Hogwarts Legacy - How To Catch Shiny Beasts

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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.

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:

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.

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.

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:

Hogwarts Legacy is developed by Avalanche Software, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game has been embroiled in controversy due to transphobic remarks from Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Although she is not