How to Complete The Great Outdoors in WoW: Forever (Campfire /sit Fix)

The Great Outdoors is the quest that introduces camping, one of the biggest new systems in World of Warcraft: Forever – and since launch it has also been one of the quests players get stuck on most. The task sounds trivial: sit by a campfire. But for a lot of players the "Sit near the campfire" objective simply refuses to tick over. This guide covers where to find the quest, what you actually have to do, and the workaround that gets most people unstuck.

This guide is up to date for World of Warcraft: Forever as live since November 4, 2026 (launch version, after the November 5–6 hotfixes).

Quick answer

Where to get The Great Outdoors

The quest isn't tied to one race. It shows up in several starting regions, so the name of the NPC and the exact campfire depend on where you began. What they have in common: the giver is a camping-themed adventurer standing next to a small campfire, and you'll meet them shortly after you leave your very first area. Two confirmed examples:

• Tirisfal Glades (Undead): Eleanor Shackleton, a Forsaken adventurer just southwest of Brill, at roughly 57.3, 55.5. Besides The Great Outdoors she also hands out the profession-themed Camping 101 quests.
• Zephras Isle (Skyborne): Raan Wildwind, at a tent around 41.7, 44.7 in the Shen'dar Highlands. You're sent to him after turning in The Adventurer.

If you're elsewhere, look for a yellow "!" next to a campfire near your first town, or check who you were sent to by the quest The Adventurer.

Step-by-step

1. Accept the quest from the adventurer. The campfire you need is the one right next to them – not a random fire elsewhere in town, and not one another player built.
2. Walk into the fire's radius until you see the "Campfire Nearby" effect.
3. Sit down. Press X (the default sit key) or type /sit in chat.
4. Watch your buffs. A Welcoming Campfire effect appears and counts down from about 60 seconds. Stay seated the whole time.
5. Get the rested buff. When the timer finishes you receive the camp's rest effect (shown as Boosted Rest), which completes the second objective.
6. Turn in with the same NPC. The follow-up quests introduce early professions and crafting – including the Camping 101 quests that give you your profession's first camp item for free.

Stuck on "0/1 Sit near the campfire"? Do this

The most common bug since launch is that sitting simply doesn't register. You're on the ground, right by the fire, and the tracker still says 0/1. The workaround that has worked for most players:

1. Stay seated. Do not stand up or move.
2. Type /sit again while already sitting.
3. Check the quest tracker – "Sit near the campfire" should now be complete.
4. Keep sitting for the full minute so the rested buff can apply.

If that fails, try these in order:

• Clear your target (press Escape) and repeat the double /sit.
• Use the sit key first, then /sit – some players only got credit with that combination.
• Log out and back in, return to the fire and try again.
• Abandon and re-accept only as a last resort – the bug affects the sitting check, not the quest itself, so restarting normally isn't needed.

As of November 9, Blizzard has not listed a fix for this quest in its November 5 or November 6 hotfixes, so the workaround is still the way through. Guided notes the double /sit is a community workaround first documented on Wowhead, not an official Blizzard solution.

How camping works (so the quest makes sense)

The Great Outdoors is a tutorial for Forever's camping system:

• Campfires are built with Cooking. A Basic Campfire needs Cooking skill 1, Flint and Tinder and Simple Wood, burns for around 10 minutes and has room for three camp features.
• Camp features come from other professions – for example the Camp Tent (Leatherworking) or Camp Chair (Skinning) – and buff everyone who sits nearby.
• Sit for a minute inside a camp's radius to collect its buffs. You can sit on the ground or on a Camp Chair.
• Rested XP from a camp is a nice boost while leveling, but it has its own cooldown, so you can't chain it at every fire you pass.

Common mistakes

• Using the wrong fire. The objective is tied to the quest giver's campfire. A player-built fire nearby won't count for this quest.
• Standing up between the two /sit commands. That resets the attempt.
• Leaving before the minute is up. Sitting completes objective one; the rested buff (objective two) needs the full countdown.
• Spamming /sit after it already worked. Once the sitting objective is done, extra /sit does nothing – just wait out the timer.
• Expecting waiting alone to fix it. If the first objective is stuck, sitting longer won't help. Use the double /sit.

What's next

Once you've turned it in, pick up the Camping 101 quest for a profession you plan to train – the first camp item comes free. For the rest of your early quests, see our WoW: Forever quest guides, and when you hit 40, our guide to getting your first mount.