Hogwarts Legacy – How To Catch Shiny Beasts

The Vivarium in Hogwarts Legacy functions as a sanctuary for your animals. While you can tame a lot of creatures, most of them will be of the regular variant, with perhaps a slight change in color. However, there are rarer varieties that you can discover. Here’s our Hogwarts Legacy guide to help you catch rare Shiny Beasts for your Vivarium.

How to make Shiny Beasts spawn

The trick to getting a Shiny Beast in Hogwarts Legacy is making them spawn in the first place. This is completely random, and it can be quite a hassle. As such, your best bet is to do the following:

• Find a type of Beast that you want to capture and go to its den. Normally, you won’t see a Shiny at all.
• Even if a Shiny isn’t there, go ahead and catch a few of them. For instance, Puffskein and Mooncalf dens tend to have four or more animals lounging around.
• After getting a few or even all of them, open your map and press the button prompt to change the day-night cycle (i.e., “F” key for PC players).
• Then, save your game manually.
• Click on Restart From Last Save.

The day-night cycle, plus save-reload trick is a way to force the game to repopulate an area with creatures if any are missing. As such, the animals that you caught earlier have a chance to respawn as Shiny Beasts.

Use the creature respawn trick to have a better shot at making a Shiny appear.

What do Shiny Beasts look like?

So, how exactly do you differentiate the Hogwarts Legacy Shiny Beasts from regular variants? For the most part, they’ll have a star icon on their nameplate. Moreover, they tend to be of a different color altogether. For example, most Puffskeins are grey, brown, black, or red. The Shiny Puffskein, meanwhile, has white fur.

Apart from seeing the icons on their nameplates, you could also open your Inventory: Magical Beasts tab to see if any animal you caught is a Shiny. Also, while it’s possible to breed animals in the game, we’ve yet to see a Shiny variant of an offspring.

Shiny Beasts have a vastly different color and they also have a star icon to denote their rarity.

Potential problems

Last but not least, the trick noted above works for all Beast Dens in the game. However, it might be tough to get Shiny Beasts in Hogwarts Legacy for the following types:

• Unicorn – There’s only one Unicorn Den in the game, and only one of this creature spawns at any given time. We did get lucky, as you can see on the featured image. The Shiny variant is golden brown in color.
• Phoenix – The Phoenix that you can tame is one of a kind. There won’t be another spawn even if you return to its cave.
• Graphorn – The Graphorn does respawn in its den. However, you need to defeat it in battle before you can capture it with your Nab-sack.

Graphorns do respawn, but you need to fight each animal again just to capture it and force a variant reroll. As such, we’ve yet to see a Shiny version of this Magical Beast.