Hogwarts Legacy Daedalian keys: how to open the House Chest

The House Chest in Hogwarts Legacy can only be unlocked by finding 16 Daedalian keys around Hogwarts, here's where to find them

When you’re first sorted into your Hogwarts Legacy house and get to explore your new common room, you’ll quickly spot a conspicuous chest with open slots in the top. This House Chest contains a special reward for anyone who can seek out the 16 Daedalian keys scattered around Hogwarts. A short way into the game, after your first few lessons, a student will point out the flying keys to you, and you can follow them to the corresponding cabinet.

Completing a quick minigame will unlock the cabinet and get you one of the house emblems you’ll need. We’ll tell you where to find all 16 cabinets and their keys, as well as show you what you get for gathering them all.

You'll need to get through some locked doors for this quest, so make sure you know how to learn Alohamora and complete the lockpicking minigame.

Make sure to read through our other Hogwarts Legacy guides for everything you need to know about the game, including puzzle solutions, item locations, and more.

Astronomy Tower

This is the one you’ll be guided towards during the quest. Follow the quest marker to the key and follow it up into the Astronomy classroom, where you’ll find the cabinet.

Defense Against the Dark Arts Tower

You’ll find the cabinet for this one just down the hall from the DADA classroom, go downstairs to the giant Rhino-like creature skeleton for the key.

North Hall

As you enter from the Transfiguration Courtyard, you’ll spot the key directly ahead of you, near the globe. It will fly all the way up the tall flight of stairs to the cabinet at the top.

Central Hall

The cabinet for this one is right next to a puzzle door, so you can’t miss it. The key is on the other side of central hall, close to the corridor that leads to the Potions classroom.

Library

You can spot the cabinet quite easily, as it’s on the back wall and slightly to the right as you enter the library. The key is very nearby, next to the benches on the opposite side.

Quad Courtyard

The key for this one is up the stairs in the courtyard, near a Levioso statue, it will lead you to the cabinet by a door on the west side.

Potion’s Classroom

The key is impossible to miss here, as it’s right outside the Potion’s Classroom, it will take you all the way down the stairs in front of you into the corridor below where it lies.

Great Hall

As you enter the Great Hall through the main door, turn right and then right again, head up some stairs and you’ll find the cabinet. The key is further up the stairs in the storeroom.

Entrance Hall

This is the hall between the Great Hall and the main courtyard, the one with the big Hogwarts Crest on the staircase. The cabinet is at the bottom of the stairs, the key is at the top.

Grand Staircase

The cabinet for this one is at the very bottom of the staircase, just down the hall from the hourglasses that track the house points. Head up the staircase and you’ll eventually run into the key.

Dungeons 1

In the North Hall, go down the stairs until you see a small door at the bottom. Head through it, down those stairs, and turn left at the entryway. There is the cabinet, the key is further down, by the sleeping dragon statue.

Dungeons 2

Continue down the corridor from the sleeping dragon until you find what looks like a storeroom. Turn left and you’ll find both the key and the cabinet at the back of that room.

Faculty Tower

You won’t be able to reach this one until you learn Alohamora during the quest “The Caretaker’s Lunar Lament”. The cabinet is just under the staircase directly in front of the door, the key will be up the stairs on the upper level. During the mission, a prefect will be standing guard, but you can always come back later.

Prefect's Bathroom

This one is on the floor below the Hospital Wing, right next to the entrance to the Prefect's Bathroom. The key is directl down the corridor behind the cabinet, just on the brink of the Clock Tower.

Clock Tower

This is another you’ll need Alohamora for. Go through the locked door in the area where the dueling club meets, climb the staircase and you’ll find the cabinet. Go up the next staircase and you’ll find the key.

Viaduct Entrance

Head up the stairs from Central Hall, past the Floo Flame and you'll see the cabinet for this one on your left. Continue up and turn right to find the key.

House Chest reward

Once you've finally got all of them, you'll unlock the chest and get a cool cloak with your house's emblem emblazoned on it. It even glows slightly when you perform magic and in the dark.

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