Items and Materials

Finding where a material comes from

While you are crafting something and can see the list of required materials, press in the Left Stick or press 1 on the keyboard. The game highlights a material and shows where it comes from. On the Taiwanese client the monster and place names were in Chinese, so players looked them up elsewhere.

The message always has the same shape. For example, "Obtainable from [HR1~99] [Kelbi]" means the material comes from Kelbi at that rank range. Any carve marked HC needs Hardcore turned on (see Hardcore and Starting G Rank).

The HR and SR ranges in these messages are still the ones from G9. The modern ranges are:

Words to look for

Area names used in these messages: Jungle, Desert, Swamp, Snowy Mountains, Volcano, Tower, Forest and Hills, Great Forest, Gorge, Highlands, Tidal Island, Flower Field, Polar Sea, White Lake and Painted Falls. If the message does not help, use the other lists named in the guide.

Ferias

Ferias is a community database site. There are two versions: a Japanese one, which is the original, and a less updated Taiwanese clone. The original guide used a translation script to read it in English; we do not link the site or the script.

The database lets you type any English, Japanese or Chinese name. It then gives links, where available, to the relevant sites and shows all three versions of the name. If you read a name from a screenshot with OCR, the database usually still finds it even when some characters are wrong, as long as most are right. If there are clear mistakes, cut the text down to the characters you believe are correct. Partial matches are fine.

You can also type a monster name you recognise. It lists the materials with that monster's name in them. From there you can click through to Ferias for rank requirements, drop percentages and more.

Box space, presets and sorting

This page of the original guide also explains how to grow your item box, how to save item presets and how to sort your equipment box. Those parts are now on the Equipment and Item Boxes page:

• Getting more box space (up to 41 pages)
• Item presets
• Sorting your equipment box

Basic items

These common items matter for basic play. This is not a complete list. The original guide kept full lists, including materials and combinations, in its document, which we do not link; the item and equipment catalogue lists what exists on our server. Recipes for most of these are in Combinations below.

Armour spheres

Armour spheres come in eight grades. The guide's table gives three numbers for each: GCP, NP and Festival Points (the guide does not explain them further). It also shows where each grade is mined and which quests give it.

Combinations

Frontier has two combination modes: 2 item and 3 item combinations. For example, you can make an Ancient Potion by combining either Immunizer + Kelbi Horn or Catalyst + Dragon Toadstool + Kelbi Horn. Items are not limited to two recipes, so one result can have several.

Each line below is one recipe, with its percentage (the chance the combination works). Each recipe makes 1 item unless the line says otherwise. Some recipes carry an [Alchemy] or [Mission] mark in the guide, which the guide does not explain. Numbers are the guide's own recipe numbers.

Healing items, drugs and powders

Meat

Boomerang and throwing knives

Bombs, traps and barrels

Bowgun ammo, coatings and bait

Pickaxes and bug nets

Grill kits and grilled food

Every grill recipe here is 100%. The guide gives the Grill Tools as "Universal Grill Tools" and the kits as the male, female and cat grill sets.

Flutes

Raw ingredients and other materials

These are the recipes that make basic gathered items such as herbs, mushrooms, seeds and fish.

Mocha Pots

Mocha Pot recipes put one item and a Mocha Pot together, and every recipe is 100%. The pot colour depends on what goes in. You buy the pots in the shop; see Farm tools for how a pot works.

Special items

These items either change the rewards of a quest when you take them along, or exist only in Frontier and not in the main games.

Halk Potion

The Halk Potion massively reduces the damage you take in quests. You can use a maximum of 5 each day, and you get one a day from the Halk area. See Halks.

Special tickets

The guide groups these as PRP, SRP, GRP and GSRP tickets.

Consumables and tools

How to get a Gook and make these tools is on the House page: Gook tools.

Consumable charms

Hunter Festival gems

Each gem also comes in a G version. There is no difference in function. You simply get the ones branded with G while doing G Rank tasks. More on souls is in Hunter Festival.

Mysterious Stones

Mysterious Stones are rare materials, fairly commonly used in older G Rank equipment. You can get them in two ways: feed Pariapuria and gather his vomit, or use Gook Cooking. The guide strongly recommends Gook Cooking over trying to make Pariapuria vomit. The steps are in Gook Cooking.

Medal charms

You get these charms in two steps. Kill certain numbers of monsters and the Guild Master gives you medals (Hunt Medals, with an option to claim and confirm rewards). Then trade the medals at the Combination Store for the charms below (Exchange Medals for Charms, with a Refund Charms option).

The guide's author is not sure of the exact requirement for claiming these medals. It is likely to be having killed at least 10 of a single monster type, and the author would like confirmation.

These charms always affect the quest you take them on, and they are not consumed. Be very careful not to discard or replace them while on a quest. The charms that cut the waiting time only work when you play solo, so they suit you if you are spamming quests and do not mind possibly losing carves.

How the gathering charms work

Every gathering spot has a fixed minimum and maximum number of gathers, and the gathering charms change these values. For example, the Insect Spot in White Lake Area 1 has a range of 4 to 8 gathers. With a yellow minimum charm this becomes 7 to 8. With the black maximum charm it becomes 4 to 10. So yellow is best for steady results and black is best for the highest possible return.