Haystack

Haystack is an environmental object that can be found in three different locations:

Act One

Emerald Grove

In the Emerald Grove a haystack can be found behind the Oxen at X: -99 Y: 619. Approaching it triggers a DC 9 Perception check, revealing its content on a success.

Its contents can also be revealed by using  Speak with Animals on the Bored Ox. He expresses his annoyance with the tieflings hiding "shiny bits" in the hay. Asking about the shiny bits reveals a pouch containing some gold and a gem.

Interacting with the haystack grants 15 XP.

Emerald Grove haystack found by the oxen

Waukeen's Rest

At Waukeen's Rest a haystack can be found in the first barn at X: -99 Y: 619. Interacting with it triggers a DC 15 Perception check. If  Speak with Dead was used on  Mirileth before interacting with the Haystack, the DC is reduced to 0, but can still be failed by rolling a 1 (Critical Failure).

If the perception check is passed, a Gilded Chest comes out of the haystack containing Mirileth's Dowry Ring, needed for completing ⁠Rescue the Trapped Man. The chest also contains some gold and a gemstone, piece of jewlery, chalice, or ingot.

When interacting with the haystack, the player character will say one of the following lines depending on who it is:

Dialogue

• If the perception check was succesful:
  • Looks like there's a chest buried in that hay.
  •  Astarion: Very nice. And to think I was expecting a needle.
  •  Gale: Look at that: there's a chest hidden in the hay.
  •  Karlach: Hey! There's a chest in here.
  •  Lae'zel: Someone's hidden a chest in the hay.
  •  Shadowheart: There's something hidden in here, in the hay.
  •  Wyll: Something's hidden in that hay.
  If the perception check was unsuccesful:
  • Surprised this hay hasn't gone up in flames yet.
  •  Astarion: Feed for the beasts.
  •  Gale: An untouched stack of hay. Mustn't be any horses around.
  •  Karlach: Hay there.
  •  Lae'zel: Horse feed - unburned, for now.
  •  Shadowheart: You'd think some starving beast would've eaten this hay by now...
  •  Wyll: How has this hay not gone up in flames?

Haystack in the first barn in Waukeen's Rest

Act Three

Rivington

Outside the Abandoned Windmill up the hill from Arfur's Mansion a haystack can be found at X: 56 Y: -36. Interacting with the haystack triggers a DC 25 Investigation check. Succeeding the check adds a single  Arrow of Acid to the player character's inventory, and plays a standard investigation check voice line for discovering an object.

Haystack found by the Abandoned Windmill

Gallery

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  Emerald Grove haystack found by the oxen
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  Haystack in the first barn in Waukeen's Rest
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  Haystack found by the Abandoned Windmill