Smoke on the Mountain  

..Nice Quest

Edited, Oct 24th 2008 5:38pm by Heserik

To MadHealerOfWindurst Scholar

For you to make the statement that 50 minutes is a wait of your time. Well: While I was on the Hill waiting for the meat to cook, I killed all the Gobs, Sheep & Enchanted Bones that spawned. I got 18 Goblimn Masks which I took Lighting Crystals to and got 2 stacks of Glass Fibers. They sell for 20k a stack, but I converted some to lens and them made Prisim Power 50k a stack. I also got Goblin Arour which I took Lighting Crystals to and got Leather and Bronze Ingots. I also got Sheep skins that I took Dark Cryastals , Tea Leaves and Water to and got more leater. Ended up with just over 2 stacks. They sell for 30k each. In all I made about 120k in that 50 minutes.

I also killed some enchanted bones and got Bone chips. I later killed rabbits and with Bone chips and Rabbit hide I make Animal glue. 50k a stack.

A waist of time ??????

Daves

I was able to do some experimentation on the "Smoke On Top Of The Mountain" quest. People seam to lose their sausage if they leave the fire while others can range free and come back at a later date. I tested this with a stack of sheep meat. The result is you can walk away and come back later to get the sausage. There are conditions. One, you can not zone. It does not matter if you walk, warp, or teleport out. I have not tried to ride a chocobo out, but I do not know how you would get one without zoning to Bastok Mines anyways. Also forget trying to trade on the back of a chocobo. But you can wander all over South Gustaberg and come back and get the sausage.

I also can now personally confirm some other things. The campfire is definitely at K-9 like Burlyman, Master XKainex, and others have said. You can log out and log back in and still get the sausage if you did not zone. Logging in and out seams to be different from zoning. If you try to log out at the campsite, the goblins will attack you. This happens even if you are a forty-third level white mage! You can only cook one piece of giant sheep meat at a time. Further it takes one Vana ?diel day to cook. One Vana 'diel day is approximately 50 minutes Earth time. The reward is the stated 300 gil, which is more than what the cooking guild or NPC merchants will give you. Being tied to the South Gustaberg region is just too high a price to pay for me for the extra 200 gil. I am not including Auction House prices for raw sheep meat because they fluctuate over time and vary from server to server. It may be an attractive alternative. I would encourage players selling sheep meat to check the Jeuno and Windurst Auction Houses. I hope this helps and wish you luck in this quest.

Edited May 16, 2005 for puncutation and a spelling error

Edited, Mon May 16 23:30:33 2005

I am also on caitsith and no one took your sausage I think. I came back and it wasn't there too. I think if you leave the zone, then the meat don't stay.

Did this as a level 15. Ridiculously easy. Increased my fame, and made 270 gil. (Bought Sheep Meat at AH for 30, I didn't feel like waiting for one to drop it). Even better, I got to tear up the Gob camp, and who doesn't like some Gob-stomping every now and again? :)

You know you can just buy the meat. Only worth it if its for the fame. Otherwise your wasting your money.

i have been waiting over 12 hours game time and it says it may take a while longer. how long does this take???

If you have some gil, and some sausages are on AH, this is the best way (I have found) to max bastok fame. on my server sausages cost 6k a stack, and the return is 3.6k a stack so you pay around 2.4k to turn in 12. Personally, I went from teleport-dem level fame to titan level fame in 6 stacks.

Seriously this quest isnt that hard to find or do. Hello it's at the hill at K-9/10 on the southern side of the hill there's a grassy path leading up. This quest is rediculously stupid so just do it later when you're at a high level. You can make more than $300 gils in an hour elsewhere and one fame point isn't really that important in the whole scheme of things. I did this quest when I was BLM36/WHM17.

I finally understood what that person meant by there's only 1 path .... well. You have to WALK up to the moutains, it's not around it or anything. It's actually on top of that moutain.

And to be exact, it's SOUTH EASY of Vomp's Hill. Walk up to the little hill and you'll see it all there.

Wasted alot of my time doing this... not to mention now I gotta cook for another hour... by the way, is cooking more then 1 slice possible?

i logged out for 5 hours. came back. i still got the sausage

...is quite long. You have to cook the meat for 24 hours of game time. It's about 30 mins RL time I believe, but the time crawls. As far as I know, you can only cook one piece of meat at a time. You can kill the Goblins, Sheep and the occassional skellie to pass the time. I'm not sure if you can leave the zone or the game while the sausage is cooking, I didn't try, I just hung around and got some okay experience. Is it worth it? Not for 300 gil but if you want/need fame it's good. Myself, I'm trying to do all the quests in Bastok, just for kicks.

Hungry Wolf is on the second floor of the Metalworks. When you enter, take the left tunnel and right the elevator to the second floor. There is a door of to your right, called the Craftsmen's Eatery. He is inside, alone at a table. You don't have to talk to his friend Offa to be able to turn in the meat.

The quest is on a smaller hill EAST of Vomp hill. There is only one path up, and the fire is guarded by two goblin thugs and two goblin weavers. You just target the fire and trade one meat to it, and then wait 24 hours in game time, which is roughly 45-50 minutes of real time. Hardly worth the 300 gil, but you can keep cooking the meat, and I have seen a stack of the sausages go for 3k gil on the Sylph server.

Edited, Mon Nov 24 20:55:32 2003

It is NOT on Vomp Hill. It is on the hill SOUTH of Vomp hill. THe entrance up is on the south side of the hill and you can see the lighthouse in front of you and to the left a bit if you are facing away from the mines exit.

Where is Offa? I looked in all the houses in Bastok Port? Please save my sanity and help! Thanks

How do you put your meat on the fire ?

The title for this one is listed as Smoke on the Mountain in my quest log.

damn...in other words...it's not worth it !

it's actually 24 hours, game time, you have to leave the giant sheep meat in the fire. this is about 50 minutes of real life waiting time. if you zone, log, or die, you lose the meat and sausage.