There areso many materialsfor players to find inMonster Hunter Wildsthat it can easily feel overwhelming to even think about tracking them all down. For the most part, these materials are easy to come across and there will be plenty of them that burn a hole in players' inventory pockets. But, there are some of those materials that are just way harder to find than others and can prove to be a real headache for any player looking to hunt them down.One of those materials is the Nightflower Pollen, a plant that will only appear in the game under very specific circumstances.
Understanding what those circumstances are can make tracking the Nightflower Pollen down so much easier, even if it doesn’t quite make it easy completely. Knowing won’t hurt at all, though, so that’s why this guide is here to help any playerslooking to find this mysterious plant do just that.
Updated by Shane Black on July 31, 2025:It appears that there has now been a patch that has changed how the quest, A Leviathan’s Temper, will no longer set the world state to be exactly where players need it to be for the Ephemeral Blossom to spawn. While the exact circumstances are still needed to get it to spawn, this quest will no longer set their game to that spot. As such, this part of the guide has been removed.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Nightflower Pollen Location
What makes Nightflower Pollen so tough to find is due to a couple of different factors. The first is that it cannot be obtained through completing certain quests or hunting certain enemies. It can only be found in the open world in the right areas,specifically the Scarlet Forest and the Windward Plains.
Second, though, is that this plant will only appear in these spots during a Full Moon in the game, which is just one of the six moon phases that can exist at any given time. The order of these is: First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third/Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent. The phases willprogress in that order throughout the days in-game.
What makes this difficult is that there is no information in the game’s menus or HUD to indicate which moon phase is currently happening or will be happening next. This means that players will have to progress the phases and then go outside to look at the sky.Resting at a campwillprogress the phase by one every time,so they will need to keep that in mind whenever they want to move to the next one.
That trickiness doesn’t stop there, though. In order toget the Nightflower Pollen, players will need to rest until the eveningbeforethe Full Moon night. Players will actually have to be active and in the world when the full moon starts to see these flowers open up to blossom.
Further, it must be during a season of Fallow or Plenty, which is when somethingcalled an Ephermeral Blossomwill appear on the game’s map. When these happen, players can look in the areas mentioned above for an icon that shows “Ephemeral Blossom” when they move their cursor over it.
It won’t show them thatthere is Nightflower Pollen located there, specifically, but players can put a waypoint here and they’ll find one of these plants waiting for them.
So, in summary, players need to beaware of the following in order to get a Nightflower Pollen:
There is a way to make this a little simpler, however, and it requiresusing a specific optional quest to game the system a bit. If players go to Windsong Village and speak with Y’sai once they have reached HR in the game, he will give them a quest called A Leviathan’s Temper.
This quest asks the player to hunt down a Tempered Balahara, but players won’t have to actually do that to get the Nightflower Pollen. See, once this quest is accepted, it will put the time of day right at evening, before nighttime. So if a player is able to do the quest during a Full Moon phase, they can automatically be taken to the right time of day for the Ephemeral Blossom to spawn in the Windward Plains.
