All Hogwarts Legacy map icons, explained

As players progress through Hogwarts Legacy, they must learn to navigate the immensely complex Hogwarts castle and its vast open world. While this might seem daunting initially, the RPG features a detailed map packed with icons that will help players during their travels. 

While the many icons present throughout Hogwarts Legacy’s map are pretty helpful once you understand what they indicate, there are also so many that figuring out what each means can be confusing. There are many unique icons to learn, but if you want to figure out how to navigate the open world, it is entirely worth the time you’ll spend learning what they mean.

Here is a complete breakdown of every map icon present across each of Hogwarts Legacy’s maps and what each represents.

All Hogwarts Legacy map icons and meanings

When players view the entire world map as a whole, these are all of the icons that they will come across. Some of these icons also appear within the Hogsmeade and Hogwarts maps.

World map icons in Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Castle symbol

• The giant Hogwarts crest symbol highlights the location of Hogwarts castle itself. Players can click on it to switch to the map of Hogwarts rather than the entire open world.

Hogsmeade symbol

• The boar head symbol represents the wizarding town of Hogsmeade. Like Hogwarts, Hogsmeade has a map that players can view to visit individual locations in town.

Floo Flames symbol

• If the Floo Flames icon is green, then players have unlocked that point and can teleport to it from anywhere in the world.

• Players must still unlock that teleportation point if the Floo Flames icon is grey. To unlock it and turn it green, players will need to make their way to its location and approach it.

Main quest symbol

• The main quest icon is always a yellow outline of the Hogwarts crest, indicating where players need to go to continue the main storyline.

Merlin Trial symbol

• The vast open world is packed with Merlin Trials for players to complete. These are marked with a leaf icon and can be activated with Mallosweet leaves. As players complete these puzzles, they will slowly unlock more gear slots.

Ancient Magic Hotspot symbol

• Players can visit Ancient Magic Hotspots, marked with the Ancient Magic symbol, to work on upgrading their Ancient Magic bars. At each hotspot, players must locate and interact with the bubbling Ancient Magic spot to unleash three pieces of Ancient Magic. Once players find all three, the hotspot will be completed.

Beast den symbol

• There are many unique best dens scattered throughout the open world. Each has a unique name to reflect the beast players can rescue there, such as the “Unicorn den” or the “Mooncalf den.” Players can visit these locations to rescue creatures and return them to their Vivariums within the Room of Requirement.

Astronomy table symbol

• The moon and stars icon represents the Astronomy tables that players can visit worldwide. Each has a unique constellation, and players must adequately line up the telescope to complete each. 

Hamlet symbol

• The house icon indicates small villages players can explore to find chests, quests, and field guide pages.

Field Guide page symbol

• Players can find any Field Guide pages they are missing from around the world by searching for the page icon with a question mark.

Shop symbol

• Players can visit a few unique shops to purchase various goofs. This includes assets like unique brooms, potions, ingredients, and gear. All shops worldwide are marked with a stack of coins icon.

Treasure vault symbol

• The regular-looking cave icon features unique treasure vaults that players can visit to collect treasure. Most players can simply walk inside and collect loot, but some have puzzles or spells that players will need to utilize to gain the reward from within.

Enemy lair symbol

• Players can visit the more creepy-looking cave icon notes locations to take on foes.

Battle Arena symbol

• The Battle Arenas around the world are noted with wizard icons. Players can visit these locations to overcome unique challenges and improve combat skills.

Spider lair symbol

• The spiderweb icon marks lairs packed with spiders for players to defeat.

Enemy camps symbol

• There are a few variations of the tent icon depending on the size of the enemy camp, but all of them generally have the same foes, which are various wizards or goblins, and the same premise, which is to defeat the foes and claim the loot there. Players can find a chest at each camp, and the tent icon will have a checkmark on it once players have located and opened the chest there.

Infamous foe symbol

• Players can take on special foes that are much stronger than average enemies at the locations that are marked with a skull icon.

Side quest symbol

• A gray crest symbol marks any side quests players have come across or can discover. Completing any of these will grant unique quest-exclusive rewards.

Relationship quest symbol

• The gray icon with a spyglass notes quests involving any of the companions in Hogwarts Legacy.

Dungeon symbol

• The archway icon indicates special dungeons that players can complete for rewards. Generally, there are both enemies and treasures within them.

Broom Challenge symbol

• Players will need to tackle unique broom race challenges noted by the room icon to improve how their broom functions.

Hogsmeade map icons in Hogwarts Legacy

The wizarding town of Hogsmeade has a separate map that players can view. This map is packed with unique icons that note all the locations players can visit.

• 1) The Magic Neep
  • Players can visit The Magic Neep with a plant icon to purchase seeds, fertilizer, and a few smaller plants. These plants do not include the ones that players can wield in battle and instead are all potion ingredients except for Mallowsweet, which is used during Merlin Trials.
• 2) J. Pippin’s Potions
  • Hogsmeade’s resident potion store is J. Pippin’s Potions, marked with a potion icon. J. Pippin sells potion recipes, already-made potions, and potion ingredients for players to purchase.
• 3) Hog’s Head
  • This location is marked with a star and has nothing for sale. Instead, it is an inn and pub that players can visit.
• 4) Ollivanders
  • Players will visit Ollivanders early in the game to obtain their wand. Ollivanders is marked with a wand icon and dedicated to selling wands.
• 5) Spintwitches Sporting Needs
  • As players progress through Hogwarts Legacy, they will eventually be able to purchase broom upgrades and new brooms from Spintwitches Sporting Needs. This store is marked with a flying golden snitch icon.
• 6) The Three Broomsticks
  • Players can visit everyone’s favorite hangout spot in Hogsmeade: The Three Broomsticks. This inn and pub is marked with a star and doesn’t have anything for sale, but it will be a location players need to visit during certain quests.
• 7) Zonko’s Joke Shop
  • Although this shop has nothing for sale, Zonko’s Joke Shop is packed with jokes and candies for players to interact with. Zonko’s Joke Shop is marked with a star icon.
• 8) Madame Snelling’s Tress Emporium
  • Players can change their character’s hairstyle, hair color, complexion, eyebrows, and other little details by visiting this shop. Changing your appearance will cost a few Galleons. This shop can be found by visiting the scissors icon.
• 9) Gladrags Wizardwear
  • The tophat icon marks Gladrags Wizardwear, a shop players can visit to purchase new gear. Players will regularly find more powerful equipment here, so they should check back regularly as the stock changes.
• 10) Brood and Peck
  • Players can sell beasts they have caught at Brood and Peck, marked with a unicorn horn icon. The owner also has some materials players can gain from caring for beasts that are available for purchase.
• 11) Hogsmeade Square
  • A star icon notes the central area of the wizarding town.
• 12) Steeply and Sons
  • A star icon marks this tea shop. Players cannot purchase anything from the shop but can visit it.
• 13) Honeydukes
  • The Honeydukes shop is packed with magical sweets. Although players cannot buy any, they can walk around and sample many of this shop’s unique sweets for sale. Honeydukes is marked with a star icon.
• 14) Tomes and Scrolls
  • Tomes and Scrolls are marked with a scroll icon and are the only locations players can visit to purchase Conjuration recipes for the Room of Requirement.

• 15) The Old Fool
  • This location is an abandoned old house that players can enter and explore.
• 16) Dogweed and Deathcap
  • Players can visit this plant shop to purchase plants that aid them in battle. The owner sells already-grown plants, plant seeds, and fertilizer.

Hogwarts map icons in Hogwarts Legacy

When players view the map of Hogwarts castle rather than the world map, they will find a few icons that are unique to the witchcraft and wizarding school.

Secret rooms symbol

• The two secret locations players can visit in Hogwarts, the Room of Requirement and the Map Chamber, are marked with a sun icon.

Wing symbol

• Each of Hogwarts’ areas is marked with a flag icon to indicate each of the castle’s wings.

Exit symbol

• Any area marked with the exit icon, a door with an arrow, will lead players out of Hogwarts to somewhere else.

So, there you have it. You know everything you need about map icons in Hogwarts Legacy. Enjoy!\