--- title: 30 Floors Up Roblox Eli: Taking the Boy Home From Floor 29 description: Eli is a boy alone on floor 29 of 30 Floors Up. How to clear the floor for him, walk him home, and the key in his pillowcase that opens his parents’ room and a hiking pack. url: https://30floorsupguide.wiki/neighbors/eli/ --- Floor 28 · Neighbors # 30 Floors Up Roblox Eli: taking him home **Short answer:** Eli is a boy alone on **floor 29**: he woke up and everyone, and their bags, was gone. Clear the zombies on his floor, then walk him back to his apartment one floor up. Once home he tells you the key is in his **pillowcase**; it opens his parents’ room, where players found a **hiking pack**, a flashlight, a folded blanket and food. ## Where is Eli? Behind one of the doors on **floor 29**, which is boarded up in places and full of zombies. When you open his door he asks if you are “one of them”, then tells you he woke up and everybody was gone, bags and all, so he came down. He wants to go home. ## How do you take Eli home? - **Clear floor 29.** He tells you the ones on this floor stay close to him. Use the [hit-and-step-back rhythm](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/survival/zombies-and-combat/) on each one. - **Talk to him again** once it is quiet; he asks you to take him back. - **Walk him up one floor** to his apartment. He follows behind you; zombies go for you, not him, but more can appear on the way, so keep moving. - **Talk to him at home.** He says it still smells like home and that you can rest there. ## What do you get? He hands you the key from his pillowcase (“Dad’s big bag is in there”). It unlocks his parents’ room. In the one recording that finished this quest, the room held: | Item | Use | | --- | --- | | **Hiking pack** | More inventory slots; listed with six in that run ([backpacks](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/items/backpacks-and-light/)) | | Flashlight | Spare light | | Folded blanket | Not shown being used | | Food | Add it to your pantry | Players had earlier seen a child’s bedroom with a drawing of a tall building and a house-rules note, and a parents’ room that was locked; that matches Eli’s home. ## What happens to Eli after? He stays in his apartment. No recording shows a later quest from him yet. ## Is the escort dangerous? Less than it looks. In the recording, zombies ignored Eli and went for the player, and he kept close behind on the stairs. The danger is the usual one: more zombies appearing on the floor you just cleared, and a narrow stairwell with no room to step back. Clear the landing before you lead him onto it, and do not stop to loot on the way. ## Why bother? The hiking pack is one of the few inventory upgrades in the game, and the parents’ room also gives you a spare flashlight and food. It is also the quest with the clearest reward among those recorded so far: Arthur Hail’s pays in information, Dev Patel’s had not been finished. ## What do the notes in Eli’s home say? Before meeting Eli, one player dropped through a vent into a flat with a child’s bedroom. The notes there read like a family that left in a hurry: a child’s drawing described as “a tall building”, a page of house rules for emergencies, and a packing list on the kitchen counter. The parents’ room was locked. Eli later tells you everyone took their bags, and his key opens that room. Read the notes you find: they are how the game tells the story of the tower. ## Watch it in 30 Floors Up Roblox - [30 Floors Up Roblox Ep. 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics) RyanThaGamer · recorded 8 November 2026 jump to [11:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics&t=661s), [21:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics&t=1288s), [22:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics&t=1348s), [23:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics&t=1412s), [23:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLyWZ4wics&t=1433s) Checked 8 November 2026 against recordings from 2–8 November 2026 (Update 1.0) and the official Roblox page. [How this guide checks facts](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/about/#how). ## More Neighbors guides - [Daniel Daniel from next door knocks on the first night of 30 Floors Up. What he says, what happens if you let him in, talk on the chain or ignore him, and what he does later.](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/neighbors/daniel/) - [Arthur Hail Arthur Hail is trapped behind a jammed door on floor 28 of 30 Floors Up. How to free him, the hammer or screwdriver and bandage he asks for, his note and what he tells you about the building.](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/neighbors/arthur-hail/) - [Every neighbor Every survivor players have met in 30 Floors Up with floor, request and reward: Daniel, Ruth, Mara, Arthur Hail, Eli, Dev Patel and the residents only mentioned in notes.](https://30floorsupguide.wiki/neighbors/everyone/)