MHGU: Meownster Hunter

Meownster Hunter is a mini-game found in Monster Hunter Generations and Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. By speaking to d'Artanyan in the Palico Ranch or the housekeeper in the hunter's houses, a player can send up to four non-active Palicoes to search for monster materials and scraps for use in Palico equipment and gear upgrading.

Meownster Hunting
The mini-game setting consists of a field scattered with colored circles representing items or monsters. Palicoes are shot out of a cannon and onto the field, where they bounce around until they stop. A gauge on the right side of the screen shows the strength of the cannon as it steadily increases or decreases. The size of a Palico's circle, which affects their trajectory and how large of an area they cover, depends on their Enthusiasm. If a Palico's circle overlaps a circle on the field, they will earn some materials. If their Support matches the color of the target, they will earn more materials.

Sometimes a location will have a Rare or a Danger tag. In Rare locations, more materials can be gathered from landing on spaces, more valuable items are likely to be found, some material spots appear twice, and unique items can be obtained. Danger locations have Elder Dragons and the like appear. Rare and Danger spaces are hidden but flash briefly if a Palico passes over them. The identity of Danger spaces are not revealed until results are in.

The initial selection of monsters and locations is small, but progressing to the next rank of quests and hunting large monsters will add more to the available pool. Basic materials are always available. Initially only one large monster will appear, but reaching the end of the rank allows two large monsters to appear.

The player can check the result of the mini-game after completing a non-Harvest Tour quest.

Some colors, mainly those relating to the Beast Support, have been changed from Generations. This page uses the Generations Ultimate colors.

Drop Tables
Items in (parentheses) mean that item/drop quantity is found when the Rare tag is active, while items in [brackets] are found only when the Rare tag is not active.