One of the most useful Monster Hunter: World locations in Astera is the Botanical Research Center — an enclosed farm where you can plant seeds to grow crafting materials. It’s also one of the best ways to earn lots and lots of bonus cash while you’re busy doing anything else. Cultivating a crop of valuable Might Seeds can be even quicker if you unlock more farming slots.

Both slots and jewels can have levels – the slot level needs to be the same or higher than the jewel level. If you want to use a decoration on a weapon, you’ll need to upgrade it enough first. When it comes to armor, though, you’ll need to craft the beta version of the desired piece – alfa versions come with two skills, while beta. Blazenut is a Material and a Pouch Item in Monster Hunter World (MHW). These useful parts are collected by Hunters to craft new Items, and can be brought along on hunts in the Item Pouch. Used to make Gunpowder that greatly increases Ammo firepower.

You’re restricted to a certain amount of farming slots early in your journey, but it is possible to expand your allotment and unlock more. We recommend doing these side-quests as early as possible — every extra slot is another place to grow more seeds and earn more zenny.

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The Botanical Research Center in Astera allows you to plant and grows seeds. The earliest seeds you can plant are Might Seeds, but you’ll find others as you progress.

There are lots of uses for the farm (growing crafting materials, earning zenny) but all of them take time. You can grow more in the exact same amount of time by unlocking extra farming slot.

You can unlock up to three slots in the farm — you start with only one, and can earn a second and third slot.

• How to Unlock the Second Slot:
  1. Unlock Level 4 optional quests on the Quest Board.
  2. Complete the quest ‘Persistent Pests’ in the Rotten Vale.
  3. Complete this simple quest to earn the second farming slot, which visually upgrades the Botanical Research Center.

• How to Unlock the Third Slot:
  1. Unlock Level 7 optional quests on the Quest Board.
  2. Complete the quest ‘Talons of Ice and Fire’ in the Coral Highlands.
     • This is a tough High-Rank quest, where you’ll fight much harder versions of large monsters.
  3. Again, completing this quest will visually upgrade the Botanical Research Center and give you a third farming slot.

Completing these quests is pretty important for the end-game content, and will let you cultivate multiple items for crafting / selling. Try placing bugs, herbs, and other items in the Botanical Research Center for a variety of different materials, too! Whatever you want to grow, it’s easy to unlock extra slots and enhance your farming game.

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What is Cultivation?

Cultivation is the act of growing plants, bugs, and other essential materials used to craft consumables. Most of these materials can be gathered during expeditions, though it can be tedious and time-consuming. Being able to grow them at the research base is much more convenient.

Cultivating materials costs research points and is one of the best investments for the currency. It allows you to stockpile a hefty amount of items to make healing items, traps, slinger ammo, and other useful consumables you should bring on quests.

Cultivation is unlocked by visiting the botanical research center in Astera. At first, you will only be able to cultivate one type of material. You can upgrade the research center’s features by completing various deliveries and optional quests.

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Recommended Materials to Cultivate

Honey

Honey is used in making potent healing items like mega potions, first-aid meds+, and max potions. Because of this, you are likely to burn through your supply very quickly. This is especially true if you always carry some honey with you to craft more restorative items in the heat of battle. Try to maintain a good stockpile of honey at all times.

Mandragora

Mandragora is the key ingredient used in crafting max potions. There are very few places to gather it during expeditions, so being able to grow them by yourself is extremely advantageous.

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Flashbugs

Flashbugs are used to make flashpods, a type of slinger ammo that momentarily stuns monsters when fired. It also forces airborne foes to crash down, briefly giving you time to attack them without restraint. Flashpods are very effective against Rathalos, Rathian, Legiana, and even the elder dragons. It is easy to burn through a stash of flashpods, especially when running optional quests and investigations multiple times. Be sure to keep a hefty supply of them through cultivation.

Might Seeds

If you think you have stockpiled enough materials to make consumables, you can try to earn some money by growing might seeds. These sell for 140 z each for a good profit. You can also use them during quests to temporarily increase your attack power.

Other Materials

Bitterbugs, blue mushrooms, herbs, and sleep herbs are some of the materials that you will also likely deplete very quickly if you do not take time to gather them during expeditions. Cultivate as much as you need, since you will accumulate a good amount of research points just by going through the main story.