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Quests, Food Buffs and Bentos
How quests are posted and found, who hands them out, what each quest menu holds, how to read a quest card, and how to pack bentos (food buffs) before you go.
Bentos (party buffs)
The basics
A lunchbox, or bento, is a meal that gives a buff to everyone in your party. You set it when you post a quest. There are many foods you can buy and many ways to combine them.
You pack a bento at the food NPC: the dedicated food store in town or in the Caravan area, or the Guild Store Cat in the Guild Hall.
Once you have made a meal, it is added to a quick list. While you post a quest, press X on a controller or Z on a keyboard to prepare any meal on that list at once.
The game remembers your meal between quests. If you chose the right food the first time, you do not need to choose again until the season changes.
Combinations
The tables below list the basic combinations. Always post quests with buffs at least as good as these when you can. Each meal is two ingredients. Which meal is best depends on the season of the quest (warm, cold or breeding).
| Season | Ingredients | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | Fist Rice + Spirit Mushrooms (shown in the guide as Demon Mushrooms) | +50 HP / +50 Stamina |
| Fist Rice + Predator Honey | +50 HP / +25 Stamina / +5 Attack | |
| Fist Rice + Round Egg | +50 HP / +3 Attack / +20 Defense | |
| Cold | Fist Rice + Frost Tomatoes | +50 HP / +50 Stamina |
| Ancient Bean + Gold Extract | +50 HP / +25 Stamina / +5 Attack | |
| Fist Rice + Round Egg | +50 HP / +3 Attack / +10 Defense | |
| Breeding | Fist Rice + Power Lard | +50 HP / +25 Stamina |
| Pepper Bug + Predator Honey | +50 HP / +25 Stamina / +5 Attack | |
| Fist Rice + Gold Extract | +50 HP / +5 Attack |
Adrenaline combinations lower your HP so that Adrenaline skills trigger straight away.
| Season | Ingredients | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Warm or Cold | Fist Rice + Pugi Cracker | -50 HP / +25 Stamina / Small Attack (+3) |
| Breeding | Fist Rice + Hot Oil | -50 HP / +25 Stamina |
Where to buy the ingredients
| Shop | Ingredient and price |
|---|---|
| Guild Cat Store | Spirit Mushrooms, 980z Frost Tomatoes, 450z Pugi Crackers, 10z |
| Lunchbox NPC | Hot Oil, 50z Power Lard, 200z Fist Rice, 275z Pepper Bug, 265z Round Egg, 400z |
| Town General Store | Ancient Bean, 440z Gold Extract, 640z |
| Pugi Farm General Store (Lv3) | Predator Honey, 1940z (also available rarely from the food NPC) |
SR food
SR food becomes available at Style Rank (HR6). It gives far stronger effects than normal food. For example, some combinations give -60 Health, +50 Stamina, Attack Up (Large) and Defense Up (Medium). That puts your party straight into Adrenaline range for the hunt. Other combinations are made for normal, non-Adrenaline quests and give +50 Health and more.
You cannot buy SR food at the normal food stores. You get it as a reward from some special quests and from Hunter Guide tasks. You can also buy it with GCP (see Rastas in House and AI Companions) or with Hunter Festival Points (see Hunter Festival).
| Where you get it | SR food |
|---|---|
| HC quest, broken parts | Millenium Rice (also available for 6000 CP) |
| Great Puffer | |
| Dragon Filet | |
| Silver Liver | |
| GCP or Festival Points | Millenium Rice (a second item with the same English name in the guide; its Chinese name means seven-colour lettuce) |
| Queen Parsley | |
| Bitter Cheese | |
| Dancing Spice |
Server types
The server you are on decides which quests you can take. The Capcom servers had five types, each with its own tab:
- The HR1-4 tab (the Beginners' servers). You cannot post HR5 or above, or G Rank, quests here.
- The HR5 / G Rank tab (the Standard servers).
- Private Towns and Private Bars are basically mini towns that replace the Rasta Bar. You cannot use the Rasta Bar on these servers.
- The Cheat Servers are meant to boost players to G Rank content as quickly as possible. Compared with the normal grind, they amount to cheating.
To change server, go to the town entrance and pick the second option. Do this if you cannot take the quests you want.
Quest givers
Guild Master
The Guild Master hands out Gook quests and manages Style Rank. This NPC also gives Medals for killing large numbers of a monster species. You trade the Medals in at the Combination NPC for charms.
Story and Item Trading Guildie
This guildie gives the lowest-rank players their quests after the first part of the tutorial. She also gives out any story-based event quests that are running. She trades items too, and trading with her is the only way to get some materials.
Main Quests Guildie
The Standard Quests Guild Girl gives all types of normal quests, right up to G Rank.
Other quest NPCs are the Pink Guild Girl (daily quests, see below) and the Blue Guild Girl (Arena quests and the Diva Defense, see Diva Defense).
Ranking points
Finishing quests gives you several kinds of points, depending on which NPCs you bring on the quest.
| Points | How you earn them | What they do |
|---|---|---|
| Partner Rank Points | Based on the quest's GRP or HRP value | Raise your partner's PR, up to PR999 |
| Partner Weapon Rank Points | Based on the quest's GRP or HRP value | Raise your partner's Weapon Rank, up to 999 |
| Partnyaa Rank Points | Based on the quest's GRP or HRP value | Raise your Partnyaa's Rank, up to 999 |
| Guild Contribution Points | 1 per minute in a quest while you have someone's rasta contracted | Spendable points |
| G Rank Points | Based on the quest's GRP value | Raise your GR rating, up to GR899 |
| G Style Rank Points | Based on the quest's GRP value | Raise your GSR rating, up to GSR999 per weapon |
You can gain points faster by going on GHC hunts, using certain Sigil Skills, listening to the Diva Song, using the Log In Boost, or using Premium.
Normal non-G HC quests with a Rare-12 weapon, once you have reached G Rank, should multiply all of your NPC ranking point gains.
The quest card
The quest card appears when you hover over a quest in the quest list. It has 8 pages and every page has useful information. The ones you will use most are page 1 (core details), page 2 (money rewards), page 3 (material rewards), page 5 (season and time) and page 8 (location).
The other pages show smaller details:
- Page 4 shows the preset armour for quests that have one (head, chest, arms, waist). Armour and weapon are only preset on some event quests.
- Page 6 lists which weapon types are allowed. Faded weapon types are banned. Weapon-restricted quests block NPCs other than Legendaries.
- Page 7 lists banned weapon types. For example, in recent hunting contests you can only use Origin weapons, so every other weapon type is listed here.
- Page 8 also shows the standard quest flavour text, such as the contractor and background info.
Quest areas and objectives
Areas
Quests take place in these areas:
| Area | Area | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Jungle | Desert | Swamp |
| Snowy Mountains | Volcano | Tower |
| Forest and Hills | Great Forest | Arena |
| Gorge | Highlands | Tidal Island |
| Flower Field | Polar Sea | Battlefield |
| Large Arena | Base | Fortress |
| White Lake | Top of Great Forest | Cloud Viewing Fortress |
Objectives
Quest goals are made from these parts:
- Deliver, Hunt, Kill (slay), Capture, Repel, Break, Cut and Fish.
- Break and Cut objectives can name many parts: Wing, Head (including crest), Tail, Beak, Horn, Shell, Chest, Pincers, Tentacles, Ears, Claws, Fin, Head and Body, and Back.
Sub-objectives
Like some mainline games, Frontier often has sub-objectives. Each has its own reward pool of up to 4 slots, in blue or green slots on the first page of rewards. Completing one plays a jingle and shows it as completed on your quest status page.
Finishing a sub-objective lets you end the quest at once. Sleep in the bed at the Basecamp and choose the second option. This matters at G Rank, where not every map has a gathering quest but you may still need to gather. Killing a handful of minions is much better than fighting a large monster or delivering eggs.
Searching for quests
Choose the green option on a quest-giving NPC to open the search. You can search by typing in the main text search or the reward string search, or just use the preset options. You can filter by monster, location, monster type, HR limit, flags, HRP reward and zeny reward.
Pasting Chinese text into the text or reward search may not work, depending on your locale settings. Try pasting from a Notepad window or from a browser such as Firefox or Edge, or use the Character Map program that comes with Windows.
The guide's Google Document has a full list of the monsters and search parameters for both HR/SR and GR. For English quest names and objectives on our server, use the Quest catalog.
Advertising quests
The usual format for a quest advert is: @here / Quest Type / Monster Name / other info / @re. If you can paste into the game, you only need to paste the right text into the chat field.
General terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
@here | Makes a link to where you are on the game servers |
@re | Adds the total number of slots left for the quest |
| 有便當 / 有飯 / 飯 | Have a food buff. Useful with numbers for Adrenaline, such as -50 HP or -60 HP |
| 破頭 | Break Head |
| 斷尾 | Cut Tail |
| 求幫 | Seeking Help |
| 來麻棍 | Bring Paralysis Tonfas. Other statuses and weapons use the same format, for example 來毒雙 for Bring Poison Duals |
| 秘火飯 | SR Adrenaline Food |
| 剛 | Gou |
| 遷悠 | Exotic |
You can also just write HR with a number after it to advertise the rank.
Conquest terms
- Lv200 and similar: the level of the monster. This is needed when advertising a Conquest, because you have to be at or below the host's level to advance your own levels.
- +10 / +15: how many levels the host gains if they do not cart.
Examples
@here剛金塵龍 斷尾 有飯@re!means: Gou Garuba Daora, requesting Tail Cut, have food buff.@here G遷悠 雷狼龍 破頭斷尾 有便當 有飯@re!means: G Rank Zinogre, Tail Cut and Head Break, have food buff, requesting help.
Because there are no bans for English players, and the game officially covers regions that do not speak Traditional Chinese, you can also advertise with direct translations or rough descriptions:
@here剛噬血龍! @re!@here HR5 shixuelong!@re! @here HR5 Blood Sucking Dragon! @re!
Quest rewards
After any quest you receive rewards based on the quest. They are always shown in the same format: a prompt to send items to the item pouch, send them to the item box, send everything to the item box, or sell the remainder, with a timer, and then a reward grid.
Caravan, Guild and Diva quests
All information on Caravan is in Caravan.
Guild Quests
Guild Quests are taken in the Guild Hall. They give Guild Tickets, which you can spend on various pieces of equipment exclusive to them. As well as standard Guild Quests, you can add sub-quests. Talk to the Quest Cat again after signing a Guild Quest and choose the 3rd option. A second, smaller quest icon above your character's normal quest icon shows that a sub-quest is selected.
Diva Quests
You find the Diva in a side area of the main town, on the steps leading to the square. Her questline gives materials for Diva-exclusive equipment, which is extremely good. The first chapter has no requirements. The second chapter needs you to be at Style Rank. Every chapter after that needs G Rank.
English objectives and rewards for the chapters are in the guide's Google Document. You may have to talk to more people than the document lists. See G Rank for the Diva Buffs, which you can only use after you reach G Rank.
Written from the Monster Hunter Frontier guide by Fist (as saved in January 2022). That guide describes Capcom's old official servers; we reworded it, laid it out for Hunsterverse and added the "On Hunsterverse" notes (all of them: Hunsterverse vs the old servers). The pictures are from the original guide.