Monster Hunter Wilds Cooking Guide

Cooking in Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the game’s most important mechanics, and essential to any hunt.

Cooking meals not only gives buffs to your hunter, but it can also make hunts much easier. Despite this, because the game never forces you to cook any meals outside of the tutorial, many players miss this essential part of the game.

Cooking in Monster Hunter Wilds has been made even easier thanks to a new mechanic introduced in Monster Hunter Wilds, which we’ll explain later. Our Monster Hunter Wilds cooking guide will explain what meals do, how to cook then, how and when to eat them, and what benefits they will give players.

Monster Hunter Wilds Cooking: How to cook a meal

In Monster Hunter Wilds you can cook a meal at base camp, at a pop-up camp, and using the new portable BBQ item. The new item effectively functions exactly the same as when cooking a meal at the base camp, but it’s worth noting that monster can, and likely will, attack you while you’re cooking, so it’s best to find a location where it is safe.

While there are plenty of different meals that players can cook in Monster Hunter Wilds, the game also offers the option to cook a meal that is based on your current loadout. By selecting Recommended Meal, the game will automatically pick the best for you, based on the ingredients that you currently have and what items you are using.

Alternatively, you can cook custom meals in Monster Hunter Wilds, which as the name suggests, allows you to select the specific ingredients you want to include. You’ll select a ration, which is the base of the meal and what decides the buff you will receive, then you’ll add the additional ingredient. This provides a Food Skill, and will buff the duration of the item’s effect by 20 minutes.

Monster Hunter Wilds Cooking Effects and Buffs

Meals in Monster Hunter Wilds provide a varied number of advantages and buffs, depending on what you cook. The most basic of these, health and stamina, are essential before, in the middle of, every major fight.

Not only this, they can even go as far as regenerating health in the middle of battle, or greatly decreasing the rate at which you lose stamina, making for much easier fights. You’ll collect ingredients naturally during your hunts, and the game’s minimap also highlights when you’re near something you can pick up, so we’d recommend picking up as much as you can while you’re on  your travels.

The best way to guarantee a chance against some of the extremely tough late-game enemies is to make sure you’re spending as much time as possible preparing before a fight.  Getting into the habit of doing this, as well as visiting the Smithy to make sure your armor and weaponry are up to standard will make most of the story mode a breeze.

Read our Monster Hunter Wilds guides:

• How to craft and upgrade Armor in Monster Hunter Wilds
• How to customize your Seikret in Monster Hunter Wilds
• How to play online with friends in Monster Hunter Wilds multi-player
• Monster Hunter Wilds Cooking Guide