A bug that causes players to fall through the world due to faulty collision detection in Hogwarts Legacy. Read on to learn how to prevent the bug from occurring, an explanation of this bug, and more!
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There are certain parts of game's world, particularly at the Great Hall in Hogwarts Castle, where you can fall through the game's world if you run close to the edges of the wall. Avoid running along these areas to prevent this bug from occuring.
There are some cases wherein if you fall through the game's world, it causes your character to fall to their death. Select Retry or Load Game from the screen to restart from the previous save.
If you have a flying mount such as the broom, you can summon it to fly back up towards the normal game world. You can summon the flying mount while free falling to prevent yourself from falling to your death or getting stuck under the game's world.
In addition, you can also fast travel while on a broom allowing you to move to a different location.
List of Flying Mounts and Brooms
If you are currently stuck under the game's world, try repeatedly clicking the map button to force the game to open the map. This allows you to fast travel and spawn normally to the selected location.
If you are playing the Steam version of the game, you can verify the integrity of the game's files to restore any corrupted data. See the table below for the step by step guide.
| How to Verify Integrity of Game Files | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ensure the game is not running. |
| 2 | Go to the Library tab on your Steam client. |
| 3 | Right-click Hogwarts Legacy and select Properties. |
| 4 | Select Local Files and click the "Verify integrity of game files..." button. |
| 5 | Wait for Steam to verify the game files and redownload any data that has been corrupted. |
Some areas of the game's world may have faulty or no collision detection and this causes the bug to occur. This means that if your character walks or runs on these areas, the game treats the area not as a solid surface and causes your character to fall through it instead.
List of All Bugs and Glitches and How to Fix Them
How to Fix Falling through World Bug
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