Genshin Impact In the Dwelling of Life World Quest Guide: Full Walkthrough & Puzzle Solutions

How to Start Genshin Impact In the Dwelling of Life Quest

The In the Dwelling of Life World Quest Genshin Impact path begins southwest of Morepesok, not in a Katheryne dialogue.

You have to:

• Progress the Archon Quest Everwinter Without Mercy, specifically the Great Deeds on the Tundra stretch that lets you reach Snezhnograd.
• Activate the Statue of the Seven in Snezhnograd so Flamefeather Valley becomes reachable.
• Have the Eye of Graeae and its Prime Ice Construct toolkit (Grappling Gun, cubes, launching platforms). You get these during the Archon Quest.
• Adventure Rank high enough to be in Snezhnaya 7.0 content.

Starting Location: Teleport to the Statue of the Seven in Flamefeather Valley, west of Morepesok. Walk south toward the frozen pond and the broken train wreck. A pack of Volkodlak led by The Anvil is waiting there. Approaching them starts combat and locks in the first subquest, A Sprout Without a Gardener.

Fast-travel options can be listed for you as follows if you already unlocked the area:

• Event waypoint from Mutual Aid in Bloom: Into the Frostlands, then walk southwest.
• Snezhnaya train to Morepesok Station (left side of the station map), then walk to the statue.

You do not need a separate NPC handshake. The In the Dwelling of Life quest begins the moment the Volkodlak fight ends and The Anvil talks about a stash in the blocked tunnel.

Quest Overview: Every Subquest in Order

Plan on about 90 minutes if you already understand Prime Ice Constructs. First-timers who fight the Grappling Gun menu will take longer. The chain also unlocks more of Flamefeather Valley and feeds the later Eye of Graeae questline On One Side a Palace, on the Other a Tomb.

Rewards, Achievement, and Why This Chain Matters

Rewards are one of the main Version 7.0 world-quest spines. It is not optional flavor. Completing Genshin In the Dwelling of Life unlocks underground routes, extra waypoints in Flamefeather Valley, and the next piece of the Eye of Graeae story. Treat it like a Sumeru Aranara chain: skip it and later map progress feels broken.

So, here is an overview of rewards you can collect there:

Achievement: Gather for Everlasting Happiness (Snezhnaya: Sacred City of Ice and Pale Star I) — awarded when Chorus of Solace finishes.

A Sprout Without a Gardener: Full Walkthrough

After The Anvil goes down, he points you west to the blocked mine. The objective flips to Clear the obstacle blocking the tunnel entrance.

Tunnel-Clear Puzzle

1. Look at the mine cart held by a Grappling Gun.
2. Open the Prime Ice Construct build menu, hover the existing Grappling Gun, and dismantle it.
3. The cart slams into the rubble and opens the cave.

Go inside. Create a new Grappling Gun next to the hook on the left wall so the latch opens. Pull the hook on the container stack the same way to smash the crate and grab the Exquisite Chest.

Keep walking the container path until you find the unconscious girl. That is Nastya who is a Leshy child with living branches in her hair. Talk to her. She wants to go home to Okurov. Follow her, open the remaining latches with Grappling Guns, and escort her out of the abandoned tunnel. The first In the Dwelling of Life genshin quest chapter ends when you leave the mine together.

Transplanted From “Yesterday” to “Tomorrow”

Nastya leads you toward the assembly hall and treats Doctor Moreau (“Doctor Birdie”) like family. This chapter is an escort with one building puzzle.

• Build a Grappling Gun at the marked window, jump in, and pull the lever behind the counter so Nastya can enter.
• Climb to the roof, pull the next lever, then follow her downstairs.
• When she vanishes and a force shield appears, go right. Follow the water if you lose the marker.
• Fight the awakening Leshy. Stellar Glimmer / Cryo-friendly teams make this pack trivial.
• Keep following until the floor drops you into the cavern. Elements cut out for a moment and the Eye of Graeae shifts you into its third-person construct mode. That drop is the handoff into the sewer.

Genshin In the Dwelling of Life summary for this stretch is: Nastya is not a lost child in the normal sense. She is already halfway through a transformation the town calls “family.”

Down in the Dumps: Sewer Escape and Three Keycards

This is the longest mechanical chapter in the Genshin Impact In the Dwelling of Life World Quest. Read the Sewer Entrance/Exit Guide on the table. You need Blue, White, and Red keycards. Grab the Gunstock blueprint in the same control room before you leave.

Doors and wheels:

• First sealed door: use the nearby control wheel.
• Next door: the wheel is sitting on boxes. Install it, lift the gate, then double-tap sprint to slide under it.

Water crossing: Use a Pyro grenade / launcher setting to destroy the blocking crates. Build a Grappling Gun on the far side and hop the floating plank.

Blue key:

• Take Blue off the control panel in the guide room.
• Slot it into the left door terminal to lift that gate.
• Build a cube in the doorway so the gate stays up when you pull the card back out.
• Use Blue on the next terminal to drop the water. Yank the card fast and sprint through the downstairs door before the water rises again.

White key:

• Inside the drained side room, Grappling-Gun the blocked path and pick up White.
• Slot White next to the Blue terminal outside. Paimon fetches Blue for you.
• Use Blue on the lower door to open the pipe climb toward Red.

Red key:

• Climb the pipes, clear the Leshy pack, take Red.
• Return to the main board, collect Blue and White again, and insert all three at the circular door.

A sealed Leshy tube wakes when you inspect it. Kill the Leshy and pull the Control Wheel off its head. Install that wheel, ride the lift, and return to the surface. Paimon will blame Zhara. She is not wrong.

Back on One’s Feet: Ove’s House and the Control Wheel

Okurov looks abandoned because “No-Nose” Ove locked the elevator and hid the wheel. Nastya cannot get past him. So, you have to:

• Stack the boxes in front of Ove’s door, climb to the roof, and drop through the chimney.
• Inside, Pyro-blast the wooden crates that hide the cellar stairs.
• Grappling-Gun the wall blockade. Pick up the loose lever, open the inner gate, and grab the Precious Chest before the fight.
• If the next gap is too tight, build a cube to give yourself slide room, then double-tap sprint under the door.
• Take the elevator Control Wheel from the cellar and leave.

Regroup with Nastya and slot the wheel into the town elevator. That ends Back on One’s Feet and dumps you at the assembly hall for Furiosa.

Forbidding Doors of Melancholy: Furiosa and the Curtain Puzzle

Furiosa is the branched “protector” Nastya admires. She does not want you in the Hall of Prayers. You have to defeat her with ranged pressure and the new Snezhnaya gun tools work. If your on-fielder still feels soft after the sewer, this is the moment a cheap top-up through Enjoygm actually matters: Furiosa and the later firebird both punish underbuilt teams more than the earlier Volkodlak pack.

After the fight, Nastya slips through the small hole in the main door and opens it from the inside. Stay together. She will not split the party.

Curtain / Chandelier Puzzle

1. Grappling-Gun the first chandelier to pull it down, climb on, then dismantle the gun so the chandelier rises with you.
2. Repeat across chandeliers until you reach the far lever.
3. Paimon counts down. Pull only when she says “ONE.” Pull early and the door stays shut.
4. At the giant disk/wheel, Grappling-Gun the disk, place a cube in the broken gap so it cannot slam back, then dismantle the gun. Ride the elevator.

Trap Room

Now you have to investigate three notes (two on the ground floor, one upstairs). The third note locks you in and sends Leshies at Nastya. Cover her from range until she reaches you and hands over the item. Use that item on the altar/console to kill the trap and open the secret passage.

The dial at the “door leading to home” is a pattern lock. Nastya shows the matching shape and breaks off one of her own twigs as “salt” to replace the body of the past. That ritual language is the core of In the Dwelling of Life genshin explained: soul (sulfur), will (silver), body (the new twig).

To Rest in a Forgotten Field and Chorus of Solace

There is only one path here so just follow it. Zhara (also called the immortal firebird in some combat logs) waits at the end. Burn it down with the gun and whatever Cryo/Pyro pressure you brought. The Eye of Graeae will comment on the “grand art” sitting in the bird’s body.

Chorus of Solace is the landing. Nastya chooses the Perfect Tree with Doctor Moreau, her mother, and an unchanging courtyard  over leaving with you, and she dissolves into blue algae. You recover a fragment of the Eye of Graeae from the egg/crystal, meet Aksinya (the Royal Jester who built the Eye), and the chain closes. Achievement pops. Pebble of Serpentine Algae hits the inventory.

That is the full Genshin In the Dwelling of Life ending. The next related chain is On One Side a Palace, on the Other a Tomb.

If you like long regional questlines with offering systems and map unlocks, you can refer to our Genshin Impact Frost Moon Quest guide as it is the same kind of structured walkthrough for the earlier Nod-Krai moon chain.

Puzzle Solutions Cheat Sheet

Conclusion

That brings an end to our Genshin Impact In the Dwelling of Life World quest guide. From here, keep clearing Snezhnaya world quests in the same session while the construct muscle memory is fresh. The region is built so each chain teaches the next tool.