The Vivarium at Hogwarts Legacy is part of the Room of Rescue and is a local paddock and farm alternative. In this separate location, you can to breed animals and take care of them, build various buildings and collect useful materials from all living creatures. In addition, the vivarium allows you to get the trophy “That’s the nature of animals“and upgrade your equipment.
In the guide, we will tell you how to breed critters in the vivarium at Hogwarts Legacy, what they are for and how to expand the “pasture” limit.
How to open a vivarium in Hogwarts Legacy
To open the vivarium at Hogwarts Legacy, you must complete several consecutive quests:
«Room of Requirement” to open the room itself, where the entrance to the vivarium is located. “Studying crittersto learn how to care for animals: feed and comb them. “Elf, grab-bag, loom” to access the vivarium itself and all the mechanics associated with it.
After that, a small greenhouse with a door will appear in the Help-room opposite the entrance – a vivarium, which you can enter and find yourself in another location with all the creatures.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the vivarium is not only a forest, but also other biomes: coast, swamp, meadow. This will diversify the environment for animals, as well as expand the number of farmed species. Each creature needs its own region of the vivarium: for some it is high mountains, and for others it is swamps.
Vivarium spells to care for creatures
For the vivarium, the wizard will be taught special spells that are necessary for breeding and caring for animals.
Brush for stroking critters
Rollback time: 0 seconds.
How to study: Unlocked as part of the story quest “Studying critters‘ is not to be missed.
Skill Upgrade: absent.
The critter brush is essential to meet one of the animal’s needs. If you do not comb the creatures, they will not be able to give the appropriate materials.
Creature food
Rollback time: 0 seconds.
How to study: Unlocked as part of the story quest “Studying critters‘ is not to be missed.
Skill Upgrade: absent.
Creature Food – A pocket pet feeder to satisfy another critter need. This is necessary to create comfort for the animals and obtain the necessary materials from them.
Grab bag
Rollback time: 0 seconds
How to study: Unmissable as part of the story quest Elf, Grab-Sack, Loom.
Skill Upgrade: absent.
Grab Sack – An enchanted sack that can be use to rescue and transport critters. Both wild and tamed animals can be placed in the bag, however, it must be understood that the storage capacity is only 20 critters. As part of the questElf, grab-bag, loom“It will be possible to pick up only three animals, the rest will have to be mined on their own.
How to breed animals in a vivarium
In order to breed animals in the vivarium at Hogwarts Legacy, in addition to the requirements that relate to the vivarium itself, several more conditions must be met:
Complete the quest “The fate of the house elf” (requires level 20, unlocked after “Elf, grab-bag, loom”). Complete the quest “offspring of death itself” (requires level 17, unlocked after House Elf’s Destiny).
The second quest will introduce the wizard to the animal breeding system, providing him with a reward in the form of one breeding pen.
The first thing to do to breed critters in a vivarium is save the female and male of the same kind. You can see the sex of the animal from above, next to the name of the species. In the questoffspring of death itself» will be asked to save thestrals in order to teach this mechanic. Owners of the Deluxe edition will only need to get one animal.
It is also necessary to visit the “Tomes and Scrolls” store and purchase a magic recipe there: “breeding paddock“. This item will become available only after the start of the quest from Deek. The item will cost the wizard 1,000 coins.
After purchasing the recipe, head to your vivarium and use the enchantment witch spell, place the corral on the terrain. One such building will cost 15 units. moonstone.
Place the male and female in the vivarium, freeing them from the grip bag. After that, approach the panel located to the right of the breeding pen. Select a specific view, then click “breed».
The female will go to the paddock and the countdown of the time remaining until the completion of breeding will begin: for each species it will be required wait 30 minutes.
After half an hour, the offspring of the animal will appear. This is a separate creature that cannot be forced to breed, but it can be harvested for resources or sold.
Why do we need animals in a vivarium
Breeding animals in the vivarium at Hogwarts Legacy is one of the activities in the Help Room. This activity is useful for two reasons.
selling critters
Breeding critters is one of the easiest ways to increase the number of animals at your disposal. In the future, they can be sold in the Beak and Tuft store, having bailed out coins for them. This is one of the best ways to farm gold, it’s best to breed:
Big purple toad. Luntel. Fluffy. Chatterbox. Hippogriff. Unicorn.
Receipt of materials
If you satisfy all the needs of the animal: comb and feed, then instead of indicators, a specific resource will appear, unique for each creature. You can collect materials in animals once every 25 minutes.
The loom in Hogwarts Legacy will allow you to improve existing equipment: upgrade it by pumping parameters, as well as insert known characteristics, giving the item some properties: resistance to damage from infernals, increased damage from Incendio, etc. For these actions animal materials neededwhich can either be bought at Beak and Tuft, or obtained from bred creatures.
What creatures can be bred in a vivarium
In the vivarium, you can breed all animals that live in the open world that are not hostile to the wizard. To unlock the achievement Such is the nature of creatures in Hogwarts Legacy, you need to breed all kinds of critters. There are 12 in total:
Diricol. Fwooper. Big purple toad. Hippogriff (story mount). Chatterbox (one will be obtained in the story). Zhmyr. Mooncalf (one will be obtained in the story). Niffler. Fluffy (one will be obtained in the story). Thestral (a pair will be obtained in the story). Unicorn. Phoenix (one will be obtained in the story).
Read more about species and taming in the article about all animals.
How to expand the vivarium limit
To expand the vivarium limit in Hogwarts Legacy, you need to open additional rooms vivarium, there are 4 of them:
forest biome – Unlocked as part of the Elf, Grab-Sack, Loom quest. Is basic.
beach biome – Unlocked during the quest “The House Elf’s Destiny”.
swamp biome – Unlocked in the quest “Descendants of Death Itself”.
grassland biome – Unlocked in Phoenix Rising.
Each vivarium can contain 12 animals of different species, expanding the limit allows you to keep a total of 48 creatures. This makes it easier to breed all 12 types of creatures and collect resources from them.
Useful buildings of the vivarium
breeding paddock
Price: 15 units moonstone.
Limitation: absent.
The Breeding Pen at Hogwarts Legacy is the main building of the vivarium, which allows you to breed additional creatures. Although there is no limit, it will not be possible to use more than 4 pens in one vivarium, since there is a limit on the number of creatures. Thus, it will be possible to make only 4 working pens, each of which will have 2 creatures.
Creature feeder
Price: 8 units moonstone.
Limitation: 1 building for 1 room.
The feeder for creatures will allow you to forget about the need to constantly feed the animals. It is enough to comb them and pick up the corresponding resource. Animals will automatically satisfy their hunger.
Creature Toy Box
Price: 4 units moonstone.
Limitation: 1 building for 1 room.
The critter toy box is of no practical use. Inside are various items that can be used to play with animals.
Creature Breeding Tips
Possibility to bring out the animal during breeding
During breeding, the female is placed in the pen while the male is left to roam freely around the vivarium. This means that during the 30 minute breeding period, you can safely pick up the male creature and do something with it. This cannot be done with a female creature, it must remain inside.
Set up a farming vivarium
Breeding creatures is an extremely profitable business. We recommend that you open all 4 paddocks as soon as possible, because thanks to this you will be able to receive 16 descendants every half hourwhich will eventually give 1920 gold coins in 30 minutes. This is not the fastest way, but it is passive and will allow you to receive revenue on an ongoing basis.
Leave free space
In each room of the vivarium, 12 active creatures of 4 biological species can be kept. However, you should not have more than two representatives of one in a biome, as this simply does not make sense. A baby animal takes up space, and if this slot is occupied by another animal that will not bring any benefit, then the offspring will not be able to be born and bring profit.
We hope our guide helped you figure out how to open a vivarium and how to breed critters in Hogwarts Legacy. If you have any questions – ask them in commentswe will definitely advise. Read our other Hogwarts Legacy guides in the corresponding section of the site.
