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

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.

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

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 😅

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

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

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

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. >:-(

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?!?

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 .

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

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

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.

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.

I like the broom more than the beasts with wings. The broom don't need food or water 😆

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.

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?

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.

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 :)

Actually got the hopping pots first and I barely ever had to make potions and got by with the 3 small potions stations and 3 hopping pots for a long time while getting the best of the other spellcrafts (2 Large Pots) and recipes/seeds first. Potions brew so fast you don't really need the T shaped station. So I only ended up using the T one for decoration late game as I was nearly always maxed out on potions. Farming money early is literally all about finding and selling gear before you run out of inventory space and is extremely easy to do since you can pretty much explore 2/3 of the world map basically right away. Pretty much had all my most expensive stuff out of the way before even getting alohamora which gives you easy access to an absurd amount of gear to sell.

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.

The room of requirement is one of my favorite parts in the whole game I LOVE IT

Best potting setup 2 large pot station-2 nos (3 venamous tentacula+1 flux seed) 3 medium pot station-2nos (3 shrivelfig + 3 chinese chomping cabbage) 5 small pot station- 3nos(5 dittany+5 mandrake+2 mallosweet+3 knot grass)

You missed the best part about breeding beasts in the vivarium... That you can sell all of the little offspring that you get at the beasts shop in Hogsmede for 150g each. I'm sitting over 30k gold right now, and that's with straight up buying gear from the vendor if I don't have that pattern unlocked for transmog.

ended up doing this based on your earlier videos, and it has paid off handsomely to have the room at max capacity as I played

I hit level 18 right as I finished the quest to unlock talents, and right after went and got my room of requirements. I didn’t spend any money until that point and just sold my stuff that I didn’t need. Ended up saving a bunch and being able to afford the T shape planting station and Double large pot brewing station. It’s been really nice to have so many things running at once. I’d really recommend saving up early on so when you unlock the room of requirements you can spend the 3k on each of those big stations.

What a game, what a guide......thank you so much for all your efforts, Fantastic as always

You can get a load of venemous tentacluar (repeatable) in the herbology greenhouses (saves on large pots initially)

These are great tips! The first thing I bought was the hopping station and large potting table (even before the broom). They were game-changers! I also kept the more used animal items (puffskein, etc) on the main floor, with the loom next to the vivarium) for ease of access, shaved off a few minutes here and there. Unrelated, threstrals with the Zoomies is pure joy.

This is the first video I’ve watched in this channel. With how detailed (breakdown of your costs) this video, I can see why your character’s Ravenclaw.

Don’t bother with the large pots unless you want the ingredients that only grow in large pots, since once you do the hidden herbology corridor quest you’ll have access to half your max capacity of venomous tentacula every 3 in game days from the greenhouse you come out in.

With a few years of major gaming let downs..... This game is a breath of fresh air. It is atmospheric, magical, exciting, cosy, gorgeous and more importantly..... FINISHED lol. So many games have released in such a bad state that are not anywhere near as good as this, even when they've been patched. I will say that i am impressed with the revival and work put in too make Cyberpunk the game it is today, compared too launch. But playing this on the Series X, i can't fault a single thing so far from launch day till now. Please game Dev's, take note of the time, love, care and attention that went into every aspect of this near perfect game. Great video and some handy tips.

I always buy the Material Refiner blueprint in my first batch of purchases and put them down first for this reason. I also ONLY buy the largest versions of each potting station, even if I have to put it off a bit longer, as anything else is a waste of money and space.

As soon as you get the invisibility spell just run around hogsmeade and collect the eyeball chests and you'll have enough money to buy all the important stuff there.

I always love these "wish I knew sooner" videos. That's all part of the game is trying to figure things out and exploring areas without hints. At least that's my opinion.

Please don't stop doing what you're doing you are helping me out a lot other other things I have to do in Hogwarts legend

Definitely agree, my first playthrough I ended up needing to buy the potions to complete the quests for Sharp to learn his spells. But, later playthroughs, I was able to make them myself saving me some cash to buy spellcrafts later.

Oh this is so helpful. Excellent guide!

They did an amazing job with this game! I'm absolutely enjoying it!

You can cut some animation time when crawling under a space, by rolling just before you reach it you'll only crouch for a second in most places. ;)

Thank you so much for the break down

Thank you so much! There is so much in the game to take in and I’ve done more exploring than anything else. I had no idea you could do any of this and I’ve had this game for about a month 🤣

Invisibility potion is used in combat as a defensive spell. Even without anything in stealth when you chug that potion enemies won't target you. So you got four seconds of full spell casting without return fire. Buy the ehancement talent and it's even longer.

So I’ve been trying to find suggestions on what stations to purchase and which to leave alone (for the time being). Thank you for your guide as it helped me streamline my RoR and do away with the superfluous and expensive “unnecessaries”. While I know that the room opens up a lot after completing certain quests, space right now is at a premium, so having these suggestions helped me save that precious space, galleons and time overall. Will be looking into your other guides; and, if they’re anywhere near as helpful as this one, then I’m sure that my initial deep dive into this wonderful wizarding world will be absolutely amazing. Anyways, cheers!! Liked and sub’d!

3:04 I got the same set up besides that my potion station at the bottom of the screen is put where the green hopper is facing diagonally towards the top right potion station and my seventh is where the blue hopper is facing the top left station while having a gap in the middle to obviously walked to the other potion station. (I got one station for each of the 6 potion I could craft pre-crafted when I need to restock , the seventh is where I would put for a respec potion, If I HAD IT, so for now I only use it for potions I used constantly, which is none) and my hoppers is on the other side of the room put close together on the middle wall while having the fertilizer pot on diagonally facing wall, and across both vertical walls are the mining station on one side and the chopping board on the other so that I can have my free gathering stuff in the same place. and I got the bigger room so my herbs station is 3 big 2 pot slots station across the middle wall, 1 medium 3 pot slots across the diagonal wall that would connect to the stone walls on both sides (close to the big pots) (and in the middle of the wood floor) 2 small 5 pot slots in front of the big pot stations (going vertically) across and have a space for a vertical chopping board in the middle of the 2 small 5 pot station

Love your vids bro!

Thank you for this video. I kept wondering would I have to keep buying seeds. Thanks

Thank you. So ready to start my adventure.

Informative. Great video!

This was super helpful!!!

Great job. Thank you.

Breeding station is not juts for material and challenge. It is decent gold farm - 1700 gold per run So breed them and sell them :)

It’s LUMOS over here!

Much Appreciated 🙏🏻

It wasn't until my third character that I found 2 chests and a sack to search BEFORE you meet up with Deek. Ticked me off to figure it out so late, but thanks for the tip on the chests in the Vivariums!

For anyone wondering, I kind of went the opposite route and I got the hopping pots first, before I bought any other potion or potting plans. With three hopping pots going while I hung out in the room of requirement, and coming home to three random potions every time I had to come in to identify or upgrade gear or check on a vivarium, I always had all the potions I needed. I ended up adding two medium three pot potting stations for combat plants. I find that the Mandrake and the cabbages are the best and don't bother with the large potting table for the big one I forgot the name of right now. I think this saved me a lot of money in the long run , But the 3000 galleon spend early on did mean that I had to wait a little longer for a few other things. I also have been playing on normal difficulty and I don't use a million potions per fight. Just a few. One more tip on that - If you get the full amount of one of the potions and cannot collect that potion from the pot, just drink one and collect the potion so that it can make the next random potion.

Great video! My room expanded a few times and i thought, ok this is it, i'll start decorating now. When i finished decorating, it expanded again arggghhh. 😂 so i had to start again. But yes, one of the finnest home of the character experiences. But i have to say i miss the ability of decoration the room in the house dorm, that would also be cool.

I found out later on I needed to grow the mallowsweet bush. And stock up if you want to complete all Merlin trials! Also another tip is to sell unidentified gear. You get 200 coin each and you can always buy and upgrade. Most of the stuff you’ll discover is less than what you have equipped on

My first upgrade was to unlock the 5 small plant station. I almost never remember the combat plants, so I just focused on healing. I try to keep 20 potions on hand, just in case I stumble on a particularly hard enemy.

You have been helping me out for a long time now, and I just wanted to say thank you so much! Your videos help me get where I need to be homie!

Id really like to stack items, interact w/them. Move things closer overlap when it makes sense, esp in the Animal sanctuaries. Why i cant put stairs on an actual structure? Or gate closer to the house? Id like the animals to interact w/conjured objects. Fwooper should be in the trees

Something I think people forget is you can harvest plants in the herbology classroom as well, that alone will provide your venomous tentacula stores until you can get the room of requirement setup to your liking.

Thanks for these tips. It really helped me a lot. Im definitely subbing rn, You guys are awesome 😘

You're awesome. I just started so this'll help

I went total stealth, but it does require a lot of troll killing and the three hopping pots, but they do make it make it so some fights can not be stealth, some mandatory fights can be cheese stealth by walking away then coming back as stealth. However if you pop every potion and throw down some Venomous Tentacula, even the toughest bosses go down pretty easily.

Excellent informative video. Keep um coming

Wish you would've shown the lay out of your room more. Looked cool

Thank you for this one!!!! I take it, all the items need to be collected and are not automatically added to your inventory?

A good way to stock up on Venomous Tentaculas is the Herbology greenhouse. There's a ton of them.

I completeley outfitted that Room - to realize, I do not need it anyway aside the Loom beeing in there for Upgrading once of Twice as I was already 38 and entirely OP when unlocking it. It is a Game made for Kids, not Dark Souls Players - but still, it is a lot of fun - totally recommend.

It would be nice to have another room for animals and have the ability to catch stags, rabbits etc

Yeah i cleared all the decorations as soon as i unlocked the area lol it definitely helps in the beginning...

Solid video.

I have now more combat plants than, I have to continually the ones I have and I'm always maxed out! It's great. I need to improve my potion production though

Yay! First! Love all your vids!

I bought some of those recipes for things like hopping pot and didn’t realize I was allowed to make 3 of them until watching this video, lol

Yo for real, I wouldn't even bother sleeping in my room if I went to Hogwarts. The RoR would be my bedroom.

I didn't know that that vivariums had collection chests. Wow I need to go looking

1 or 2 potting stations?.. you can throw down 7 of the same station. A fertilizer doubles the output of the singular plants though. Double mandrake, double venomous tantacular

Had the vivariums for a couple days before I explored them and found some chests with conjure stuff in them.

Wow, this video is helpful. I am a little more interested in that Ravenclaw robe that lights up every time you use magic. How did you get that? Or is there a video that tells us how. I’ve only just now found your videos.

Nice video! I would argue: get the T shaped Potions table, then the Chopping Stations and Hopping Pots asap. Once you have those, save to get the 2/3-pot tables of different sizes. In my experience, exploration+Chopping Stations get you enough herbs by far, then Hopping Pots are just constant free potions. Therefore the earlier the better! I barely had to brew potions and harvest herbs with those two. And I agree with other comments: I love experimenting with potions and combat plants, but they’re not really necessary, which is a shame. I end up having way too many, and I cannot even pick up what I potted. Dung composters and material refiners are nice additions, but definitely optional ones. By the time I started using fertilisers, I was already around the max per combat plant, so not really necessary either.

FYI, you don’t have to get off your broom to collect ingredients

Felix felicis potion was essential for me for each dungeon

Can you plant more than one type of plant per pot? I planted some dittany seeds, when i press x to collect it automaticall plants another. Id like to just collect it and plant something elsw but it doesnt give the opportunity. Is that pot forever for dittany seeds now?

I've seen paw symbol ... now I need to catch some pokemon haha I mean beasts ;) Gotta catch them all

Im new just learned about hopping pots 😆got 3

I keep them wiggenwield pots brewing. Im always storming bandit camps.

Been playing for 3 days at level 35. 86 percent completed. Maybe I would use more potions and stuff on hard mode idk but I had no problem being maxed out on potions and plants and other stuff. Noticed right away that if you didn't have the potion recipes the hopping pots only made what you knew; at least it did for me. Didnt get invisibility until after I purchased the recipe. Since the start I maxed out inventory on wiggenweld potions and never had to brew again hopping pots help out alot for me and you find quite a few of them In the world that I never lose to much stock in them. I straight out bought the largest of everything one of each and I'm doing pretty good. 5 small pots, 3 mediums and 2 large potting tables. Biggest pain to me is caring for the animals. 3 of each species is quite abit to go through. Would be cool if you had like an assistant that would care for them instead and could just collect the inventory. Even if the times would be increased I wouldn't mind at least I wouldn't have to check on them so much.

Some of the animals have a star after their name. These animals give extra material. You can also see the star in the mini right circle on the portrait. The gender icon is in the left mini portrait circle.

The fun part is that i managed to get to level 32 without using any potions with the exception of the ones needed to complete some of the professor assignments. I never even upgraded any of the potion talents. No use for them yet. I'm curious to see if that will change at all the more i progress within the storyline.

I always get the Materials Refiners first. As soon as I can buy them, even if it's before I'm allowed in the Room Of Requirement

A tip for beast farming, use aresto tho freez wild creatures in place and run up and capture them quick and easy I used this method to catch a unicorn

Very useful advice here, setting up the RoR properly will give you infinite potions and plants. Chugging all 4 potions at the same time (along with their respective talent upgrades) will make even boss fights a cake walk

2, 5 slot small planters 2, 3 slot medium planters and 2, 2 slot large planters will provide you everything you will ever need plant wise. I usually have enough moonstones (from a small time spent gathering and getting the ones I see running around) to get all of these when the room opens up.

Glad to see that I’ve been putting the correct priorities forward 😂

lol I’m KodiacBear and just started playing Hogwarts. Thnx for the tips!

Didn’t really need any f the potions or plants on my first playthrough on default difficulty. Gonna jack up the difficulty for second playthrough.

I'm playing as watch this and bought the hopping pot as soon as you mentioned it 🙈 dam I've not saved the game in ages either 😂😂😂

I can’t believe I finished this game !

Maybe another tip to mention is that you only need to buy one of each of the different stations. For example I bought one feeding station, breeding pen and toy box, and I could place each of them in all four vivariums.