Monster Hunter World: Collect research points

The main currency in Monster Hunter World are Zenny. You get these for completing tasks and killing monsters. However, in addition to zenny, you can also earn research points. They can be exchanged for rewards or services in the camp.

This is the best way to collect research points

The advantage of research points in contrast to the main currency is their availability. As long as you're not standing around idly in the base, you'll get research points in your account for just about any action. Accordingly, it's easy to save up some quickly.

• The best rewards come from collecting rare crafting materials and reading monster tracks. Even for farming normal materials, there are points.
• Complete investigations, loot raids, tasks or expeditions, there are also here research points as a reward.
• Even the slaying or capture of monsters brings you a point credit.

Research points are not credited directly to your account. To get the points, you need to contact the ecological research group in Astera.The increasing research level also benefits your scout beetles, these rise namely with up.

What you can do with the research points

The collected research points you can exchange for various rewards. So you do not always have to spend money or materials.

• The Palico armor set, for example, you buy via research points.
• In the canteen, you can buy dishes with research points instead of Zenny.
• At the botanist in Astera, you acquire fertilizer with the points.
• In addition, you can send whisker safaris into action with research points.