Diablo 4‘s Season of Slaughter has one simple, irresistible allure: you can play as the Butcher. Before you embody the vicious demon, though, you need a Meaty Offering, a new seasonal consumable—so don’t go putting on an apron just yet.
Meaty Offerings are required for a balanced diet of destruction and pandemonium in Diablo 4. These resources let you turn into the Butcher by interacting with a Shrine of Slaughter in Helltides, which will show a “Requires Meaty Offering” message whenever you’re near. Here’s how to get this resource.
How to get Meaty Offering in Diablo 4 Season of Slaughter
We’ve found two main ways to get Meaty Offerings in Diablo 4, and one is way more fun than the other. The first one is as a reward from Helltide Chests, also known as Tortured Gifts. Opening them requires Aberrant Cinders, the classic resource from Helltide.
The second (and far most fun) is by completing Slaughterhouses, special mini-dungeons that let you control the Butcher and mow down mobs of enemies on your path. Completing one can award you with a Meaty Offering and some leveled high-tier loot. Sure, we’d be doing them for free, but we won’t complain about the shiny Legendaries we got.
Getting Meaty Offerings requires Aberrant Cinders or Slaughterhouse Keys, and they both come from Helltides.
All the age-old methods for obtaining Aberrant Cinders in Diablo 4‘s Helltides are fair game, but in Season of Slaughter, there’s a new way to grab hundreds of them easily: become the Butcher, or at least hang around one.
Whenever a player activates the Shrine of Slaughter, hordes of demons will emerge from the ground. If you’re nearby, that means heaps of XP, Brutality, and Aberrant Cinders. We got 10 levels and almost a thousand Cinders in mere minutes doing that. Just keep your eye on the Helltide timer: once it ends, all your Aberrant Cinders go away, and you have to start anew.
This is also how you can get Slaughterhouse Keys. Outside of the seasonal story, we’ve gotten them naturally from enemy drops near an active Shrine of Slaughter, which might be the play.
If there’s no friendly Butcher around, though, you can always revert back to tried-and-true methods like doing events (marked by a glowing orange circle on your map). You may not need to memorize Helltide Chest locations anymore, but if you need a little help with finding them, helltides.com is still in full swing.
