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Steamworks
Race	Wyverian and Palico Assistants
Location	Seliana

The Steamworks is a group of  NPCs in Monster Hunter World (MHW). NPCs are non-playable characters that interact with the Hunter during the story or optional activities in the game. It was added with the Iceborne Expansion. At the Steamworks, the player can win items as they progress in the Steamworks minigame.

Quests & Services

Fuel is the resource consumed by the Steamworks and can be collected by the player as they go on their journey. 

Using the Steamworks prompts a minigame in which the player inputs a series of three-button-sequences. There is always a 'correct' sequence, but it is a guessing game to figure out which it is every round. Each round costs 10 fuel, first drawing from Natural Fuel, then from Stored Fuel, with a reward being given at the end of every round. If the sequence is guessed correctly, the Steamworks will yield a higher quality item and build more steam, while an incorrect sequence will yield a lower quality item and builds less steam.

The largest gauge shows the player's current progress building steam, and will carry over between quests. There are 3 levels of steam power, building first through yellow, then orange, and finally red. Upon completely filling the steam gauge to red, the Steamworks goes into 'Overdrive' mode, which will then trigger a short skippable cutscene of the Steamworks NPCs. After the scene is finished, the player will be rewarded a rare/high quality item called an 'Overdrive Bonus'. The 'Overdrive Bonus' item is always marked on the Steamworks' start screen and can be anything from Armor Spheres to Housing/Room items, so you always know what you're working toward.

Fuel Items used by the Steamworks

• Natural Fuel:
  • Natural Fuel will automatically accumulate through normal completion of quests, similarly to how the Argosy or Botanical Research function. If Natural Fuel reserves are full, the player will receive a notification upon returning to base.
• Stored Fuel Items:
  • Dragonvein Shard
  • Dragonvein Coal
  • Dragonvein Coal Chunk
  • Giant Dragonvein Coal (Not available yet)

Complimentary Items

Complimentary Items are items that can be acquired from playing the Steamworks minigame. Complimentary Items can can be separated into 4 tiers, with Tier 1 yielding the lowest quality items and Tier 4 yielding the highest quality items. Each tier has its own unique color to help players identify which items are from which tiers. Each tier and it's corresponding color can be found below:

Silver = Tier 1

Gold = Tier 2

Red = Tier 3

Blue = Tier 4

Players receive different tiers of items based on their ability to meet certain requirements while playing the minigame that differ from tier to tier. The requirements that must be met in order to receive items from a specific tier as well as a list of all the items from each tier can be found below:

Melding Tickets are special Complimentary Items that are only available at the Steamworks during Festivals such as Grand Appreciation Fest. They come in a total of three different varieties, consisting of steel, silver, and gold. Each variety can be found in a different reward tier, as shown below:

☀☀ Gold Melding Ticket (Tier 3/Tier 4)
☀ Silver Melding Ticket (Tier 2)
☀ Steel Melding Ticket (Tier 1)

The Gold Melding Ticket can be acquired from both Tier 3 and Tier 4 rewards, however as a Tier 4 reward it is only available once a day as an Overdrive Bonus. 

Melding Tickets can be melded into decorations at the Elder Melder through the Guild Alchemy option, and yield different types of decorations depending on the ticket. Every ticket can only drop decorations of certain rarities. Each ticket and the rarity of the decorations it drops can be found below:

It should be noted that although the Silver Melding Ticket drops up to Rarity 11 decorations, it doesn't seem to drop any 4 slot decorations whatsoever. The above tables are based off of the findings of a player who conducted and recorded numerous trials in order to determine what kind of decorations each ticket drops and the rough drop rate for each type of decoration. 

Adjust Output

After sending Steamworks to overdrive at least once and after unlocking Guiding Lands, the player will have the option to "Adjust Output". This allows the player to use the "x10 Output" feature, consuming 100 fuel cells instead of 10 and multiplying received items by 10. This makes consuming fuel for the Steamworks faster since fuel stocks can build up fast with Guiding Lands mining outcrops or A Farewell to Zinogre.

The overdrive items are not multiplied by 10, so the guaranteed daily Celestial Wyverian Print(or Gold Melding Ticket if a festival is up) are not affected by it.

Locations

• Seliana

Tips & Trivia

• Once the player has reached an Overdrive Bonus for the first time, you can have the game auto-complete sequences for you by holding the right trigger (consoles) or button Space on PC. The sequence it gives will always be from left to right (For example: ✕, ◻, △ on PS4).

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