Players will spend most of their time slaying monsters in Monster Hunter World, but it’s actually possible to capture creatures in the game as well. Here is how to do it.
The main goal in Monster Hunter World is as its name implies: to hunt monsters. Over the course of the game, players will be tasked with slaying a variety of massive beasts, all with their own unique attacks and abilities. While hunting down and killing monsters is certainly the main goal in Monster Hunter World, it’s also possible for players to capture monsters alive, though it’s a bit trickier than you may expect.
Firstly, capturing small monsters in Monster Hunter World is fairly easy, so we’ll start there. To catch small creatures, simply find one out in the field, and then equip the net. Aim and shoot the net at the creature, and if successfully caught, it will then be possible to have it as a pet back at the players’ headquarters room.
While catching smaller creatures is easy enough, catching larger monsters in Monster Hunter World is a multi-step process, and isn’t as straightforward. First, players will need to collect the correct supplies, mainly shock traps and tranq bombs. Both of these items can be crafted, with shock traps requiring trap tools and thunderbugs, and tranq bombs created by combining sleep herbs and parashrooms.
Players that don’t want to craft these items can also receive them from their supply box at the start of missions where the requirement is to capture the creature alive. At any rate, once the supplies have been collected, it’s time to head out and fight whatever monster you want to catch.
Fight the monster like normal, and wear it down until it tries to limp away. At this point, get in front of the monster and drop shock traps at its feet, which will immobilize. Next throw a tranq bomb at its head. If successful, the monster will be knocked out and captured. If not, it will likely recover and you’ll have to wear it down to its limping stage to try again.
Capturing monsters in Monster Hunter World may be more difficult than just slaying the beasts like normal, but the additional rewards earned make it worth the trouble. Anyone having too much trouble, though, may want to consider joining up with friends in co-op to make the process a little bit easier.
Monster Hunter World is available now for PS4 and Xbox One, with a PC release planned for later this year.
