November 14, 2025 We’re working on figuring out how to complete the Black Ops 7 Ashes of the Damned easter egg right now, and will keep updating this guide as we learn more.
How do you complete the Ashes of the Damned main quest? . While the BO7 co-op campaign provides a fun few hours before unlocking the all-new Endgame mode, and MP offers the same rampant chaos as ever, we can’t overlook the best part of any new Treyarch game: Zombies easter eggs.
Only one main Zombies map launched in Black Ops 7 on day one, but it’s a big one, and this might be the biggest Zombies easter egg we’ve ever seen. With a heavy focus on your new ride, Ol’ Tessie, this quest takes you further than your feet will carry you, and a series of upgrades even turn your truck into one of the BO7 Wonder Weapons. Do all of that and more with our walkthrough for the Ashes of the Damned main quest.
These are the steps to completing the Ashes of the Damned main quest easter egg. As ever, a lot of these can be completed in different orders:
- First off, follow the directed steps to unlock your Pack-A-Punch on wheels.
- Free Klaus from his cell and use him to collect the Aether Barrel and obtain the Wonder Weapon.
- Collect the Abomination Carcass from Reba’s Diner.
- Use this Ol’ Tessie upgrade to destroy purple plants and collect Horde Chunks.
- Get Human Bones from a corpse at Vandorn Farm.
- Obtain the Jar of Spores from the main house at Blackwater Lake.
- Kill a Ravager at a Saw Trap and collect Ravager Eyes.
- Kill a Zursa with Tessie’s Beam to obtain the Mysterious Limb.
- Use a Wisp and Wonder Weapon to activate the mysterious mirror.
- Decipher the code in Yuri’s Lab.
Obtain the Necrofluid Gauntlet
To craft the Necrofluid Gauntlet, the Ashes of the Damned Wonder Weapon, you must activate Klaus and get him to help you obtain the Aether Barrel. Take this to the basement in Vandorn Farm and use it to obtain the Wonder Weapon.
Now, you must get the Stabilizer Chip item. An Uber Klaus will spawn behind a truck to the northwest of Janus Towers Plaza after round 8. Kill him, and collect the item he drops.
Next, take this Chip to Klaus in his cell in Ashwood. Enter the chip into the panel on the gate, and then throw a stun grenade at his head. Once you get it, though, stars will spin around Klaus’ head before he gets up and frees himself from the cell.
Find him outside, where you can interact with him, and the party leader can control his location.
Now head to Support Systems in Zarya Cosmodrome, and ask Klaus to move to the broken panel on the wall. At this point, you must stand inside the red circle until the scan completes. Use Field Upgrades and teammates here for protection. If you fail, you just need to start the next Round to be able to interact with the panel again.
Now take the barrel to each of the Power Pumps in turn, place it inside, and protect it from attack while it extracts. The tough thing here is that the canister contents decay as you travel between pumps, so you have to move quickly.
Once filled, offer the canister to the cube in the basement room in Vandorn Farm, and interact with the eye. You must then match three symbols on the cube with three symbols around the map. These symbols change in every match, but are found on the roof of buildings around the area. They don’t have to be entered in any order, but only one symbol will be an option on each side.
To see the symbols, you need to use the jump pad between Vandorn Farm and Janus Towers Plaza. The three symbols are glowing red. If you’re unsure, it might be worth capturing the video of your flight.
Match the symbols, interact with the eye again, and the Necrofluid Gauntlet will be granted. Complete the subsequent lockdown by destroying red bulbs with the gauntlet’s barb recall.
Collect the Abomination Carcass from Reba’s Diner
Head to the diner and kill zombies inside until one of them drops the Freezer key. Use it to unlock the double freeze in the hallway, and collect the Abomination Carcass.
Head back to a garage with reliable Ol’ Tessie and upgrade her again, adding the Abomination Carcass this time.
Use Ol’ Tessie to destroy purple plants and collect Horde Chunks
Now use her to destroy the giant, glowing purple plants found on the main highways between POIs. Make sure you get out of Ol’ Tessie to pick up the Horde Chunks that drop from the plants.
There are multiple plants, but the item will only drop from one. If you don’t get it from the first, keep going.
Get Human Bones from a corpse at Vandorn Farm
Throw a combat axe at one of the hanging corpses in the main Vandorn farmhouse, and it will drop a foot. Next, burn the flesh from the foot with a Molotov to obtain the Human Bones item.
Obtain the Jar of Spores from the main house at Blackwater Lake
Head to the kitchen in the main house at Blackwater Lake. We’re not sure whether this is a little bugged, but there is a Jar of Spores in the sink on the southern wall of the kitchen. However, it doesn’t seem anyone, including us, is able to see this jar. We managed to obtain the item by interacting with the top right-hand corner of the sink, so just keep clicking in the general area, and you should eventually pick up the item.
Kill a Ravager at a Saw Trap to obtain Ravager Eyes
This one’s as simple as it sounds, but be careful, as the first Ravager killed by the trap will drop the Ravager Eyes item. If you think you might have already done this, head back to the Saw Trap you used and check the area.
Kill a Zursa with Tessie’s Beam and collect the Mysterious Limb
Similarly, Zursas start to spawn from Round 15. Killing one of these should drop a Mysterious Limb. However, as we have seen in previous easter eggs, it might not be the first one. If they’re not dropping the item, you’re unfortunately just going to have to keep pushing Rounds.
Use a Wisp and the Gauntlet on the mysterious mirror
There’s a glowing mirror in the Tailer Shop in Ashwood. Purchase the Wisp Tea Perk-A-Cola or use a Gobblegum and shoot Zombies in the mirror room until the Wisp activates the mirror.
Once you have the Necrofluid Gauntlet, shoot the mirror to obtain Powder of the Forgotten, a Serum ingredient. Take this powder to Yuri’s Lab and interact with a tray on the table to reveal a hidden Pigpen code on the wall above.
Decipher the code in Yuri’s Lab
With the Serum items collected: Horde Chunks, Ravager Eyes, Human Bones, Mysterious Limb, Jar of Spores, and Powder of the Forgotten, head back to Yuri’s Lab. Interact with the tray that is missing the powder. This will start a fire under the beaker and reveal a code on the chalkboard above.
This is Pigpen code, and we’ve posted a guide to deciphering it above. At the moment, we don’t know all the possibilities, but deciphering the code will give you three words. Read these words from right to left and not top to bottom, this is the order you should interact with three of the other items on the table to trigger the next event. You’ll be put into a brief lockdown, and the team member who triggered the event will have limited health. Survive to continue.
Ashes of the Damned quest rewards
The quest rewards for completing the full Ashes of the Damned easter egg are the Oorah! Operator skin for Dempsey, 10,000 XP, and a map-themed Calling Card.
Just like in BO6, there are two versions of the Calling Card, the normal version and an exclusive version for players who complete the quest before Directed Mode is added.
With this step-by-step guide to the Ashes of the Damned main quest, you’re ready to head into the distorted Janus Towers Plaza and fire up Ol’ Tessie. Take a look at our guide to the best BO7 weapons to ensure you’re kitted out as best you can be, and pack some of our favorite BO7 Gobblegums into your loadout.