What All Map Icons Mean in Hogwarts Legacy

There’s been a great debate about some game maps having “too many” icons. Some really like how you know where everything is located so you can decide where to go next. Others find it overwhelming or too easy, lacking discovery. No matter which side you’re on, it’s best you prepare yourself for all the icons a game does give you. Hogwarts Legacy has a decent amount of Map Icons and some of them can seem a bit similar. Here’s what all the map icons mean in Hogwarts Legacy.

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Every Map Icon in Hogwarts Legacy

There are 3 major map sections with mostly their own unique icons and we will break them down by each section.

Hogwarts Map Icons

• Broom: available broom racing events
• Chest: chest locations that contain either gold, gear, or potions
• Demiguise: Demiguise is a creature whose many Statues are located all over Hogwarts
• Door: door icons signal locations you use to head to other parts of the map
• Field Guide: This icon appears when a page from the guide is exposed using the Revelio spell as you find them.
• Flag: Appear to give details on specific sidequests in that area
• Flame: marks the location of a Floo Flame which you use for fast-travel
• Moon: mark the locations of Astronomy Tables
• Shield: available story and side quests. Story quests are yellow, side quests are colored gray.
• Sun: locations of secret rooms such as The Map Chamber and Room of Requirement

Hogsmeade Icons

• Hat: Gladrags Wizardwear shop, where you buy gear
• Potion Bottle: J. Pippin’s Potions shop. Can also use a potion station there
• Scissors: Madam Snelling’s Tress Emporium, where you can change your hairstyle and facial features
• Scroll: Tomes and Scrolls, a store where you buy conjurations
• Snitch: Spintwitches Sporting Needs, a shop to buy brooms and upgrade them
• Star: markers for multiple locations, such as the joke shop, abandoned buildings, and the inn
• Unicorn horn: Brood and Peck, a rare animal fur shop that functions as upgrades
• Wand: Ollivanders’ Wands location, where you buy your wands and customize them
• Wheat: The Magic Neep, where you buy herbs and seeds for potion ingredients.

Overworld Icons

• Cave: Indicates dungeon-like areas full of enemies and treasure vaults with high-rarity gear rewards.
• Coat of Arms: hover over this icon to see currently available quests
• Gold: marks the location of gear and potion sellers
• Hog: Hogsmeade’s location and notifying events to take place
• House: village locations for additional side quests, chests, and collectibles
• Leaf: Merlin Trials, puzzles to complete for extra inventory space
• Magic: Ancient Magic Hotspots, find and locate to gain additional magic slots
• Paw print: nests of magical beasts that you can catch
• Skull: locations of higher-level enemies to challenge
• Spiderweb: areas swarming with spiders
• Tent: enemy hideout areas, clear out to earn more trait features
• Wizard: Battle Arena, where you battle enemy waves for exclusive gear

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