Monster Hunter World: Iceborne [DLC] - 100% Achievement Guide

DLC "Iceborne" required - NO missable achievements - 1 multiplayer achievement

This Guide is about Iceborne

Since Iceborne doubled the achievements for Monster Hunter World, and can be considered somewhat of a standalone expansion in many regards, I decided to write a separate guide for the DLC achievements exclusively.

For a guide on the base game, click:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1471844584

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As for the base game:
All the achievements are tied directly to the ingame guild card awards. As such, ALL the achievements for this game NEED to be earned on the SAME ingame character in order to unlock the required award associated to:

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	Conqueror of the Hinterlands	Unlock all achievements for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne.

Story-Related

These are story-related and can’t be missed. Just progress through the "assignment" quests.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	The True Hunt Begins	Hunt your first large monster in a master rank quest.
	The Beginning of a New Expedition Time to Get Serious	Earn the right to take on one-star MR assignments. Earn the right to take on two-star MR assignments.
	The Elusive Elder Dragon Indomitable Spirit	Earn the right to take on three-star MR assignments. Earn the right to take on four-star MR assignments.
	The Old Everwyrm An End and a Beginning	Earn the right to take on five-star MR assignments. Solve the mystery of the Old Everwyrm.

Online / Multiplayer

There's but one achievement that requires you to play online:

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	Helpful Hunter	Aid a low rank or high rank hunter on 10 quests as a master rank hunter.

Self-explanatory.
Joining through SOS works.

Hunts & Quests

Keep hunting!

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	Hunter Prodigy	Hunt 100 large monsters in master rank quests.
	Master Capturer	Capture 50 large monsters in master rank quests.
	Master Slayer	Slay 50 elder dragons in master rank quests.

You should know the drill.
Base game elder dragons count, only thing that matters, is that they're slayed in master rank.

Here's an overview of all available elder dragons in master rank - for convenience:

Carried Over	New Variants	New Elder Dragon
Kushala Teostra Lunastra Kirin	Ruiner Nergigante Blackveil Vaal-Hazak	Velkhana Namielle Shara Ishvalda Safi'Jiiva Alatreon Fatalis

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	Confronting the Unknown Seen It All	Hunt your first variant monster. Hunt 30 variant monsters.

Variants are a new type of monster, next to subspecies and tempered monsters.

The monsters, which count for these achievements are:

• Shrieking Legiana
  
• Seething Bazelgeuse
  
• Savage Deviljho
  
• Scarred Yian-Garuga
  
• Blackveil Vaal Hazak
  
• Ruiner Nergigante

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	Fate’s Conclusion	Slay Ruiner Nergigante in the Guiding Lands, removing the cap on maximum master rank.

Now that I mentioned this fella' both in the list of elder dragons and variants, how do you get access to him?
1) You need to get to master rank 99.
2) Guiding Lands. I wasn't able to find any definitive info, but if all else fails:

• Level the forest to at least 3 and trigger the Yian Garuga introduction cutscene
  
• Level at least one region to 4
  
• Aim for a level sum of 11, if not 12

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	Master of Masters	Reach master rank 200.

No recommendations on event quests with increased MR points, this time... because pretty much every 2nd event quest comes with those, now. Reading the ingame descriptions is faster than checking any list I could provide you.

Personally, I used this one, because a) I completed the quest in <15min with every random group and b) no one ever carted, which made this a comfortable choice for almost 1 MR per quest:
(Use the "Heavy Artillery" skill + the cannons for a solid damage boost)

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Guiding Lands

This is post-story content. You'll unlock the guiding lands, once you've slayed the Iceborne equivalent of the Xeno'Jiiva -> the Shara Ishvalda.

Let me say this... part of the community calls them the grinding lands.
Once you're trying to unlock the following achievements, you'll know why.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	To the Land of Discoveries	Reach the Guiding Lands.
	In Search of Rare Materials	Gather materials at rare outcrops and bonepiles. --- Keep gathering ores/bones, until it unlocks the 'giant' spots.
	Insatiable Investigator	Analyze 50 special tracks.
	Evolving Ecology	Raise any region to level 7. --- Requires the MR 99 assignment to be completed.

I won't bother to explain you, what you have to do here.
Once you've reached the lands, two ingame tutorials are waiting for you, which cover all you need to know in order to unlock the achievements above.
That being said, check out this steam guide, if you crave for more detailed information:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1973452046

I wanna tell you something nice, though:

Put a decoration for the Fortify skill in your armor.
Fortify increases your damage by 10% upon your first cart, and another 10% for the second.
The guiding lands count as expedition, so you can cart how often you want.
This will, however, lower your rewards, so consider, if you really want to use this.

The effect will wear off after ~50min though, so depending on how long you want to grind, you might need to reset it once in a while.

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	Deft Digger	Capture a creature that loves to dig holes in the ground.
	Creatures of the Earth	Capture a hole-digging creature from every region. --- Misleading. The guiding lands consisted of 4 regions at launch. By now, you only need to capture a Moly in 4 out of the 6 available regions. Doesn't matter which.

There are actually 7 kinds of moles, spread all over the guiding lands.
The "normal" ones, simply called Moly, and 6 region bound ones:

• Forest -> Mossy Moly
  
• Waste -> Rocky Moly
  
• Coral -> Fluffy Moly
  
• Vale -> Spikey Moly
  
• Vulcanic -> Rowdy Moly
  
• Tundra -> Glacial Moly
  
  
• Note, that these 6 can only be found, if the region they reside in is at least on level 5.

For the second achievement, you actually NEED to capture at least 1 out of the 6 special Molies and 1 normal one in three of the other regions.
Even though the Vulcanic and Tundra regions were added post-launch, they actually count for the achievement.

Daytime: Any, but increased during dusk & dawn
Captured by: Net
Ghillie Mantle recommended: Yes

For the exact locations, refer to this steam guide:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2083013645

Research & Gold Crowns

For a stand-alone steam guide on crowns, check:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2193582642

This chapter is an extension to the research & cold crown achievements of the base game guide! If you haven't yet unlocked the following three achievements, do them before going for the new equivalents:

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	Monster Ph. D. Miniature Crown Master Giant Crown Master

You do NOT need the following monsters, which were added between the base game launch and Iceborne:

• Kulve Taroth
  
• Behemoth
  
• (Ancient- &) Leshen

But you DO need:

• Deviljho
  
• Lunastra

You do NOT need the monsters, which were added after the initial release of Iceborne:

• Title Update 1: Rajang
  
• Title Update 2: Stygian Zinogre | Safi'Jiiva
  
• Title Update 3: Furious Rajang | Raging Brachydios
  
• Title Update 4: Alatreon | Frostfang Barioth
  
• Title Update 5: Fatalis

The following monsters did NOT receive a Master Rank version, so you do NOT need to research them beyond the base game achievements. However, you DO need their crowns, if their size can vary:

• [V] Bazelgeuse
  
• [V] Deviljho
  
• [V] Vaal Hazak
  
• [V] Nergigante
  
• Zorah Magdaros
  
• Xeno'Jiiva
  
  
• [V] - Has crowns to it and has a new variant, which IS available in master rank AND required for the achievements below.

And a fifth and final list.
There's 1 returning monster and, additionally, 6 new monsters, which you DO need for the achievements. You'll have to face and successfully hunt them in the guiding lands, before they are unlocked for optional quests and investigations:

• Forest | First Visit -> Zinogre
  
• Forest | Level 3 -> Yian Garuga
  
• Forest | Level 6 -> Scarred Yian Garuga (spawnable with a normal Garuga's lure)
  
• Waste | Level 5 -> Lunastra
  
• Waste | Level 6 -> Golden Rathian
  
• Corals | Level 6 -> Silver Rathalos
  
• R.Vale | Level 6 -> Brute Tigrex
  
  
• With the exception of Lunastra, all of them received event quests - if you don't feel like leveling the guiding lands. And for Lunastra herself - her crown is farmable with HR quests/investigations.

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	Monster Master	Maximize the research level for almost all large monsters.

You know the drill by now.

You should get most of the research done by going for all the other achievements. But if you want to farm a certain monster, remember to use either one of these two:

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	True Miniature Crown Collector True Large Crown Collector	Obtain a miniature crown for almost every monster Obtain a gold crown for almost every monster

Here's an overview for all event quests with increased crown chances.
Note, that you do NOT need to finish the quests. If you return from the quest (NOT abandon), all monsters killed or captured up until the return will be evaluated as if you would've finished the quest.

(If the monsters' names are like this, they were already featured in the high rank quests or aren't required for any achievements.)

Quests	Monster 1	Monster 2	Monster 3	Monster 4	Monster 5
Yodeling in the Forest	Anjanath	Rathalos	Nargacuga	Yian Garuga	Rajang
HeavyMetal in the Waste	Jyuratodus	Nightsh.Paolumu	Glavenus	Black Diablos	Savage Deviljho
Symphony of the Coral	Paolumu	Coral Pukei-Pukei	Legiana	Ebony Odogaron	Zinogre
Rotten Canzone	Great Girros	Odogaron	Tigrex	Fulgur Anjanath	Acidic Glavenus
Alt Rock Recess	Uragaan	Banbaro	Brachydios	Azure Rathalos	Seething Bazelg.
Ballad of the Hoarfrost	Beotodus	Viper T. Kadachi	Barioth	Shrieking Legiana	Stygian Zinogre
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Further required crowns	Deviljho	Lunastra	Velkhana	Blackveil V. Hazak	Namielle
	Ruiner Nergigangte	Scarred Y. Garuga GL Forest Lv.6	Goldian Waste Lv.6	Silver Rathalos Corals Lv.6	Brute Tigrex R.Vale Lv.6
Further required research		Shara Ishvalda

And for the event quests with guaranteed crowns:

Quest	Monster	Crown
The Greatest Jagras (HR)	Deviljho	Miniature
Paolumu Lullabies	Nightshade Paolumu	Miniature
Kadachi Twins	Tobi-Kadachi Viper Tobi-Kadachi	Miniature Giant
Seeing is Believing	Tigrex	Giant
Don't Forget The Earplugs!	Yian Garuga	Miniature
A Farewell to Zinogre	Zinogre	Giant / Miniature (random; but always 1 out of the 2)
Brand New Brute	Brute Tigrex	Giant / Miniature (random; but always 1 out of the 2)

The Youtuber Gaming with Abyss created 2 playlists of videos on how to measure every required gold crown. Here are the links to his playlists:

• Mini crowns:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsfbFha7W1QUu-JjWvxaiZk-Nv-gYmYL
  
• Large crowns:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsfbFha7W1TznCgNbN5UoSAtPmOgf7wM

Further hints are available in the base game guide, which I linked at the top.

Miscellaneous

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	Clutch Claw Neophyte	Study the ways of the clutch claw.

Once you've reached the new city, the smith will have an optional quest waiting for you.
This quest will be a 1* low rank tutorial. Do it as early as you can, make sure to memorize it, and get this achievement on the completion screen.

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	Source of Relaxation	Spend some time in a natural hot spring.

While the devs gave you an awesome hot spring as part of your new base, they realised, that a true hunter only finds relaxation in a hunt.
... In other words, this only unlocks in the hot springs of the Hoarfrost Reach.

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	Master Explorer	Establish all camps in the Hoarfrost Reach.

The Hoarfrost Reach is the first and only area with 5 camps.
This can only be unlocked well into the story of Iceborne.

For a little help, watch the following video by Youtuber Gaming with Abyss:

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	Personal Treasure	Equip your first pendant.

There are several sources for pendants, but as far as this achievement goes, you just have to know, that you'll receive a pendant as a reward for one of the main story assignments.
Once you got it, the game will display a tutorial on how to equip it.
I have nothing to add to said tutorial.

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	Devastating Offense	Obtain five extremely rare weapons.
	Unwavering Defense	Obtain five extremely rare pieces of armor.

Only rarity 12 counts, so the 'sparkling' white rarity equipment.

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	Eager Engineer	Help the Steamworks 20 times.
	Skilled Steamworker	Send the Steamworks into overdrive.

Operating the Steamworks requires fuel. You'll get natural fuel for each successfully completed quest.
Additionally, you can trade Dragonvein ores for more fuel. These ores can be mined on all maps.

Now, just play the Steamworks' mini game. Give the Steamwork operator some of your fuel and follow the instructions given in the tutorial displayed by the game.

Just play it 20 times and you'll get the first achievement, regardless of the input.
Play often enough, and the bar at the top of the Steamwork fills itself. At first it'll be yellow, the second layer will be orange and the third will be red. Once the third bar, the red one, is filled completely, you've reached the 'overdrive' state.

You can stop at any given time and just play a few quests. Your progress won't be lost.

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	Remodeler	Change your room's interior for the first time.
	Interior Decorator	Have 50 different types of room decor to choose from.
	Architectural Artist	Have 120 different types of room decor to choose from.

Rejoice! You can decorate your new home in Seliana.
And because it's such an integral new part of the game and changes absolutely everything, it even got three whooping achievements.

As a heads up: There are way more than 120 types of decor, so you don't have to do all of the things below.

The available sources for new decor, which I currently know of, are:

• Given by the Housekeeper for free - mainly as part of the free title updates.
  
• [A] Rewards for the completion of main story assignments. Need to be bought afterwards.
  
• [A] 1 as reward for helping out on 10 low/high rank quests
  
• [A] 5 as rewards for an overdrive at the Steamworks.
  
• [A] 6 as rewards for completing all the lynian photo challenges in a region.
  
• [A] 10 found as treasures
  
  • 2 - Ancient Forest
    
  • 1 - Wildspire Waste
    
  • 1 - Rotten Vale
    
  • 4 - Elders Recess
    
  • 2 - Hoarfrost Reach
  
  
• [A] - Also required for other achievements

With the stuff above done, you already have this achievement unlocked.
But for the sake of completion:

• Complete the optional quests & ->
  
• -> the deliveries given by the housekeeper (also avail. in the hut next to your house).
  
• 6 as rewards for the endemic life bounties.
  
• [DLC] - Quite a lot of decors are only available through DLCs.
  This includes
  
  • all the monster statues
    
  • the "Cute" set
    
  • the "Intimate" set
    
  • the "Mini Model" set
    
  • the "Splendid Decor" set
    
  • the "Lil' Bit of Glamour" set
    
  • and, hidden behind the "Deluxe Kit" DLC, the "Traditional" set

Maybe someone will write a guide about all decors and how to get them.
If so, I'll link it here.
I won't write that guide, though. Sorry.

Rare Pets

The first thing I want to talk about here is a new Felyne cooking skill:
Felyne Zoomaster

With this skill active, you'll have a way better chance of finding the rare pets below.
The con: you'll need a voucher to activate it.
The pro: once activated, you can permanently walk between the different maps in expedition mode. As long as you do NOT go back to any of the towns, the skill will stay in effect.

Here's an awesome video on how to unlock it - by Youtuber Gaming with Abyss:

That taken care of, onto the achievements:

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	Another Miniature Crown	Obtain a miniature crown for capturing endemic life in master rank.
	Another Giant Crown	Obtain a gold crown for capturing endemic life in master rank.

Yes, more gold crowns!
But don't worry, you only need one single crown. Each endemic life in master rank now has a size to it.
Just capture everything in your way and you should get the two achievements within a few quests.

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	Friendly Pointer	Capture a creature that seems to be pointing at something.

The Arrowhead Gekko is a special case among the achievement pets. Because there's an event quest with a 100% encounter rate for it.
It's named "The Lord of the Underworld Beckons" and takes you to the Rotten Vale.
It'll then be in area 10 up the vines.

To make it easier for you: here's a video by Youtuber Gaijin Hunter:

Apart from that, it'll spawn whenever you're close to a "sparkling" gathering spot for those items, which then turn into cooking ingredients; regardless of the map.

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	Sweet Melody	Capture a creature that creates a beautiful melody.

The Blue Diva can be found in the Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste and Coral Highlands during the night.
The Blue Diva will NOT leave, if you fail to capture it - it'll relocate. As such, it can also spawn at several positions on each map. For the Coral Highlands specificially, there are 2 seperated routes, where it can appear.

Here's an amazing video showing you the full routes on AF, WW and one of the routes in CH - by Youtuber GLACIER EXAMS:

Fun fact: a Boaboa actually paw-swap'ed me one, while I was collecting the treasures in the Hoarfrost Reach. So you might want to do those first.

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	Golden Gleam	Capture a creature with a golden gleam in the Hoarfrost Reach.

The only location forthe Goldspring Macaque is Hoarfrost Reach | Area 2, 6 | In the hot spring.

While it can potentially spawn in any quest for the Hoarfrost Reach during any daytime, it has a 100% spawn chance for Area 6 in the "Monkey Business" event quest.

To make it easier for you: here's a video by Youtuber Gaming With Abyss:

Fun fact: as for the Blue Diva, the Boaboa actually paw-swap'ed me two of them, while I was collecting the treasures in the Hoarfrost Reach. So you might want to do those first.

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	Submerged Mystery	Capture a mysterious creature lurking beneath the water’s surface.

The only location for the Sealord's Crestfish is in area 8 of the Hoarfrost Reach during the night. Best captured with a Baitbug.

To make it easier for you: here's a video by Youtuber Gaming With Abyss:

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	Celestial Illusion	Capture a fantastical creature that floats through the sky.

The only location for the Wintermoon Nettle is on top of the mountain in area 14 of the Hoarfrost Reach during a night with clear weather.

This one is super hard to figure out, so just watch the following video by Youtuber Gaming With Abyss:

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	Deft Digger	Capture a creature that loves to dig holes in the ground.
	Creatures of the Earth	Capture a hole-digging creature from every region.

Since these 2 are tied to the guiding lands, I've added their info in the respectively named section above.

Palico Related

Alright, we got quite a few achievements related to palicos in Iceborne. Let's dive into them:

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	First Ride Experienced Rider	Use your first Raider Ride. Use Raider Ride many times.

The Raider Ride is the gadget of the palicos from the Hoarfrost Reach.
Once available, it only summons a mount, if you've avlready befriended the local grimalkyne tribe.
Use mounts in just about ~20 quests and this should unlock.

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	Fledgling Observer Outstanding Observer	Complete your first request for the Lynian Researcher. Complete many requests for the Lynian Researcher.

The Lynian Researcher resides in the commando tent of Seliana.
Once he has an exclamation mark above his head, you'll unlock his requests.
The game will then throw a tutorial on the screen, with instructions on what you have to do.

That being said, this is a little bit more complicated than it seems at first, so I wrote a stand-alone guide just for this:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1966480579

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	Fledgling Collector Veteran Collector Ultimate Collector	Find your first treasure. Find all treasure within a single locale. Find all treasure.

With the arrival of Iceborne, the max. unity with a palico tribe increased from 5 to 10.
Once the unity reaches 6, you'll unlock the 'Paw-Swap' with that tribe.
You can then visit the tribe at it's camp/lair in expedition mode and start trading items for hints on treasure locations on that map.
As I wrote a few times before, the game will show a tutorial on how to do it.

Note, that you can fast-travel to the paw-swap locations, once unlocked! When opening your map, switch to the hide all icons filter and you'll see it instantly.

When unlocking a new hint, it'll be displayed like ->

Desired items include:
- Mega Potion, Max Potion, Lifepowder, Dust of Life
- Nutrients, Mega Nutrients
- Ration, Well-done Steak, Energy Drink
- Astera Jerky
- Tranq Bomb, Smoke Bomb, Farcaster
- All Barrels and Bombs - Small, Large, Bouncy
- Trap Tool, Pitfall Trap, Shock Trap
- Boomerang, Binoculars
- Fishing Bait
- Bowgun Ammo

Each grimalkyne has different interests and said interest returns after 4-5 cycles of trading 3 items.

For the exact treasure locations, check these videos by Youtuber Gaming with Abyss:

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or visit the following website for a screenshot based guide:
https://monsterhunterworld.wiki.fextralife.com/Treasures

Conclusion & Credits

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Credits:

Thanks to Bruno Bucciarati for adding a 2nd location for the Golden Macaque

Thanks to babooshka for telling me, that I named a monster wrong. Won't say which, since it's hidden behind a spoiler tag above.

Thanks to Ганфайтер for noting an error with daytime info for Blue Diva

Thanks to Eymeil for adding Fish Bait as accepted items for Paw-Swap.

Thanks to Crème Dè Lá Mème?! for adding Bowgun ammo as accepted items for Paw-Swap.

Thanks to OrangeRaptor & Dorg4s for confirming, that the vulcanic special Moly is valid for the Creatures of the Earth achievement.

Thanks to Mr. Mxyzptlk for his input regarding the need of the HR only monsters' crowns for the Iceborne crown achievements.

Thanks to AlphaXander for pointing out, that a miniature gold crown deviljho is guaranteed to appear in the "The Greatest Jagras" quest.

Thanks to Cicala Kid for adding another quest with 2 guaranteed crowns.

Thanks to Baffi for adding two more quests with guaranteed crowns.

Thanks to Baffi & Glitch for telling me, that the "Monkey Business" event quest features a guaranteed Golden Macaque spawn. (And an apology to Glitch, that I forgot to add it, after he posted it first.)

Thanks to tho_d for a) bringing a downside of my Fortify-GuidingLands suggestion to my awareness and b) telling me, that MR99 is not enough to unlock Ruiner Nergigante.

Thanks to RafaFlashMan for confirming, that Safi'Jiiva (and therefor most likely Alatreon) count towards the 50 MR Elder Dragons achievement.

[rAw TiMe]

fuck.
thanks!

[Brachragon]

@El_Perro_Stretchy
Yes.

[rAw TiMe]

for monster master, do i need to get every base game monster to level 8?

[Mou bu]

thank u!

[LuccV]

Great work dude

[Daruko]

I just want to say thank you to the author. It was way easier to keep my focus because of this guide. Thank you again :) I hope you'll make another one for MH Wilds

[Wendek]

For the Wintermoon Nettle (rare flying jellyfish), that video you linked is kinda bait. The "skip" he does with his gliding mantle is super unreliable (at least it was for me) and doing the wall jumps instead is like only 10 seconds slower with no risk of dropping you all the way down and wasting time. There are better video guides out there for this achievement (which also mention the "waiting" method that ended up being how I got mine)

[Raven]

The moly achievements are bugged. First moly I ever caught was a fluffy one in the coral region, and it popped the achievement for capturing one in every region, but not for capturing any moly from any region. That one popped when I caught a regular moly later.

[freshly squeezed]

actually you dont even need to fast travel regions, keep using healing powders and claim rewards at camp from handler

[freshly squeezed]

Please add a quick way I found to level up tail riders to start treasure hunting, feel free to make any changes or clarifications:

Go for an expedition, go out of camp and use the new tool to call a Tailrider signal. Make sure it is a grimalkyne not someone's palico that joins. Once they've joined travel back to camp. Use a life powder or dust of life and the fast travel to another region or claim rewards. You get about 30 - 50% of level of experience this way