Creature Creation

The Homunculus in the Tower of Life dungeon.

Creature Creation is a solo activity that involves creating unique hybrid monsters and killing them for their drops. It can be found in the Tower of Life dungeon after completing the Tower of Life quest. A trapdoor on the ground floor of the tower leads to the dungeon. The Builder's costume is not required to enter the tower once the quest has been completed.

Some of the monsters drop multiples of items that are otherwise hard to get or expensive to purchase, such as Unicorn horns, which are used to make Unicorn horn dust for Herblore. Players who have completed tiers of the Ardougne diary will receive these drops in noted form.

Some of the monsters are dangerous, so bringing food may be advised. Players needing food while creating creatures can pickpocket the workers outside the tower to obtain triangle sandwiches. 'Black-eye', 'Gummy', 'The Guns', and 'No fingers' can be pickpocketed, but not Bonafido.

A cannon can be used here.

Altars of Life

An Altar of Life.

There are six Altars of Life, each dedicated to a different hybrid monster. Placing one each of two ingredients at the correct altar primes the altar. Noted items cannot be used as ingredients. The primed altar must be activated to create the mixed creature. All but one of the monsters in turn drop one of their ingredients, which makes continuous creation easier; however, after completion of the easy and medium Ardougne Diaries, these drops will be noted. The monsters occasionally also drop various types of satchels (the colour depends on the creature) and tea flasks. The satchels are held in the shield slot and can hold one triangle sandwich, one cake, and one banana. The tea flasks can hold the contents of up to five cups of tea.

A map of the Tower of Life dungeon

Players use several items to create the monsters:

• Eye of newt. These are purchasable for 3 coins each at Herblore shops or the Port Sarim magic shop, either individually or in packs of 100.
• Feathers. These can be obtained by killing chickens, which can be found on many farms throughout Gielinor or purchased at any Fishing Shop for 2 coins each individually or in packs of 100.
• Raw jubbly. These can be obtained by hunting Jubbly birds. The ability to hunt them requires the completion of a considerable amount of the Recipe for Disaster quest.
• Raw lobster. Lobsters can be caught using the Fishing skill.
• Raw sardine. Sardines can be caught using the Fishing skill. Some fishing shops sell sardines (You can buy these in Rellekka and quickly deposit them at Peer the Seer with completion of the Fremennik Easy Diary).
• Red spiders' eggs. These can be gathered in places inhabited by deadly red spiders. The spider chamber in the wilderness section of the Edgeville Dungeon has several egg spawns.
• Raw swordfish. Swordfish can be caught using the Fishing skill.
• Raw chicken. These can be obtained by killing chickens.
• Giant frog legs. Theses are dropped by Giant frogs, which inhabit the Lumbridge Swamp Caves.
• Raw cave eel. Cave eels inhabit the Lumbridge Swamp Caves and can be caught using the Fishing skill.
• Unicorn horn. Unicorns can be slain for their horns. Unicorns can be found near Varrock, Edgeville, and Rellekka in small numbers. Larger herds of black unicorns can be found in the Wilderness, but beware of player killers.
• Cowhide. Cows can be killed for their hides and are found at many farms.

Altar	Creature (level)		Ingredients	Always Drops	May Drop	Average Profit
North-east		Newtroost (19)	1 Eye of newt 1 Feather	4-10 Eye of newt	Rune satchel	−3
North-west		Unicow (25)	1 Cowhide 1 Unicorn horn	2-4 Unicorn horns	Green satchel	−246
South-east		Spidine (42)	1 Red spiders' eggs 1 Raw sardine	3-6 Red spiders' eggs	Red satchel	−72
South-west		Swordchick (46)	1 Raw swordfish 1 Raw chicken	10-40 Feathers	Black satchel	−153
East		Jubster (87)	1 Raw jubbly 1 Raw lobster	3-7 Raw jubbly	Gold satchel	−74
West		Frogeel (103)	1 Raw cave eel 1 Giant frog legs	5-10 Raw cave eels	Plain satchel	−6,651

Tips

• For fast banking, either use Fairy ring code DJP to get to the Tower of Life and bank in Zanaris or at Shayzien Encampment (Fairy ring code DJR) or walk from the Ardougne Teleport location and use a jewellery-based teleport to a bank. Fairy rings are the quickest method, but their use requires partial completion of the Fairytale II - Cure a Queen quest.
• When killing the creatures to get the 'ingredient drops', bring one of the ingredient that is always dropped and several of the other ingredient. This allows the altar to be used multiple times in one trip. For efficiency, the goal is to fill inventory as much as practical with the desired item. Use trial and error to determine how many of the always-consumed ingredient to bring. (This method does not work with swordchicks, since they do not drop raw chickens.)
• For more efficiency and convenience, before leaving the dungeon, prime the altar with both ingredients without activating the altar. The items will still be present when the player returns, allowing the altar to be activated, no matter how long a time the player is away. This method is particularly recommended for forgetful players who might forget to take the 'single' item (for example, the player brought a load of cow hides but not one unicorn horn).
• The spidine, which requires red spider eggs and raw sardines, is useful as it drops red spider eggs in larger numbers (3-5). Use Ishmael's Fish He Sells in the Ruins of Unkah to stock up on raw sardines. One raw sardine will yield about 3.5 red spider's eggs on average. It takes around 8 raw sardines to collect a full load of red spider eggs.
• The unicow is perhaps the fastest method in the game to obtain unicorn horns in quantity without spending money. Kill some cows close to a bank and bank the cow hides (or buy cowhides). There is a cow pen just north of the Ardougne market outside the city walls. Each cowhide creates one unicow, which drops 2 to 4 unicorn horns. However, you will need one of the horns to make the next unicow, so bring lots of cow hides to get a full inventory of unicorn horns. It typically takes 10-13 cow hides to get a full inventory of unicorn horns.
• The different levels of the Ardougne Diary cause some of the drops from the creatures to be noted. This may mean that you are unable to re-use drops to summon the creatures again. However, the Ardougne south bank is not too far away.
• It is possible to find ranged/magic safespots, although it may be impractical to do so most of the time.

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:11 October 2022| |0}} {{#explode:11 October 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 October 2022| |2}}]] (update)	Spam-clicking the altars no longer accidentally consumes a player's ingredients.
[[{{#explode:5 October 2022| |0}} {{#explode:5 October 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 October 2022| |2}}]] (update)	The altars have had their dialogue boxes streamlined to reduce the clicking required to use them.
[[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |0}} {{#explode:5 March 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Drops from creatures become noted depending on the tier of Ardougne diary completed; the items that will be noted increases from easy to hard diaries.

Trivia

• The Homunculus of alchemy were created by combining parts of different animals to create a hybrid.
• A Homunculus was viewed as a possible by-product of Alchemy in the days when it was believed to be true. They were human-like in manner and appearance but lacked a soul.