Last updated: May 21 2025

OSRS Tower of Life Quest Guide

OSRS Tower of Life Quest Guide

Tower of life is a quest where a group of alchemists attempts to create a living creature. 

 

General Questing recommendations

  • Enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section. 
  • Hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog. 

 

Skill requirements for Tower of Life

10 construction

 

Item requirements for Tower of Life

  • Beer
  • Hammer
  • Saw

 

Obtaining the required items for Ironman

  • Beer: They can be bought from any bar.
  • Hammer: They can be bought sawmill Operator.
  • Saw: They can be bought sawmill Operator.

 

It has no quest requirements and no enemies to defeat.

 

Walkthrough for Tower of Life Quest

  • Talk to Effigy outside the Tower of Life. Reply 1 to start the quest.

location of Efiggy 

Efiggy

  • Talk to Bonafido, who is north of the tower.

Bonafido

  • Talk to ‘Black-eye’. Reply 3, 1, 2 to get the Hard Hat. 
  • Talk to ‘No fingers’, who is also at the northern part of the Tower.

No fingers

  • Right-click to Pickpocket “No fingers”. It might take a few tries. 

Pickpocket No finger

  • Talk to ‘The Guns’.
  • Search the bushes to the south for some Builder’s Trousers. Try the southeast bushes first.

getting builder clothes  

  • Equip the builder clothes and speak to Bonafido. Reply 2, 3, 1, 2. 
  • Bring a saw and hammer, then enter the tower.

Entrance to tower  

  • Search the crate for 3 metal sheets. Build the Pressure Machine.

crate 1 in Tower  

  • Search the second crate, just south of the first, for four coloured balls.

crate 2 in Tower  

  • Search the eastern crate for 4 valve wheels.

eastern crate in Tower

  • Climb up stairs to the machine.

Stairs of tower  

Fixing Pipe Machine

  • Left-click and reply 1 to fix the pipe machine.

pipe machine  

  • Calibrate the pipe machine.

Calibrating the pipe machine  

  • Turn wheel 1 to the left until the ball plugs the hole
  • Turn wheel 1 to the right until the pipe fills
  • Pull the left lever
  • Turn wheel 2 to the left until the ball plugs the hole.
  • Turn wheel 2 to the right until the pipe fills
  • Turn wheel 3 to the right until the water starts dripping.
  • Turn wheel 3 left once to plug the hole.
  • Turn wheel 3 to the right until the pipe fills.
  • Pull the right lever.
  • Turn wheel 4 to the right until the water starts dripping.
  • Turn wheel 4 left once to plug the hole.
  • Turn wheel 4 to the right until the pipe fills. 
  • You will receive a message saying the machine is working when the pressure machine is as below.

Calibrated pipe machine

  • Climb downstairs and search this crate for 4 pipes.

crate 3 in tower  

  • Search the crate east of the first crate for 5 pipe rings.

crate 4 in Tower  

  • Search the crate for 6 Rivets, then climb upstairs twice this time.

crate 5 in tower

Fixing second Pipe machine 

  • Left-click the pipe machine, then reply 1 to fix it.

fix pipe machine

  • For this puzzle, players must position each pipe correctly by using the symbols below to move and rotate them until they fit into the right spots.

Puzzle for pipe machine

Completed puzzle for tower of life 

  • Climb downstairs to the last floor and search the crates.
  • Search the southern crate for 5 metal bars and 4 binding fluids.

metal bar and binding fluid  

  • Climb up to the top floor. By climbing up the stairs twice, then climb up the ladder.

climbing up to top floor in Tower    

Fixing Cage

  • Build the cage. 

fixing cage in Tower

Cage fixing interface

  • Quick guide:
    When each side is finished, turn the cage with the right arrow.

Side One

  1. Horizontal: Size 2
  2. Horizontal: Size 3
  3. Vertical: Size 2

This side of the cage is now complete

Side Two

  1. Horizontal: Size 2
  2. Vertical: Size 4
  3. Vertical: Size 2

This side of the cage is now complete

Side Three

  1. Horizontal: Size 4
  2. Vertical: Size 2
  3. Vertical: Size 3

This side of the cage is now complete.

Side Four

  1. Horizontal: Size 2
  2. Horizontal: Size 2
  3. Vertical: Size 2

The cage should now be complete!

  • Climb downstairs and go back outside to talk to Effigy at the west side of the Tower.
  • Open the tower door and climb up to the top floor, following the alchemists.
  • After the cutscence, climb down to the last floor and talk to Efiggy again. 
  • Go back into the tower and talk to the Homonculus on the top floor of the tower. Reply 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1.
  • Climb down to the last floor again and talk to Efiggy on the west side of the Tower.
  • Talk to the Homonculus in the basement. Open the basement door west to complete the quest. 

Homonculus in Tower

 

Rewards from Tower of Life

Rewards from Tower of life              

  • 2 Quest Points
  • 1,000 construction XP
  • 500 crafting XP
  • 500 thieving XP
  • Creature Creation Access
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