What is bioenergy?

[Hunting Doska]

In world for 200 hours, here since 2nd gen, played thousands of hours, can't remember anything about "bioenergy". Is that like amino acids flying in the sky that were introduced in world? It feels stupid. Even giant pizza for a weapon feels more natural.
Also, should this be in GD, or maybe should be moved to off-topic?

[!?!]

It's the dragon element.

[Hunting Doska]

Originally posted by chris:

It's the dragon element.

isn't dragon element just a red-black substance that produced by special organs and blocks producing of other elemental substances? What it has to do with blue magic wind that gives monsters buffs and nutrients?

[!?!]

Ask xeno.

[River Victor]

An element aside from thunder, dragon, fire, water, ice. It's called plot element.

[Hunting Doska]

Originally posted by River Victor:

An element aside from thunder, dragon, fire, water, ice. It's called plot element.

yeah, i expected the worst
sad when no story turned out to be better than this story

[Murdo]

If you want my opinion then it's just energy of biological origin. Zorah has a ton of it because it's a living volcano. The heat he produces carries massive amounts of energy.

[Hunting Doska]

Originally posted by Murdo:

If you want my opinion then it's just energy of biological origin. Zorah has a ton of it because it's a living volcano. The heat he produces carries massive amounts of energy.

and that is why it is blue and just don't dissapear in air
I like to think that this is huge amount of amino acids, fats and sugars that have chemical energy in it, but this flying blue bioforce still feels stupid

[Grisnir]

Originally posted by АААААА:

Originally posted by Murdo:

If you want my opinion then it's just energy of biological origin. Zorah has a ton of it because it's a living volcano. The heat he produces carries massive amounts of energy.

and that is why it is blue and just don't dissapear in air
I like to think that this is huge amount of amino acids, fats and sugars that have chemical energy in it, but this flying blue bioforce still feels stupid

I doubt that you can create huge fire blast with just sugar, fat and some proteins, like teostra do

The best description for bioenergy it is something like Mana/chakra/ spritual power

[!?!]

Originally posted by Grisnir:

I doubt that you can create huge fire blast with just sugar, fat and some proteins, like teostra do

The best description for bioenergy it is something like Mana/chakra/ spritual power

Teostra sheds his scales and ignites them with sparks by gnashing his teeth and monster hunter got by perfectly fine so far without magic bullcrap.

[Tregrenos]

It's that thing where if you're wearing socks and drag your feet across the carpet long enough for your hair to stand up.

[Grisnir]

Originally posted by chris:

Originally posted by Grisnir:

I doubt that you can create huge fire blast with just sugar, fat and some proteins, like teostra do

The best description for bioenergy it is something like Mana/chakra/ spritual power

Teostra sheds his scales and ignites them with sparks by gnashing his teeth and monster hunter got by perfectly fine so far without magic bullcrap.

The last time i fought teostra, he spew fire like a flamethrower

[Murdo]

Originally posted by АААААА:

Originally posted by Murdo:

If you want my opinion then it's just energy of biological origin. Zorah has a ton of it because it's a living volcano. The heat he produces carries massive amounts of energy.

and that is why it is blue and just don't dissapear in air
I like to think that this is huge amount of amino acids, fats and sugars that have chemical energy in it, but this flying blue bioforce still feels stupid

It kinda does.

[!?!]

Originally posted by Grisnir:

Originally posted by chris:

Teostra sheds his scales and ignites them with sparks by gnashing his teeth and monster hunter got by perfectly fine so far without magic bullcrap.

The last time i fought teostra, he spew fire like a flamethrower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbhtRh026Q

[lexilogo]

Actually, lemme try and defend this for a second. Monster Hunter doesn't and never did abide by real physics, there's suspension of disbelief, and then there's Amatsu.

I like the pseudoscientific explanations of how monsters work with a natural ecology as much as the next guy, but there's a point where you just think that on some level, Monster Hunter is different from the real world.

"Bioenergy" is their way of handwaving some of those crazier elements. Every monster has it and it's probably stuff like chemical energy from fats and so on, monsters get more of it as they get older, powerful monsters like Elder Dragons have craptons of it. When monsters die after long periods of time it can crystallise, certain monsters (mostly elder dragons) are attracted to it.

Bioenergy is NOT magic blue mist. We see Xeno shoot laserbeams and so on, but that's no different than how monsters in the past have acted, it's just how THAT monster uses its power, past creatures like Dalamudur have done exactly the same thing. We do see the crystals and streamstones give off some auras and stuff IIRC, but I think it's fair to say that it's a different substance at that point, like MH's version of oil.

It's not as if we cut any monsters open and find crystals insi- Oh. Wait. That's been a thing since first gen.


In the Monster Hunter universe, we've accepted that "nutrients" can literally coalesce and create jewels within a living creature since its inception, I don't think renaming that pseudoscience "bioenergy" and then saying "also it's how this monster can shoot laserbeams, and it can create crystals if lots of monsters die under the right conditions" is a problem.

[JPM岩]

Bioenergy is a native American belief, which is all living things share a powerful energy that get recycled into nature when things die; it's also the source of where all that "magic crystal healing" stuff come from, and gems and such, specifically crystal, were pockets of bioenergy that could heal people; it's also why theres all the giant crystals wherever theres a smackton of bioenergy;
The new world is chock-full of bioenergy due to it being untouched land, and many elders go to the New World to absorb the bio energy as they get older; it also is what causes Tempered and Arch Tempered monsters to exist, as they absorb tons of bio energy which makes them stronger; Xenojiiva, Nerg, and Zorah are the biggest consumers of bioenergy, Xeno absorbing enough while in a cocoon to never have to eat again, zorah wanting to absorb as much as it can before exploding, and Nerg, basically reproducing through it;