Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year: Schedule, rewards, and more

The A Happy Hunting New Year event for 2024 has been announced (Image via Niantic)
A Happy Hunting New Year event for 2024 has been announced (Image via Niantic)

The Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year event has been announced and is set to run for 14 days. Starting on December 23, 2024, the event will be accessible to players who have completed the game's prologue. It will feature exclusive limited-time quests, tasking players with hunting the monsters that appear more frequently in the event.

This article highlights the details of the Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year event.


Everything you need to know about the Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year event

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Details

The Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year event will take place in two phases: Final Hunt 2024 and First Hunt 2025. The events will take place one after another and feature their own sets of rewards and quests.

Additionally, the A Happy Hunting New Year (December 2024) will be the last Monster Hunt event of December 2024 and will lead us to 2025.

Schedule

The schedule for both phases of the Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year event is as follows:

  • Final Hunt 2024: It will start on December 23, 2024, at 9:00 AM and will run till December 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM, local time. Afterward, the First Hunt 2025 phase will begin.
  • First Hunt 2025: It will start on January 1, 2025, at 12 AM and will run till January 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM local time.

Rewards

Both phases of the event will feature different quests that will drop the following rewards:

Final Hunt 2024 phase Main rewards lineup:

  • New exclusive medal: A Happy Hunting New Year 2025
  • Exclusive guild card background: Final Hunt 2024
  • Lagombi Christmas Sweater layered equipment
  • Wyvern Gem Shard, Gold Rathian Plate, Silver Rathalos Plate, and other monster materials
  • Earth Crystals and other gatherable materials.

Players will also be able to earn various driftstones from the Final Hunt 2024:

  • Silver Rathalos and Azure Rathalos: Mysterious Driftstone A
  • Gold Rathian and Pink Rathian: Mysterious Driftstone B
  • Black Diablos, Coral Pukei-Pukei, and Nightshade Paolumu: Mysterious Driftstone C

It should also be noted that the distance required for driftsmelting with driftstones obtained during this event period will be 2.5 km, instead of 5 km.

Happy Hunting New Year 2025 Main rewards lineup:

  • Exclusive guild card background First Hunt 2025
  • Deviljho Saliva, a Zinogre Plate, Mizutsune Plate, Gold Rajang Pelt, and other monster materials
  • Iron Ore and other gatherable materials

Monster Appearances

Monster appearances for both phases are as follows:

Final Hunt 2024:

  • Gold Rathian: Desert and swamp habitats
  • Silver Rathalos: Forest and swamp habitats
  • Pink Rathian: Swamp habitat and will also appear in low numbers in forest habitats.
  • Azure Rathalos: Forest habitat
  • Black Diablos: Desert habitat
  • Coral Pukei-Pukei: Forest habitat and will also appear in low numbers in Swamp habitats.

First Hunt 2025

  • Deviljho: Forest, desert, swamp, and tundra habitats. This monster will also appear in high frequency in volatile territories.
  • Zinogre: Forest, swamp, and tundra habitats. This monster will also appear in swamp habitats in low numbers.
  • Mizutsune: Forest and Tundra habitats. This monster will also appear in swamp habitats in low numbers.
  • Rajang: Desert and swamp habitats.

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Hunt-a-thon points

The Hunt-a-thon points for Monster Hunter Now A Happy Hunting New Year are as follows:

  • Final Hunt 2024: Some Hunt-a-thon will feature only Gold Rathian and Pink Rathian or only Silver Rathalos and Azure Rathalos.
  • First Hunt 2025: Some Hunt-a-thon points will only feature Deviljho, Zinogre, Mizutsune, and Rajang monsters.

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Edited by Ripunjay Gaba
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