Food is a pretty big deal. We need it to live, but it can be pretty great to make it fancy too. It’s an expression of who we are, and a great source of comfort. The Monster Hunter games have always known this, and incorporated cooking big meals into the whole cycle of the game. That system is changed inMonster Hunter Wilds.

Rather than having a set of peculiarly talented Felyne chefs to help you out, you have to fend for yourself this time around. That means gathering up all your materials, finding the right way to combine them, and cooking them all up yourself. This is a slightly involved system and requires some leg work for the best ingredients, so let’s find out where to find them.

a full meal before being cooked in monster hunter wilds.

Every Type Of Ingredient

Creating a meal is pretty simple in Monster Hunter Wilds, and can be done just about anywhere.Back in your tent, you can cook a meal, but you can whip out thePortable BBQ Grillanywhere else to cook up a meal all the same. The process of making a meal is as simple as picking out the materials, and there is only one you even need to use to actually make the meal.

Here is each piece of the meal andwhat each part does:

trading with a villager in azuz in monster hunter wilds for mud shrimp.

Rations are the most copious of all your ingredients, being the total each of every fish you have caught, the amount of raw meat you have, and the number of herbs you’ve picked up.Extra Ingredients and Finishing Touches are a bit harder to come bythough. Each of them is a unique item with a unique effect. They’re a great addition to every meal though, so let’s see where to find more of them.

How To Get More Ingredients

To continue making all these delicious meals, you’ll need the components materials. While you can make them with just Rations, you’re not going to get a very fulfilling or powerful meal from that. So here’s how to get each category of ingredient.

Rations

Rations are easy. Forming the base of the meal, finding more is easy-peasy andyou’ll naturally come across so muchyou’ll likely never even have to worry about this.

Despite being divided as meat, fish, and veggies,they are actually just your regular rations. You can grab these from the supply pouch at the beginning of every hunt, or by visiting the Provisions Master at theWindward Plains Base Camp.

monster hunter wilds rations while cooking a meal.

That’s it.Rations are very generousso you’ll never really be short.

Extra Ingredients

Each extra ingredient is typically reminiscent of the culture in each area. Kunafa Cheese in the Windward Plains, Mud Shrimp in the Oilwell Basin, and so on. Because of this though, you can’t really find these items randomly. Instead,they are given as quest rewardswith few exceptions.

However, after defeating the Apex monster in each area,you can trade with the people there. This allows you to give them some items they desire, typically from other areas, in exchange for other rare items. This is the most surefire way to get more Extra Ingredients.

monster hunter wilds extra ingredients while cooking a meal.

Keep in mind thatthe items available for trade change every in-game day,so attempt to get the items you want as soon as you see them.

Finishing Touches

Finishing Touches are more general than Extra Ingredients, but significantly rarer than Rations.They don’t have guaranteed drops and must instead be farmed. However, you may track them with some degree of certainty.

For example, Eastern Honey and Wild Herbs are low drop item fromHoneyand Herbs respectively, though thechance of them dropping is dramatically increased during the Plenty, so this is the best time to go farming for them.

monster hunter wilds finishing touches while cooking a meal.

Jeweled Mullet Roe, on the other hand, can be caught alongside fish.The rarer the fish, the higher the chance of getting Jeweled Mullet Roe.

Monster Chili and Wild Seed Oil, on the other hand, can only be obtained as random rewards or through trading.

a piece of meat cooked with garlic and truffles being pierced with a knife in monster hunter wilds.

Every Ingredient And What It Does

Every ingredient also has a unique effectwhen added to a meal, beyond the default bonus associated with its category. This is important to keep in mind so you’re able to make the perfect meal to fit each hunt.

You can also save your favourite mealsand name them so you can quikcly make them whenever you want, provided you have the ingredients.

Finishing Touch

Gatherer Meal

There are quite a few ingredients to choose from when making a meal. While the act of cooking and the gorgeous visuals of the meal are a reward in and of itself, the actualin-game benefits are pretty goodtoo. Now get out there and make a meal that would put the Meowscular Chef to shame.