After completing the tutorial inThrone and Liberty, you’ll arrive at Kastleton, where you can explore, take on side quests, or follow your destiny as a Star-Born in the main storyline. As you progress through the game, even more options will open up to you.

The Unidentified Contaminant Exploration Quest in Windhill Shores is one of the first you’ll be able to attempt, but can be confusing to complete. Below, we’ll take a look at how to fulfill every step of this quest, including how to get a crab wet.

The player kiting a Large Stone Crab into the water to make it wet, with the wet status effect circled.

How To Complete The Unidentified Contaminant Exploration Quest

To start this quest, head down to thelighthousein theWindhill Shores. You can use theorange hook chain spotsto easily climb up to the landing of the lighthouse, where you can find theWindhill Shores Researcherto start this quest.

Speak to the Researcher, then grab aMagical Reagentfrom the shelves nearby. Once you pick up the Reagent, you’ll haveone minute to complete the next objective. With the Reagent in hand,glide down to one of the three floating platforms, then interact with it.

If you get the Reagent wet before doing this, or if you run out of time, you’ll have to grab another Magical Reagent and try again.

Now, you’ll need todefeat a Large Stone Crab that has gotten wet. To do this,attack oneto have it start attacking you, thenrun into the nearby water. The crab should follow you, and upon stepping into the water, get wet. Once you see that the crab has theWet status effect(indicated by a blue water drop icon), you can safely defeat it to complete this quest.

For completing this quest, you’ll gain some experience Sollant, and a few Quality Armor and Weapon Growthstones.