One of the most useful Monster Hunter: World locations in Astera is the Botanical Research Center — an enclosed farm where you can plant seeds to grow crafting materials. It’s also one of the best ways to earn lots and lots of bonus cash while you’re busy doing anything else. Cultivating a crop of valuable Might Seeds can be even quicker if you unlock more farming slots.
One of the most useful Monster Hunter: World locations in Astera is the Botanical Research Center — an enclosed farm where you can plant seeds to grow crafting materials. It’s also one of the.
You’re restricted to a certain amount of farming slots early in your journey, but it is possible to expand your allotment and unlock more. We recommend doing these side-quests as early as possible — every extra slot is another place to grow more seeds and earn more zenny.
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The Botanical Research Center in Astera allows you to plant and grows seeds. The earliest seeds you can plant are Might Seeds, but you’ll find others as you progress.
There are lots of uses for the farm (growing crafting materials, earning zenny) but all of them take time. You can grow more in the exact same amount of time by unlocking extra farming slot.
You can unlock up to three slots in the farm — you start with only one, and can earn a second and third slot.
- How to Unlock the Second Slot:
- Unlock Level 4 optional quests on the Quest Board.
- Complete the quest ‘Persistent Pests’ in the Rotten Vale.
- Complete this simple quest to earn the second farming slot, which visually upgrades the Botanical Research Center.
- How to Unlock the Third Slot:
- Unlock Level 7 optional quests on the Quest Board.
- Complete the quest ‘Talons of Ice and Fire’ in the Coral Highlands.
- This is a tough High-Rank quest, where you’ll fight much harder versions of large monsters.
- Again, completing this quest will visually upgrade the Botanical Research Center and give you a third farming slot.
Completing these quests is pretty important for the end-game content, and will let you cultivate multiple items for crafting / selling. Try placing bugs, herbs, and other items in the Botanical Research Center for a variety of different materials, too! Whatever you want to grow, it’s easy to unlock extra slots and enhance your farming game.
There are a lot of ways to make money – known as Zenny – in Monster Hunter World. And you’re going to need a lot of it
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Zenny is used for pretty much everything – shopping, upgrading weapons and armour, eating at the canteen – and the further you get into the game the more expensive it becomes.

You can earn zenny by completing quests, but what we want to do is to look at the fastest and most efficient ways to fill your purse with money.
This video from Arekkz highlights the three fastest ways to farm zenny in Monster Hunter World, and we’ve broken down the methods below.
Might Seed farming
Might Seeds are common and you’ll find them on the ground around the ancient forest at the start of the game. You can consume them for a little attack boost, but they’re more valuable to sell. Each Might Seed is worth 140 zenny, which isn’t a lot on its own, but sell them in large amounts and you’ll see a nice payout.
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At the botanical research center you can cultivate Might Seeds over time. To make the most of this you’ll need to complete a four-star quest: Persistent Pests. You’ll have to hunt 14 Hornetaurs – an easy task as they’re right outside the camp and easy to kill. Once you complete that you’ll be able to farm Might Seeds, which you can leave cultivating while you go out on quests. Once you have plenty to sell, make sure you always keep one back to cultivate.
Complete Investigations
Investigations are quests that can only be completed a number of times, but some of them pay out a large amount of money. Look for those offering 10,000 zenny at a time, and complete them as many times as possible to farm a stack of money.
Use the Bandit Mantle
Using the Bandit Mantle is the best way to farm money in Monster Hunter World. You’ll need to complete the 5 star quest Redefining The Power Couple to get the Bandit Mantle as a reward.
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The Bandit Mantle causes monsters to drop trade-in items. Trade-in items can’t be used for anything other than selling on for zenny. The harder the monster to defeat, the higher the value of the trade-in item. Have the Bandit Mantle active while attacking monsters and you’ll get plenty of trade-in item drops. If you and your party each have a Bandit Mantle, you can farm even more items and really coin it in.
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