Breeding beasts is a great way to increase the number of beasts in your vivarium in Hogwarts Legacy. This will allow you to produce even more resources that help upgrade your gear.
To breed beasts, players will need to construct a Beast Breeding Pen in the Room of Requirement after completing Deek’s sidequest “Foal of the Dead”.
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In this guide, I will explain how to breed beasts in Hogwarts Legacy and mention all the beasts that can be bred.
How to Breed Beasts in Hogwarts Legacy
Players can breed beasts in their vivarium to increase the number of beasts they have. Here’s everything you need to do, step-by-step, to breed beasts in Hogwarts Legacy:
- Capture one male and one female of the beast type you want to breed.
- Complete Deek’s sidequest “Foal of the Dead” and conjure a breeding pen within the vivarium that has the beasts you want to breed.
- Interact with the breeding pen to select the male and female beasts you want to breed and start the breeding process.
- Wait 30 minutes until the two beasts produce offspring, which will complete the process.
The breeding pen spellcraft can be purchased at the Tomes and Scrolls shop in Hogsmeade, at the price of 1,000 coins. It is unlocked while progressing through the “Foal of the Dead” quest.
Additionally, keep in mind that young beasts that are made via breeding will never grow up and remain young forever. However, they will still produce resources normally after petting and feeding them.
Can You Breed All Beasts in Hogwarts Legacy?
The game includes a wide variety of beasts – 13 to be exact – and almost all of them can be bred. Specifically, here’s every beast that players can breed in Hogwarts Legacy, as well as the resources they provide:
- Diricawl – Diricawl Feather
- Fwooper – Fwooper Feather
- Giant Purple Toad – Toad Warts
- Graphorn – Graphorn Horn
- Hippogriff – Hippogriff Feather
- Jobberknol – Jobberkknoll Feather
- Kneazle – Kneazle Fur
- Mooncalf – Mooncalf Fur
- Niffler – Niffler Fur
- Puffskein – Puffskein Fur
- Thestral – Thestral Hair
- Unicorn – Unicorn Hair
As you can see, 12 of the 13 beasts can be bred. The only beast that can’t be bred in the game is the Phoenix, which produces Phoenix Feathers and requires completing the “Phoenix Rising” quest to be unlocked.
Why You Should Breed Beasts
There are two main reasons for breeding beasts in Hogwarts Legacy: resources and money.
Via breeding, players will be able to have more from one species of beasts, which in turn will yield them more resources every time they interact with beasts in the vivarium.
If you’re trying to get a specific gear upgrade and need a lot of Thestreal Hairs, breeding will help you get there faster.
The second reason is that selling animals is one of the best ways for making money in Hogwarts Legacy.
While all beasts sell at the same price regardless of species or rarity (shiny or not), breeding and selling beasts is a solid way to make some money on the side without any effort.
Wrapping up
To summarize, this beasts breeding guide for Hogwarts Legacy includes everything you need to know on how to breed beasts, which ones to breed, and why you should do it.
With the beast topic settled, consider also checking out our article on all the common rooms in the game and which one I think is the best. Do you agree?
Which beast are you breeding? Are you doing it for the resources or for the money? Let us know in the comments below.
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