Fantastic Beasts

How It Works

As you fight creatures in the Forbidden Forest, the system automatically tracks which ones you've encountered and defeated — no setup required. Capturing is the part that takes equipment: once you obtain Newt's Magical Suitcase, a capture attempt appears after each forest victory.

The suitcase is bigger on the inside and apparently contains habitats tailored to each creature's needs. Nobody has offered to prove this, and everyone has agreed not to ask.

Getting Newt's Magical Suitcase

The Qilin Rescue Event

The suitcase is normally obtained through the Qilin Rescue random forest event, where you stumble on Newt Scamander trying to protect a baby Qilin from poachers. He offers you a straightforward choice:

• Help Newt: Fight off the poachers alongside him and earn the suitcase, plus a nudge toward good alignment.
• Hex Newt and steal his suitcase: Duel Newt directly and take it by force, with the evil-alignment penalty that implies.

Either path ends with you holding the suitcase — the event doesn't offer a third way to leave empty-handed. The only difference is whether the Qilin, which appears to judge you psychically, thinks well of you afterward.

Alternative: Purchase the Suitcase

If you'd rather skip the random encounter, the suitcase is also available for direct purchase at the Forest Reserve for gold (default: 5,000 gold) — the legitimate, non-hexing route.

The Bestiary System

The bestiary automatically tracks every unique creature you encounter in the Forbidden Forest:

• First Encountered: when you first met this creature
• Times Encountered: how many times you've fought it
• Times Defeated: how many times you've won
• Times Captured: how many times you've successfully bagged it

View your full catalog at the Forest Reserve. It functions like a field guide, minus the part where the creatures hold still for the illustration.

Capturing Creatures

After defeating a creature (and provided you own the suitcase), you'll get an option to attempt a capture:

• Base chance: a default chance to succeed, adjusted by the creature's level
• Rank bonus: each Magizoologist rank you hold adds to your capture odds
• Success: the creature joins your suitcase collection
• Failure: the creature escapes, but you still earn Magizoologist points for the attempt

Capture requires at least Magizoologist rank 1 — rank 0 gets you nothing but a reminder to visit the Forest Reserve first. Captured creatures stay in the suitcase indefinitely, and you can rename them at will (every Niffler earns a name like "Mr. Shiny" or "Pocket Thief" eventually).

Magizoologist Points & Ranks

You earn Magizoologist points for two things:

• New encounter: points for meeting a creature species for the first time (default: 5)
• Successful capture: points for each creature captured (default: 5)

Points accumulate into ranks (default: 100 points per rank, capped at rank 10). Higher ranks raise your capture success rate, so the grind pays for itself.

The Forest Reserve

Accessible from the main Forbidden Forest page, the Forest Reserve is the hub for everything above:

• View your bestiary with full encounter statistics
• Browse your captured collection
• Rename captured creatures
• Check your Magizoologist rank and points
• Purchase the suitcase if you don't already own it

Strategy

• Get the suitcase early — every fight before you own it is a capture opportunity wasted.
• Fight a variety of creatures — new species pay bonus Magizoologist points, repeats don't.
• Rank up before chasing rare creatures — higher ranks meaningfully raise capture odds against tougher specimens.
• Don't sweat failed captures — you still bank the points and can try again next fight.