MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD – Carting (Losing All Health in a Hunt)

by Falagar / Articles, Monster Hunter World / 13 Nov 2018

So you went down to 0 HP and got carted. Don’t worry about it; it happens to everyone. The important thing is that you learned from it. So, you’re back at camp with base HP and Stamina, and maybe without most of your healing items. What now?

First, sit down at the mini-canteen and try to eat another meal. You won’t be able to eat the same meal as you did for the hunt initially. Choose the next best thing you can find. If it hasn’t been long enough into the hunt for you to eat yet, that’s fine. Enough time might pass after the other steps. You don’t necessarily HAVE to eat for a successful hunt if you can supply yourself with extra HP and stamina via other means.

Second, head back into the tent and restock all of your items. If you have an item loadout prepared, great*! That saves a lot of time! If not, you can try the restock button, but that won’t work on items you’ve used up entirely. You’ll have to pick those up manually. Before you leave the tent, reflect a moment. Can you change tactics? Maybe change to a different weapon or armor better suited to the situation.

*Note: It appears that using Item Loadouts deletes any Supply Items in your inventory such as First Aid Meds and Rations. Be wary and use those items before using an item loadout as a shortcut for restocking items.

Third, make sure you’re confident with your current max health and stamina. Leave the tent if you need to double-check it. It will be on the status on the right when you open the menu. Standard, no-meal health and stamina is 100 for both. Standard Chef’s Choice health and stamina is 150 for both.

If you need more max health, try eating Nutrients, Mega Nutrients, Max Potion, Ancient Potion, or a Mandragora if you have 3 ranks in the Mushroomancer skill.

If you need more max stamina, try looking in the blue supply box for rations. Eat those first. If not available, try a Well-Done Steak. If you don’t have one, you can kill any herbivore in the area, carve it, and cook one up with your BBQ Spit. Don’t use an Ancient Potion for stamina unless you’re also using it to get max health.

If you’re down to 1 cart left in the quest before the quest is failed, you may want to consider backing out of the quest. There’s no shame in retreat! You can always try again later. When you go into the options, you’ll find Abandon Quest, and Return from Quest. This may be confusing at first.

Abandon Quest means that you are reverting back to a state as if you had not gone out on the quest at all. You will lose all items you found in the quest, including items picked up and carved, but you also get back all the items you used up, including potions, pills, nutrients, etc. Abandon Quest is like a reset button. This can be useful if you used up a lot of valuable consumables for a quest and have nothing to show for it.

Return from Quest means that you come back from the quest as you are now. Items you used during the quest are lost, but you get to keep anything you’ve found during the quest. This may be useful if you didn’t use a lot of consumables or you found some rare materials out in the field.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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