Digging Deeper Quest: Investigate the Designated Location in Hallowgrove
Checkpoints
Primary checkpoint
Depart for Hallowgrove from the dock. If the Battle Prep screen blocks matchmaking, clear the items it flags as contraband first.
Open the tactical map and set the blue exclamation mark as your waypoint.
Move to the marker, fighting or avoiding rival players and AI on the way.
Steam still: Hallowgrove-style mist forest — move toward the quest marker · Game imagery used for editorial context At the misty shack, clear the guarding enemies first — they cannot be sneaked past and will interrupt the interaction.
Climb to the upper level inside the shack. The glowing interaction point is up there, not at ground level where most players search.
Interactables often sit above eye level — Digging Deeper's marker is upstairs in the shack · Game imagery used for editorial context Interact to register the investigation, then report to Dramm back in camp (60 gold, per the quest database).
Common blockers
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Why players think it is bugged
Search intent is almost never “what is Digging Deeper?” — it is:
- I stood on the marker and nothing happened. → Wrong floor.
- Guards keep canceling the interact. → Clear them first.
- Is my game broken? → Usually no; the interaction is upstairs inside the misty shack.
If you only take one line from this page: go up, not around the ground-floor perimeter.
What comes after
Databases place Digging Deeper as step 2 of The Eccentric Blacksmith, followed by Dulled Iron (bring the Bell of Return to the smith) and The Blasphemer. Two media guides instead name different follow-ups — The Way Out and Tracing the Trail — but those belong to other questlines in the database structure, so we follow the database chain here. If your in-game log disagrees, the correction link is below.
When the story later names Tracking the Treasure or Brandrgarde, use those dedicated pages — they are different stuck points with different quest targets and queue types.
Before you enter Hallowgrove
Confirm that Digging Deeper is the active objective and read the marker wording once before queueing. The task is associated with The Eccentric Blacksmith line and sends you to a designated Hallowgrove location. The target is an interaction inside a structure, not a broad enemy-drop farm.
Bring a kit that can clear the nearby guards without turning the objective into a long loot run. The safest plan is to reach the marked area, secure the building, interact upstairs, then extract. If the current game completes the quest immediately, extraction still protects the rest of the run; if completion requires a safe return, the same route avoids repeating the objective.
Step-by-step route logic
- Follow the quest marker to the misty shack in Hallowgrove.
- Clear guards around and inside the building before attempting the interaction.
- Enter the shack and look for the route upward rather than circling the ground floor.
- Reach the upper floor and locate the glowing investigation point.
- Interact only when nearby combat will not interrupt the action.
- Check the quest tracker for an objective update.
- Use a safe extraction route and return to Dramm or the indicated turn-in.
The repeated clue is verticality. A player can stand exactly on the horizontal map marker while remaining one floor below the objective. When the marker seems correct but no prompt appears, search stairs, ladders, or an upper room before assuming the quest is broken.
Ground-floor marker versus upper-floor target
Map markers usually show a two-dimensional position. They do not always communicate height clearly. In this quest, the designated location leads to the shack, but the actionable prompt is upstairs. The ground-floor perimeter can therefore look correct while providing no interaction.
| Symptom | Likely cause | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| Marker is directly above you | Wrong floor | Move inside and find the upper level |
| Prompt appears then cancels | Nearby guard or combat pressure | Clear the building first |
| Interaction completed but journal seems unchanged | Update or extraction ambiguity | Re-open journal, then extract safely |
| No building matches the description | Wrong marked zone or quest not active | Re-select Digging Deeper in the journal |
Combat and interaction order
Do not rush the glowing point while guards are active. Damage, stagger, or forced movement can cancel a contextual interaction and make a valid target look unresponsive. Clear the immediate room, listen for remaining enemies, then interact. The objective does not require farming every opponent on the map; the point is to create a short safe window.
If another team is nearby, decide whether the quest evidence already updated before taking a longer fight. The value of the run is completing and preserving the objective, not winning every engagement around the shack.
How to verify completion
After the interaction, check three things:
- The active objective text changed or cleared.
- The glowing prompt is no longer asking for the same action.
- The journal now points to a return or follow-up step.
Sources disagree on whether a successful extraction is strictly required after the interaction. The conservative route is to extract. This page does not convert that uncertainty into a false claim either way.
If the quest still does not advance
First confirm the correct floor and eliminate nearby guards. Then reselect the quest in the journal and compare the marker. If the interaction played but the objective did not update, leave the area, re-open the journal, and try a safe extraction. On a later attempt, capture the exact objective wording and game version so a correction can distinguish a changed quest from a navigation mistake.
Do not rely on guides that merge Digging Deeper with similarly named blacksmith or treasure objectives. The next-step disagreement in third-party articles is why this page names the database chain and keeps alternate claims separate.
Evidence and update boundary
The misty shack, upper-floor interaction, guard interruption, and Dramm-linked quest chain are corroborated across the cited walkthroughs and database. The extraction requirement remains uncertain. If current in-game text explicitly resolves it, send the wording through the site contact route so the guide can replace the cautious instruction with a verified rule.
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