Monster Hunter Rise is the latest entry in Capcom’s long-running action-RPG series that has been around since the original PlayStation days. Whether hunters are brand new to the franchise or veterans seeking advice, this complete guide will go over everything that players will need to know to succeed in Monster Hunter Rise (and its Sunbreak expansion).
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Crafting Materials and How to Get Them Sunbreak MaterialsBase Game Materials
Weapons and Builds How to Use ThemWeapons for BeginnersWeapon Builds
Large Monsters and How to Beat Them Sunbreak Base Game
Relic Records, Side Quests, Sub-Camps, and More Relic Record LocationsSub-CampsSide Quests
Down below, players will find information on where to find certain materials, movesets for the game’s array of weapons, and many more general tips and tricks.
Crafting Materials and How to Get Them
The most searched queries for Monster Hunter Rise players involve how to go about finding the crafting materials. Sometimes the game doesn’t do the best job showing players how to do things, so this section will cover all of the latest materials to come with the Sunbreak expansion. The section underneath the Sunbreak one will have the most sought-after materials found in the base game of Rise for those that have yet to start the expansion.
Sunbreak Materials
How To Get The Flaming Espinas Mantle
How To Get Large Elder Dragon Gem
How To Get The Violet Mizu Mantle
How to Get Afflicted Blood
How to Get Wind Serpent Orb
How to Get Purple Magna Orb
How to Get Glorious Crest
Where To Find Ultimas Crystal
How To Get Dense Block of Ice
How To Get Nargacuga Mantle
How To Get Crushing Fang
How to Get Anjanath Mantle
How to Get Aeonian Coal
Exquisite Sprout Location
Where to Find Twisted Stiffbone
How to Get Rachnoid Mesmersilk
How to Get Afflicted Bone and Afflicted Monster Bone
Where to Find Purecrystal
How to Get Barroth Crown
Where to Find Centuria Ore
How to Get Afflicted Pelt
How to Get Afflicted Shell
How to Get Large Wyvern Gem
Large Armored Bream Location
How to Get Sapphiron Ore
How to get Large Herbivore Bone
How To Get Goldlite Ore
How To Get Dragonbone Artifact
How To Get Meldspar Ore
Where to Find Sinister Gloomcloth
How To Get Frocium
How To Get Blackened Stiffbone
How To Get Awegite
How To Get Overgrown Stiffbone
How To Get Torpor Sac
How to Get Prized Pelt
How to Get Timeworn Crimson Horn
How to Get Eltalite Ore
How To Get The Torrent Sac
How To Get The Cryo Sac
How To Get Cloudy Moonshard
How To Get Lightning Sac
Base Game Materials
Where to Find Icium Material
How to Get Armor Spheres
Where to Get Iron Ore
Where to Find Dragonite Ore
Where to Find Lightcrystal
Where to Find Machalite Ore
How to Get Lazurite Jewel
How to Get Fulgurbug
How to Get Apex Venom Spike
How to Get Quality Fin
How to Get King’s Beak
How to Get Thunder Sac
Where to Find Meaty Hide
How to Get Stoutbone and Great Stoutbone
Where to Get Big Fin
How to Get Warm Pelts
How to Get Magna Ghostprisms
How to Get Electro Sac
How to Get Almudron Plates
Butterfly Beetle Location
How To Get The Eroded Husk
Where to Get Eroded Skeleton
Where To Find Rhenoplos Egg
How to Find (& Farm) Bloodrun Jewels
Rock Lizard Location
How To Get Quality Wyvern Egg
Gargwa Egg Location
How to Find Sturdy Bones
Where to Find Dreamshell
How to Get Firecell Stone
How to Get Izuchi Tail
How to Get Rath Marrow
Blossom Cricket Location
Where to Get Fur Scraps
How to Get Goss Harag Bile
How to Get Anjanath Plate
How to Get Nargacuga Marrow
How to Get Colossal Bone
How to Get Freezer Sac
How to Get Beast Gems
How To Get Narga Medulla
How to Get Quality Stomach
Nargacuga Cutwing Location
How To Farm Toxic Kumori
How to Get Magnamalo Scute
Where to Get Sharp Claws
How to Get Neopteron
Where to Get Firestone
Dragonhusk Shard Location
Where to Get Striped Hide
Where to Find Boatshells
Where to Find Bubblefoam
Where to Get Felyne Fur Ruby
How to Get Barroth Scalp
Where to Find Pricey Shoots
How to Get Sharp Fang
How to Get Acute Fang
How To Get Flame Sac
Weapons and Builds
There are over a dozen different weapon types to choose from in Monster Hunter Rise. For newbies, finding out which weapon works best is ideal for overcoming some early challenges. This section of our Monster Hunter Rise guide will cover all weapon types, how to use them, and how to unlock the best ones.
How to Use Them
Complete Hunting Horn Guide
Complete Sword And Shield Guide
Complete Hammer Guide
Complete Dual Blades Guide
Complete Great Sword Guide
Complete Insect Glaive Guide
Complete Gunlance Guide
Complete Charge Blade Guide
Complete Heavy Bowgun Guide
Complete Light Bowgun Guide
Complete Switch Axe Guide
Weapons for Beginners
- Easiest Weapons For Newcomers to Use
Weapon Builds
Great Sword Build
Insect Glaive Build
Dual Blades Build
Lance Build
Hunting Horn Build
Long Sword Build
Light Bowgun Build
Charge Blade Build
Sword and Shield Build
Hammer Build
Large Monsters and How to Beat Them
The monsters are not easy to take down in the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise, so this section will have some of the hardest monsters in the game and how to beat them. We will also include monsters from the base game.
Sunbreak
How to Beat Risen Teostra
How to Beat Risen Kushala Daora
How to Beat Gore Magala
How to Beat Seething Bazelgeuse
How to Beat Shagaru Magala
How to Beat Chaotic Gore Magala
How to Beat Silver Rathalos
How to Beat Scorned Magnamalo
How to Beat Gold Rathian
How to Beat Furious Rajang
How to Beat Crimson Glow Valstrax
How to Beat Risen Chameleos
Base Game
How to Beat Chameleos
How to Beat Almudron
How to Beat Anjanath
How to Beat Somnacanth
How to Beat Rathian
How to Beat Jyuratodus
How to Beat Rakna-Kadaki
How to Beat Barioth
How to Beat Diablos
How to Beat Rajang
How to Beat Mizutsune
How to Beat Nargacuga
How to Beat Tobi-Kadachi
How to Beat Bishaten
How to Beat Goss Harag
How to Beat Zinogre
How to Beat Thunder Serpent Narwa
How to Beat Ibushi
Relic Records, Side Quests, Sub-Camps, and More
From unlocking new base camps on the map to completing side quests given by the NPCs, there’s a lot for Monster Hunter Rise players to sink their teeth into if they want to add dozens upon dozens of playtime hours.
Relic Record Locations
All Jungle Relic Record Message Locations
All Citadel Relic Record Message Locations
All Shrine Ruins Relic Record Message Locations
All Flooded Forest Relic Records Locations
Sub-Camps
- Sub-Camp Locations And How To Unlock Them All
Side Quests
How to Get Well-Done Steak for Elder Fugen
Where to Get Wisplanterns and Boatshells for Cultural Exchange
Where to Find King Rhino, Rock Roses, and Bismuth Prisms for Economic Stimulation
Cutesy Crab Pose Request Guide
Boom-Boom, Bombadgy Request Guide
Not sure how to capture a monster? Wondering how to change equipment and get different layered armor? Need some help with some of the unexplained mechanics? This section of our Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak guide will go over the tips and tricks new players will need to succeed on any hunt.
Basic Monster Hunter Knowledge
How to Start the Sunbreak Expansion and Go to Elgado
How to Lock On to Monsters
How to Capture Monsters
How to Get Outfit Vouchers
How to Heal
How to Pause the Game
How to Save Game
How to Increase Hunter Rank
How to Use Photo Mode
How Long the Story Takes to Beat
How to Use Amiibo
Can You Change Difficulty?