Nightflower pollen is an special material in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll collect it from ephemeral blossoms and use it for trading with Sekka in Suja, Peaks of Accord. You’ll need nightflower pollen to trade for things like hard armor spheres and gold melding tickets.
The trick is, ephemeral blossoms only bloom during a full moon.
Our Monster Hunter Wilds guide will tell you how to figure out the moon’s phase, how to find nightflower pollen, and how to collect it.
How to wait for a full moon in Monster Hunter Wilds
There are seven moon phases in Monster Hunter Wilds instead of the traditional eight — there is apparently no new moon in the Forbidden Lands. The phases are, in order: waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third (or last) quarter, waning crescent.
There’s no place to find information on the phase of the moon in your menus or your map, so you just have to wait for nighttime and go look. The moon rises in the east a little over a minute after the transition from evening to nighttime and sets in the west shortly before the transition to morning.
Each time you rest at camp, the moon phase advances by one. Setting the environment to plenty each time you rest will ensure that the skies are clear. When you figure out where you are in the moon’s phases, you just have to keep resting until the next full moon.
To collect nightflower pollen, rest until the evening before the full moon. You have to be out in the wilds during the transition from evening to nighttime for the ephemeral blossoms to actually open. Evening only lasts about five minutes or so, so you won’t be waiting long.
Where to find nightflower pollen in Monster Hunter Wilds
Once you’ve waited for a full moon, you just have to find an ephemeral blossom. They only appear during a fallow or a plenty.
Ephemeral blossoms only show up in two regions — Windward Plains and the Scarlet Forest. During a full moon, when they’re blooming, you’ll be able to track them on your map. Just remember that the nightflower pollen you’re looking for won’t be listed — only ephemeral blossom will be on the list.
Sadly, skills like Botist and Geolist do not get you any extra pollen. That said…
How to farm nightflower pollen
There is a way to farm nightflower pollen once you reach Chapter 5 of the main story. It takes a bit of planning to get the most out of it, though.
First, set up pop-up camps at Area 4: Mineral Cave (or Area 3: South) and Area 10: Southeast. These are just places you’ll use as fast travel destinations.
Rest until you get (or are about to get) another full moon, and then speak to Alma. Pick up the “A Leviathan’s Rage” optional quest. Don’t worry about prepping to fight the Balahara. You won’t actually be fighting it. We just need this specific quest because it happens in the Windward Plains and automatically sets the time to evening and the environment to plenty.
Start the quest from the Area 10: Southeast pop-up camp. Now you just have to wait for the moon to rise.
Once it does, an ephemeral blossom will bloom just north of the camp. Go grab your nightflower pollen from it. Immediately fast travel to the Area 4: Mineral Cave, and then set a waypoint for the only other ephemeral blossom.
Your seikret won’t automatically get you all of the way there, though. The waypoint path will take you to a high cliff in Area 5 and then your Seikret will stop. You’ll be able to see the marker below you, but if you just jump off, you’ll land short of the cliff you need to reach.
You have to take control for this next part. Hit Circle/B to have your Seikret jump down the cliff and then hit R2/RT to make your Seikret glide. We have played over 100 hours of this game and didn’t learn you could do this until today. Glide forward until you’re over the mesa(?) with the other ephemeral bloom. Collect your nightflower pollen.
Once you’ve hit both blossoms, open your menu and go to Missions & Quests > Return from Quest. This will end the mission and send you back to the base camp — but you’ll get to keep your nightflower pollen.
Just keep starting the quest, collecting the pollen you need, and then returning until the moon changes phases again.
To also help you understand Monster Hunter Wilds, we explain how to capture monsters, how to change weapons, provide some Seikret tips, and teach you how layered armor works.
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