Missions, quests, assignments, bounties and investigations in Monster Hunter Monster Hunter World Guide
Here you can find short description about types of missions in Monster Hunter World like assignments quests, optional quests, bounties, investigations and deliveries.
Last update: 29 January 2018
There are a few types of missions in the game, and they all differ significantly. Below, you can find a breakdown of all of them:
- Assignments - these are the only quests highlighted with blue font. The Assignments are main quests that push the story forward. The missions get increasingly more difficult - you will hunt stronger monsters and try to solve the mystery of the island.
- Optional Quests - occasional tasks given by different NPCs in the city (they have an exclamation mark above their heads. If you talk to them, they might ask for a favor. This will generate a side quests - these missions usually yield interesting prices.
- Bounties - available in the Resource Center. Those are typical side activities, such as gathering materials etc. A maximum of six such quests can be active at the same time - you might want to be completing these regularly, since many of these offer Armor Sphere as the reward. The Sphere is needed to upgrade armors at blacksmiths.
- Investigations - in order to begin an investigation, you have to pay a visit to the Resource Center and chose which one are you interested in. If you do that, the investigations will appear on the quest board just like any other mission. They are mostly about catching a particular monster. The only difficulty might be a time limit.
- Deliveries - the scientists in the Research Center will sometimes need you to bring them certain resources and/or materials from the monsters.
When it comes to beginning the quests, you should only do that at notice boards - just choose a mission and decide whether you want to go hunting solo or with others. Some quests can be repeated, which is especially important when you're planning to make an armor from a certain monster, for example.
Apart form the quests, you can also, in any given moment, set out for a solo excursion to the chosen place of the island. This will enable the expedition mode, in which you might explore the world, do a few quests and hunt for monsters by yourself.