HogWarp will be a Hogwarts Legacy multiplayer mod developed by modder Yamashi, the one that brought us Skyrim Together.
Hogwarts Legacy is a fantastic new open-world role-playing game based on the Harry Potter universe where you start your journey as a fifth-year student. You can make friends, or enemies, master spells, and catch, nurture, mount or even breed beasts. The wizarding school, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest, and other towns and villages are all open for exploration.
There is no Hogwarts Legacy multiplayer mod at the moment, so you’ll be doing most of your travelling by yourself. The ability to invite allies along on quests, or at least some sort of party mechanic, would have been excellent.
It would also be entertaining to play the game with actual friends while exploring the Forbidden Forest’s depths, looking for shiny monsters and battling evil sorcerers online. This might actually occur as Yamashi, the famous modder posted on his Patreon page that a Hogwarts Legacy multiplayer mod is currently in the making. The mod is still in its very early stages and is only accessible to PC users but it already has an outstanding appearance.
While two members of the Skyrim Together team are now reviewing the code with the intention of joining the project, Yamashi is currently working on HogWarp alone. Yamashi gave thanks to pre-release work on Stray, a totally different kind of game, for how they were able to get a test building up and running so rapidly. This link puzzled me for a time until they revealed that Stray utilizes the same Unreal Engine 4.27.2 as Hogwarts Legacy.
“Our aim is to figure out how to do the basics such as spawning characters with the player’s appearance, animations and NPCs,” Yamashi told PC Gamer‘s Andy Chalk. “We are not going to create any multiplayer-specific content ourselves, we want to provide a stable framework so that people can enjoy the vanilla game and maybe extend it themselves later on.”
The Hogwarts Legacy Multiplayer mod now has beta access
Subscribers of Yamashi’s Patreon can download a test version of HogWarp, but they were cautioned that at this early stage of development, they have to expect something pretty buggy. Whether everything goes as planned, if there is a larger release, “it’s really hard to say, ideally, we can give a proof of concept to everyone within this month!” However, it will still be a few months until full functioning is achieved.
Only Yamashi’s Patreon supporters at the High Otter ($21/month) and King Otter ($51.50/month) tiers get access to the most recent HogWarp build. When it is complete, everyone will have free access to it. Nobody knows for sure when that will truly occur. There is no assurance that the project will ever be finished, much like with every ambitious modding effort and many full-fledged game design projects. One amazing thing is that it already started a few days after the game’s release.
However, the mod will only be available on PC. We really wish to see something official too from the game’s developers and see the cross-platform wizards and witches of the entire world gather together in the High Lands.
