Poop quests are a recurring type of quest in World of Warcraft that involves excrement, usually in the form of sifting through animal droppings to retrieve one or several items. A long-standing tradition, poop quests appeared in one form or another in every expansion except Shadowlands which had an achievement instead. According to humor site Cracked.com, "World of Warcraft has more poop-related quests than any other MMO, excluding the niche fetish games Pooptopia and Fecesquest."[1]
Cataclysm introduced the most of any other expansion, at ten quests total.
Continuing the extravagant experience of extracting excitingly explosive excrement for goblins, Rannan Korren asks players to gather guanite, a type of stone with explosive properties that is "deposited" by shalewings. The guanite can be collected from piles on the ground or obtained fresh from the source by flying through living shalewings and spooking them.
Hornswogs have a habit of collecting and eating gems and jewelry, which can subsequently be retrieved from their droppings. Gnoklin Quirkcoil tasks jewelcrafters with gathering foul-smelling gems (which he admits need to be cleaned afterwards) from living hornswogs.
Dothenos asks scribes to gather Icy Excrement, a "very rare and mysterious liquid" excreted by icy beasts on the Dragon Isles that makes a good binding agent for ink.
This achievement requires taking Huntsman Altimor's gargons on a walk. After a lap around the edges of the room, each gargon will leave a pile of poop, fulfilling one of the achievement's criteria.
The player is tasked with gathering fertilizer from the local hyenas. They must offer each hyena a piece of meat, then wait several seconds. Since feeding a hyena doesn't tag it or its droppings, this world quest can even lead to players fighting over and stealing piles of poop from each other. Sometimes the world (of Warcraft) is a strange place.
Patu asks herbalists to gather seeds of akunda's bite from piles of Sun Baked Dung in the Brine Basin, since only the seeds that have been eaten, digested, and pooped out by wild beasts will be strong enough to survive Vol'dun's harsh climate.
Rodrigo, the flight master at Freehold, wants to get back at the Irontide Raiders for threatening him and scaring his beloved birds. He asks the player if they would like to prank the pirates by riding a giant macaw and making it "bombard" them.
A letter is posted on a pole for searching for a missing treasure. Three persons need to be interacted with to gather the clues. A Sandy Seaweed-covered Chest is found, but it was seemingly cracked open by a dog, and the treasure is in a pile of dog waste nearby.
Angus Stormbrew has sneaked into an outhouse at a Twilight's Hammer camp for "a wee drop-off," but there's "no cloth to... y'know..." After the player has brought him some [Twilight Silk], he finishes up, then lights a match "to take care of the fumes." The outhouse promptly explodes into flame, though Angus comes out unscathed aside from his pants.
The dwarf Angus Stormbrew has been encaged by the Burning Legion. He says that he had the key in his pocket, but it fell out and was eaten by a felhound, meaning the player must search the nearby piles of demonic waste to find it.
Digrem Orebar asks the player to gather some Nagrand cherries to feed to his elekk. While this quest does not involve any actual poop, Digrem mentions that he's "heard the worst rumor about how you have to obtain those things. Something about talbuk first eating them and then 'processing' them, and then... well, I don't want to talk about it," in reference to [15-30] A Rare Bean.
The player is sent to find and rescue Ga'nar, who has been captured by the Iron Horde and tasked with shoveling excrement from an outhouse into a contaminated pool nearby. After Ga'nar is rescued in [10-40] The Prodigal Frostwolf, he mentions that he probably needs to wash his hands.
Cousin Gootfur had an idea for a gourmet creation: "Kafa'goot," or Kafa'kota that has passed through a goat's digestive system. However, the kafa was too potent for the goats, resulting in a mess on the mountainside and an unhappy Uncle Keenbean. Gootfur asks the player to mark the goat droppings by sticking flags into them; he notes that he'll gather them himself, since it's "kind of a mussy task, not fit for hero." The premise of harvesting coffee beans from animal poop is based in reality.
In order to repel a jinyu assault, Rivett Clutchpop plans on creating methane grenades. ("We're going green. Clean burning, high availability, all natural, and will keep the druids off my back when we get back to our neck of the world. That, and I ran out of blasting powder...") Rivett sends the player to gather up some wood for a hozen outhouse, from which he'll collect the "deposits" himself. In the following quest, the player jumps into a "Skat Shooting Vehicle" and uses the methane bombs to repel the jinyu.
Ken-Ken believes that the despair gripping the guards at Zhu's Watch is due to a bad case of "spooky-dooks." ("Dooks get scared sometimes, don't wanna come out. Poor, fluffy mopey-dopes must be ready to explode by now!") He sends the player to gather ingredients for an old hozen remedy. When he later tests the completed remedy on a nearby guard, it causes the pandaren's stomach to churn violently, forcing him to run to a nearby bush. During the followup, [15-35] Why So Serious?, the same guard says, "Ugh... what was that stuff? It went through me like bad tea."
Your Hatchling escaped from its pen and "had an accident," leaving piles of poop all over the Arboretum. They must be cleaned up before the Serpent Masters find out.
In order to create some camouflage for the Bravo Company field kit, the player is tasked with gathering piles of leaves and fox poop. ("What did you think camo was made of?") In the followingtwo quests, the player is given the field kit which provides, among other things, the ability to stealth by covering themselves in the aforementioned leaves and poop.
Shortly after entering Uldum, the player and Adarrah's caravan are captured by pygmies and sold to the Neferset tribe in a cutscene. After the cutscene, the player and Adarrah find themselves in a small cage in the Lost City of the Tol'vir, locked in with a pile of poop on the ground. Adarrah comments: "Smells like someone else was in this cell recently. Gross!"
Auld Stonespire asks the player to gather the peculiar guano produced by the bats native to Razorfen Kraul. The guano's stench seems to be sending the quilboar into a murderous frenzy, but Auld believes that he may be able to reverse its effects and produce an antidote. The original version of the quest instead had the player gather the same guano for Master Apothecary Faranell's alchemical experiments in the Undercity.
The player has obtained an [Illegible Orc Letter] from a Windshear Overseer. Unfortunately, it's in Orcish and it smells like toilet paper. After the player takes it to Minx to figure it out, she reveals that it's an order from Horde high command—and it's written in a mixture of kodo poop and blood.
Drag Master Miglen (for Alliance players) or Rugfizzle (for Horde players) have been trapped in the Submerged Outhouse in the underwater Raceway Ruins. The player needs to collect a crowbar from the nearby pirates and free them before they drown.
The goblins of the Bilgewater Cartel have gained an interest in the crystalline substance known as azsharite. Assistant Greely sends the player to persuade the local mountain giants to reveal the origin of the substance. A friendly giant named Gormungan informs them that what mortals refer to as "azsharite" is actually mountain giant droppings, and that mountain giants only relieve themselves every 15 to 25 years, barring any "tummy trouble." When Greely hears of this, she attempts to speed up "production" by having the player attempt to feed a laxative to Gormungan; when that fails, she has the player attempt to scare the giants with a rat. This fails as well, and a disappointed Greely states that azsharite will remain "the rarest substance on the planet" and that the goblins will simply have to use it sparingly.
The local wyverns have been leaving large turds all over the Sludgewerks. The overseer Jibbly Rakit does not wish to be pooped on and sends the player to kill the wyverns. The Sludgewerks Enforcers in the area frequently and loudly complain about the situation.
The player finds several revolting pieces of mushroom-like fungus on the bodies of cave beasts in Ahn'kahet. Wondering if the fungi are the kind of thing nerubians find appetizing, the player brings them to Kilix the Unraveler... who informs them that the cave beasts have no traditional method of excreting their waste, and states that the player might want to wash their hands. Kilix thanks the player for the thought but asks them to keep any additional fungi they find for themselves.
Iggy "Tailspin" Cogtoggle believes that the wolves of the Scalding Pools have eaten the microfilm from his mission. He tasks the player with placing pouches of noxious gorloc spices on the ground, after which they will hopefully be able to find the microfilm in the wolves' droppings. Iggy mentions that "I'd offer you my special lupus pupus scupus for the job, but I left it back at the airstrip. I'm afraid you'll have to conduct the... err... search the old-fashioned way."
At Amberpine Lodge, the player finds a bucket filled with delicious amberseeds and hungrily devours them. When Master Woodsman Anderhol finds out, he tells the player that they have just eaten an entire harvest's worth of the magical seeds. He insists that the player set things right and that the seeds need to come out as soon as possible before they are fully digested. He tasks the player with gathering ingredients to make a purgative, [Anderhol's Slider Cider], then sends them out to the nearby outhouse. After the business is done and the player returns the partially processed amberseeds to Anderhol, the woodsman can be seen handing the seeds over to Benjamin Jacobs to put them back in the bucket again, with the implication that this has happened several times before.
Engineer Feknut has been sent to Rivenwood to gather bat guano for Bombardier Petrov's cluster bombs back at Westguard Keep. Apparently afraid of the giant bats, Feknut asks the player to gather the guano for him by dropping firecrackers beneath the bats, in hopes of scaring the guano right out of the beasts. During [10-30 Daily] Break the Blockade, the player uses the guano-enhanced bombs to help Petrov break the pirate blockade in the Shattered Straits below Westguard.
Elementalist Lo'ap tasks the player with gathering a large amount of digested caracoli from piles of animal dung throughout Nagrand. He then crafts the caracoli into a tablet which allows the player to breathe water when placed under the tongue and given ample time to dissolve.
Foreman Razelcraz suspects that one of his felhounds has eaten his shredder keys. He tasks the player with killing helboars for the felhound to eat in the hopes that the keys will come out in the hound's leavings.
Locheed has been locked inside an outhouse by the Dark Iron dwarves. He asks the player to teach them a lesson, and also to gather some [Silk Cloth] "for... for... nothin'." On completion, Locheed expresses satisfaction at receiving the cloth, and, almost as an afterthought, thanks the player for killing the Dark Iron Geologists as well, mentioning that "That'll give me some time to finish up in here..."
[15-30] A Rare Bean
[The Chirpsnide Auto-Excre-Collector].
[Twilight Silk], he finishes up, then lights a match "to take care of the fumes." The outhouse promptly explodes into flame, though Angus comes out unscathed aside from his pants.
[Garrison Resources] and 
[Rooby Roo's Ruby Rollar].
[Illegible Orc Letter] from a Windshear Overseer. Unfortunately, it's in Orcish and it smells like toilet paper. After the player takes it to Minx to figure it out, she reveals that it's an order from Horde high command—and it's written in a mixture of kodo poop and blood.
[Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops], causing his "bowels to cry out in anguish." Following his outhouse trip, Orkus attempts to spy on a meeting between Vanndar Stormpike and Balinda Stonehearth, and the potent smell gives away his position.
[Anderhol's Slider Cider], then sends them out to the nearby outhouse. After the business is done and the player returns the partially processed amberseeds to Anderhol, the woodsman can be seen handing the seeds over to Benjamin Jacobs to put them back in the bucket again, with the implication that this has happened several times before.
[Felhound Tracker Kit] to gather crystallized azsharite, which Loramus admits is actually formed from mountain giant excrement. This story element was further explored in post-
[Silk Cloth] "for... for... nothin'." On completion, Locheed expresses satisfaction at receiving the cloth, and, almost as an afterthought, thanks the player for killing the Dark Iron Geologists as well, mentioning that "That'll give me some time to finish up in here..."