Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Key Quests: all quests guide for Low, High and G-Rank

Although personally I might've had more than a few problems with Monster Hunter: World's progression - one thing is for certain. You couldn't get lost trying to figure out what you needed to hunt next to progress. Key Quests were separated into their own specific group upon quest selection, making progression through the game almost trivial.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, on the other hand, fits squarely in line with previous Monster Hunters. The game won't usually tell you what your key quests are, and it's mostly up to you to figure that out for yourself. Naturally, this might be a bit of a drag.

Being able to transfer your save from Monster Hunter Generations on the 3DS helps mitigate some of that grind, assuming you've already gone through it on the 3DS, but what about those of us that either can't transfer our saves, or never had one to begin with? Well, we have you covered. We've cataloged a list of all of the necessary quests to progress through both the singleplayer and the multiplayer components of the game!

Low Rank Village Key Quests

1 Star Quests

• Find the Ferns (deliver 8 Unique Ferns)
• A Fungal Hunt (Deliver 5 Abyssal Mushrooms)
• Wipe Out! (Slay 10 Maccao)
• Another Pack Attack (Slay 10 Jaggi)
• Urgent: Vaulting Outlaw (Hunt a Great Maccao)

2 Star Quests

• Rambunctious Rhenoplos (Slay 5 Rhenoplos)
• Gendrome Roadblock (Hunt a Gendrome)
• The Land Sharq (Hunt a Cephadrome)
• Hermit Grab (Slay 5 Hermitaur)
• Urgent: Tusked Tantrum (Hunt a Tetsucabra)

3 Star Quests

• Stomping Grounds (Hunt a Yian Kut-Ku)
• Crustacean Frustration (Hunt a Daimyo Hermitaur)
• The Desert Gourmand (Hunt a Nibelsnarf)
• Tumultuous Sprouts* (Deliver 8 Abyssal Mushrooms)
• Into the Wyvern’s Den* (Deliver 2 Wyvern Eggs)
• The Shadow in the Mountains* (Hunt a Khezu)
• No Go on the Popo* (Deliver 3 Popo Tongues)
• Royal Spit Take* (Hunt a Royal Ludroth)
• A Forest Fracas* (Hunt a Bulldrome)
• Current Events (Hund a Royal Ludroth)
• Robbed Blind (Hunt a Gypceros)
• Urgent: The Nocturnal Enchanter (Hunt a Malfestio)

(Special Note: The above italicized quests technically aren't key or urgent quests, but they are prereqs for key quests later on in the village. You'll have to clear them anyways .)

4 Star Quests

• Wrath of the Rathian (Hunt a Rathian)
• Hungry Eyes (Hunt a Nargacuga)
• Serpentine Samba (Hunt a Najarala)
• Lurkin’ in the Murk (Hunt 2 Khezu)
• Crustacean Infatuaion (Captura a Shogun Ceanataur)
• Urgent: The Dark Age (Hunt a Yian Garuga)

5 Star Quests

• The Unwavering Colossus (Hunt a Gammoth)
• The Entrancing Water Dancer (Hunt a Mizutsune)
• The Fisherman’s Fiend (Hunt a Lagiacrus)
• A King, Robed in Smoke (Hunt a Rathalos)
• Fight or Uragaan! (Hunt a Uragaan)
• Urgent: The Scorching Blade (Hunt a Glavenus)

6 Star Quests

• Dark Wings, Dark Work (Hunt a Gore Magala)
• Tuff Turf (Hunt a Zinogre)
• Tigrex by the Tail (Hunt a Tigrex)
• A Thousand Scales of Dread (Hunt a Seregios)
• Brachydios Mio! (Hunt a Brachydios)
• Urgent: Stop the Wheel (Hunt a Shagaru Magala)
• Urgent: Research Team’s First Rodeo (Hunt a Congalala)

High Rank Village Key Quests

7 Star Quests

• Brave New Ore (Deliver 10 Comet Rocks)
• Husk Hunter (Deliver 5 Burned Husks)
• Fashion Victim (Hunt a Daimyo Hermitaur)
• A Friend in Need (Hunt a Barroth)
• Bug Appétit Encore (Hunt a Seltas)
• Poisoned for Action (Hunt a Gypceros)
• Spit it Out (Hunt a Tetsucabra)
• Investment Flanking (Hunt a Giadrome)
• Taking Royal Liberties (Hunt a Royal Ludroth)
• Urgent: Primal Forest Arachnids (Hunt a Nerscylla)

8 Star Quests

• Grapes of Rathian (Hunt a Rathian)
• Airship Upgrade: Plesioth (Hunt a Plesioth)
• It’s Gonna Eat Me! (Hunt a Nibelsnarf)
• Airship Upgrade: Nargacuga (Hunt a Nargacuga)
• Bloof! (Hunt a Zamtrios)
• A Cure for Laziness (Hunt an Uragaan)
• Perfectly Normal Rock (Hunt a Basarios)
• Airship Upgrade: Lavasioth (Hunt a Lavasioth)
• Urgent: Wish upon a...Gravios? (Hunt a Gravios)

9 Star Quests

• Rathalos Topping (Hunt a Rathalos)
• Ruined and Tarnished (Hunt a Gore Magala)
• Whatdunnit (Hunt a Zinogre)
• Airship Upgrade: Barioth (Hunt a Barioth)
• Ruler of the Frozen Seaway (Hunt a Tigrex)
• Great, Glavenus Again (Hunt a Glavenus)
• Groan, Gammoth Again (Hunt a Gammoth)
• Man, Mizutsune Again? (Hunt a Mizutsune)
• Alas, Astalos Again (Hunt an Astalos)
• Urgent: Beware the Comet of Disaster (Slay a Valstrax)

10 Star Quests

• Thousand-Blade Brouhaha (Hunt a Seregios)
• Duel with the Devil (Hunt a Diablos)
• Roar of the Rajang (Hunt a Rajang)
• Bad Hair Day: Brachydios (Hunt a Brachydios)
• Deviljho Food Cake (Hunt a Deviljho)
• Wheel of Time (Hunt a Shagaru Magala)
• Urgent: Grave Peril (Slay a Nakarkos)
• Urgent: King of Hellfire (Slay an Akantor)
• Urgent: The Seat of a God (Slay an Ukanlos)
• Urgent: Stormlord (Slay an Amatsu)
• Urgent: Blazing Black of a Dark God (Slay an Alatreon)

Low Rank Hunters Hub Key Quests

1 Star Quests

• Tackling the Tetsucabra (Hunt a Tetsucabra)
• Lost in the Jurassic Frontier (Hunt a Gypceros)
• Local Threat (Hunt a Yian Kut-Ku)
• Snow with Occasional Lagombi (Hunt a Lagombi)
• Royal Spit Take (Hunt a Royal Ludroth)
• Urgent: The New Tenant (Hunt a Blangonga)

2 Star Quests

• The Desert Gourmand (Hunt a Nibelsnarf)
• Najarala Hunt (Hunt a Najarala)
• In Search of the Yian Garuga (Hunt a Yian Garuga)
• Operation: Secure Specimens (Capture a Nargacuga)
• Royal Assassination (Hunt a Rathian)
• Malfestio Festival (Hunt a Malfestio)
• Urgent: A Shocking Scoundrel (Hunt an Astalos)

3 Star Quests

• Dark Wings, Dark Work (Hunt a Gore Magala)
• A Thousand Scales of Dread (Hunt a Seregios)
• Fury Run Afoul (Hunt a Gammoth)
• Moonlit Bubble Bath (Hunt a Mizutsune)
• Heaven and Earth (Hunt a Rathalos and Rathian)
• Bladed Glavenus (Capture a Glavenus)
• Urgent: Two-headed Carcass (Repel a Nakarkos)

High Rank Hunters Hub Key Quests

4 Star Quests

• Swing into Action (Hunt a Kecha Wacha)
• Bug Appétit (Hunt a Seltas)
• Shells of Steel (Hunt a Daimyo Hermitaur)
• Birds of a Feather (Hunt a Yian Kut-Ku and a Gypceros)
• Urgent: A Plesioth in the Misty Peaks (Hunt a Plesioth)

5 Star Quests

• The Intelligent Malfestio (Hunt a Malfestio)
• Serpentine Samba (Hunt a Najarala)
• Fin Finder (Hunt a Zamtrios)
• Worst. Trip. Ever! (Hunt a Yian Garuga)
• You Caught This? I Caught This (Hunt a Lavasioth)
• Urgent: A Bewitching Dance (Hunt a Mizutsune)
• Urgent: The Unshakable Mountain God (Hunt a Gammoth)

6 Star Quests

• The Lightning Crown (Hunt an Astalos)
• Bug Buffet (Hunt a Seltas Queen)
• Master of the Molten Deep (Hunt an Agnaktor)
• Duel in the Volcanic Hollow (Hunt a Glavenus)
• For Whom the Gong Tolls (Hunt a Duramboros)
• Urgent: Seer of Swords (Hunt a Seregios)

7 Star Quests

• Stop the Wheel (Slay a Shagaru Magala)
• A Gathering of Wyverns (Hunt an Astalos and a Rathian)
• A Song of White and Lapis (Hunt a Mizutsune and a Malfestio)
• A Cold Set of Armor (Hunt a Gammoth and a Zamtrios)
• Rocked and Rolled (Hunt a Brachydios)
• Hammer vs. Blade (Hunt a Glavenus and an Uragaan)
• Urgent: Hellfire Star (Slay a Nakarkos)
• Urgent: Legendary Skills? (Hunt a Diablos)

G-Rank Hunters Hub Key Quests

G1 Star Quests

• Pecking Order (Hunt a Yian Kut-Ku)
• Lost, But Not for Long (Hunt a Gypceros)
• Surprise! (Hunt a Cephadrome and a Daimyo Hermitaur)
• Survival of the Biggest (Hunt a Giadrome and a Bulldrome)
• Water Fight (Hunt 2 Royal Ludroth)
• Dirty Deals (Hunt a Barroth)

G2 Star Quests

• Queen of the Ruined Pinnacle (Hunt a Rathian)
• Shadows in the Desert Lake (Hunt a Plesioth)
• Not Mushrooms to Swing a Congalala (Hunt a Congalala)
• Feeding Time (Hunt a Nerscylla)
• The Next Stage of E-Volvi-Lution (Hunt a Volvidon and a Great Maccao)
• That’s No Rock… (Hunt a Basarios)
• Urgent: Giant Dragon Invasion (Slay a Lao-Shan Lung or Repel it)

G3 Star Quests

• Pinnacle Pioneering (Hunt an Astalos)
• The Boiling Broiling Desert (Hunt a Glavenus)
• Water Kerfuffle (Hunt a Mizutsune)
• The Lost Expedition (Hunt a Barioth)
• Ice Recovery (Hunt a Gammoth)
• A Certain Gravitas (Hunt a Gravios)
• Urgent: Sky Render (Slay a Valstrax or repel it)

G4 Star Quests

• Beware Twin Horns on the Sand (Hunt a Diablos)
• Deviljho Hunt (Hunt a Deviljho)
• Tracing the Family Tree (Hunt a Tigrex)
• Emergency on the Arctic Ridge (Hunt a Rajang)
• A Very Long Engravement (Hunt a Glavenus and a Gravios)
• A Titanic Clash (Hunt an Agnaktor and a Duramboros)
• Urgent: Castle on the Run (Slay an Ahtal-Ka)