Yes, it's the poop set. Yes, it's absurd. Yes, the grind is 100% real. I've run this chain start to finish, and here's the exact route — no filler, just the steps that matter.

• Before You Start
• Step 1: Unlock Nocturn Cary & Hit Revered
• Step 2: Collect 6 Shadowheart Swords
• Step 3: Craft Shadowheart (Key Item #1)
• Step 4: Reveal 18 Mushroom Patches
• Step 5: Wooden Carving (Key Item #2)
• Step 6: Patch Note (Key Item #3)
• Step 7: Open the Door & Clear The Threshold Between
• Step 8: Nicroak & Excremental
• Step 9: Farm the Remaining Pieces
• Step 10: Craft the Set & Mark of Nerf
• Step 11: The Celestial Boss
• FAQ
• What difficulty do I need for Armorum Excrementis?
• Where's the secret door?
• Why do I need Nocturn Cary reputation?
• How does the Threshold Between maze work?
• Where does Dung Divider drop?
• Bottom Line

↖ Before You Start

Don't attempt this on a fresh build. You need:

• Ultimate difficulty — several interactions only trigger here
• Fangs of Asterkarn DLC
• Revered reputation with Nocturn Cary
• Iron, Skeleton Key, Dynamite, crafting mats
• Strong Acid/Poison resistance — this fight punishes squishy builds

↖ Step 1: Unlock Nocturn Cary & Hit Revered

Go to Guardian's Sorrow Rift → head left → hidden path down to a river → cross it → move up to a cave → talk to the raven NPC.

Farm the repeatable faction quest until Revered. Use the Ascension Altar with Aetherial Shards to speed things up — it boosts rep gain but scales up world difficulty too.

Buy Oculorum (reveals hidden containers) and Primordius (contagion protection). You need both. Don't skip.

↖ Step 2: Collect 6 Shadowheart Swords

Don't stand in Aether ground grabbing #2 — grab and go. The Port Valbury vendor is random, so check every vendor while doing other Nocturn Cary runs to avoid a wasted trip back.

↖ Step 3: Craft Shadowheart (Key Item #1)

Farm 50 Tainted Meat from boars around Dread Wastes / Black Citadel.

Head to Black Citadel Rift → southeast → down the stairs → Purifying Altar. Offer the meat, then the swords. You get Shadowheart.

↖ Step 4: Reveal 18 Mushroom Patches

Apply Oculorum to a flask, visit each patch, use flask, loot the container that spawns. Order doesn't matter — hit all 18, spread across the map.

The 18th is at Pilgrim's Rest, right by the secret door. Looting it gives you the beaver transformation relic. Yes, you now become a beaver. Commit to it.

↖ Step 5: Wooden Carving (Key Item #2)

Farm 250 Wood Chips from beavers at Volder's River — 5-6 spawn groups per loop, reset by exiting to menu. Roughly 30 minutes per full run.

Then:

1. Transform into a beaver

2. Give 250 Wood Chips to RickRick (south of Kern Hold) → get 5 Wooden Logs

3. Travel to Frostvale Highlands, go north, find MukMuk

4. Transform again, hand over the logs → get Wooden Carving

↖ Step 6: Patch Note (Key Item #3)

At Pilgrim's Rest, head east to find Belladonna. Answer her riddles correctly — read them, don't spam-click. Two chests open; one drops the Patch Note.

You now have all three door keys: Shadowheart, Wooden Carving, Patch Note.

↖ Step 7: Open the Door & Clear The Threshold Between

Apply Oculorum and Primordius before you go. Return to Pilgrim's Rest, go east, use all three items on the stone door.

Inside: use your flask, spend 1 Skeleton Key on the devotion shrine.

Maze rule: pick the entrance with 10 lit candles. Wrong pick? Just retry. Don't overthink the visuals — count candles, move on.

↖ Step 8: Nicroak & Excremental

Keep Primordius active (refresh every ~30 sec), push north through beavers to Beaver's Crossing. Near the town entrance, find a hole leading down.

Nicroak, First of the Chosen drops Dung Divider — required for the set.

Next: Excremental at Devil's Crossing. Acid/Poison damage, millions of HP, high avoidance. Overcap your resistances before this fight — bosses in this expansion shred them fast.

Kill Excremental → unlock the Outhouse, your crafting station for the set.

↖ Step 9: Farm the Remaining Pieces

Soul Trousers is the RNG bottleneck. Farm dense zones, not open-world clears — more mob density means more rolls per hour.

↖ Step 10: Craft the Set & Mark of Nerf

At the Outhouse, each piece costs 8 Ashes of Awakening + 200,000 Iron Bits plus a piece-specific component.

Craft the Mark of Nerf too — it's your ticket to the celestial boss.

↖ Step 11: The Celestial Boss

Reapply Primordius. Head back through Pilgrim's Rest into The Threshold Between — the maze is now shortcut-skippable. Push north to Beaver's Crossing, enter the arena.

Both normal and Uber versions drop Huge Wood (2H sword). The Uber-only reward is a special medallion. Only attempt Uber if your build handles superbosses comfortably — this fight does not forgive weak sustain.

↖ FAQ

↖ What difficulty do I need for Armorum Excrementis?

Ultimate. Multiple steps flat-out require it.

↖ Where's the secret door?

Pilgrim's Rest, east of the waypoint. Needs Shadowheart, Wooden Carving, Patch Note.

↖ Why do I need Nocturn Cary reputation?

To buy Oculorum (reveals mushroom containers) and Primordius (contagion protection). Both are mandatory later.

↖ How does the Threshold Between maze work?

Pick the entrance with 10 lit candles. Wrong guess just means a retry — no permanent penalty.

↖ Where does Dung Divider drop?

Nicroak, First of the Chosen, found through a hole near Beaver's Crossing after the maze.

↖ Bottom Line

This is three parallel key-item grinds funneled into one door, followed by two boss fights and a scavenger hunt for set pieces:

1. Rep up Nocturn Cary, grab both formulas

2. Collect 6 Shadowheart swords + 50 Tainted Meat

3. Reveal 18 mushroom patches, get the beaver relic

4. Farm 250 Wood Chips → Wooden Carving via RickRick/MukMuk

5. Solve Belladonna's riddles for the Patch Note

6. Open the door, clear the candle maze

7. Kill Nicroak and Excremental, unlock the Outhouse

8. Farm helm, gloves, off-hand, and the RNG-cursed Soul Trousers

9. Craft the set + Mark of Nerf, take down the celestial boss

Long grind, zero mystery once it's broken into stages. Keep your flasks stocked, resistances overcapped, and just work the checklist.