Ancient wyvern coins are an special item in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll have a chance at collecting them in the wilds, get them from trading, or earn them as rewards for capturing certain endemic life. You’ll need ancient wyvern coins to trade with Gawdygog in the Wudwud Hideout settlement in the Scarlet Forest for some valuable materials, including Sinister Cloth. Today we’re going to check out how to get ancient wyvern coins in Monster Hunter Wilds.
How to get ancient wyvern coins
Ancient wyvern coins might be found in just about any region, but they spawn very rarely. They don’t show up on your map, and they just kind of appear on the ground. Watch the list of collectible items on the left of your HUD for them.
A good place to look for one is in the Scarlet Forest’s Area 8: Underground Lake pop-up camp. To the west of the camp, there’s an area to drop down to. Head over to the edge of the water and dive in to the deep part. This will bring you out on a small patch of dry land where you can (sometimes) find an ancient wyvern coin on the ground.
Since you can’t really rely on the randomly spawning ground coins, you’ll have to turn to other methods. Specifically:
- Collecting them from gastronome tuna (whopper aquatic life)
- Collecting them from curioshell crabs (endemic life)
- Trading for them
Catch gastronome tuna
Gastronome tuna are a type of “whopper” — really big fish — you can catch after you get the tuff joint bait from Kanya. Gastronome tuna are only found in Area 17 of the Scarlet Forest and we’ve only seen them during a plenty. Catching one has a small chance of rewarding you with an ancient wyvern coin.
Capture curioshell crabs
A much better way to find ancient wyvern coins is to look for curioshell crabs. These are hard-to-spot endemic life that can show up in any region. Chances are, the only clue you’ve gotten about them so far is Alma saying, “Is that creature holding something?” If you can spot it and snag it with your capture net before it runs away (wearing the ghillie mantle helps you stay hidden), you’ll get whatever it was carrying — which in our testing has been an ancient wyvern coin.
There are a few places that they tend to spawn pretty reliably:
Windward Plains, Area 6: Valley Hideaway Campsite up the narrow path to the southeast
Windward Plains, Area 14: Groundwater Vein on the large cave southeast of the camp
Scarlet Forest, Area 6: Flowering Rocks in the underwater swimming area north of camp
Scarlet Forest, Area 8: Underground Lake on the fishing outcrop north of the camp
The first time you catch a curioshell crab, you’ll also get the A Prize Held High acheivement/trophy.
Trade with Rove
Once Rove is established as a trader in the Iceshard Cliffs (near Area 20: Ancient Room), you can trade certain materials with him in exchange for ancient wyvern coins. He tends to want things like chaliceweed and gobletweed — both plants that you can only collect underwater.
The main (only?) thing you’ll use ancient wyvern coins for is to trade with Gawdygog at the Wudwud Hideout in the Scarlet Forest. They’ll exchange the coins for things like cooking ingredients, armor spheres, drearsite scraps, and gold melding tickets. The gold melding tickets are the best way to (try to) get the best decoration gems in the game.
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