TL;DR Complete Merlin Trials and claim rewards through the challenges menu to increase inventory space.
Merlin Trials
The primary method to increase inventory space in Hogwarts Legacy is by completing Merlin Trials. These trials are scattered throughout the game world and solving them will gradually increase your gear slots [1:1],
[1:2],
[2:5]. However, simply completing the trials isn't enough; you need to manually claim the rewards through the challenges menu
[2:2].
Claiming Rewards
A crucial step that is often overlooked is claiming the rewards for completed challenges. To do this, navigate to the challenges menu and click on any completed challenges to unlock the rewards. This includes additional gear slots that are not activated automatically [2:5],
[2:8].
Selling Unneeded Items
Regularly selling unneeded items at vendors can help manage inventory space effectively. You can sell items at any shop or vendor, including those found in small hamlets and traveling merchants [2:1],
[2:3]. It's recommended to keep only one set of clothes with the highest stats and change their appearance as desired
[2:4],
[2:6].
Vendor Locations
You don't always have to travel back to Hogsmeade to sell items. There are merchants located near every hamlet and even at Hogsmeade station, making it easier to offload items without interrupting your exploration [2:1]. Using Floo Flames can also facilitate quick travel between locations when managing inventory
[1:1].
By focusing on these strategies, players can effectively manage their inventory space in Hogwarts Legacy and enjoy a smoother gameplay experience.
I thought I read of a way to increase inventory space. But I haven’t come across a way of doing it yet. Is there a way or am I imagining things?
Is it bad to just sell unneeded items? That’s what oven been doing. I completed one trial but it didn’t seem to add any gear space
It’s not bad but it’s rather annoying to have only 28 gear slots. I guess I’d still be selling more items with more gear slots but idk. It’s just a hassle to manage how many more slots are left empty before making my way back to Hogsmede to sell off stuff.
Do more Merlin trials to earn more space.
Is there even a counter? Since they are all split into categories not sure how you would know without counting each one
I think there was a way by completing some Merlin Trials.
Ouch. That’s a lot to do lol.
Not all of them ahah just google it, you can find the answer pretty easily. It's like challenges.
Teleport using floo flames to a vendor, sell them, teleport back.
Merlin trials can get you up to 40 inventory slots.
Hey! Just started Hogwarts Legacy (around 8h) and drives me crazy how my clothes inventory is ALWAYS FULL. I asume there aren't any achievements related to collecting cosmetics right? Because I had to trash stuff several times during exploration. I'm doing the Merlin trials, but the room for clothes is still tiny. How did someone consider this a good development idea? Like what would be the reason behind lol.
Something that isn’t explained well, if at all, is that to upgrade your inventory size, you need to go into the challenges menu and click on completed challenges in order to unlock the rewards. Any orange reward tokens are uncollected, so you can have “unlocked” larger inventory space, but you haven’t actually opened it up until the reward has been collected.
I did so many Ancient Magic hotspots wondering why I wasn’t getting more slots before realizing I had to claim the rewards manually.
Also just force quit and hoped I had an auto save before I figured out you had to go into settings to save and quit.
I was coming to say the same thing
Always sell anything you aren't wearing (aka aren't the highest stats you have). You can change the appearance of whatever you are wearing to anything you have unlocked/found in the game, so need to keep extras around. You can sell at any shop or vendors (including the ones at the small hamlets and the travelling vendors)
Selling your sxtra gear is your main way of making money in the game, along with selling captured beasts once you unlock the ability to catch them.
And yes theres an achievement for completeing the collection, which includes appearances. But you don't have to retain them in your gear slots.
Wear the strongest clothes and sell the rest. Once you've collected something you can then change the appearance of your clothes to look like it. E.g you can be wearing a strong death eater mask, but make it look like a nice pair of glasses!
Sell everything but what you're wearing (what you're wearing isn't possible to still anyway!). Later you'll unlock great you'll have to research to see how strong they are, so keep those until you've done that and then sell them (if not better than what you've got).
The only thing with keeping on early game is some great has traits that make it stronger against certain enemies (e.g. dark mongrels) keep that and swap to wear ot when you need it. You'll later get the ability to change those yourself.
Like others have said, sell your gear regularly at vendors. Only have one set of clothes with the highest stats, and change their appearance to whatever you'd like by hovering over that clothing category and finding the button for changing appearance.
You will get more gear slots available if you go into the challenges part of your menu and go and select all of the challenges you've completed so far. You gain extra gear slots by solving Merlin Trials, but your rewards do not activate automatically. You have to click them manually
Good Luck 😀
Yes! I didn't know about having to claim it until my second play-through!
Just equip the best gear you have and sell the rest. Sure, you have to go to Hogsmeade a lot, but it works.
You don’t always have to go to Hogsmeade. There is usually a merchant in or near every hamlet, there’s even one at Hogsmeade station. If I’m on my way somewhere for a quest and my inventory is full, I find the nearest merchant. Even using Floo Flames, it’s easier not going to Hogsmeade every time I need to sell stuff.
I'm all about catching those beasts and I can only sell them there as far as I know at this stage in my first playthrough, so that's where I usually end up.
Sometimes it seems like all roads lead to Hogsmeade
I would love to see more actual treasure in the game. Both gold and unique and strange magical items. Give me things to discover- a range of powered/wealth items like a philosopher stone or weird hand cursed in a cloche to collect. Then let me store them in my own vault (gaining value over time) at Gringott’s as we see in the first movie/book, and let me sell those items in my own storefront.
I love this idea, I'm only a few days into the game but for HL 2 that would be a great idea along with a quidditch hogearts tournament, after the tournament and the school finds its best players it would be super cool to have a legit quidditch world cup you could compete in, in real time just as an extra
Gathering fashion items is pretty boring treasure hunting.
I keep getting clothes like I'm a charity case for the House Elf Liberation Front. It's absurd, bordering on obscene.
There are so many awesome artifacts visible all throughout the game, but unfortunately almost all of them are just decoration. There's a rotted out tree near a niffler den that is literally overflowing with gold coins, enough to buy Hogsmeade, yet it's all just decoration.
Even if you took it, little dude would keep stealing it back. It's left as an offering so you can keep your inventory.
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I loved being able to explore Hogwarts and its surroundings! I absolutely love RPG games like this and having a Harry Potter themes RPG has been a dream come true! Although while playing the game I noticed there are a lot of things that should’ve been added that weren’t! Of course when they revealed that there would be no Online Multiplayer, it was a literal let-down, but of course this did not stop me from buying it!
The thing that I really didn’t like more than the absence of multiplayer was the disappointing fact that we start our adventure at Hogwarts in our 5th year! I know to some that this isn’t a really big deal, but as a die hard Harry Potter fan it didn’t sit right with me. I feel like we were robbed of receiving our acceptance letter! Not only that I always thought we’d be able to choose our character’s blood status, Muggle-Born, Half Blood, or Pure-Blood. I wanted to run through Diagon Alley and go from store to store checking off my supply list before heading off to platform 9/3 quarters!
The other thing I found ridiculous is that we only learn a total of 34 spells out of the 80 mentioned in the books! I was honestly hoping to learn more, but that didn’t surprise me seeing as we started in our 5th year! Hopefully that little issue can be corrected for Legacy II!
There were also a total of only 13 magical creatures out of 85, which I understand the reasoning being that not all magical creatures live in the UK, but across the world. It would’ve been nice to see werewolves, basilisks, manticores, different breeds of dragon, etc. I hope they add more in the next game!
Overall I just hope they start fresh and allow us to start in our 1st year, and add DLC for every year at Hogwarts until we graduate! I doubt this will happen, because of the news being that the second game will be a prequel! Anyways, what do you guys think should be in the next game and do you agree it should be a new character? Or one we could import from Hogwarts Legacy 1, like they do at Bioware?
There needs to be a morality system. There should be consequences to using forbidden curses, sneaking out at night, sneaking around the castle, etc. Every great RPG has a strong morality system (think Red Dead Redemption), without it the game feels empty.
Fun fact, the original premise of Hogwarts Legacy was most of all that's been talked about in this thread. From the companions and pets, to a breathing open world and even the morality system. Eventually, much of it was caught up on covid issues and the game got absolutely gutted, even the morality system which was the very basis of the game, as it would allow you to actually become a dark wizard.
So, due to many reasons from deadlines to budget and more, we got a game where it's main points feel lacking and empty. The storyline feels rushed and the ending is meaningless, you only choose the ending on the last 4 options and it breaks immersion so badly. The endings are very VERY cheap and the world is actually breathing, yes, but not with you in it. That's for sure. As soon as the main quest is gone you dissappear. The events don't even shape the world or change much of anything. Plus you'd think a rebellion of a whole species would involve much more than 6 professores and 4 paintings.
The morality system actually even allowed you to land yourself in Azkaban, were you to use the dark arts or just overall have a bad reputation. You can see it's foundations on the side quests where you clearly have good, neutral and bad choices, but the only real impact they have is on your money and your own human conscience (I'm looking at you Peanut kidnappers). As for the companion system, you can still see some hints of it's existence while you're out and about. The main character will occasionally blurt something like "Trouble brewing and I'm without the presence of friends?" which are the lines the Mc would play when you chose to go solo.
Edit: I forgot to mention another thing, I WAS ROBBED OF THE MAGICAL GRAND STAIRCASE OF THE ROTATING STAIRS!!!
It’s crazy to think that there could have been a game where you are able to become a dark wizard. It would have truly been THE Harry Potter game. I’ll never understand rushing a game and putting out a half finished product rather than delaying until it’s perfected. Even more so, I don’t understand why they are making a sequel rather than releasing DLCs and updates that would build on the foundation of the first and actually complete what they’ve already started. The foundation is there, and it’s beautiful. Why not build on what’s already laid down?
Hello shopkeeper, don't mind me as I raid your home. Also, can I sell your own stuff back to you? Cool thx bye
If there is a next game, I hope they scale things down with the story. We don’t need a huge fantasy narrative, lower the stakes to something a little smaller please. I think there was an enormous disconnect in the narrative between the wonder of being a new student and the high stakes dramatic narrative where we kill countless people.
Let us have more of a student life- things like levelling up spells through attending classes and a proper social system would do wonders to make this world feel more alive. Maybe a dating mechanic would be cute, where your character can ask someone out to attend a ball or something. Or perhaps a gifting system like the one in stardew valley would already add a lot.
Now for the main story: please, focus more on Hogwarts itself. We don’t need the expansive yet empty Highlands. As beautiful as the scenery is, it doesn’t add anything meaningful to the game. I’d also like a story that is a little less epic and something with more personal stakes. Hogwarts itself is already magical enough, we don’t need a cataclysmic event and the player character to be a chosen one for a great story. The Harry Potter books were all Mysteries at their core, it would be great to see that genre be utilised for the next game.
Please overhaul the loot and crafting system. Rescuing and breeding beasts in the room of requirement feels wrong. It makes me feel like a poacher in denial, especially with the fact that you can sell beasts. It’s a stupid mechanic, and the loom is absolutely tedious. Just an over engineered mess. I do like the room of requirement, but the beasts need to go.
The last point is perhaps the most difficult to realise, but I want more meaningful choices and stories that don’t feel like they were lost in development. Sebastian’s quest is narratively so unfinished it’s ridiculous, and it’s the quest where you feel a lack of choices and consequences the most. I have a similar sentiment for the main quest, where they could have used the narrative to meaningfully explore things like the generational oppression of the goblins and the moral dilemma of Ranrok doing the wrong thing for the right reasons instead of making him into the comically evil villain he is in the game. The witcher 2 could do it over a decade ago. I want a more graceful narrative and choices that actually matter.
I lied about the previous point being my last, I hope the next game doesn’t have a voiced protagonist, or only a voice for quips and comments like in bg3. It would cut down immensely on voice acting costs and allow for other characters to have more dialogue.
All of this. I hate how big the map is. It kept us out of hogwarts too much, and we really could have gotten by with 2 or 3 hamlets in addition to hogsmeade and the forbidden forest. Quality npc experiences in these locations over traveling to random monster dens and hamlets that you mostly don’t have a main story related reason to see. I just finished the main story and still have 1-2 hamlets that I just didn’t get around to visiting.
I thought the ancient magic would be an opportunity to solve a mystery. It just turned into portraits of long gone wizards telling us what to do/believe while we didn’t have any real agency over what to do with the magic now.
Totally agree, but the last paragraph. Leveling up spells would be nice. Learn basic, where it is not powerfull and/ or the aiming is not good, so you need to be closer to the target. Using it X times, then it get slightly more honed, and using Y times mlre and unlocks the next teaching lesson, where you get an improved version, etc.
I would like to have a schedule in hogwarts. And if you dont attend, classmates/Professors get suspicious. Wakeup, breakfast, lesson, fred time for interactions/ quests/ skilling/ exploring, dinner, sleep. You get hungry and tired, but without Real consequences (like rdr2), maybe get a cold if you had weaken your character for too long. But the suspicion Level raises if you frequently dont attend your schedule. Fast suspicion if dropping lessons. Consequences would be getting grounded (like prison in rdr2), or getting a Supervisor and are forced to attend the schedule for a few days, or have detention, where you Meeting other troublemakers and get quests for pranks/stealing/Chaos.
Dont be rich, less ways to make Gold. Maybe write letter to parents if you want/need a New Outfit. Or trade/lend from other students which you have good standing with (->morality system).
HL1 nevertheless makes fun for me, they found a nice gameplay loop. You are the classical chosen one and overpowered Main character. And they are using each speciality/greatness from the movies. But an other appraoch to focus more on the hogwarts-student experience would be nice.
Explore more of hogwarts. More hair style options, and I would like to experience sleeping in my dorm with the other students.
Most certainly more hairstyles, we were completely limited when it came to that! And i would’ve loved to see the dorms too! Maybe even be able to customize your bed and dorm. I was hoping they added a dating system to the game, one that’s better than Hogwarts Mystery! Wish they would’ve given us more friends too!
NPC interaction is non existent. You feel like a ghost running around in Hogwarts in late game. So better npc interactions, companions, more hidden rooms and more activities to do in Hogwarts, and hogsmead, the world should feel immersive. Also quidditch, I really feel the lack of it
This is one of countless reasons why I found this game so insultingly shallow. I feel like a spectre walking the corridors of the castle & I hate how nothing we do matters & no one react s to us.
Their should be activities, mini games like the older HP games. We should be able to take companions with us out with their own questlines, that is not an impossible ask as many like to claim.
this but also, lemme riz up other students, something more akin to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. I don't wanna be some exceptional student with some special abilities compared to other students. I just wanna have my own little harry potter experience, doing lessons, talking to students, living my little harry potter life. Let my actions have consequences as to how others perceive me
I'm level 8, just got to Winterfell, and my inventory is full of stuff that I can't use (herbs and grasses, gemstones, scrolls, etc.). I don't have any resources to craft at the blacksmith or apothecary, and I don't have access to the jewelry store yet. Is there any [free] way to store items? Or when do you get to the point to be able to increase your base inventory? I can't really progress because I can't store any new items. Any advice? Thanks!
Click the + at bottom of inventory.
I used some coins to expand mine.
Tried that, you also need a crafting item that looks like a bag to do it.
You can upgrade your base inventory and your other inventory, but it does cost coin. It’s like 50.000 copper—I think. It’s not a bad price.
But the thing is, I don’t remember where to do that…
When I get back on later tonight , I will let you know where you can do that, unless someone else tells you first, or you already figured it out. I’m not home and I play on PC, and don’t worry, I will remember.
Man we need that info 😂 I'm in the same situation, everything say it's used for crafting or them things that look like blueprints, dyes for clothes. Like I been all over the map it seem and still haven't figured out how to use any of those things.
I was trying to look up videos and was trying to find more information about it online, because I wasn’t gonna be home for a while.
I couldn’t find anything on it…I can’t believe so many people don’t know about the cheap way to do it. There’s another way, but it cost 240 gold—which, I don’t think y’all want to spend your gold lol.
I’ll be home shortly, don’t worry.
Just got home, check out my recent post. It will show you where to get more inventory space.
Yeah I’m like all I saw was the special packs that cost like the scrolls?? Hilariously when you buy them they take up inventory space so you run into the problem of still needing to drop something lol
By finding those scrolls (marked all over the map) on the map, you gain tribute. You can use that tribute currency in the shop to buy some inventory expansion tools.
I also found some inventory expansion tools by going to a peddler. The game notifies you where they spawn and you can buy it from them for copper.
I struggled a bit in the beginning too, but you can honestly sell a decent amount of your stuff in the beginning that’s graded as grey and green besides the jewelry crafting stuff. Just keep on progressing!
Am I the only one who bought all 3 expanders from the shop but the game only let me expand twice and the 3rd one just disappeared?
First expansion cost one expander, second expansion cost two of your expanders. 1 + 2 = 3 expanders total, it’s pretty scummy
Hi there .. do you know where can i find the meister to exchange the pieces of elk pelt to get 1 full pelt ? Is he at Lost hearth castle or is he at Winterfell Castle ? I cant find him anywhere.
Does anyone else feel this way?? The store in hogsmead that you can buy, the house elf says you can sell anything but she lied. You can only sell gear like most other shops which irritates me. I have hundreds of materials that I can't do anything with and no room to make any more potions. The products from the beasts are piling up as well. I love the game but I can't wait to see what the mods bring in the future. I really feel like they shouldn't of said "you can sell anything" and then make it to where you can only sell gear.
That's primarily the reason I didn't even bother with the quest. I'm not going through all that effort to own a shop I can't even decorate nor sell what I want. The game limits you in almost every damn way. When I did play the game I ran into so many walks thinking at least some of the gameplay mechanics ran deeper.
I’m still tryna get my ass through the quest that I was not prepared for. At all. Like “ima just buy this shop right quick and then take a break from playing cause I been playing all day” when suddenly I’m thrust into a horror game containing my biggest most irrational fear… mannequins 😭 Like wtf y’all 😂
Why are you afraid of mannequins? They're usually not watching you.
This is bitching just for the sake of bitching. Go make your own Harry Potter game if you're so offended, then you can sell whatever to whoever and no one will care.
Way to dissmiss a legitimate glaring oversight in the game you complete clown.
House elves are scum so that tracks
The store sucks and is not at all worth the hassle to obtain it. Also, I wanted nothing to do with Penny the house elf after she sold me down the river. Sympathy only goes so far
Everyone talks about how much better the inventory management is because of stashes in HFW ... but I'll admit, there are parts I don't find intuitive, and I'm still not sure I understand dozens of hours into playing.
I get that certain kinds of items are constrained by how many can fit in your pouch/quiver/etc. That's familiar (with now the added bonus that extras go to your stash).
But ... some items can have excess in your inventory? Like you can have more medicinal plants/berries in the inventory than the pouch and refill it? Is that right?
And for resources ... are there hard limits on the amount of key resources, upgrade resources and so on? On resources overall? I see rows with empty slots, and I'm never clear if just more rows appear when you reach the end of one. Some sections appear to have multiple empty rows this early in the game, some appear a couple of items away from filling their last visible row ... but is that just because it'll add more rows as I go?
Is there any circumstance where I DON'T want to auto-fill items from my stash and want to micromanage what stays and gos? Potions, I guess? What else?
Can I sell items from my stash, or only what's in my inventory?
You can only sell items that are in your inventory. Nothing from the stash. Your stash will take any overflow items like you said if you know the section that it’s available is 50 then it’s going to start another box of 50 and when the row fills up obviously it’ll go to the next row. I believe the hard count on anything is 9999. When you go to your stash, there is a way to pull the excess items back into your inventory. I think it’s the square press and hold the square to move items from your stash into your inventory. There are multiple sections in your stash just like there is in your inventory so there’s a section for weapons section for resources a section for armor and a section for strike pieces and I think there’s one more but I can’t remember. So there’s different tabs and you’ll have to check through those some of them you have to manually move.Like at the very beginning of the game depending on which version you have, you have extra outfits already in your stash.
There are limits to the number of potions you can carry, but stuff that goes to your inventory, there's no limit that I've come across. I'm 372 hours into it with a handful of playthroughs. One resource that seems harder to come by seems to be volatile sludge. Many of the higher tier ammo types require it, and so I try not to touch what I have in my stash if i can help it. Only later merchants sell it too, so it's not something you can find just anywhere.
I find that I can’t hold enough volatile sludge because I don’t have enough space and it’s really weird? It gives me a hard limit on 30 or something and I use it for basically all my ammo. Like I’ve played it multiple times and it always happens so I just have to buy put in my stash, do that a few times then buy and keep it in my inventory so I can always stock up.
Would a fair tldr of this be "there's no limit on your inventory EXCEPT stuff associated with pouches, and their overflow will go to your stash?"
Yep
Just completed that god awful quest and finally got my own shop. So far, I can only sell my gear and nothing else. I was hoping to sell some collectibles from my beasts. Does the number of items you can sell increase as you reach higher levels, or is that all you can do there?
It's all you can do sadly. You do get more money for them than selling at another shop though.
I made a post about it on r/HarryPotterGame here, I was pissed about it too, because Penny literally says we can sell materials (be it from beasts/plants) and the shop name options heavily imply the ability to sell potions, I really hope that they either fix this in a patch or fix it in the rumoured Director's Cut..
Considering there was just the recent summer update and nothing changed, I don’t think they have any plans for it.
Haven't you heard about the Director's Cut rumours going around? https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/06/06/hogwarts-legacy-may-get-a-directors-cut-plus-todays-patch-notes/
What quest gets you your own shop?!?!?!
Dont do it
I can't. I have xbox. Lol
God awful?? It was one of my favourite quests! I thought it was really fun and spoopy
Spoopy is, without a doubt, one of my favorite typos of all time
You get I think 10% more for selling to Penny instead of the other vendors. That’s your store “profit.” That’s really the only benefit.
Cost: 5000
Costs another 50,000 coins after to upgrade again!
I got the event from the caravan hand which added 10 i think. Can i get more of these events if i hire more caravan hands, or is it unique for the party?
I also bought one cart at the very beginning i believe for renown mission, but i didn't get any way to get more.
What are some other ways to gain more space?
You could perk everyone with bags and belts ��
A horrible perk to waste a point on lol
For archers it's quite useful though.
Mods help with that.
How are you running out of space? I always have more than enough. Just curious.
Lots of consecutive fighting out in the wilderness
-One time from the caravan hand event, never more
-Twice from ambitions. The other ambition can trigger quite late in the game.
How to get more inventory space in hogwarts legacy
To increase your inventory space in Hogwarts Legacy, consider the following tips:
Upgrade Your Gear: As you progress through the game, you can find or purchase gear that provides additional inventory slots. Look for gear with inventory expansion perks.
Complete Quests: Certain side quests and main story missions may reward you with inventory upgrades or items that increase your carrying capacity.
Sell Unwanted Items: Regularly check your inventory and sell items you no longer need to free up space. Visit vendors in Hogsmeade or other locations to sell excess gear and materials.
Use the Room of Requirement: Once you unlock the Room of Requirement, you can store items there. This space acts as a personal inventory where you can keep items you don't need immediately.
Crafting and Upgrading: Focus on crafting and upgrading items that are essential to your playstyle. This can help you manage your inventory more effectively by reducing the number of items you carry.
Recommendation: Prioritize completing quests and exploring to find gear with inventory expansion perks. This will help you manage your inventory more efficiently as you progress through the game.
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