World of Warcraft Patch 12.1.5 already has a seven-million-gold utility mount, a new one-boss raid and a Labyrinth large enough to make ordinary Delves look slightly embarrassed. Apparently the mount team still felt the update lacked personality. The latest PTR datamining has uncovered several additional mounts, including a rideable witch’s cauldron, an ancient Loa construct, an Aqir Swarmer, a Fel Wolf and four motorcycles belonging to a family Blizzard has genuinely named the Hot Motocross Bunmover.
The motorcycles come in 4000, 4200, 4400 and 4600 variants. Current PTR data points toward the Trading Post as their source, while the Living Heartsbane Cauldron is presently listed as an In-Game Shop mount. We do not yet know when most of them will become obtainable or what their final prices will be, but Patch 12.1.5 is rapidly becoming a dangerous update for anyone whose real endgame is making the Mount Journal number go up.
The Living Heartsbane Cauldron Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
The Living Heartsbane Cauldron may be the strangest of the newly datamined models. It is essentially a massive Drust-style witch’s cauldron that functions as a mount, allowing your character to travel around Azeroth inside equipment normally associated with suspicious green liquid and quests where somebody has misplaced twelve mushrooms.
Its current description explains that the wicker constructs of the Drust can be both deadly and useful, and that a sufficiently cunning witch can “both brew and travel simultaneously.” More importantly for collectors, PTR data currently lists the mount’s source as the In-Game Shop.
That means this one does not presently look like another expensive gold sink. We already have enough of those. the Sporebearer Fungal Strider costs five million gold before its optional Auction House and transmog NPCs push the complete utility package to seven million. The Cauldron appears aimed at a different part of the collection economy: people who have always looked at Drust witchcraft and thought it needed better ground speed.
Then There Is the Hot Motocross Bunmover 4000
The other obvious highlight is a new motorcycle model with one of Blizzard’s better recent naming decisions. The Hot Motocross Bunmover 4000 is joined by the Bunmover 4200, 4400 and 4600, with the four numbers representing different color variants of the same general mount design.
Current data points toward all four being Trading Post rewards. Their flavor text suggests the joke is completely intentional. One warns that its contents may be “hot and delicious,” while another describes itself as riding the line between Sweet and Savory Avenue. The Bunmover 4600 apparently represents what happens “when dessert manufacturing meets speed optimization,” while intact bun delivery is not guaranteed.
World of Warcraft has motorcycles built by goblins, motorcycles made of fire and motorcycles tied to promotions. Apparently the unexplored design space was commercial bakery logistics.
We have already seen how quickly unusual vehicles can wreck a monthly Tender budget. August’s three Trading Post mounts alone cost 1,750 Trader’s Tender, while September has gone considerably further by bringing a huge collection of old Trading Post rewards back through the special Outlet. Four Bunmovers entering that reward pipeline gives collectors another reason to avoid spending Tender merely because a hat looked friendly.
Kindo’jan Has a Mount Too
Not everything appears to come from a shop. The Loa-Blessed Wayfarer is currently connected to the achievement Let Me Solo Him: Kindo’Jan, making it look like a reward associated with the new Labyrinth content.
That is particularly interesting after the latest PTR map revealed just how substantial the Labyrinth of Kindo’jan appears compared with a normal Delve. The activity has sprawling paths and multiple sections, while another datamined achievement asks players to defeat Kindo’jan alone on Tier 11 during the first reset for the Fabled Vanquisher of Kindo’jan title.
The Loa-Blessed Wayfarer therefore gives high-end solo players something more tangible than bragging rights. Its description calls it an ancient construct tasked with ferrying spirits to De Other Side, which is a considerably more dignified transportation service than whatever the Bunmover is doing with baked goods.
The Aqir Are Providing Transportation Too
Patch 12.1.5 also contains the Corrupted Swarmer, an Aqir-themed mount fitting the update’s wider Old God infestation. Its current description says Aqir swarmers feast on heroes and cowards alike to grow their ranks, which is probably not the sentence you want printed in the owner’s manual.
Its acquisition source is still listed as TODO in current PTR data, so we should not pretend we know precisely how it will be earned. The obvious thematic connection is Patch 12.1.5’s new Aqir Invasions, the hourly outdoor events that give players only ten minutes to complete as many objectives as possible, but the final source has not been confirmed.
There is also a new Fel Wolf model in the datamine. Its final name and acquisition method remain unclear, so for now it belongs in the traditional PTR category of “very cool thing we know exists but cannot responsibly tell you how to get.”
Patch 12.1.5 Is Quietly Becoming a Huge Collector Patch
The mount list is starting to match the rest of Patch 12.1.5’s collector content. The update already includes the limited-time Sporebearer Fungal Strider, Aqir rewards, new Housing decorations and additional cosmetics. Even players watching BlizzCon can earn another flying mount plus 200 Trader’s Tender through the BlizzCon 2026 viewership rewards, which may prove useful if the Bunmovers eventually begin charging rent in your currency tab.
There is an important PTR warning attached to all of this. Sources, names, prices and even whether individual mounts reach live servers in their current form can change before Patch 12.1.5 launches. The Living Heartsbane Cauldron is currently marked for the In-Game Shop, the Bunmovers currently point toward the Trading Post and the Loa-Blessed Wayfarer currently has an achievement source, but datamining is not the same thing as Blizzard announcing the final release plan.
The models themselves, however, give a pretty clear indication of where the mount team’s priorities are.
Patch 12.1.5 will let you ride an ancient Loa construct.
You can apparently become an Aqir taxi driver.
You may be able to travel around inside a witch’s cauldron.
And somewhere in Azeroth, somebody has built a motorcycle specifically for moving buns at dangerous speeds.
World of Warcraft remains a serious fantasy universe.
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