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Going through fights inMonster Hunter Wildsis a tough task by itself, but when seeking some extra boosts, you don’t need to look further than making some food. Making meals in the Monster Hunter series is a must to survive and take down monsters while gaining extra health, stamina, and other buffs depending on the type of meal you’ve created, but where can you gather some of these ingredients to make your hunts go as smoothly as possible?
Where to Find Sleep Herbs in Monster Hunter Wilds
Putting monsters to sleep is needed for capture, but crafting them does require a bit of adventure.
What Cooking Ingredients Are Used For
Most ingredients may not be found in the world and obtained through hunts, but they are fairly easy to get.
You’ll want to make a meal before going out for hunts, and when cooking on the portable grill or in your tent, you’ll notice three options available. There are a few ways to get some cooking ingredients in Monster Hunter Wilds, and depending on the ingredients, you’ll have to look around in some different ways. Rations are used for dishes. These will provide you with bonus health, defense, stamina, and attack buffs. Meat, veggies, and fish will be your main pieces of each dish. Rations are given to you regularly at the base camp from the Ingredient Center while also getting them from smaller monsters or using the Fishing Rod in larger bodies of water.
The other two available meal options are the Additional Ingredients and Finishing Touches. These will allow you to infuse a meal with extra bonuses to hand-tailor meals to each hunt you are going on. For example, the Specialty Sild Garlic is an additional ingredient that will prevent fainting once and heals you when the damage taken exceeds your remaining health. The Finishing Touches portion of a meal will provide some other various options as well, like Eastern Honey. This ingredient will increase the amount of health recovered when healing, making it a very useful and amazing option when considering dishes you’ll want to make.
Where to Find Cooking Ingredients
Now that you know what these are for, you’ll want to know where to find all of these ingredients.
There are several NPCs scattered throughout the maps you encounter within the game. Some of which are going to require some tougher materials than the others, but the benefits are more than worth the trouble of gathering.
Ingredients Offered
Kunafa Cheese and Raw Meat
Musharpeye
Scarlet Forest
Jeweled Mullet Roe
Oilwell Basin
Mud Shrimp and Tubrid Shrimp
Mud Shrimp and Turbid Shrimp
Specialty Sild Garlic and Sild Garlic
Airy Egg and Fluffy Egg
After progressing through the main story of Monster Hunter Wilds, you can also speak with Nata. He will have an easy way to buy these ingredients due to his status at the end of the story. Go ahead and approach him, and you can bypass visiting each NPC one at a time. Here, you can see the entire list of available NPCs near your tent at any base camp.
Rations will be plenty, and you’ll rarely need to go out of your way to gather more, but it is still very nice to know how and when you can get your hands on them when the time comes. But getting your hands on the optional ingredients to ensure bonus buffs for harder hunts will be a small chore. In the end, it will be worth the trouble, as you’ll have longer-lasting food buffs that will last up to an hour with the right dishes. Make sure your hunter stays full, which will keep you safe while on hunts in turn.
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Monster Hunter Wilds
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.Fulfill your duty as a Hunter by tracking and defeating powerful monsters and forging strong new weapons and armor from the materials you harvest from your hunt as you uncover the connection between the people of the Forbidden Lands and the locales they inhabit.The ultimate hunting experience awaits you in Monster Hunter Wilds.
