Gathering and crafting are integral to Monster Hunter Wilds, allowing hunters to create and enhance their gear. Players will collect various materials to craft Weapons, Armor, Palico Gear, Charms, and Decorations. The game also features advanced systems like Armor Transcendence and the Melding Pot for further customization.
Essential Crafting Components
Hunters will gather a wide array of materials to craft and upgrade their equipment. Key categories include:
- Weapons: Craft new weapons or upgrade existing ones to increase attack power and unlock new abilities.
- Armor: Create armor sets that provide defense and elemental resistances, crucial for surviving monster encounters.
- Palico Gear: Equip your Palico companion with specialized gear to aid you in hunts.
- Charms: Accessories that grant various skills and buffs to your hunter.
- Items: Consumables and tools vital for hunts, such as potions, traps, and environmental aids.
- Materials: Raw components gathered from the environment or carved from monsters, used in almost all crafting recipes.
- Decorations: Jewels that can be slotted into armor to grant additional skills.
Advanced Crafting and Enhancement
Beyond basic crafting, Monster Hunter Wilds offers sophisticated systems for optimizing your gear:
- Crafting: The primary method for creating new items and equipment from gathered materials.
- Equipment Loadout: Manage and save different sets of weapons, armor, and items for quick switching between hunts.
- Armor Transcendence: A system for further enhancing armor beyond its initial upgrade limits.
- Kinsects: Specialized insects used with Insect Glaives, which can also be upgraded and customized.
- Melding Pot: A feature likely used to transmute unwanted materials into more desirable ones or to create rare items.
Specific weapon types like Artian Weapons and Gogma Artian Weapons, along with Mantles and Pendants, indicate a rich variety of craftable and obtainable gear.