Monster Hunter: World crafting: the best items to craft
A recipe for success
Weapons and armour are definitely vital in bringing down a target in Monster Hunter: World, but you'll also need to use items to heal, improve your maximum stats, or buff yourself. Crafting can be done in both the hub and on-the-go, provided you have the items in your pack. This is especially important as some of the later monsters can deal a hefty amount of damage to those unprepared for the encounter. Items also play a role in more advanced activities such as capturing monsters. Most ingredients can be found out in the wild, and this guide will show you how to craft items out of them, as well as detail which items are the most useful to craft for your monster hunting endeavours.
Monster Hunter: World crafting guide
Items can be lifesavers when hunting. Sometimes you need that extra chug of a potion to survive a blow, or taking an antidote to rid yourself of poison coursing through your veins. They are also useful if you want to capture monsters alive, or just shoot them to pieces with your Bowgun weapons. That said, knowing how to survive in the first place is also paramount, so new players should look at our Monster Hunter World guide to see how to prepare for each hunt.
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How do you craft items?
Unlike most things in Monster Hunter: World, crafting items is remarkably easy to do. Simply bring up the pause menu and the option will be there for you to use to your hearts desire. From the crafting menu, you'll be able to see which items you can craft and which you can't, allowing you to see which ingredients are required to make that item.
For those who are feeling somewhat lazy, you can set the system to automatically create certain items as you collect the ingredients required to make them. For example, if you have Auto-crafting checked for Mega Potions, it'll churn out a Mega Potion every time you make a Potion and collect Honey. It's useful for those encounters where you're constantly using up healing items or specific ammunition for your Bowgun.
The best items to craft in Monster Hunter: World
When starting out in your monster hunting career, you'll want to prioritise having the likes of Potions and Antidotes for healing purposes, as well as Mega Potions for a bit more recovery. It's also a very good idea to have Shock Traps and Tranq Bombs for capturing pesky monsters alive. Knives are also very good for inflicting status ailments on certain monsters if you don't have ranged weapons, and dung items can scare off unwanted monsters that wander into the battle.
Later on though, there will be certain items like Max Potions or even Ancient Potions for more advanced healing with additional benefits. Late game crafting items that are useful for particular hunts, but the healing items and monster capturing ones are the best items to always try and craft when you can.
If you have ranged weapons, you should also consider making the various elemental ammunition types, as well as those that inflict a status ailment that your particular monster is weak to. Therefore it's best to study your target by using Ecological Research as described in our Monster Hunter: World ecological research guide, to find out their weakness.
Ingredients needed to make items in Monster Hunter: World
So now that you know what to craft, you'll probably want to know exactly what items you need in order to make them. Below is a comprehensive list of all the items you can create in Monster Hunter: World. Each one is separated into its own table depending on its item type, and has a search bar so that all you need to do in order to find the relevant recipe is to type the item you're looking for.
| Item Crafted | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Potion | Herb | N/A |
| Mega Potion | Potion | Honey |
| First-Aid Med+ | First-Aid Med | Honey |
| Antidote | Antidote Herb | N/A |
| Herbal Medicine | Antidote | Blue Mushroom |
| Nutrients | Bitterbug | Blue Mushroom |
| Mega Nutrients | Nutrients | Honey |
| Max Potion | Mega Nutrients | Mandragora |
| Catalyst | Bitterbug | Honey |
| Immunizer | Catalyst | Mandragora |
| Ancient Potion | Immunizer Nourishing Extract | Kelbi Horn Kelbi Horn |
| Lifepowder | Godbug | Blue Mushroom |
| Herbal Powder | Godbug | Herbal Medicine |
| Energy Drink | Nitroshroom | Honey |
| Cool Drink | Chillshroom | N/A |
| Dash Juice | Catalyst | Dash Extract |
| Demondrug | Catalyst | Might Seed |
| Mega Demondrug | Nourishing Extract | Demondrug |
| Might Pill | Immunizer | Might Seed |
| Armorskin | Catalyst | Adamant Seed |
| Mega Armorskin | Nourishing Extract | Armorskin |
| Hardshell Powder | Godbug | Adamant Seed |
| Adamant Pill | Immunizer | Adamant Seed |
| Farcaster | Smokenut | Exciteshroom |
| Item Crafted | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Gunpowder | Fire Herb | Nitroshroom |
| Barrel Bomb | Fire Herb | Small Barrel |
| Bounce Bomb | Nitroshroom | Small Barrel |
| Mega Bounce Bomb | Nitroshroom | Bounce Bomb |
| Large Barrel Bomb | Gunpowder | Large Barrel |
| Mega Barrel Bomb | Devil's Blight Gunpowderfish Scale Great Gunpowderfish Scale | N/A Large Barrel Bomb Large Barrel |
| Smoke Bomb | Smokenut | Ivy |
| Poison Smoke Bomb | Smokenut | Toadstool |
| Flash Pod | Flashbug | N/A |
| Screamer Pod | Screamer Sac | N/A |
| Dung Pod | Rolled-up Dung Dung | N/A N/A |
| Poisoned Meat | Raw Meat | Toadstool |
| Tinged Meat | Raw Meat | Parashroom |
| Drugged Meat | Raw Meat | Sleep Herb |
| Net | Ivy | Spider Web |
| Pitfall Trap | Trap Tool | Net |
| Shock Trap | Trap Tool | Thunderbug |
| Tranq Bomb | Sleep Herb | Parashroom |
| Item Crafted | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Tranq Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Tranq Bomb |
| Tranq Knife | Throwing Knife | Tranq Bomb |
| Poison Knife | Throwing Knife | Toadstool |
| Sleep Knife | Throwing Knife | Sleep Herb |
| Paralysis Knife | Throwing Knife | Parashroom |
| Power Coating | Empty Phial | Nitroshroom |
| Poison Coating | Empty Phial | Toadstool |
| Paralysis Coating | Empty Phial | Parashroom |
| Sleep Coating | Empty Phial | Sleep Herb |
| Blast Coating | Empty Phial | Fire Herb |
| Normal Ammo 2 | Normal Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 2 |
| Normal Ammo 3 | Normal Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 3 |
| Pierce Ammo 1 | Latchberry | N/A |
| Pierce Ammo 2 | Pierce Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 2 |
| Pierce Ammo 3 | Pierce Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 3 |
| Spread Ammo 1 | Needleberry | N/A |
| Spread Ammo 2 | Spread Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 2 |
| Spread Ammo 3 | Spread Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 3 |
| Sticky Ammo 1 | Blastnut | N/A |
| Sticky Ammo 2 | Sticky Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 2 |
| Sticky Ammo 3 | Sticky Ammo 1 | Gunpowder Level 3 |
| Cluster Bomb 1 | Bomberry | N/A |
| Cluster Bomb 2 | Cluster Bomb 1 | Gunpowder Level 2 |
| Cluster Bomb 3 | Cluster Bomb 1 | Gunpowder Level 3 |
| Slicing Ammo | Slashberry | N/A |
| Flaming Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Fire Herb |
| Water Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Flowfern |
| Thunder Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Thunderbug |
| Freeze Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Snow Herb |
| Dragon Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Dragonfell Berry |
| Poison Ammo 1 | Normal Ammo 1 | Toadstool |
| Poison Ammo 2 | Poison Ammo 1 | Catalyst |
| Paralysis Ammo 1 | Normal Ammo 1 | Parashroom |
| Paralysis Ammo 2 | Paralysis Ammo 1 | Catalyst |
| Sleep Ammo 1 | Normal Ammo 1 | Sleep Herb |
| Sleep Ammo 2 | Sleep Ammo 1 | Catalyst |
| Exhaust Ammo 1 | Normal Ammo 1 | Exciteshroom |
| Exhaust Ammo 2 | Exhaust Ammo 1 | Catalyst |
| Recover Ammo 1 | Normal Ammo 1 | Potion |
| Recover Ammo 2 | Recover Ammo 1 | Catalyst |
| Demon Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Demondrug |
| Armor Ammo | Normal Ammo 1 | Armorskin |
| Wyvern Ammo | Dragonstrike Nut | N/A |
| Gunpowder Level 2 | Flame Nut Burst Arowana Scale Great Burst Arowana Scale | N/A Fire Herb Fire Herb |
| Gunpowder Level 3 | Blazenut Bomb Arowana Scale Great Bomb Arowana Scale | N/A Fire Herb Fire Herb |
| Powertalon | Powercharm | Bazelgeuse Talon |
| Armortalon | Armorcharm | Bazelgeuse Talon |
With that exhaustive list, that concludes our guide on crafting in Monster Hunter: World. Lots of the ingredients for making items can be found out in each of the maps, but some can be cultivated via the botanical research centre in Astera. If you want to know how to unlock this facility and how best to make these ingredients, head over to our Monster Hunter: World botanical research guide.