Welcome to the Hogwarts Legacy achievements guide covering the 45 achievements/trophies in the base game. Most will unlock by completing the story and collecting everything while exploring the world.
Game Stats
- Difficulty: 3/10
- Time to Completion: 50-60 hours
- Main Quests: 15-25 hours
- Side Quests: 10-15 hours
- Collections: 10 hours
- Speed Runs: 2 hours each
- Does Difficulty Affect Achievements/Trophies?: No. You can play through the game on Story difficulty during each of your playthroughs.
- Missable Achievements/Trophies: You will need to do a short speed run through the first part of the story to unlock the Map Chamber for each house.
Recommended Playthrough
- Play through the story and complete all assignments to gain access to all spells (see the Hogwarts Legacy Spells Guide), giving you access to all hidden locations during the playthrough.
- Complete all side quests around the map.
- Gather all remaining collectibles from the map while exploring the area.
- Replay the first part of the story, sticking to the main quest, until you unlock the Map Chamber with each of the other houses.
General Tips
- Free up inventory space by selling unused items often to vendors when visiting villages.
- Change the look of gear by pressing
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while on the gear select screen. - Fast travel to floo flame locations while exploring. The map is huge and running/flying everywhere will make the game artificially longer.
- Once you have the broom unlocked, use it to fly around most of the world outside Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.
- Do a few sets of Merlin trials while exploring early in the game to unlock more inventory slots.
- Gather enough Demiguise statues for Alohomora II and III early on to gain access to all locked doors.
- Complete a few of the Ancient Magic challenges to increase your available Ancient Magic bar while exploring.
Links
- Hogwarts Legacy Spells Guide
- Hogwarts Legacy Collectibles Guide
- Hogwarts Legacy Challenges Guide
- Hogwarts Legacy All Merlin Trials Guide
- Collectible Achievements
- Combat Achievements
- Conditional Achievements
- Discovery Achievements
- Leveling Achievements
- Quest Achievements
- Story Achievements
Story Achievements
The Sort Who Makes an Entrance
15G – Complete the introduction and finish the Sorting Ceremony
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. This will unlock during the prologue as you complete the Sorting Ceremony.
First Class Student
10G – Attend your first class
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. After touring the campus with Professor Weasley, choose your first class (Charms or Defense Against the Dark Arts) during the day and complete it.
Troll with the Punches
15G – Survive the troll attack on Hogsmeade
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. After collecting your supplies in Hogsmeade and defeating the troll, the achievement/trophy will unlock during Welcome to Hogsmeade.
That’s a Keeper
15G – Meet Charles Rookwood in the Map Chamber
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. After completing the first trial, talk with Charles Rookwood in the Map Chamber during Percival Rackham’s Trial.
The Defender of Dragons
15G – Save a dragon
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. Help Poppy free a dragon during Fire and Ice.
The Hallowed Hero
20G – Wield a Deathly Hallow
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. This achievement/trophy will unlock after adventuring inside a book during Niamh Fitzgerald’s Trial.
The One Who Mastered Memories
20G – View all Pensieve memories
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. This will unlock as you approach the Pensieve memory during San Bakar’s Trial.
Grappling with a Graphorn
15G – Subdue the Lord of the Shore
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. This will unlock after the discussion in the Map Chamber during San Bakar’s Trial.
The Hero of Hogwarts
30G – Defeat Ranrok
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the main quest. This will unlock after defeating Ranrok during In the Shadow of Revelation.
The Seeker of Knowledge
70G – Win the House Cup
Automatic story achievement/trophy that will pop while playing the final main quest. This will unlock after reaching level 34 and watching the final cutscene during The House Cup.
Discovery Achievement
The Toast of the Town
10G – Find the Map Chamber as a Slytherin
Finish the main quest: Jackdaw’s Rest after choosing Slytherin during the Sorting Ceremony. If you didn’t choose Slytherin on your initial playthrough, start a new game a stick to the main questline to unlock the achievement/trophy when you reach the Map Chamber.
The Auror’s Apprentice
10G – Find the Map Chamber as a Hufflepuff
Finish the main quest: Jackdaw’s Rest after choosing Hufflepuff during the Sorting Ceremony. If you didn’t choose Hufflepuff on your initial playthrough, start a new game a stick to the main questline to unlock the achievement/trophy when you reach the Map Chamber.
The Gryffindor in the Graveyard
10G – Find the Map Chamber as a Gryffindor
Finish the main quest: Jackdaw’s Rest after choosing Gryffindor during the Sorting Ceremony. If you didn’t choose Gryffindor on your initial playthrough, start a new game a stick to the main questline to unlock the achievement/trophy when you reach the Map Chamber.
The Wise Owl
10G – Find the Map Chamber as a Ravenclaw
Finish the main quest: Jackdaw’s Rest after choosing Ravenclaw during the Sorting Ceremony. If you didn’t choose Ravenclaw on your initial playthrough, start a new game a stick to the main questline to unlock the achievement/trophy when you reach the Map Chamber.
The Intrepid Explorer
15G – Discover all cairn dungeons
Cairn Dungeons are linked to main and side quests which you will complete while working on the other achievements/trophies.
- The Helm of Urtkot (main)
- The Centaur and the Stone (relationship with Poppy)
- In the Shadow of Time (relationship with Sebastian)
- Cursed Tomb Treasure (side)
- Beeting a Curse (side)
Coasting Along
15G – Visit Poidsear Coast
Start at the Northern South Sea Bog floo flam and fly to the large metallic doorway to the southeast in the Medium Bandit Camp while on your broomstick. Follow the path through the cavern and the achievement/trophy will unlock when you reach the other side.
Room with a View
10G – Reach the highest point in the castle, the Headmaster’s upper study
After acquiring Alohomora III and completing The Polyjuice Plot, make your way to the Headmaster’s Upper Study via the Trophy Room floo while in the Grand Staircase area. Then open the 2nd door on your left in the study which leads out to a balcony and stairs ascending further up the tower. Once you reach the top, unlock the door and enter the room for the achievement/trophy to pop.
Collectible Achievements
Challenge Accepted
10G – Complete all tiers of a challenge
The achievement is tied to completing any individual set of challenges. This will unlock naturally while you progress through the story and assignments or while exploring The Highlands.
There is one set of challenges for completing all assignments, and another for completing all main story quests. Once you complete Professor Weasley’s Assignment after finishing all other assignments, the trophy will unlock. If you skip the assignments until later, then it will unlock when you finish the main questline or when you finish another challenge set listed below.
Refer to the Hogwarts Legacy Challenges Guide for a full list of challenges and completion requirements.
Collector’s Edition
40G – Complete all collections
While exploring in Hogwarts Legacy, keep an eye out for the requirements in each of the collection categories. Many of these will require casting Revelio to locate hidden pages or opening chests while in towns, bandit camps, near butterflies, or in optional areas that mention a chest count on the map.
Refer to the Hogwarts Legacy Collectibles Guide for more details.
Followed the Butterflies
10G – Follow butterflies to a treasure
When you find a group of butterflies while exploring the area outside Hogwarts, follow them until they come to a rest. Then, use Revelio (D-Pad Left) to see any hidden items nearby and collect the treasure.
Floo Around the World
10G – Unlock all Floo Flames
While exploring areas of the map, look for nearby Floo Flames and run by them to unlock additional fast travel locations. When you think you have most of them, zoom out on your map and look for the remaining ones that are grayed-out and set waypoints to them to finish off the achievement/trophy.
Merlin’s Beard!
30G – Complete all Merlin Trials
Complete the 95 Merlin Trials spread around the world map while exploring in Hogwarts Legacy. Each trial falls into 1 of 9 categories, and casting Revelio while near the trial will help identify which type of trial it is and where the required components are located.
- Basic Cast Puzzles: Use basic cast to destroy 9 small spheres on top of pillars in sets of 3 around the area.
- Boulder Puzzles: When you see a large boulder or dish in the ground, cast Wingardium Leviosa or Depulso to move the boulder into the dish where it will rest.
- Confringo Puzzles: Use Confringo to destroy thick, large pillars in the area.
- Firefly Puzzles: Cast Lumos to guide fireflies to each of 3 resting points.
- Flipendo Puzzles: When you see cubes with symbols on them, use Flipendo to rotate them to exactly match the symbols (including rotation) on the pillars below.
- Jumping Puzzles: Jump from stone to stone without touching the ground. You can also use your broomstick to make these easier.
- Pyre Puzzles: Light a series of pyres around the area with Confringo.
- Reparo Puzzles: Cast Reparo when you see broken statues near the trial.
- Stone Puzzles: Use Accio to pull 5 stones to the resting spots 3 times.
Refer to the Hogwarts Legacy Merlin Trials Guide for the location and solution for all 95 Merlin Trials.
Demiguise Dread
15G – Find all Demiguise statues
Find and collect 33 Demiguise statuses around the Hogwarts, Hogsmead, and the world map while exploring in Hogwarts Legacy. Once you start the main quest, The Caretaker’s Lunar Lament, and the side quest, The Man Behind the Moons, you will learn Alohomora I and can start unlocking doors to collect the statues at night. Once you have 9 statues in your inventory, return to the caretaker to learn Alohomora II. Then, after finding another 13 statues, return again for Alohomora III. Once you can open level 2 locks, you can finish collecting the Demiguise statues throughout the game.
Room of Requirement
Going Through the Potions
30G – Brew every type of potion
The 6 potions needed for the achievement/trophy can be brewed in the Room of Requirement after you unlock it and conjure a potion table during the main quest: Interior Decorating. Recipes are purchase from Pippin’s Potions while you are in Hogsmeade.
Please note that brewing potions only counts if you have room in your inventory to collect them, so you will need to use a potion to free up space. If you are full on Wiggenweld Potions, you need to get hurt first, then press D-Pad Down to heal.
Also note that the first Wiggenweld Potion brewed in Potions Class does not count toward the achievement/trophy. If you are missing an ingredient, they may be found in the world outside Hogwarts or you can purchase them from either Pippin’s Potions or The Magic Neep. Both can be found in the northwest part of Hogsmeade while you are visiting.
- Wiggenweld (free)
- Edurus Potion (free)
- Maxima Potion (500)
- Invisibility Potion (800)
- Focus Potion (1,200)
- Thunderbrew (1,200)
Put Down Roots
30G – Grow every type of plant
Purchase the seeds for each plant type from Dogweed and Deathcap (northeast corner) and The Magic Neep (northwest corner) in Hogsmeade, then plant and wait 10-15 minutes for each of them to grow in the Room of Requirement. Purchase a large potting table for 1,000 from Tomes and Scrolls when you are in Hogsmeade to unlock the ability to pot plants of all sizes.
- Small
- Dittany (free)
- Mallowsweet (200)
- Mandrake (800)
- Knotgrass (350)
- Medium
- Chinese Chomping Cabbage (600)
- Shrivelfig (450)
- Large
- Fluxweed (350)
- Venomous Tentacula (1,050)
The Nature of the Beast
30G – Breed every type of beast
During Deek’s second quest: Foal of the Dead, he will teach you how to breed beasts. Purchase the Breeding Pen from Tomes and Scrolls when you are in Hogsmeade. Then, conjure a breeding pen in each of the 3 beast habitats and start breeding pairs of beasts.
Capturing rare beasts is more difficult than the tutorial. Approach the beasts while using Disillusionment (stealth). Then cast Arresto Momentum to temporarily slow/freeze the beast while you use the Nab-Sack. When the Nab-Sack is activated, press / each time the animation completes a full circle around the icon. Repeat until the beast is captured. Rare beasts won’t always have male and females in the same location, so try additional beast habitats until you find one of each.
During the main quest: San Bakar’s Trial, you will tame the final beast, the Graphorn. After the quest completes return to the Graphorn Den and capture another one.
- Diricawl
- Fwooper
- Giant Purple Toad
- Graphorn
- Hippogriff
- Jobberknoll
- Kneazle
- Mooncalf
- Niffler
- Phoenix (not required)
- Puffskein
- Thestral
- Unicorn
Leveling Achievements
Loom for Improvement
10G – Upgrade a piece of gear
See Third Time’s a Charm for details.
Third Time’s a Charm
30G – Upgrade a piece of gear 3 times
During the main quest The Elf, The Nab-Sack, and the Loom, upgrade a piece of gear by pressing / . The first two upgrades require standard materials which are harvested from beasts in you Vivariums or by purchasing them from Brood and Peck while visiting Hogsmeade. Finally, the third upgrade requires materials from one of the rare beasts like the Unicorn, Phoenix, or Graphorn.
A Talent for Spending
10G – Spend 5 Talent Points
Talents unlock during the main quest Jackdaw’s Rest while talking in the Map Chamber and after reaching level 5. Once you reach level 10, spend 5 talent points and the achievement/trophy will unlock.
Savvy Spender
30G – Spend all Talent Points
Talents unlock during the main quest Jackdaw’s Rest while talking in the Map Chamber and after reaching level 5. Once you reach level 40, spend all talent points and the achievement/trophy will unlock.
The Spell Master
40G – Learn all spells
See the Hogwarts Legacy Spells guide for details on how to unlock all spells in the game.
A Forte for Achievement
80G – Reach Level 40
Leveling up will occur naturally over time while you are working on the other achievement/trophies. You should finish the main quest line and the side quests around level 35. If you don’t manage to hit level 40 after completing all collectibles, use the Battle Arenas to push you over the edge.
Quest Achievements
The Good Samaritan
40G – Complete all side quests
Side quests will unlock while you travel around the map and complete other activities. The 5 summoner’s court matches will slowly unlock over time with a gap between completing each one. As soon as one pops up, head over to the board and complete the quest so you have less down time waiting on quests to unlock.
Also, get an early start on The Daedalian Keys quest in Hogwarts. It requires you to collect 16 house keys hidden in cabinets throughout Hogwarts that are unlocked with flying keys and will take the most time to complete. Listen for the sound of the keys or use Revelio to see where they are located while exploring the castle.
Rising From the Ashes
15G – Rescue the phoenix
Deek will eventually ask you to do 3 quests for him. During the third quest: Phoenix Rising, the achievement/trophy will unlock just after capturing the phoenix.
The Avenging Gazelle
15G – Complete Natsai Onai’s relationship line
Natty’s questline starts with The Lost Child and concludes with Acting on Instinct. Her relationship quests will continue to unlock as you progress during the main story. While playing the quests, feel free to choose any dialog options.
Beast Friends
15G – Complete Poppy Sweeting’s relationship line
Poppy’s questline starts with A Dragon Debrief and concludes with Poppy Blooms. Her relationship quests will continue to unlock as you progress during the main story. While playing the quests, feel free to choose any dialog options.
A Sallow Grave
15G – Complete Sebastian Sallow’s relationship line
Sebastian’s questline starts with In the Shadow of the Bloodline and concludes with In the Shadow of Friendship. His relationship quests will continue to unlock as you progress during the main story. While playing the quests, feel free to choose any dialog options. However, if you encourage Sebastian to use and teach you curses (missable, but not required for The Spell Master), you will gain them to use in battle.
- In the Shadow of the Study – Crucio
- In the Shadow of Time – Imperio
- In the Shadow of the Relic – Avada Kedavra
- Choose “Everyone Should Know that Curse” during the final dialog
- Then, choose “Yes please.”
Conditional Achievements
Flight the Good Flight
40G – Beat Imelda’s time in all broom races
After completing the main quest: Flying Class and purchasing a broom at Spintwitches Sporting Needs while in Hogsmeade, work on the side quest: Flight Test. During the questline, you will race against Imelda’s best times on 3 routes. After each race, return to the broom shop, report your findings, wait for the shopkeeper to contact you, then purchase the upgrade. Repeat the process 3 times and the achievement/trophy will unlock after speaking with Imelda after the third race.
Note that the final race is along the coastline in the south. Follow the guide for Coasting Along to reach it.
Spilled Milk
10G – Use Flipendo ten times – to tip one cow or several
Flipendo will unlock during Professor Garlick’s Assignment 2. Once you have the spell, locate cows in the open world (there are some just south of the East Hogsmeade Valley floo next to the traveling vendor). Then, cast Flipendo on one of the cows 10 times and the achievement/trophy will unlock.
The Ends Petrify the Means
30G – Defeat a total of fifty enemies using Petrificus Totalus
After completing the main quest: Secrets of the Restricted Section and unlocking both Disillusionment (stealth) and Petrificus Totalus, you can start using stealth to take out enemies in camps and caves. When you first enter an area with enemies (easily done at Bandit Camps), cast Disillusionment to stealth and sneak behind enemies. Then, press / to cast Petrificus Totalus.
Combat Achievements
A Keen Sense of Spell
10G – Invoke Ancient Magic for the first time
When you see the LB+RB/L1+R1 prompt during battles, press the combo to invoke Ancient Magic on your enemies. The first time you use Ancient Magic on an enemy during a fight, the achievement/trophy will unlock.
The Root of the Problem
10G – Stun 10 different enemies using a Mandrake
Purchase a Mandrake Seed from Dogweed and Deathcap (northeast corner) while you are in Hogsmeade. Then, head back to the Room of Requirement and plant it on a potting table (any size works). Wait 10 minutes, then harvest the Mandrakes. Equip the Mandrake by holding LB/L1 and selecting it during battle. Then use the Mandrake (LB/L1) at the start of each battle, preferably when you have more than one type of enemy within range. The achievement will unlock once you have used Mandrake on 10 different enemies.
Finishing Touches
30G – Use Ancient Magic on every enemy in the game
When you see the LB+RB/L1+R1 prompt during battles, press the combo to invoke Ancient Magic on your enemies. Each time you encounter a new enemy, use Ancient Magic on them during combat to make sure it counts toward the achievement/trophy. Watch for similar names like “Ashwinder Ranger” and “Poacher Ranger”. Unique enemies from quests don’t appear to count, but it doesn’t hurt to hit them with Ancient Magic at least once during battle.
The achievement/trophy should unlock by the time you complete the main and all side quests. Unfortunately, there is no clear way to track which enemies you have already hit with Ancient Magic.
Rise to the Challenges
40G – Defeat enemies in all battle arenas
Unlock the two battle arenas by traveling to their locations and destroying all pots around the structure. Once that is done, a portal will open in the middle of the building that will transport you to the arena. Survive all 5 waves of enemies at both locations, and the achievement/trophy will pop. This is significantly easier on Story difficulty. However, playing on higher difficulties will increase the chance that you can get a combo off 100+ for Raising Expectations.
Raising Expectations
20G – Reach a combo of 100
In order to maintain a combo, you need to keep dealing damage without getting hit. The battle arenas are a good place to work on this achievement/trophy, but you may also unlock it during the main quests near the end of the game where you fight longer battles. If you’re having trouble unlocking this, make sure you bump your difficulty up to at least Easy and you avoid big damage attacks (curses and Ancient Magic), so you can hit each enemy more times.
That’s it for the Hogwarts Legacy achievements guide. Please post any questions or comments below. Thanks.