Enter the Svartrau distillery, clear its guards, resolve the worker’s dialogue and interact with the brewing equipment to sabotage it. You do not need a letter if you have already found the site. The journal’s completion requirement is the ruined equipment, so defeating soldiers alone leaves work unfinished.
Find the city yard and trigger the activity
- Look for the gated distillery yard in Neustadt, the Svartrau district identified by ATH. Enter and confirm Coercion and Duress in the tracker. This is the city operation, not the barn or forest-cave distillery.
- If you discovered the Letter of Reprimand through a pillory encounter, reading it is another lead reported by ATH. Gamer Guides explicitly allows starting by entering the distillery. Do not leave an already active objective merely to hunt for that letter.
Clear the defenders and speak to the worker
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Defeat the guards and check the interior passages for remaining defenders. Do not infer a fixed wave count from a single fight screenshot. Once the confrontation reaches the Distillery Worker, read his dialogue rather than treating him as another soldier.
The Distillery Worker explains his situation. The frame does not show the mercy choice itself. · All Things How / Rebel Wolves -
To let him survive, choose the response telling him to leave before Coen changes his mind. ATH also records questions about why he stayed and options to kill or feed on him. Sparing him does not replace the machinery interaction or prevent sabotage.
Sabotage the equipment and confirm the result
- Follow the tracked sabotage objective to the equipment and complete the displayed interaction. Use your own device’s prompt; the reference image is a location cue, not a universal key-binding guide. The task HUD and Gamer Guides both show three time segments.
- Open the journal and check that the outcome says the distillery has been shut down. A passing-time notification alone is not proof of this specific outcome. If sabotage remains active, return to the equipment rather than only searching fallen guards.
Missing interaction and conflicting reward claims
Check the quest title, surviving guards, unfinished worker dialogue and machinery interaction in that order. The database separates dealing with the guards and worker from destroying the distillery. It also records an alternative endgame outcome in which the job was not dealt with; do not treat that as successful sabotage.
ATH’s two versions disagree between 19 and 22 XP and both claim 250 currency. The reviewed aftermath image shows passing time and damaged equipment, but no reward tally. Those fixed reward claims remain unconfirmed here, and its different tracked quest does not establish an additional objective for this activity.
You may emerge in another part of the day depending on the starting time. Do not assume every run ends in morning. Check Court activity progression after completing the job.