Looking to farm Aqua Sacs in Monster Hunter Wilds? As a versatile crafting component, you’ll want a bunch of these on hand to make and upgrade equipment designed to deal water damage and shrug off attacks from fire-spewing fiends.
Assuming you’re in the market for new equipment, take a look at our Monster Hunter Wilds armor and Monster Hunter Wilds builds lists to ensure you’re getting the best bang for your buck. And if you’re not sure where to go next, we’ve detailed every Monster Hunter Wilds quest to get you back on the right path.
Where do I find Aqua Sacs in Monster Hunter Wilds?
Aqua Sacs can be obtained by hunting low-rank Balahara in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll encounter these tunneling sand worms at the very start of the game.
Balahara are relatively common large monsters found in the desert areas of the Windward Plains. It won’t take much scurrying around on your Seikret to spot them bursting out of the sands.
You won’t be asked to hunt one as part of the main story until after dealing with a bunch of other monsters, so you could theoretically go a long while before finding one of these core materials if you don’t take matters into your own hands.
The guild will tell you to leave it alone if you hunt one before the official quest, but it’s no harder than any other monster at the start of the game. You’ll just get fewer rewards given you’ll be hunting it outside of an official quest, making it an inefficient time to farm them.
There’s no special objective or limb to target when farming Aqua Sacs. They’re no more common from breaks and severs as they are from simply carving a bested beast. Don’t put too much time and effort into aiming for specific parts of the creature: just beat it up, carve, and move onto another to efficiently farm Aqua Sacs.
You’re more likely to carve skulls, shells, scales, and even a tail from a defeated Balahara. It’s entirely possible to hunt one or two without getting a single Aqua Sac.
As for why the sand worm Balahara is a good source of Aqua Sac materials, it appears to be the organ it uses to produce the mud it regularly attacks with. In that regard, it’s similar to Almudron from Monster Hunter Rise or Juratodus from Monster Hunter World, with a major difference being its ability to produce its unique weapon while living in dry, arid lands rather than churning up the waters around it.
When hunting Balahara, you might want to use Dung Pods to discourage other nearby Balahara from joining the fray. While it can seem like a good idea to keep them around to farm a bunch simultaneously, the struggles of taking on too many large monsters at once could slow you down.
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