Contract: Bovine Blues

Witcher ContractToussaintBlood and Wine

Upon inspecting the cow's carcass and the worker's corpse, Geralt established that no plague had caused the incident (as the quarry workers had vehemently claimed), nor was it the result of a distorted portal (as Geralt himself had suspected). Instead, the witcher discovered the cause to be relatively banal. A draconid had been carrying the cow back to its nest. Yet the beast had either lost its grip of overestimated its strength, and the cow had landed in the quarry - and in doing so had crushed one of the workers.

Fixing a softlock

Enable the debug console, then look for a fact under Gates the quest checks — one the quest is actively waiting on. If that flag never got written, addfact it to the value shown and the gate clears.

Setting a Set these to advance fact only marks a step done — it won't run the step or skip the quest forward, and it can't fix a softlock caused by a scene that never played or an NPC that didn't spawn (reload an earlier save for those). Save before forcing any fact.

Quest facts (28)

Set these to advance

16 facts

Completion flags this step writes — they record a step as done but won't run it or skip the quest forward on their own.

Completed

mq7010_completed

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Both draco killed

mq7010_both_draco_killed

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Finished

mq7010_finished

== 1, >= 1

Also used by There Can Be Only One

Cow seen

mq7010_cow_seen

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Dracolizard bestiary unlocked

mq7010_dracolizard_bestiary_unlocked

> 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Dracolizard circle start

mq7010_dracolizard_circle_start

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Dracolizard circle stop

mq7010_dracolizard_circle_stop

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Mother tracks found

mq7010_mother_tracks_found

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Nest burnt

mq7010_nest_burnt

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle, Poi Bar A 13

Oszluzg known

mq7010_oszluzg_known

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Oszluzgs killed comm

mq7010_oszluzgs_killed_comm

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Trophy got

mq7010_trophy_got

== 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Update statue

mq7010_update_statue

== 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle, Poi Pleg Statue

Weak dracolizard circle start

mq7010_weak_dracolizard_circle_start

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Weak dracolizard circle stop

mq7010_weak_dracolizard_circle_stop

>= 1

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Worker chats

mq7010_worker_chats

<= 1, == 1, == 2, == 3

In phase: Airborne Cattle

Gates the quest checks

12 facts

Autopsy done

mq7010_autopsy_done

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Big blood trail found

mq7010_big_blood_trail_found

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Chats off

mq7010_chats_off

<= 1, >= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Cow corpse clue found

mq7010_cow_corpse_clue_found

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

End draco blood found

mq7010_end_draco_blood_found

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Final flight blood trail

mq7010_final_flight_blood_trail

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Lw lebioda hint

mq7010_lw_lebioda_hint

>= 1

Gates: Plegmund, Poi Pleg Statue

Notice taken

mq7010_notice_taken

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Show fake trophy

mq7010_show_fake_trophy

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Small blood trail found

mq7010_small_blood_trail_found

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Taken

mq7010_taken

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Walk blood trail found

mq7010_walk_blood_trail_found

>= 1

Gates: Airborne Cattle

Objectives

1.Find the quarry foreman.
2.Examine the cow carcass and the workman's body.
3.Collect a reward for solving the cow mystery.
4.Use your Witcher Senses to investigate how the crane was damaged.
5.Use your Witcher Senses to look for clues by the abandoned still.
6.Use your Witcher Senses to follow the draconid's trail.
7.Defeat both slyzards.
8.Climb to the top of the hill to reach the slyzards.
9.Collect a trophy from the mother slyzard.
10.Using your Witcher Senses, follow the wounded draconid's trail.
11.[Optional] Destroy the nest and the slyzard eggs.

Objectives a quest can show, in roughly the order they appear; some are optional or mutually exclusive branches.

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