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Monster Hunter Wildshas a huge variety of monsters to hunt and an even bigger variety of collectible resources. Some of these items are incredibly useful, but finding and gathering them can be quite a challenge if you don’t know where to look for them.
The Great Stoutbone is an item that’s primarily used for forging weapons, but finding it is extremely challenging due to its rarity. You’ll need this item in the High Ranks if you plan to craft certain weapons to face off against the challenging monsters, and here’s how you can find it.

How To Get The Great Stoutbone
The Great Stoutbone is primarily found as a reward forcompleting High-Rank optional questsinvolving certain monsters or defeating them during a field survey. The following arethe monsters that can drop the Great Stoutbone as a quest reward:
If you have the “As Gatekeeper” optional quest available, doing it is themost efficient way of collecting the Great Stoutbone. However, keep in mind that the As Gatekeeper quest requires you tohunt two Ajarakans at the same time, and that can be extremely challenging.

You can alsorepeatedly do the Blangonga Excursion or Doshaguma Hunt optional queststo collect the Great Stoutbone. The Annihilating Anguish, which is the optional quest to defeat Ajarakan, also has a chance of dropping this item.
How To Use The Great Stoutbone
The Great Stoutbone is mainlyused in forging weapons and armor. It is required to craft most of the Tier IV Bone Tree weapons and some High Rank armor pieces, such as the Ajarakan Mail.
If you plan to craft Bone Tree Tier IV weapons, you’ll also need the Colossal Bone alongside the Great Stoutbone. You can gather the Colossal Bone by harvesting the carcasses of Blangos and Congas.