Gathering Guide & Gatherer Tips

Gathering in Monster Hunter Outlanders is how you collect plants, mushrooms, ore, bones and wood in the field. You don't need any tools to start, and once you unlock Gatherers, they collect materials for you every day. This page covers how to gather, what each Resource Area gives, how Gatherers work and how to gather more efficiently.

How to Gather

To gather, walk up to a material in the field and tap the item name that appears. Mining works the same way: tap an ore vein and your character mines it automatically. You don't need to prepare any tools first, so pick up materials whenever you pass them while exploring.

Spots where a lot of one kind of material grows together are called Resource Areas, and they're marked with icons on the in-game map. Use them when you need a lot of a specific material.

Resource Areas and What You Get

There are 5 kinds of Resource Area. Each one gives a different set of materials, and some materials only grow in one region. The table also shows which Gatherer to place there.

For where each Resource Area is on the map, with a route to visit them in order, see the guide below.

▶ Gathering Spot Locations

Gatherers: Automatic Gathering

Gatherers are facilities you place in the field that collect nearby materials automatically. Once placed, they gather every day, and you can collect what they've gathered from your pouch or from facility management on the map, without going back to the spot.

There are three Gatherers. Plant Gatherer: Plant Resource Area, Local Specialty Area and Honey & Mushroom Area. Wood Gatherer: Tree Resource Area. Ore Gatherer: Mineral & Fossil Area. The Ore Gatherer also brings in Zenny.

Plant Gatherer / Wood Gatherer / Ore Gatherer

All three are unlocked in the Chapter 2 story quest Support from the Workshop.

▶ Chapter 2 Walkthrough

What a Gatherer collects depends on the Resource Area you place it in, and the same kind of area gives different materials in different regions. Place each Gatherer where it collects the materials you need most.

At first you can place only one of each Gatherer. Raising your Watchtower level increases the limit (see below).

This page only covers Gatherers. For other things you can research and build in the field, check the Research list.

▶ Research List

How to Gather More Efficiently

Place Gatherers Up to the Limit and Collect Every Day

Gatherers collect materials without you doing anything, so always place as many as the limit allows. The more you have, the more materials you get each day. Don't forget to collect from them daily.

Raise Your Watchtower Level

Raising your Watchtower level increases how many Gatherers you can place. You level up Watchtowers with Lusterwasp, which you find while exploring, and you can do it by tapping a Watchtower on the map without going there. Each region has its own level, shared by all of its Watchtowers. These are the levels that raise a Gatherer limit:

Craft Better Axes and Pickaxes

You can gather without tools, but equipping an axe or a pickaxe raises the chance of getting high-quality wood or ore. The Research Gathering Tools unlocks the first recipes, and it becomes available after the quest Adventurer's Guidance. Axes only affect wood and pickaxes only affect ore.

Gathering Tools

Use Gathering Skills

Some armor skills help with gathering. Geo Expert lets you gather more times from the same point, so equip gear with it when you go out to gather. Check each skill's page for the armor that has it.

▶ Fishing / ▶ Gathering Spot Locations

Information as of November 10, 2026.