Cooking has been an integral part of Monster Hunter, with food and meals being a way to make the player stronger and more durable for the hunts to come. However, in Wilds, it’s been tweaked a little bit. We’ll let you know how to cook and where to get your ingredients for cooking as well.
Cooking Guide
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How to Cook
Cooking will be unlocked after Mission 1-2: Village of Whispering Winds, or more accurately, after rescuing the support team. Once you’ve rescued the support team, you can get access to the Portable BBQ Grill as well as cooking.
Unlike traditional cooking, cooking in Wilds is done entirely through the Portable BBQ Grill or from your tent. No longer do you have access to a canteen to cook, so don’t go looking for one (I know I did for way too long).
Cooking itself is quite simple. All you’ll need is a Ration to get started. You get Rations freely from the Ingredients Center in Base Camp as well as from your supplies throughout missions, so you should never be running out or low on Rations, given how long a single Ration can last you.
Cooking a single Ration without any additional ingredients or finishing touches will be all you need to get your +50 Health and +150 Stamina, along with any other bonuses your chosen base ingredient gets you. The default length of a meal is 30 minutes, but can be extended to 50 minutes with extra ingredients.
Cooking Ingredients and Finishing Touches Guide
The additional ingredients and finishing touches will be your real meat and potatoes of cooking. The base ration is a great way to get started and conserve your ingredients if you find yourself running low, but a strong mixture can make or break a hunt.
Each additional ingredient is linked to one region and can be obtained through Item Trades with villagers. Finishing Touches are also acquired through Item Trades but aren’t linked to a specific region in any way. Additional ingredients and Finishing Touches will also add additional skills to your meals, based on the ingredient chosen. The strength of this skill will be based on the quality of the ingredient.
Additionally, cooking a full meal will also yield two more, additional meal skills at random. Finishing Touches also grant an additional +5 Elemental Resist to any meal.
| Cooking Table | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Ingredient | Stat Given | ||
| Meat | +3 ATK | ||
| Fish | +4 DEF | ||
| Vegetable | +3 Elemental Resist | ||
| Additional Ingredient | |||
| Additional Ingredient | Region | Food Skill | Skill Description |
| Cheese | Windward Plains – Kunafa, Windsong Village | Defender Meal | Sometimes/Often decreases damage taken. |
| Mushroom | Scarlet Forest – Wudwud Hideout | Black Belt Meal | Reduces/Greatly reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc. |
| Shrimp | Oilwell Basin – Azuz, the Everforge | Tumbler Meal | Slightly extends/Extends the invulnerability window when evading. |
| Egg | Suja, Peaks of Accord | Caprice Meal | Repeatedly activates a temporary/large temporary attack boost at random intervals. |
| Garlic | Ruins of Wyveria – Sild, The Keeper’s Vigil | Moxie Meal | Prevents fainting one time/and heals you when damage taken exceeds your remaining health. |
| Finishing Touches | |||
| Finishing Touches | Food Skill | Skill Description | |
| Wild Herb | Immunizer Meal | Lessens the effects of various ailments. | |
| Eastern Honey | Medic Meal | Increases the amount of health recovered when healing. | |
| Monster Chili | Sizzling Meal | Negates the effect of hot or cold climates and increases defense while in such areas. | |
| Jeweled Mullet Roe | Swimmer Meal | Increases attack when wet. | |
| Wild Seed Oil | Specialist Meal | Increases the potency of abnormal status attacks. | |
| Truffle Du Conga | Gatherer Meal | Sometimes increases the number of resources per gather of bones, ore, and other gatherable items. | |
Currently, it’s unknown how to check the food skill descriptions granted to you by the random food skills. You will get two additional skills per meal you cook if you cook a full meal.
| Random Food Skills | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rider Meal | Bulldozer Meal | Break-time Meal | Riser Meal |
| Hardy Meal | Carver Meal | Capture Pro Meal | Escape Artist Meal |
| Exploiter Meal | Fisher Meal | Insurance Meal | Iron Carver Meal |
| Lucky Meal | Piping Hot Meal | Top Cat Meal | |