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Hogwarts Legacy: How To Solve Goblin Camp Merlin Trial

Image of the Great Hall in Hogwarts Legacy

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This guide explains how to solve the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy.

After months of waiting, Hogwarts Legacy has arrived on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. The game is proving to be a massive hit with Potter fans as they eagerly get stuck into life at the legendary school.

In Hogwarts Legacy, players join the eponymous school as a fifth-year student in the 1890s. The game takes place a whole century before the Harry Potter novels and films. And this allows it to tell its own story about “a dangerous journey to uncover a hidden truth of the wizarding world.”

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive RPG that allows players to experience life as a real student. You can create your own witch or wizard, pick your own wand, and even choose one of Hogwarts’ four houses.

Once you’ve settled into the mythical school of witchcraft and wizardry, you are free to explore, attend classes, learn spells, and discover everything the Wizarding World has to offer.

Location of the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial
Location of the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial.

Critics and fans have given the game a great reception. It offers many puzzles to solve, challenges to complete, and enemies to defeat.

Hogwarts Legacy has several different types of puzzles, including the mysterious ‘Merlin Trials’.

The Merlin Trials were created by the legendary wizard who was himself a student at Hogwarts.

All the trials can be found outside in the area around the school. One of them is located inside a Goblin Camp.

Let’s go over how to solve the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

How To Solve Goblin Camp Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

Each Merlin Trial begins in the same way: finding a spiral plate embedded in the ground.

After using Mallowsweet to activate the trial, you can start to solve it.

The Goblin Camp Merlin Trial involves three floor plates that are activated by placing five balls at their centre. However, finding the plates and balls is tricky.

This is how to solve the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy:

1 – Open the internal gates at the south of the camp and use Accio to move the balls onto the first floor plate at the centre of the camp next to the spiral.

How to solve goblin camp merlin trial in Hogwarts Legacy
How to solve goblin camp merlin trial in Hogwarts Legacy

2 – The second set of balls are up at the forge on the west side of camp, move them onto the nearby floor plate.

Hogwarts Legacy How to solve goblin camp merlin trial
Hogwarts Legacy How to solve goblin camp merlin trial

3 – The final floor plate and set of balls are just outside the camp to the east. From the central Merlin swirl, destroy the eastern exterior wall of the camp.

Hogwarts Legacy How to solve goblin camp merlin trial

Run past the platform, turn left behind the large rock, and use Incendio to reveal the set of balls. Move them onto the floor plate.

Large rock outside the camp
Balls on the floor plate

After placing the balls on the final floor plate the Goblin Camp Merlin Trial is complete.

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