In Monster Hunter Wilds, crafting and upgrading are essential for hunters to improve their gear and tackle more challenging monsters. This involves gathering materials, visiting the Smithy, and completing quests to unlock new recipes and enhance existing equipment. Efficiently managing your inventory and understanding the various crafting systems will significantly impact your hunting success.
Crafting & Upgrading Overview
Hunters can craft and upgrade a variety of equipment to enhance their capabilities. This includes:
- Weapons: Improve attack power and unlock new weapon mechanics.
- Armor: Boost defense, elemental resistances, and acquire new skills.
- Palico Gear: Equip your Palico with better weapons and armor.
- Charms: Provide passive bonuses and skill points.
- Items: Create consumables for buffs, recovery, or crafting.
- Decorations: Socket into armor to gain specific skills.
- Kinsects: Used with Insect Glaives.
- Mantles: Special tools providing temporary effects.
- Pendants: Cosmetic items.
Materials for crafting are obtained through various means, including monster drops, quest rewards, and gathering points in the environment. Optional Quests are particularly useful for gathering materials and increasing your Hunter Rank (HR), which can unlock more challenging quests and better rewards.
Key Crafting Locations and NPCs
- Smithy: Visit the Smithy to forge new weapons and armor for both your Hunter and Palico.
- Alma: Interact with Alma at the quest board to post Optional Quests, which are crucial for farming materials and HR progression.
- Nona (Kunafa Windsong Village): Speak with Nona to customize your Seikret, including its decorations, feathers, skin color, and name. You can also access the Appearance Menu in your tent for this.
- Kilama (Kunafa Windsong Village): Kilama introduces item trades. By giving special items to villagers in different regions, you can receive items, materials, and new cooking ingredients.
Advanced Crafting Systems
- Armor Transcendence: A system for further enhancing armor.
- Melding Pot: Used for specific crafting processes, likely involving rare materials or skill manipulation.