The Best Villages In Monster Hunter

Throughout your journey as a Monster Hunter, you will find several settlements where you can relax, rest, and prepare for the next hunt. Villages are your home away from home and are filled with stations to accept quests, forge armor and weapons, eat a delicious meal, and interact with the local NPCs.

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The villages represent a major half of the monster hunter experience. This is where all your setup takes place, building up armor and weapons to use and even managing items you harvested while in the locale. Most villages also offer farms where you can gather items for crafting and combinations needed for hunts.

10 Kokoto Village

Village Of Beginnings

Kokoto Village is the first village introduced in the franchise. The settlement is located in the countryside, not too far from the ruins of Schrade and the Forest & Hills Locale. The Chief of the village gives you the offline quests that you would start with, and once you defeat the main threat creature, you are allowed to pull the Legendary Hero’s sword from a pedestal behind your home.

In the original Monster Hunter, this village didn’t have a farm, a Felyne kitchen, or a gathering hall. This left the village very bare bones compared to future iterations and made the grind of the first Monster Hunter even more tedious than it already was. Minegarde was the online hub instead until a hall was added in Monster Hunter Freedom. MHF1 was where a majority of the mainstay elements in future villages started to show up.

9 Elgado Outpost

Guards Of The Kingdom

Elgado Outpost is a reformed station where the knights of the Kingdom are temporarily positioned while investigating strange occurrences in the ruins of the Citadel. This territory was formerly part of the kingdom before Malzeno and other dangerous monsters destroyed it. It takes over Kamura as the main setting during the Sunbreak expansion.

Although it’s smaller than Kamura Village, Elgado makes up for it by having everything you need available for you close by, from talking to NPCs to accessing the closer facilities. Elgado is also where you learn several new mechanics added into the gameplay of Rise, with the NPCs joining in hunts as followers and an additional loadout to use for Switch Skills.

8 Bherna Village

Host Of The Wycademy

Bherna Village is the first and main village setting in Monster Generations. It’s also the current base hub of the Wycademy, an organization of scholars and researchers your hunter is affiliated with. During the events of the game, you will explore the wildlife of the Jurassic Frontier and also visit three other villages that are assailed by the fated four, which are the flagship monsters of the game.

Bherna village itself is connected to a Palico training center, the Wycademy hub that includes the multiplayer questlines, and a plethora of disgruntled researchers who were yanked out of their positions to be clerks and smiths due to a lack of workers with them. In Generations Ultimate, the Wycademy has expanded to include the Soaratorium, its portable station that you can get to from the Bherna region.

7 Moga Village

Homely Port By The Sea

Moga Village is a small fishing port off the coastline of an archipelago in the oceans of the Old World. When earthquakes begin to ravage the community, the Guild sends you to investigate the incidents, leading to conflicts between the Lagiacrus and the ancient Elder Dragon Caedeus. This was the first Monster Village in which the quests are interconnected to the narrative as you try to save the village from the quakes and the monsters that cause them.

The Moga Village has an interesting mechanic, where you can travel to the wilds of the island locale during specific times, so you can hunt freely and gather materials without the limits of a time limit or the quest you are engaged in. Daytime is generally low-rank monsters and materials, and nighttime is high-rank. Other Monster Hunter installments adopt a similar version of these optional expeditions.

6 Val Habar

Village Of The Sun

Val Habar is a quaint port that is considered the meeting grounds of new comrades and old friends. This is where you meet the Capital C Caravan—a band of interesting characters that follow you throughout your journey. Their narrative is a part of the offline quests you undertake from Guildmarm as you travel around.

Val Habar connects straight to the Gathering Hub for online quests, and it also seems close to one part of the Everwood, a randomized environment where you can hunt certain monsters that don’t appear in normal quests. Many of the NPCs you encounter in Val Habar are fairly amusing characters with conversational jokes that rub shoulders with the fourth wall and parody the series’ conventions.

5 Kamura Village

Village Of The Forge

Kamura Village is the lovely hub station of your hunter and the characters they’re affiliated with. Known for its Tatara steel and forging techniques, Kamura is popular for its tourist appeal and the palamutes that hunters can recruit as partners on the hunt. Even Rondine, the trader from a faraway Kingdom, couldn’t help but be charmed with the village.

However, every fifty years, the village suffers a cataclysmic event. Stampedes of monsters charge through the territories of Kamura in what is known as a Rampage. These Rampages blend different species, from the local Tetranodon to Diablos and Anjanaths. Withstanding these Rampages and discovering their origins are a big part of the Kamura storyline.

4 Astera

Home Of The Commission

Astera is the main base of operations for the Fleets of the Research Commission and was built by the First Fleet fifty years ago. Its purpose is to be the staging ground for research and investigations on the mysterious movements of Elder Dragons that have been migrating to the New World. Astera is stationed between the Ancient Forest and the Wildspire Waste. Both locales offer a lot of introductory moments for newcomers to the Fifth Fleet.

Astera has three different spread-out levels, with a majority of the resource management and commerce being on the first floor, the canteen for food, the forge for weapons and armor on the second floor, and the multiplayer hub being on the very top floor. Astera has an intriguing aesthetic, a settlement made from the combined parts of multiple fleet ships that represents the commission’s enduring nature and gives a feeling of frontier adventure in the setting.

3 Dundorma

Home Of The Guild

Dundorma is considered the birthplace of the modern guild system, the main organization from which every hunter needs acknowledgment and license to hunt monsters legally. They are also found relatively close to the ruins of Schrade and are a constant target of Elder Dragon attacks, from the wind tempest Kushala Daora to the elusive Gogmazios.

There is a spot in a stage room where you can hear a Wyverian songstress singing beautiful songs in her native language of the world. Many are original songs from MH4U and MHDos. There is another unique NPC that’s popular in this region. He is the Guild’s main boss and could be its founder and the ruler of Dundorma; his Immenseness. He is an old but very large Wyverian with a history of fighting giant elder dragons.

2 Pokke Village

Tundra Home By The Steppe

One of the biggest independent villages during release, Pokke Village is considered the golden standard in Monster Hunter villages and hub zones. Along with having fairly quaint music that reflects the soothing, nurturing feeling of the village, several stations can keep you occupied away from hunting and forging tools for the next quest.

The biggest element of the village that keeps you engaged outside of hunts is the farm, a place that gets bigger and bigger the more you add to it. There are several points for mining and an option to send a Felyne into a cave with various types of bombs. There are also several fishing points, farming stations, and a tree to knock insects out with a hammer. There’s also a strange cave with a large Fatalis sword that you can mine for several parts.

1 Seliana

New Frontier Of The Commission

When the expansion of Monster Hunter World kicked off, the cast and crew of the Research Commission found the Hoarfrost Reach and established a new base in the landmass. This is Seliana, your new home away from Astera, and is the main location for most of the plot events in the MHW Iceborne. Seliana takes some queues from Astera and is a much more compact, easier-to-navigate version of the old base.

A new addition to the base that is designed around giving you all kinds of goodies is the Steamworks. This is a minigame that randomizes certain rewards and quantities as you add fuel to the steam machine. Many NPCs that inhabited Astera also went into Seliana while searching for the mysteries of the Old Everwyrm and the discovery of the Guiding Lands later on.