Pets in Monster Hunter World (MHW) are a type of Endemic Life that can be placed in your personal room to roam, sit, and swim! Pets are everywhere in the new world in the trees,scurrying below your feet,climbing the walls around you, flying over you, and swimming with you!They can be placed by going to your House Keeper and select place pets.
Pets can be captured with a capture net and fishing pole then just report to your House Keeper to place them after capture
List of Pets in MHW
Shepherd Hare
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Floor and ground areas
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1
- Sector 8
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 1
Pilot Hare
Type: Terrestrial Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Ancient Forest (clear, daytime)
- Sector 1
- Sector 8
- Wildspire Waste (clear, daytime)
- Sector 1
Gastronome Tuna
Type: Aquatic Life
Pet Placement: Aquarium or Pond
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 4
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 6 (inside the camp)
- Rotten Vale
- Near central camp (Sector 11)
- Elder's Recess
- Sector 8 (inside the camp)
King Marlin
Type: Aquatic Life
Pet Placement: Aquarium or Pond
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 4 (rare spawn, daytime during rain)
Woodland Pteryx
Type: Treetop Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Hearth | Garden | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 5 (jumping between trees near the back)
- Sector 11 (jumping between large trees on the bottom level)
Forest Pteryx
Type: Treetop Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Hearth | Garden | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 5 (jumping between trees near the back)
- Sector 11 (jumping between large trees on the bottom level)
Climbing Joyperch
Type: Aquatic Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Pond
Found in:
Forest Gekko
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Entryway | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 10
- Sector 17
Gloom Gekko
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Entryway | Garden | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 11 (climb down the vines from camp, it can be found on the wall)
- Elder's Recess
- Sector 8 (in camp, next to the crawl section leading out)
Wildspire Gekko
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Entryway | Garden | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 5 (in the cave leading up to the mountain)
- Sector 6
- Sector 15 (where you land from jumping down the hole in the northern part of sector 8)
Moonlight Gekko
Type: Terrestrial Life (Rare, Night)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Entryway | Garden | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 11 (found above glowing moss after jumping down from camp)
- Sector 13 (next to the lump of meat)
- Elder's Recess
- Sector 7 (can spawn near the Gloom Gekko south of the pit with crystalburst)
- Sector 8 (on the wall just before leaving camp through the crawl-hole)
Revolture
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest (outdoor areas, especially near dead monsters)
- Wildspire Waste (outdoor areas, especially near dead monsters)
- Rotten Vale (upper levels, especially near dead monsters)
- Elder's Recess (outdoor areas, especially near dead monsters)
Blissbill
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 5 (at the top of the spire)
- Sector 9
Omenfly
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 3
- Sector 5
- Sector 10
- Sector 11
- Sector 16
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 2
- Sector 3
- Sector 10
- Coral Highlands
- Sector 8
- Sector 11
- Sector 14
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 1
- Sector 12
- Elder's Recess
- Sector ?
Augurfly
Type: Airborne Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 3
- Sector 5
- Sector 10
- Sector 11
- Sector 16
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 2
- Sector 3
- Sector 10
- Coral Highlands
- Sector 8
- Sector 11
- Sector 14
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 1
- Sector 12
- Elder's Recess
- Sector ?
Flying Meduso
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Coral Highlands (all over the map, usually over cliffsides)
Elegant Coralbird
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Coral Highlands (flies in groups of 3)
- Sector 1
- Sector 6
Dapper Coralbird
Type: Airborne Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Coral Highlands
- Sector 1
- Sector 6
Cobalt Flutterfly
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 5
- Sector 9
- Sector 17
Phantom Flutterfly
Type: Airborne Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 5
- Sector 9
- Sector 17
Hercudrome
Type: Treetop Life
Pet Placement: Pot | Entryway | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1 (x2)
- Sector 6
- Sector 8
- Sector 10
- Sector 11
- Sector 17
Gold Hercudrome
Type: Treetop Life (Rare, Night)
Pet Placement: Pot | Entryway | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 6 (across the gap at the top of the log ramp on the northern side of the west exit from the sector)
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 5 (on a dead tree)
Prism Hercudrome
Type: Treetop Life (Rare, Dawn/Dusk)
Pet Placement: Pot | Entryway | Tree | Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1 (on the trunk of a tree overlooking the beach, close to several flowerbeds)
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 10 (on the trunk of a tree with a wedge beetle)
- Coral Highlands
- Sector 11 (on the trunk of a giant yellow-green goral in the north. Directly ahead of the ropelift)
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 11 (on a large protruding rib bone. From the campsite, climb the vines up, jump down the ledge, and the rib bone will be ahead on the left)
- Elder's Recess
- Sector 3 (on a crystal outcropping along the northern edge overlooking the massive crystal core, next to a latchberry)
Giant Vigorwasp
Type: Airborne Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden | Sky
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 13 (at the bottom of the sector, under the vine floors)
Downy Crake
Type: Unclassified Life (Very Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Pot | Garden
Found in:
- Ancient Forest (on the back of Aptonoth)
- Sector 1
- Sector 8
- Wildspire Waste (on the back of Apceros)
- Sector 1
- Sector 4
- Sector 8
- Coral Highlands (on the back on Grandfather Mantagrell)
- Sector 1
- Sector 4
- Sector 8
Bristly Crake
Type: Unclassified Life (Very Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Pot | Garden
Found in:
- Rotten Vale (can rarely be found riding on top of Mosswine)
- Sector 3-5 (all the way to the left after leaving camp 1, near a crawl-tunnel
- Sector 15 (wanders around on the walkway above the Goldenfry pond. Flees if it spots the player, but gets stuck for an easy catch)
- Elder's Recess (riding on the back of Gastodon)
- Sector 5
- Sector 11
Grandfather Mantagrell
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Sky
Found in:
- Coral Highlands (flies in the sky. Can be knocked down with a slinger stone then caught once on the ground)
- Sector 7
- Sector 11
Wiggler
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Garden | Pot
Found in:
- Coral Highlands
- Sector 1
- Sector 3
- Sector 9
- Sector 10
- Sector 11
Wiggler Queen
Type: Terrestrial Life (Rare, Night)
Pet Placement: Garden | Pot
Found in:
- Coral Highlands (spawns with groups of Wigglers)
- Sector 1
- Sector 3
- Sector 9
- Sector 10
- Sector 11
Soldier Helmcrab
Type:Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 9 (walking around on the slope)
Iron Helmcrab
Type:Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Wildspire Waste (found in shallow mud)
- Sector 4
- Sector 8
Emerald Helmcrab
Type: Terrestrial Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Wildspire Waste (spawns around Iron Helmcrab)
- Sector 4
- Sector 9
- Sector 10
- Rotten Vale (spawns around Soldier Helmcrab)
- Sector 9
Bomb Beetle
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Elder's Recess
- Sector 2
- Sector 6
Dung Beetle
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 7 (near the small cave entrance)
Carrier Ant
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1 (on the path toward Sector 9)
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 1
- Sector 8
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 15 (near the Plunderers' Lair)
Scavantula
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Rotten Vale (found hiding in piles of bones)
- Sector 1
- Sector 4
- Sector 5
Emperor Hopper
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Floor | Garden
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 1
- Sector 3
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 1
Tyrant Hopper
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Rotten Vale
- Sector 2
- Sector 5
- Sector 10
Vaporonoid
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Column
Found in:
- Ancient Forest
- Sector 10
- Wildspire Waste
- Sector 5 (inside the cave area)
Tsuchinoko
Type: Terrestrial Life (Rare)
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Caverns of El Dorado (only during event quest. Found only in phase 1 area)
- Sector 1 (can be found near cannons and at the bottom of the long slide)
Gold Scalebat
Type: Airborne Life
Pet Placement: Entryway | Sky
Found in:
- Caverns of El Dorado (only during event quest. Found only in phase 1 area)
- Sector 1 (hangs around in the upper areas)
- Sector 1 (hanging around in the long slide)
Copper Calappa
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Caverns of El Dorado (only during event quest. Found only in phase 1 area)
Gold Helmcrab
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Caverns of El Dorado (only during event quest. Found only in phase 1 area)
Shiny Gold Helmcrab
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement: Carpet | Floor | Hearth | Garden
Found in:
- Caverns of El Dorado (only during event quest. Found only in phase 1 area)
- Sector 1 (near the fire herb in the top-left corner of Sector 1)
- Sector 2 (in the sunlit patch on the rocks above the lava fissure)
Goldspring Macaque
Type: Terrestrial Life
Pet Placement:
Found in:
- Hoarfrost Reach, Area 2, 6, 13, 17
Blue Diva
Type: Treetop Life
Pet Placement:
Found in:
- Ancient Forest, Area 11
- Wildspire Waste, Area 5
- Coral Highlands, Area 6
Wintermoon Nettle
Type: Unclassified Life
Pet Placement:
Found in:
- Hoarfrost Reach, Area 14 on Clear Nights (Hidden spot atop the mountain accessed from Area 13)
All Endemic Life in MHW
Terrestrial Life
- Shepherd Hare
- Pilot Hare*
- Forest Gekko
- Wildspire Gekko
- Gloom Gekko
- Moonlight Gekko *
- Vaporonid
- Scavantula $
- Revolture
- Blissbill
- Dung Beetle
- Bomb Beetle $
- Paratoad
- Sleeptoad
- Nitrotoad
- Wiggler $
- Wiggler Queen*
- Carrier Ant $
- Emperor Hopper
- Tyrant Hopper
- Iron Helmcrab
- Soldier Helmcrab
- Emerald Helmcrab*
- Stonebill &
- Rime Beetle &
- Pearlspring Macaque &
- Goldspring Macaque &*!$
- Crowned Prawn &
- Duffel Penguin &$ $$
- Arrowhead Gekko &!
- Moly &!
- Mossy Moly &*!
- Rocky Moly &*!
- Fluffy Moly &*!
- Spikey Moly &*!
Aquatic Life
- Climbing Joyperch
- Pink Parexus $ #
- Burst Arowana #$$
- Bomb Arowana #
- Andangler
- Hopguppy
- Petricanths^!$
- Whetfish #$$
- Gastronome Tuna^ #
- King Marlin^ #
- Goldenfish $ #
- Great Goldenfish
- Platinumfish $ #
- Goldenfry #
- Sushifish $ #
- Gunpowderfish $ #
- Glass Parexus &#$$
- Sealord's Crestfish &!^#$
(# - greater variants can be found anywhere where a normal variant is present)
Unclassified Life
Airborne Life
- Cobalt Flutterfly
- Phantom Flutterfly *
- Omenfly
- Augurfly *$$
- Scalebat
- Elegant Coralbird
- Dapper Coralbird *$ $$
- Vigorwasp
- Giant Vigorwasp *
- Flying Meduso
- Flashfly
- Grandfather Mantagrell
- Moon Slug &
Treetop Life
Event/DLC Exclusive Life
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Bristly Crake can also be found in the Guiding Lands. It sits in the center of area 12 if you're lucky. The moment you notice it though it will already fly away.
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You're missing the rare gold calappa from the event quest too
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the frost beetle is missing, dont know how it is actually called. The one in Hoarfrost reach that rolls around like dung and bomb beetle and you get crystal explosion if you kick it
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I got the Wintermoon netle during the day. It scared me really hard, didnt even heard of this ""pet""
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They should put “impossible” next to wintermoon nettle, I have 1 and it took 12 hrs of grinding to get
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I've fixed up the formatting of the page. Next goal is to add all the missing pets.
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Why does this page even exist? Every single endemic life is able to be placed as a pet. The code is horrifyingly messy, the page is terrible to look at, and the information is spotty at best. This page should be deleted.
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The pilot hare spawns only at the WSW and AF on sunny days WSW SW CAMP (in front of it)
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The pilot hare only spawns on sunny days in the WSW in front of the SW camp
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the pilot hare only spawns on sunny days in WSW in front of the SW camp.
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I tried and tried catching the grandfather mantagrell but its always to high for me to get
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You forgot the shiny golden helmcrab and the copper calappa and I got a golden hercudrome in the day time
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umm not trying to be rude but can i get like exact locations? for example in the emerald helmcrab it says just south of 3 packs of normal crabs. does not make sense what so ever. some are good like king marlin or the giant vigorwasp, but some things don't really make sense, and t those of you who are willing to help i need locations for these emerald helmcrab pilot hare wiggler queen golden hercudrome(doesnt make sense to me its kinda confusing) dappler coralbird scavantula giant vigorwasp and finally the phantom flutterfly thank you so much if you helped. #grateful
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umm not trying to be rude but can i get like exact locations? for example in the emerald helmcrab it says just south of 3 packs of normal crabs. does not make sense what so ever. some are good like king marlin or the giant vigorwasp, but some things dont really make sense.
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there's a lot missing from the list, the regular scalebat, the yellow spider from the forest (vaparanid?), a giant bee from coral (that i don't have cause of Tzi-boi), a bunch of diferent fish... and the ones here barely have any info, like the placement of the pilot hare is the same as the shepperd one, and we have that. Is no one curating the list?
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Its missing two Cactuar in this list butchery cattuar and flower one
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I found a cactuar cutting during the first quest into the wildspire wastes, just as you enter the area where you will find the baroth for the first time. Just to the right. Also I found a flowering cactuar cutting on the plateau closest to the area 1 camp in area 4 (I think) just as you crawl through the hole from the apaceros nest and dead ahead.
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i found a normal hercudrome in the cave system of great jagras in the Ancient forest
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I found a prism hercudrome in wildspire waste around the Juryatodus area
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[PC] Found Prism Hercudrome in Coral Highlands, sector 11. From Northeast Camp, exit camp go right to Sector 13, Go Down to Sector 10. There is a small crevice in a wall connecting to Sector 11. When in sector 11 and if you open the map its location is between the Watermoss and Thunderbug Icons. Or from Sector 5 use the Ropelift to Sector 11. You can see the first big green yellowish coral like tree at your lefthand side, with pink corals on the ground. It is there at the green yellowish coral.
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Missing Moonlit Gecko. It's found near brightmoss in elder's recess.
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To help you guys expand the pet list, I recently just captured Carrier Ants at the Ancient Forest close to the camp (1)
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This also misses the sparkling/shiny gold helmcrab (I think that might be the name? I have the game in another language so I don't know), which is found in the Kulve Taroth area, usually bathing under the sun in a corner. Also, the Bristly Crake can be found riding a Gastodon in Elder's Recess area 5 (it's just a theory but it might be sligtly more common than mosswines as nearly all the experience I've seen about it stated they found him on Gastodons). It needs the Mimetic Mantle to be caought, as it will run away as soon as the monster it rides on spots you.
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There is missing some pets here it seems. I have captured a few, that have not been mentioned here: Copper Calappa (the crab that steals gold in Kulve Taroth siege from the piles), seen almost everywere in Taroth's area. Can be placed in most surfaces, except the Entryway, trees, flying spot, pot and water.
Gold Calappa (bigger big brother version of copper calappa, also steals chunks of gold, instead of chips) Seems to be found commonly in the first siege area, on the western side of map (captured him there myself)
Lastly, during the lunastra mission, No Remorse (Elder's Recess), during my solo battle with Teostra, after teostra left, i saw a glowing magma buffball running away to the side of map, then disappearing. The ball appeared in the area, where Lavasioth seems most of the time to appear, cragged land and Nitrofrogs. From the looks of it, it wouldnt have been a Bristly or a Downy crake, as they only seem to appear on non combat monsters. Might need to do some expeditions to Elder Recess to see if i can capture it. And no, it wasent a magma flow, it was more of... jumping up and down when it was running.
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I caught a Great king marlin and a normal king marlin in the same spot!
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Vaporonid: spiders found in the caves of ancient forest and wildspire wastes. large spiderwebs, it sits in the center.
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your missing the copper calappa from the Event Quests - Meet Kulve Taroth
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Shiney gold helm crab 120 points finidn it
Its on the first arena kulve taroth after cannons
Its on the far left on top of the clif
You have to swing from beetle to beetle then look up when your at the bettle thats nearest to the cliff
There is a hidden beetle on the roof
Grab it and it leads you to the top of the cliff
There you go all the way to the right and some times youll see it there
Its the only spot thats shown up twice for me and i have it
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Ive caught great Great pink Parexus, Great Burst Arowana and Great Sushifish. you also dont have the flying Meduso which is the jellyfishes in coral highlands.
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See’s gastrodon under king marlin *triggered* those are kestodon.
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There's also a phantom butterfly. It's a lone butterfly vs the pack of cobalt butterflies you see in groups. It's a larger than the cobalts you see, its mostly black with gold touches. I'm sorry I can't remember where I found it or its conditions. I want to say I got it in the ancient forest along the north side of the map between the northcamp and pukeis corner on the northeast side of the map. There are packs of butterflies but in the camp and pukeis area with the poison plants and wasps. Good luck!
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My husband and I captured a Giant Vigorwasp in the Ancient Forest during a Rathian hunt . Wasn't raining and no idea how we ended up coming across it but its bigger than the vigorwasp by far. If you need pics I'm happy to give them to you. How do I send them to you?
downy crakes are either very likely or gauranteed to spawn on the grandfather mantagrell during the skyward snipers event quest.
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