Hogwarts Legacy - Wish I Knew Sooner | Room of Requirement Guide, Tips & Tricks

The Room of Requirement will become your home away from home in Hogwarts Legacy. You'll brew potions, grow plants, and raise fantastic beast, but do you really know how to take full advantage of this incredible player housing system? In this guide we share tons of tips and tricks we wish we knew sooner about the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts Legacy.

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0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Potion Mastery
3:47 - Green Thumb (Plants & Herbology)
6:02 - Funding Your Hobbies (Gold Tips)
7:06 - What To Do Next?
8:33 - Vivarium Tips & Tricks
11:57 - Join The Community!

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[nobuine]

One thing I would like to be able to do is to interact with furniture, like sit down in the chairs. It's a small thing, but that would make it feel more like a POH.

[coreyboggs]

I was surprised practice dummies weren’t available for the room

[alistairt]

As someone who loves exploring, I never had issues with money, ingredients, and materials. Lots of chests to open, gears to sell, and moonstones galore. I reached level 33, and haven't even done Sebastian's quest to visit his sister in Feldcroft(I have it on my quest list lol). I just unlocked my vivarium and just learnt to catch(I mean save) creatures. There's so much to see and do in this game. I can't imagine already reaching endgame 😅

[hohoho]

they should really default the transfiguration spells and the beast related spells when you visit the room of requirement. such a pain to reset the combo every time

[jorggamingcr]

Is it just me or having several herbology pots growing plants and waiting to harvest them feels like the good old Farmville days? XD

[shamrock]

The Beast Feeder is a great upgrade for the Vivarium, makes things super quick. You just brush them and collect goodies.

[jefthereaper]

Extra section opens up:
"Neat! let me just decorate it and put it full of planters and potion stations!"
few quests later the room is fully decorated, I go in to pick up my potions and plants as usual when suddenly a whole new section opens up behind it.
Making the room larger but also breaking up the infrastructure I created and removing half of my wall decorations.
>:-(

[MrSpleenboy]

A few things I've learned:
The largest of each of the potting stations (5 small pots, 3 medium, 2 large) actually take up a considerably smaller volume in the space than the medium ones do, so skipping the mediums is totally legit
1. Unicorns and Thestrals don't seem to get along, try to keep them in separate vivariums
2. Hippogriffs scare Nifflers - they don't actively antagonize them, but the Nifflers will often run away from the Hippogriffs when they squawk and flap their wings
3. Kneazles seem to be super chill, and don't give a shit about any other beast type
4. I tried the dung composters, but they only increase the yield by 1 (i.e. 5 becomes 6). I didn't try any further than that, so I don't know if you can stack multiple fertilizers in one pot? I ended up just binning them, as the normal yield is plenty, unless you're on Bastard mode (which I've not tried yet)
5. Further to the point above, I found the cutting stations to be better value than fertilizer, but their output is random, like the hopping pot
6. Not related to ROR, but the lock mini game - the unlock positions almost always line up with the markers on the inner and outer rings on the mechanism (hopefully you'll understand what I mean when you look at the locks in game), so you can cut out a huge amount of twiddling just by going straight to the markers

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the breeding beasts challenge doesn't actually require you to breed every single type of beast: I've yet to capture a Graphorn, and only have a female Unicorn, but have completed the challenge - it only requires 10 of the 12 breedable beasts to do (since there's only 1 phoenix and you can't breed it).
Double edit: Actually, that's a point - If there's only one phoenix, and it's in your Vivarium, how are other merchants supplying it?!?

[HuntressGamer]

Great guide! I just wish we could have more than 12 animals per vivarium, there's so many different colours in some magical beasts that is difficult to choose which ones to keep .

[larrybedoya]

This is a basic beginner video, NOT a "Things i wish i knew earlier"

[calisto]

I just wanted to say they made the hogwarts castle in this game look so incredible lol . i was just walking around checking everything out for like 2 hours haha. So cool

[Verdant]

It still triggers me that opposite alcove doesn't become a room 😅

[hurtme]

Skip the single large planter and get the double large pot. Costs a bit but I got it over the single and the fertilizer maker and I love the ability to grow different plants in the planter as needed.

[chriskorol]

I just wish I could at least sit in just 1 piece of furniture in the game, like even a chair in the common room. But it would be cool if you and friends could explore each other's rooms. Also PLEASE allow your mythical creatures to walk w you and even help fight in certain situations. Such a good game though.

[calBeowulf]

Important note about chopping stations and hopping pots: you need to have the seeds for chopping stations to produce the ingredients and the recipe for the hopping pots to produce a potion. They produce at random but from your characters known resources, i.e. you need to have purchased mallow sweet seeds to receive mallow sweet leaves from the chopping stations, still at random from your assets.

[spencerstolte]

It would’ve been super cool if the room expanded fully before the end of the game. Now I have this awesome room that I don’t really even need to go into.

[desolation]

I have to say, I love the concept and the functionality of the Room of Requirement. Both decoration options and gameplay options are brilliant. That said, it all has one flaw to me. And that is that while every potion and plant in this crafting system is useful, it's not used much.

I'm one who loves to play in a way that I prepare for every eventuality and likes to use potions and on use items that give me the edge in combat. But with like one exception, I never really had to use any of it. Except for the healing potion, all other potions and plants just collected dust in my inventory. And that's because the game isn't really hard. Not even on hard mode. I barely ever died, and when I actually did die, I almost never needed more than another try to beat the boss. Me dying was mainly caused by not really trying too hard and just casually whiping the floor with the NPCs on screen.

The hard mode in this game barely holds a candle to the easiest levels in Souls Games. And when I can easily manage anything the game throws at me first or (in some cases), second try anyway, using consumables feels like a waste, and not a helpful tool.
Once you start approaching the higher levels, upgrade your gear a bit, and get the unforgivable curses, you walk like a god amongst men anyway. When I start a fight on my level 40 character, it feels like cheating because every enemy just melts, and I (if I ever get hit by anything) barely take any damage on Hard mode. What's the point of using potions then?

[felipecorpuz]

Figured most of these things out the hard way on my first playthrough, then I spent half the game just playing plants vs wizards lmao

[jasonfoth]

Wish we could interact with the beasts, similarly to how we can interact with the cats in the game. I hope they add this or use it in the future. I also second the idea of being able to interact with furniture, and just sit down. Especially in the commonroom and great hall :)

[Reohz]

There are a few collector chests in each Vivarium if you poke around and explore a little. They'll unlock some more display set pieces.