Crowns | Monster Hunter World Wiki

Crowns are Awards (not a physical item) in Monster Hunter World (MHW) for successfully hunting monsters of the largest and smallest sizes of each species.

How to earn a crown

Available crowns are miniature (gold), large (silver), and giant (gold); for hunting the smallest, next to largest, and largest possible size respectively. The crown will be awarded on the summary page upon either returning from the hunt or claiming rewards from the handler on an expedition.  If a crown-sized monster is successfully hunted, the rest of the hunt can be failed or withdrawn from (not abandoned) and you will still get the crown upon returning.  Special rewards do not have to be available for the request for you to get the crown.

Only the gold crowns count for the Crown Collector achievements.

Large Monsters

HR Assigned and Optional quest cannot spawn any Gold crowns. MR Quests on the other hand all can, albeit rarely. However, many Event quests have high chances to spawn them, and some even guarantee them. Each of the below quests have an increased chance of awarding a crown.

HR and MR Investigations also have a chance to spawn Gold crowns, depending on their Reward Slots. All monsters required to successfully finish the Investigation each have a chance to spawn as either Miniature or Large Gold crowns. MR Investigations have a higher chance to contain better reward slots than HR, however HR and MR investigations with the same reward slots will have an equal chance to spawn Gold crowns. Below are listed the eligible reward slot combinations.

Endemic Life

With the Iceborne update, players can obtain miniature and gold crowns for capturing endemic life or as a potential reward for pawswapping with Grimalkynes.  When placing pets in your house, you can decide if you want to place miniature, regular, or gold crown sized pets.  Incidentally, this is the only way to tell how many crown-sized specimens you have.  If you frighten an animal away, many of them will come back if you wander a little ways away from the spot; be careful not to go too far or it'll spawn a new one.

Unlike obtaining a crown from a large monster, the player will be notified every time an endemic capture is of crown size. No silver crowns are awarded for endemic life and no crowns of any type are awarded for "great size" fish (in fact, you are never shown their size). Any animals caught prior to the Iceborne update will be "regular" sized and the smallest/largest slots will be marked as average size of that creature.  Endemic life crown sizes are not necessarily absolute, but rather within a percentage of the min/max size.  For example, you may capture a gold crown creature, only to capture one later that is slightly larger; thereby updating your gold crown size.  In contrast, large monster crown sizes are absolute, outside of special quests that spawn them outside their typical ranges.

 _{* Always same size
1 Spawn not guaranteed
2 Unusually low chance of spawning a crown}

Several food skills exist that can greatly increase your chance of successfully capturing specific endemic life

• Felyne Zoomaster
• Felyne Biologist
• Felyne Microzoologist
• Felyne Macrozoologist
• Felyne Weathercat

Critical Bounties

Many critical bounties exist for capturing specific endemic creatures for special rewards.  Some require you to capture rare or gold crown life, so it is recommended to acquire this bounty prior to actively hunting for one; the following are those bounties.