, TitanBar, Trav's UFE, and Deadly Boss Mods.

If any enterprising player wants to look into this bug then one of those add-ons (or combination of them) prevents you from using the Shredder's abilities, even though you can summon and mount it.

Comment by 91278

I always wanted to do this. I'd be okay.

Comment by ripper

had to disable dominos and i could do it like posted above

Comment by peeweesweden

Confirmed, other vehicle quests has worked before, but Bartender4 did not approve of this quest. Disabled it and everything worked like a charm.

Comment by Azaram

Took me like ten minutes with a friend and several other people out there...

I SO want the shredder for a quest reward, screw the cookie-cutter staff and axe...

Comment by 172096

There is no need to turn off any proper barmod. If you're using Dominos and you can't see the vechiel controles, chances are that you disabled that bar. Bartender is knowen to have problems with vechiel controles in the current version so you can bind a key to the "Leave Vechiel" command and use that.

If your problem is that you can't use your abilities, try with all addons disabled as suggested before as that is a bug.

Comment by 31068

Did this quest today with no problem at all, trees were easy to find and so were the harpies. I don't understand the problems the comments above are talking about. Maybe it is because I play on a low population server.

Comment by 254522

if the shredder doesnt work when you should garther wood on the X. Exit wow then and open the wow map. C:\Program\World of warcraft.
then find the map "CACHE" open it and delete WDB. start WoW again and test again. it worked for me

Comment by Lizinator

I thought this quest was fun and easy to do. I had no issues with mobs or finding the lumber, and I'm on a high population server.

Comment by 55952

The description for the Use of Xink's Shredder Control Device is one of the best I've ever seen.

As is the quote when you actually summon the machine: "Xink's Shredder ready and available for woodland destruction." One of the most enjoyable quests.

Comment by Ikayuro

Seeing the red "X" on these trees reminded me of fern gulley :3

Comment by nacho123

Spam click on the wood gather thing right infront of the marked tree and eventually you should get some wood.

Comment by kounteron

the shredder's spells arent working, obviously bugged

Comment by 151905

I do not use bar add-ons but still I could NOT use the shredder spells!
My friend who uses the exact same addons as myself (got my addon map) worked with the shredder just fine.

When my friend logged on my account she could use the shredder normally too :S

Really weird, quest took me an frikkin hour and it's a big waste of time.
If it would have worked normally I would rate this quest as one of the funniest...

Comment by 259654

At first, I could not use the shredder spells as wel..
So i disabled all addons, and then it worked perfectly, even tough i dont have any bar add-ons :S

Anyway.. was a nice quest when it worked:P

Comment by 189687

If you are having issues with this quest simply turn all your addons off for it. I tested each and every one of my addons to try and find which was causing the problem. After eventually getting them all enabled again, there were no issues meaning its not an addon in particular. It is a very strange bug.

Comment by 60329

It seems like any tree will work. You just have to keep the right mouse button down so you can mouse-look. Get right up on the x and spam the 6 button (Gather Lumber). Then just move the mouse around. Spin the camera left and right until you see the cast bar (Gathering Lumber) show up. If it doesn't show up, then adjust your position a tiny bit and try again. I gathered on every tree I tried this way.

Comment by Veraldis

This quest totally reminded me of the scenes in Ferngully with the logging machine and red X's on the trees. Combined with that it's a magical forest with harpies (closest thing in WoW to fairies, really) and elementals, I wonder if that's an intentional parallel.

Comment by 81112

This quest didn't work for me until I dismissed my pet.. Tried this today, 3/1/09, on my hunter.

Comment by acornco

i was a dk when i did this one. nothing worked! i dismissed my pets both com and non. still didnt work! i dont have any 3rd party mods so i was crapin bricks. turns out if you rapidly click the ability, works best on the keyboard, it will eventually work. its the same for combat and harvesting. just click as fast as posible to save time : /

i think wow dropped the ball...

Comment by Lostgirl

I am HORDE, gathering lumber for Alliance towers? That's not right.

/no

You can't make me!

=P

Comment by CaliberX

Quest doesn't really work for me. No addons enabled and 90% of the time the abilities on the shredder don't do anything.

Comment by Milobob

OK IF YOU CAN NOT CAST THE SHREDDER SPELLS DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. Log out
2. DISSABLE ALL ADD ON's
3. LOG IN

Now you should be able to use the shredder spells just fine, you can re-eneble them after you finish the quest, as someone else stated you need to be in front on the X on the tree.

I also beleve this could fix any other Vehical spell casting problems but i am not positive.

Comment by 337775

If your shredder freezes and you see the saw animation go off without any lumber gains, you can log out of the game, zone back in, summon your shredder, attack a creature, and then you should be able to saw the trees again.

Comment by LongPinoy

I did this quest early this morning and something werid happened. The shredder was being attacked by an Artic Hare. It only did 1 point of damage, but it made me wonder if someone was toying with me.

Comment by bloodthirster

After I did this quest on my horde DK I was walking back to the camp inside the shredder for convenience's sake when suddenly I was attacked by a rogue 3 levels lower than me. Apparently he mistook me for a rare mob. Unfortunately the shredder attacks don't work on players so I just sat there until he killed the shredder and I popped out. Needless to say he was quickly dispatched afterwards...

Comment by 122055

I love what this guy says after when you complete the quest; "If a tree falls in the forest, and you can't hear it through the saw blade, does it really make a sound?"
Really fun quest. Hacking and slashing through harpies is so very satisfying.

Comment by 154447

For those having trouble finishing Mistress of the Coldwind you can easily take her down while wearing the Shredder suit.
It will still account for the kill.

Comment by 303818

TIP: Shredder cannot be used to kill the Crystalline Ice Giant elites around Coldwind Heights (just thought I'd try to solo a non-harpy elite with it for fun)! Save yourself the grief. Also, for some reason they will follow you till the ends of the earth even when you are forced to dismount the shredder due to leaving Coldwind Heights. It only seemed to lose interest in me when I finally removed it as target (emptied my target)!

Comment by 803009

All you need to do is get as close to the x as you can & press the gather lumber button. The two saw type buttons are for defending yourself & there is a heal button.

Comment by 807774

I have a problem. I can't get to him. Is there a special key binding to do this or something. Could someone help me?

Comment by 697870

Some info about quest Lumber Hack.

1. The location of the quest giver Xink is (Dragonblight) 55, 23.

2. If you try to walk out of the quest area it boots you out of the robot and displays the message:
Xink’s Shredder security features activated. Returning to base.

Comment by Zgred2

If you are having trouble with this quest with strange bugs in the shredder like not being able to leave it or the abilities not working, there is a bug with vehicles in 4.1.0 and this helped me to bypass them, the bugs are similiar to the ones in the quests "Flight of the Wintergarde Defender" and "Harp on This!"

1) Backup your Interface and WTF folders somewhere else
2) Delete your Cache, Interface and WTF folders (naturally keep those backups you just made!)
3) Go into the game, go through the intro cinematic, license agreements etc. , go to video settings, set the slider to low settings
4) Go into the game, do the quest, it should be working perfectly now.
5) After you're done with the quest, turn the game off, go into the WoW folder, delete Cache, Interface and WTF again.
6) Copy your backed up Interface and WTF folders back into the main WoW directory.

After that and you log in into the game and make sure everything is back to the way it was, you can delete the backups or do whatever you want with them

Comment by kerrymayall

This quest so reminds me of the goblin shredders you could buy in Warcraft 3. Could clear a map of trees in no time with a couple of these : )

Comment by Riskie666

It is worth noting that if you accidently harvest over 50 lumber, DO NOT try to delete the additional stack.
This will delete the previous 50 lumber which you harvested and abandon the quest for you.

I found this out the hard way.

Hope you don't make the same mistake as me!

Comment by MakriWorgen

I completed this quest today and the exp reward has changed. It is now 2,100 exp instead of the 20,750 exp stated at the top of this page. Equip and money rewards remain the same.

Also have to add that I found this quest a lot of fun!

Comment by Dramfiolz

Figured some others might be after the wicked looking 1h axe from this quest and wonder whether they needed to do all of Dragonblight for it. Fortunately, you don't. To pick up this quest you just need to complete two other chains:

Stocking Up
Nozzlerust Defense
Hard to Swallow

and

Shaved Ice
Soft Packaging
Something That Doesn't Melt

Comment by 311363

Slender man forest...

Comment by 1222982

If you are wondering who marked all the trees, go to place where you kill Mistress of the Coldwind for quest Harp on This!. There is dead Nozzlerust Supply Runner surrounded by marks that you can see on trees.

Comment by 1440987

Lumber Hack http://youtu.be/gpyb5d3sL6U

Comment by Boxofbeer

Lumber Hack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpQYN3HWU1U

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khAn6oRFrBA&feature=youtu.be

Comment by DeAtHaLf

you must use gather lumber button near the X to get the lumber

Comment by Fearmemortal

Hi, all,
To clarify this. I had to disable addons and delete WOW WDB cache as listed above before my shredder worked. The only button that we have to use it the "Gather Lumber" button. Stand in front of the sign, fairly close to the tree, activate the button and it should work.

Hope this Helps!
Happy Hunting (and Lumberjacking).

Comment by kirylyn

I didn't realize that you had to use the remote to summon the shredder

then once I was IN the shredder, I kept trying to use the shredding blades on the trees

FINALLY, by the trial and error method, I finally figured out that one needs to use GATHER LUMBER (button 5) while standing in front of the "button" on some of the trees.

I think I spent over an hour before I figured all that out

Links

Lumber Hack

Use Xink's Shredder Control Device to call a Shredder once you reach the Harpy Nesting Grounds in the North. Gather 50 Bundles of Lumber from the trees in the area, and then return to Xink at Nozzlerust Post.

Should you lose Xink's Shredder Control Device, speak to Xink at Nozzlerust Post to obtain a new one.

	Coldwind Lumber (50)

Provided item:

	Xink's Shredder Control Device (1)

Description

Next up, we need to haul in some lumber for all the towers the Alliance are building. There are some thin trees to the south, but the trees the harpies are nesting in to the north look much more fit for structures.

Take this. When you get to the harpy nesting area, use the control and one of my Shredders should come to you. Gather as much lumber as it can carry. The harpies are sure to disagree with you chopping down their homes - just deal with them as necessary.

Hop to it!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Coldwind Scratching Pole			Infused Dragonbone Splinter
	Composite Harpyspine Staff			Reactive Waraxe
	Compact Explosive Delivery Device			Mounted Boneshredder

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12050))