Hunters,

With the fast-approaching beginning of autumn comes Season 7: Advent of the Exploration Base!

This season brings more fierce foes: Espinas, Garangolm, and Lunagaron, plus the fearsome Riftborne Deviljho. We’ll welcome the official launch of exploration bases, which had only been available during beta tests until now, along with a new feature that makes it easier to encounter quest-target monsters in the field.

On top of that, style customization, first introduced in Season 6, is receiving a major upgrade, and parameters will be boosted at each level. Style customization allows you to change your weapon’s style, altering its actions.

Are you ready for a brand-new season of hunts?!

Update Date & Time

Thursday, September 18th, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. (UTC)

Update Details

Additional Monsters

Riftborne Deviljho Appears

Deviljho arrives as a new riftborne monster! With this, it will now be possible to customize the style of Deviljho weapons.

• Riftborne Deviljho will start to appear from Sep 22 (Mon), at 12:00 a.m. (UTC).

New Skills

Soon you’ll have six new skills to master! These skills can be added to the armor of Espinas, Garangolm, and Lunagaron. Make sure to utilize these new skills in your hunts!

• Skill: Pursuit
  Effect: Increases the damage of an attack that breaks a body part for the first time during a hunt.

• Skill: Ballistics
  Effect: Increases the Critical Range of your ammo/arrows.

• Skill: Reckless
  Effect: Increases damage but makes you unable to perform perfect evades.

• Skill: Guard Up
  Effect: Allows you to guard against attacks that usually cannot be blocked.

• Skill: Vital Fire
  Effect: Increases weapon’s fire element value according to your remaining health.

• Skill: Vital Ice
  Effect: Increases weapon’s ice element value according to your remaining health.

Style Customization Update

Introduced in Season 6, style customizations are getting a major upgrade! With this update, the parameters that increase with each level of style customization will be raised, allowing customizable weapons to reach the max strength of currently available equipment.

In addition, weapons that have been sufficiently customized will gain a special effect. All the more reason to work on customizing your favorite weapons!
A special quest designed to help players learn about style customization through play will also be available soon.

Exploration Bases

Exploration bases are officially launching soon! We’d like to thank all hunters who participated in the beta test.
Exploration bases are local landmarks that hunters grow together through cooperation. For the official release, we’ve made adjustments with privacy in mind, based on feedback during the beta, and also improved the ease of submitting exploration reports. Details on these changes will be shared at a later date, so please look forward to the full launch!

Easier to Find Your Desired Monsters

A new feature will let you select monster groups, changing which monsters appear in the field. This will make it much easier to find the ones you want to hunt!
Full details will be shared in the announcement on the day Season 7 begins.

Reduced Material Requirements for Weapons

Starting in Season 7, the amount of materials required to forge and upgrade most weapons will be reduced. This is a great opportunity to forge and upgrade weapons you haven’t tried before, so you can head out to the hunt with different options!

Weapons that are primarily forged or upgraded with the following monsters’ materials will be eligible:

• Great Jagras / Kulu-Ya-Ku / Pukei-Pukei / Paolumu / Legiana / Diablos / Rathalos / Banbaro / Tzitzi-Ya-Ku / Odogaron / Basarios / Khezu / Aknosom / Magnamalo / Lagombi / Volvidon / Somnacanth / Chatacabra / Arzuros / Great Wroggi / Bishaten / Beotodus
• Pink Rathian / Black Diablos / Azure Rathalos / Coral Pukei-Pukei / Nightshade Paolumu / Ebony Odogaron

Additionally, weapons forged and upgraded mainly with Ores will also be eligible.

The material reduction update will be rolled out ahead of the Season 7 launch in an upcoming update. Check the FAQ published on update day for full details.

Get the Season 7 Pass

Get your hands on a new Season Pass for Season 7!
Once Season 7 begins, you will no longer be able to raise your Season 6 tier but you will still be able to claim any rewards for a period of time.

Get Your Season Supply Items

Soon you’ll be able to add 250 slots with the Item Box Expansion available as a Supply Item.

• We’re also planning to give away an Item Box Expansion with the MH Now 2nd Anniversary event, starting Sep 14 (Sun), at 9:00 a.m. (local), so be sure to pick up both!

Other

After the start of Season 7, some monsters will temporarily disappear from the field. Complete new monster unlock quests to make them start appearing again.

Affected monsters:

• Great Wroggi
• Bishaten
• Beotodus
• Nargacuga

A Message from the Monster Hunter Now Development Team

Thank you for always playing Monster Hunter Now.
The game is about to celebrate its 2nd Anniversary, and we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all hunters who continue to enjoy the hunt with us.

Over the past year, alongside additional seasonal monsters, weapons, and equipment, we’ve held live and global events and expanded features that help hunters connect with each other. More recently, we’ve delivered updates such as new weapon customizations and actions, and a new system that lets you continue hunts even after moving away.

As we move into the 3rd year of Monster Hunter Now, we remain committed to making the real-world hunting experience—going outside to play, and connecting with friends—even more exciting. Expect new content as well as improvements to existing features.

For the latest update info and our future roadmap, be sure to check out the official YouTube program “MH Now Navi” streaming on Friday, August 29.

We look forward to continuing the hunt together!

Additional Information

• Make sure to restart your app to enjoy the update.
• See the release notes for other update information.
• See the community forum announcement for additional notes and details on Season 7 and the update.
• Update and event details are subject to change without notice.

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