Animal Magnetism OSRS Guide: Requirements and Ava's Device

Overview

Animal Magnetism is the quest that gives you Ava's device, the cape-slot item that recovers your fired ammo. You need 18 Slayer, 19 Crafting, 30 Ranged and 35 Woodcutting to start, none of them boostable, plus The Restless Ghost, Ernest the Chicken and Priest in Peril. Finish below 50 Ranged and Ava gives you her attractor; at 50 Ranged or higher you get the accumulator.

The accumulator picks up 72% of your ammo automatically and the attractor 60%, so either one saves money from the first trip. There are no fights. The quest is a chain of errands between Draynor Manor, the undead chicken farm near Port Phasmatys, the old crone by the Slayer Tower, Turael in Burthorpe and the Rimmington mine.

Bring the full item list on the first trip: a mithril axe, 5 unnoted iron bars, a hammer, a ghostspeak amulet, 20 ecto-tokens, a holy symbol, hard leather and polished buttons.

Requirements and Prerequisites

All four skills are needed to start the quest and none can be boosted.

Quest requirements:

• The Restless Ghost, which also gives you the ghostspeak amulet you need
• Ernest the Chicken
• Priest in Peril

Items to Bring

The axe and holy symbol get swapped for a blessed axe, the iron bars become the magnet, and the hard leather and polished buttons go into the container at the end.

Required

• Mithril axe (required to obtain the blessed axe; no other type of axe will do)
• 5 iron bars, unnoted
• Ghostspeak amulet (Morytania legs will not work)
• 20 ecto-tokens (or 4 bones, 4 buckets and 4 pots to gain the tokens)
• Hammer
• Hard leather
• Holy symbol
• Polished buttons

Recommended

• 10 more ecto-tokens to buy an undead chicken that you can keep
• Stamina or energy potion
• Draynor Manor: Draynor Manor Teleport, amulet of glory to Draynor Village, or fairy ring DIS to the nearby Wizard's Tower
• Port Phasmatys: Ectophial, charter ships or fairy ring ALQ
• Slayer Tower: Slayer ring, Fenkenstrain's Castle Teleport, Kharyrll Teleport, Salve Graveyard Teleport or fairy ring CKS
• Burthorpe: games necklace, Burthorpe Games Room minigame teleport, combat bracelet to the Warriors' Guild, Taverley teleport, or Teleport to House with a Taverley house
• Rimmington: Rimmington teleport, Teleport to House with a Rimmington house, skills necklace to the Crafting Guild, or Rat Pits minigame teleport

Where to Start

Starting location: Talk to Ava in Draynor Manor.

Ava is in the west wing. Choose Talk, not Trade: if she says she is busy with her research and the quest does not start, you picked Trade.

Walkthrough, Stage by Stage

Steps follow the wiki quick guide in order. Dialogue options are in brackets.

1. 1

   Undead chickens.

   Speak with Ava in the west wing of Draynor Manor and complete the dialogue. (dialogue: I would be happy to make your home into a better place.)

2. 2

   Travel to the undead chicken farm west of the Ectofuntus with your ghostspeak amulet and ecto-tokens (or materials for them), and talk to Alice. (dialogue: I'm here about a quest.)

3. 3

   Keep talking between Alice and Malcolm in the cow pen 4 times until she tells you to go to talk to the old crone for an amulet.

4. 4

   Run west of the farm until you reach the old crone's house just east of the Slayer Tower.

5. 5

   Speak twice to the old crone to receive a crone-made amulet.

   (dialogue: I'm here about the farmers east of here.)

6. 6

   Speak with Malcolm to give him the crone-made amulet.

   (dialogue: Okay, you need it more than I do, I suppose.)

7. 7

   Speak with Malcolm again.

8. 8

   After the cutscene, speak to Malcolm, who now sells you two undead chickens for 20 ecto-tokens.

   (dialogue: Could I buy those chickens now? → Could I buy two chickens?)

9. 9

   Magnet.

   Take your 5 iron bars, hammer, and two undead chickens back to the west wing of Draynor Manor and speak to Ava.

10. 10

    Speak to the Witch in the north-west corner of Draynor Manor (inside the building).

11. 11

    Speak to the Witch again to receive a selected iron.

12. 12

    Take the selected iron to the centre of the Rimmington mine, face north, and use the hammer on it.

13. 13

    Return to Ava and give her the magnet.

14. 14

    Undead twigs.

    Speak with Ava.

15. 15

    Use your mithril axe on an undead tree (not a dead tree) in front of the Manor.

    The undead trees have a yellow examine.

16. 16

    Speak with Turael, the Slayer master in a house in south-eastern Burthorpe.

    (dialogue: I'm here about a quest.)

17. 17

    Speak with Turael again to receive the blessed axe, with a mithril axe and a holy symbol in your inventory. (dialogue: Hello, I'm here about those trees again. → I'd love one, thanks.)

18. 18

    Return to the Manor and cut the undead tree again.

19. 19

    Bring the undead twigs to Ava.

20. 20

    Speak with Ava again, and she will give you garbled research notes to translate.

21. 21

    To translate them, turn off all the green orbs except the 2nd, 5th and 9th, counting left to right.

22. 22

    Speak with Ava again.

23. 23

    Combine the translated notes with the polished buttons and the hard leather.

24. 24

    Give the container to Ava to complete the quest.

The Research Notes Puzzle

This is the only puzzle in Animal Magnetism. Ava's notes come out garbled, and you fix them by switching orbs on and off.

• Turn off every green orb except the 2nd, 5th and 9th, counting from the left.
• Once the notes read properly, talk to Ava again.
• Use the translated notes with the polished buttons and hard leather to make the container she asks for.

Ava's Devices After the Quest

Your Ranged level when you finish decides which device you get, and you can upgrade later through Ava. Every version stops working if you wear a metal body, and Ahrim's robetop counts as one.

The accumulator adds +4 Ranged attack and the assembler +8 Ranged attack and +2 Ranged strength. If you are still training, our Ranged guide covers the fastest way to 50 and 70.

Rewards and Unlocks

The XP is small. The device is why the quest sits near the top of most early route plans.

Common Mistakes and Warnings

Animal Magnetism delays are almost always a missing item.

• Wearing Morytania legs instead of a ghostspeak amulet. The legs do not work for this quest.
• Bringing a rune or dragon axe. Turael only blesses a mithril axe.
• Bringing noted iron bars. All 5 must be unnoted.
• Choosing Trade on Ava instead of Talk, so the quest never starts.
• Chopping a dead tree instead of the undead tree in front of the Manor.
• Buying exactly 20 ecto-tokens when you also want a spare undead chicken to keep. That costs 10 more.

Ironman Notes

If you have no holy symbol, Brother Jered on the upper floor of the Edgeville Monastery blesses an unblessed one, and reaching him needs 31 Prayer. A holy book or Book of Balance also blesses it at 50 Prayer after Horror from the Deep.

Four Ectofuntus worships with 4 bones, 4 buckets and 4 pots cover the 20 ecto-tokens for the chickens.

A house in Rimmington makes the magnet trip one teleport.

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