Something That Doesn’t Melt

Quest Giver: Zivlix — Nozzlerust Post, Dragonblight [55, 23]

Objective: Collect 12 Splintered Bone Chunks from dragon skeletons east of Nozzlerust Post.

Quick Facts

• Level: 74
• Quest Chain: Shaved Ice (1 of 3) → Soft Packaging (2 of 3) → Something That Doesn’t Melt (3 of 3)

Walkthrough

• Head east from Nozzlerust Post to the massive dragon skeletons scattered across the Dragon Wastes. Splintered Bone Chunks are ground objects lying around the bases of these skeletons. No killing required.
• Best skeleton locations: The dragon skull at [57, 24] is closest to Nozzlerust Post and a good starting point. Larger skeletons at [60, 27] and [63, 28] have more spawn points (one player found 7-8 chunks in a single lap around one skeleton). Additional chunks spawn near [53, 25].
• Chunks respawn quickly. If you don’t find 12 on your first pass, just do a lap around a large skeleton, and they’ll reappear.
• Watch for patrolling Hulking Jormungar (elite) near the larger skeletons. Keep the skeleton between you and the worm as you collect. Smaller Jormungar Tunnelers also roam the area but are non-elite and avoidable.
• Known issue: Bone Chunk spawns may stall temporarily, possibly due to shared spawn caps with Stocking Up crate objects. If chunks stop appearing at one skeleton, move to a different one.

Do Alongside

• Hard to Swallow — Available from Xink at the same time. Requires you to use Potent Explosive Charges on a weakened Hulking Jormungar in this same area to collect Seared Jormungar Meat. You’ll be walking right past these elites anyway.

Reward Highlight

• Thunder Capacitor — One of the reward choices is a caster DPS trinket that fires a Lightning Bolt for ~1,181-1,371 damage after you accumulate 4 spell critical strikes. It’s an upgraded version of The Lightning Capacitor from Karazhan (its tooltip even reads “New and improved!”). It’s a strong pre-raid trinket for caster specs, with one Balance Druid noting it competed with Sundial of the Exiled in simulations. Worth considering over the other rewards if you play a crit-based caster.

Completion Event

• Turning in this quest triggers a scripted scene: Zivlix launches his completed Destruction Machine, which takes off and starts flying toward Coldwind Heights. He gleefully announces the control components are working… then asks “Who to test the bomb on? The Harpies?” The Mistress of the Coldwind promptly shoots the machine out of the sky. Classic goblin engineering.

Easter Egg

• The quest title and Zivlix’s dialogue are a reference to MythBusters. The show tested whether an ice bullet could be fired from a gun and remain lethal. The result: the ice simply vaporized under the heat and pressure of the gunpowder, dealing no ballistic damage. Hence Zivlix’s frustration that his ice shards keep melting, forcing him to find “something that doesn’t melt” for the shrapnel.

Lore Note

The dragon skeletons you’re scavenging from are ancient remains in the Dragon Wastes, where dragons have traditionally come to die.

Galakrond, the massive proto-dragon whose skeleton dominates this region, is the progenitor of all dragonkind. The jormungar worms gnawing on these bones are feeding on the residual magical energy, which is why Zivlix thinks the splintered fragments will make effective shrapnel.

Explore Dragonblight’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Dragonblight Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.