Jani's Trashpile Mount and the Battle for Azeroth Meta
How to earn Jani's Trashpile: the retroactive Battle for Azeroth meta A Farewell to Arms, its five raids, and 18 account-wide achievements.
By:
John Langan
Key Takeaways
- Jani's Trashpile is a Battle for Azeroth transformation mount added in Patch 11.0.7 (December 17, 2024): you ride as Jani, the troll trash-loa of Zuldazar.
- It rewards the retroactive meta-achievement A Farewell to Arms (achievement 40953), whose progress is account-wide.
- The meta bundles 18 sub-achievements spanning the whole expansion: raids, dungeons, questing, reputations, Island Expeditions, Nazjatar, Mechagon, N'Zoth assaults, and Horrific Visions.
- All five BfA raids are required on Normal or higher: Uldir, Battle of Dazar'alor, Crucible of Storms, The Eternal Palace, and Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
- Completing it also grants two housing decor items, MOTHER's Titanic Brazier and N'Zoth's Captured Eye.
- Jani's Trashpile is part of Blizzard's per-expansion retro-meta series, alongside Shadowlands' Zovaal's Soul Eater and Dragonflight's Taivan.
Years after Battle for Azeroth wrapped, Blizzard went back and built a proper send-off for it. Patch 11.0.7 added a retroactive expansion meta-achievement that finally puts a mount on the shelf for players who saw the whole story through, and the reward is one of the more characterful ones in the collection. Here is exactly what earning it takes and how it fits the pattern Blizzard has set for older expansions.
What Jani's Trashpile Actually Is
Jani's Trashpile is not a creature you sit on: it is a transformation. Mount up and you become Jani himself, the small saurid trash-loa of Zuldazar, half-buried in a heap of junk and rummaged treasure. Your weapons stay visible, and using /mountspecial triggers a raptor-style roar. The flavor line sells the whole joke: "One mon's trash be another mon's loa! Hek hek hek..." Jani is the loa of scavengers and rummagers in troll lore, so becoming a walking pile of his hoard is very on-brand.
It is a ground mount, and it slots neatly next to the other loa-flavored collectibles a Zandalari-leaning collector chases. If your goal is simply to add it to the stable, you can grab this old-expansion collector mount without grinding every criterion yourself.
A Farewell to Arms: The Retroactive BfA Meta
The mount comes from A Farewell to Arms (achievement 40953), a meta Blizzard slotted into Patch 11.0.7 "Siren Isle" on December 17, 2024, long after Battle for Azeroth had ended. That timing is the point: it lets returning and newer players clean up BfA content at max level and walk away with a trophy for it.
Progress is account-wide, so you do not have to finish everything on one character. Anything you completed back when BfA was current already counts, which means a lot of long-time players are closer to the mount than they realize. Alongside Jani's Trashpile, finishing the meta also drops two housing decor pieces, MOTHER's Titanic Brazier and N'Zoth's Captured Eye.
What the Meta Requires
A Farewell to Arms asks for 18 sub-achievements that together cover almost every major system BfA shipped. The headline requirement is the raids, and this is where a lot of quick guides get it wrong: you need all five, each on Normal difficulty or higher.
- Raids: Uldir, Battle of Dazar'alor, Crucible of Storms, The Eternal Palace, and Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
- Dungeons: the Battle for Azeroth dungeon-clear meta.
- Questing: "I'm On Island Time" for the six leveling zones of Zandalar and Kul Tiras, plus "War Stories" for the war campaign.
- Reputations: "Azerothian Diplomat" for the expansion's factions.
- Island Expeditions: "Expedition Leader."
- Zone content: "Undersea Usurper" in Nazjatar and "Mecha-Done" in Mechagon.
- Endgame: the N'Zoth assault meta and "Through the Depths of Visions" for Horrific Visions, plus leveling your Heart of Azeroth.
- Collections: "Dressed to Kill: Battle for Azeroth" for the transmog appearances.
Most of these are trivial to solo now that the whole expansion sits far below the current level cap. If you would rather have the achievement chain handled for you, WowCarry can unlock the BfA meta-achievement faster and deliver the mount.
Part of a Per-Expansion Series
A Farewell to Arms did not appear in isolation. Blizzard has been adding one retroactive meta-mount per older expansion, and Jani's Trashpile is Battle for Azeroth's entry. The pattern is easy to track once you see it laid out:
| Expansion | Meta-achievement | Reward mount |
|---|---|---|
| Battle for Azeroth | A Farewell to Arms | Jani's Trashpile |
| Shadowlands | Back from the Beyond | Zovaal's Soul Eater |
| Dragonflight | A World Awoken | Taivan |
One clarification worth making, since older summaries get it wrong: A World Awoken is the Dragonflight meta, not a Legion one, and it awards the loyal hound mount Taivan. Legion never received a single retroactive meta-mount in this style.
FAQ
How do you get the Jani's Trashpile mount?
Complete the account-wide meta-achievement A Farewell to Arms (40953) by finishing its 18 Battle for Azeroth sub-achievements, including all five BfA raids on Normal or higher. The mount is delivered on completion.
What patch added the Battle for Azeroth meta mount?
Patch 11.0.7 "Siren Isle," which went live on December 17, 2024 during The War Within. Blizzard added it retroactively, years after BfA ended.
Which raids count toward the BfA meta?
All five, each on Normal difficulty or higher: Uldir, Battle of Dazar'alor, Crucible of Storms, The Eternal Palace, and Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
Who is Jani?
Jani is the troll loa of scavengers and rummagers in Zuldazar. The mount transforms you into a small saurid form of Jani covered in trash and junk, which is where the "One mon's trash be another mon's loa" line comes from.
Is progress on A Farewell to Arms account-wide?
Yes. Sub-achievement progress is shared across your whole account, so anything you finished while BfA was current still counts and you can chip away on multiple characters.
Are there other rewards besides the mount?
Yes. Completing the meta also grants two housing decor items, MOTHER's Titanic Brazier and N'Zoth's Captured Eye.
Are there similar meta mounts for other expansions?
Yes. Shadowlands has Back from the Beyond rewarding Zovaal's Soul Eater, and Dragonflight has A World Awoken rewarding Taivan. Battle for Azeroth's is A Farewell to Arms rewarding Jani's Trashpile.
Is any part of the meta slow to finish now?
A few criteria are RNG- or time-gated, since some pieces depend on world-quest rotations and rare drops in the Nazjatar, Mechagon, and Horrific Vision content. The raids themselves are trivial to solo at the current level cap.
Last reviewed 2026-07-19 against Patch 11.0.7 Siren Isle. Maintained by WowCarry's WoW team.