Creature Creation

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Creature Creation is a Minigame found in the basement of the Tower of Life. After the Tower of Life quest, you can use the trapdoor on the ground floor of the tower to enter the basement. You do not need to wear the Builder's costume to enter the tower once the quest has been completed.

Creature Creation is a minigame that allows players to make unique monsters, which can be attacked for their drops. Some of the monsters drop multiples of items that are otherwise hard to get or expensive to purchase, such as Unicorn horns, which is used to make Unicorn horn dust for Herblore.

If you need food while playing the minigame, Triangle sandwiches are available nearby by pickpocketing the workers outside the tower. 'Black-eye', 'Gummy', 'The Guns', and 'No fingers' can be pickpocketed, but not Bonafido.

There are 6 Altars of Life used to create creatures:

Altar	Creature (level)	Ingredients	Always drops	May drop
North-east	Newtroost (19)	1 Eye of newt, 1 Chicken feather	4-12 Eyes of Newt, Bones	Rune Satchel, Tea Flask
North-west	Unicow (25)	1 Cowhide, 1 Unicorn horn	2-4 Unicorn horns, Bones	Green Satchel, Tea Flask
South-east	Spidine (42)	1 Red spiders' eggs , 1 Raw sardine	3-6 Red spiders' eggs , Bones	Red Satchel, Tea Flask
South-west	Swordchick (46)	1 Raw Swordfish, 1 Raw chicken	12-40 Feathers, Bones	2-12 Raw Chickens, Black Satchel, Tea Flask
East	Jubster (87)	1 Raw jubbly bird, 1 Raw Lobster	3 Raw jubbly birds, Bones	Gold Satchel, Tea Flask
West	Frogeel (103)	1 Raw Cave Eel, 1 Giant Frog Legs	5-12(?) Cave Eels, Bones	Plain Satchel, Tea Flask

Players use several items to create the monsters. The items can all be purchased on the Grand Exchange or gathered from various places in the game:

• Eye of newt. These are purchasable for 3 coins each at Herblore shops or the Port Sarim magic shop. Some monsters (outside of Creature Creation) also drop eyes of newt, although not often.
• Feathers. These can be obtained by killing Chickens.
• Raw jubbly. These can be obtained by hunting Jubbly birds. This require completion of a considerable amount of the Recipe for Disaster quest, however.
• 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.
• 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. Chickens can be found on many farms throughout RuneScape.
• Giant frog legs. Giant frogs inhabit the Lumbridge Swamp Caves.
• Raw cave eel. 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, but only in small numbers. Black Unicorns can be found in some number in the Wilderness, although Revenants may attack you there.
• Cow hide. Cows can be killed for their hides and are found at many farms.

Mixing the two correct items at the altar creates the mixed creature. All but one of the monsters in turn drops one of their ingredients in quantity on each killed. (The swordchick always drops feathers and only occasionally drops raw chickens.)

• Unicows for example drop unicorn horns.
• The monsters occasionally drop various types of Satchels (black, gold, green, plain, red, rune). These can be held in the shield slot and can hold a triangle sandwich, cake, and a banana.
• The monsters occasionally drop Tea flasks, which can hold the contents of up to five Cups of tea.

[edit] Tips

• For fast banking, either use Fairy ring code DJP to get to the Tower of Life and bank in Zanaris or walk from the Ardougne Teleport location and use a jewellery-based teleport to a bank.
• The spidine, which requires red spider eggs and raw sardines, is useful as it drops red spider eggs in larger numbers (3-5). The fishing store in Witchaven has raw sardines in stock. There could be other fishing stores with supplies of raw sardines (e.g. Catherby, Jatizso). 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.

Wearing an Ardougne Cloak can greatly increase the number of unicorn horns earned per trip since it will make many of the drops noted.  Take around 20+ cowhides and only one unicorn horn.  Leave your cloak off for the first unicow so that you get only unnoted horns, and any time you have to use your last unnoted horn.  With an Ardougne Cloak 3 it's not difficult to end up with over 40 unicorn horns per trip.

• If you plan on creating a particular creature repeatedly over time, you can leave its altar "pre-charged" for your next trip. Simply place the two items on it but do not activate the altar. You will not lose the items ever and the altar is ready for use the next time you return. That way, if you forget the "single" item (for example, you brought a load of cow hides but not one unicorn horn) you can still use the altar rather than having to go back to a bank.

[edit] Music

Music:

• Mutant Medley

[edit] Trivia

• The Homunculus of alchemy were created by combining parts of different animals to create a hybrid.
• Items not stacking in bank? - RS Forum from Mod Ash, Jagex Mod: "We'd just like to clarify that some of the new items from the Tower of Life quest don't stack in your bank, and are NOT MEANT to stack in your bank. (The reasons involve data being stored on the object rather than on your character. It's a new concept that we haven't tried before, but basically it means that you can have several tea flasks with different amounts of tea stored in each one, and the tea doesn't mysteriously pass from one flask to another. There's far more we can do with this idea in future - it's not just limited to tea.)"
• 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.
• All the hybrid monsters drop bones, even if you cannot get bones from either of their originating creatures. For example, a spidine drops bones. Sardines don't drop bones (you fish them, not fight them), and deadly red spiders do not drop any remains.
• If you look closely at the map you'll notice that the lab in the middle resembles the symbol of Zamorak since the area is a act of necromancy.

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