learn How to capture monsters in Monster Hunter Wild It’s a great way to quickly end the fight and get more rewards in the process.
It is optional that the monster is almost dead. This seems like it happens when it’s the most dangerous. To capture monsters, you need to prepare with specific traps and bombs.
You can also earn several guild points and complete certain side quests to capture small monsters (running around small insects and lizards) known as endemic life.
Ours Monster Hunter Wild The guide will show you how to capture monsters, large and small, and how to create the material you need to capture them.
Updated (March 12th): Added more details on which monsters you can’t catch, and explainers as to why you should consider capturing killing monsters.
Why Capture in Monster Hunter Wild and Why Capture Kills
The biggest advantage of capturing monsters with traps is that The battle will be over soon And much faster than a battle with death.
But most of the time you hunt monsters for specific materials to make armor and weapons.
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The Field Guide allows you to see the various ingredients you can get from the hunt. Available materials tab. Click to see a list of percentages and locations. Target Reward Are there any rewards for the end of the hunt (irrelevant to sculpture)? Rewards for broken parts This is the material that can be obtained when attacking a specific part of a monster, Sculpture These are these three parts you get when carving a monster after you kill it. The other rewards you get are from the hunt itself – they are Quest Rewards It will be displayed when you access the quest counter.
Then it becomes the percentage of the target reward and the sculpture reward. There is a debate that should be discussed about both killing and captivating, but it really comes down to the time and effort you want to spend on hunting. Capturing monsters will end your hunt much faster And at the expense of only traps and some Tranq bombs. Killing a monster will take time, potions and risk you fail. but, Killing monsters has a better chance (slightly) to collect ingredients You are following after. (Sometimes. Usually, looking at it, math is difficult.)
In some hunts you need to kill Monsters – especially some of the main and side story quests. Whenever you see the word killing to your goal, trapping them doesn’t work.
When can you capture monsters in Monster Hunter Wild??
Technically, You can capture monsters anytime Monster Hunter Wild If you have the traps you need, see the later section on how to create them. You’ll be ready as soon as you can wear monsters and create traps and trunk bombs. There is no need to officially “unlock” it.
That being said, you won’t get Official However, you will enter the high rank with a quest that involves capturing monsters until the credits roll in the main story. In that mission, Chapter 4-1, “The New Ecosystem,” you will see a tutorial pop-up on how to capture.
Again, as explained below, you can always capture a big monster if you want to start in that era.
How to capture monsters in Monster Hunter Wild
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Before you can capture a monster, you need to make sure there are traps. Shock Trap or Pitfall Trap – and Tranq bomb With your item pouch. It does not need to be added to the radial menu, but it must be accessible from the Item Bar.
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There are two steps to capture monsters. The first step is to wear monsters and reduce health until they are almost dead. Your Parico says, “It looks weak! Soon!” a more reliable clue is when the skull icon appears next to the icon on the minimap.
When a monster is weak, it’s time to lock it up and capture it. Now there are a few more steps – to set up a trap and hit it with a Tranq bomb. If the monster is weak enough, one or the other could knock it out. If you’re still strong, you may need to use both.
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Place the trap and lead the monster out there. Once it’s engined, run and drop some Tranq bombs above or near it. When a monster faints, you will receive some reward for capturing it, just like you if you carve a corpse.
Which monsters can’t be captured or do they have trap immunity?
some Big monster Immunize the traps used to capture.
- Ray Dow, Winter Olympics Theaand Gypseros Can’t be paralyzed by a Shock Trap
- Blint’s and Winter Olympics Thea Can’t be trapped in a Pitfall Trap
Zoh Shia is the only monster that can’t be captured at all. After you lock it in, something else will succumb to the Tranq bomb.
How to create traps and trunk bombs
It takes a bit of work to create the items you need to capture monsters. If you have a trap, you need to buy it Trap Tool From any base camp provisioner.
Some of the items you need to create include:
- Pitfall Trap – 1 Trap Tool and 1 Net (made from 1 Ivy and 1 Spider Web). You can find Ivy in Windward Plains and Scar-Colored Forest. In the case of the spider web, you need to see where the spider is. You can find some in Scarlet Forest, Oilwell Basin and Ice Shard cliffs.
- Shock Trap – 1 trap tool and 1 Thunderbug capacitor. Create a Thunderbug capacitor by collecting Thunderbugs. Only found in Windward Plains.
- Tranq bomb – 1 sleeping herb and 1 parashunt room. Sleeping herbs are located on the cliffs of Windswept Plains, Scarlet Forest and Iceshard. In the case of the Parashunka, all four regions have them: Windward Plains, Scar-Colored Forest, Oilwell Basin, and Ice Shard cliffs.
How to capture endemic life with Monster Hunter Wilds
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First, know that you can’t capture endemic life Monster Hunter Wild Until then After trying to visit the village of Y’sai, he turned his back In Chapter 1, on your way back to the base camp in Windward Plains, you will meet the first doshaguma and collect honey.
When you lower the honey in the preparation room, he will give you your important items: portable barbecue grill (for cooking), fishing rod (for fishing), binoculars, capture nets, throwing knife, paint pods, gillie mantle.
Capture net is what you want. To equip the bow casters, hold down L1/lb, press down on the D-Pad, then move the thumbstick on the right to the top right to highlight the essential net.
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If you have Capture the netCapturing endemic life is a bit of a point and click. If you find an interesting bug or lizard, simply equip it with a capture net. Aim for what you want to capture. If that’s something you can tweak, the reticle will be yellow-orange. Fires a capture net with R2/RT.
Instead, try not to fire the hookslinger with circle/B. It collects creatures rather than catching them.
Capturing endemic life like this gives you no material, but it makes you Guild Points It is recommended to use it to build pop-up camps, or to head over to the high ranks of the Hunter.
Ours Monster Hunter Wild The guide outlines your progress with the main story walkthrough and monster list, helping you to reach high ranks, helping you settle into arms with the weapon list and best weapons explainer, and showing you how to get your ore, bones and monster tails.
