How to get Fucium Ore in Monster Hunter Wilds
Fucium Ore is a late game material you can find in Monster Hunter Wilds.
You’ll need Fucium Ore for some crucial upgrades to take on some of the most powerful monsters in the game.
In this Monster Hunter Wilds guide, we’ll walk you through how to get Fucium Ore and what Fucium Ore is useful for.
Fucium Ore locations in Monster Hunter Wilds
Fucium Ore locations are found by mining ores in Ruins of Wyveria in High Rank — an area unlocked by progressing the questline until High Rank starts in Chapter 4.
Once you have unlocked High Rank, visit Ruins of Wyveria and set a marker on one of the Mining Outcrops — for example, there’s one just out of the base camp and to the left. Your mount should automatically take you to the ore.
Mine the rock and you’ll have a chance to get Fucium Ore. While it’s pretty common, it’s still considered a “rare” ore, so not every Mining Outcrop is guaranteed to have it. Ride your mount from Mining Outcrop to Mining Outcrop — if you set your marker while riding your Seikret, it’ll move automatically — until you eventually find some.
If you exhaust all the Mining Outcrops in the Ruins of Wyveria and still need more Fucium Ore, wait for the Mining Outcrops to respawn, load into a new area and come back, or just restart your game. If you’re looking for a specific amount of Fucium to build an upgrade (more on that below), try wishlisting the item so the game will tell you when you’ve gathered enough.
What is Fucium Ore used for?
Fucium Ore, like Gracium Ore — another High Rank resource — is mostly used for upgrading non-monster weapons and crafting non-monster armor pieces. Some pieces in the decently powerful Ingot armor set, for example, require Fucium Ore.
Similarly, you might need Fucium Ore to upgrade the metal or hope versions of certain weapons. Even if you never intend to use these weapons, you may want to build other weapons off of them.
Because weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds upgrade based on a tree, you need the previous versions of weapons to upgrade them to their final forms. For example, you need to use Fucium Ore to craft the Metal Bagpipe 3 if you want to eventually craft the Jin Dhaang 1 Hunting Horn. Other weapons have similar upgrade pipelines that require Fucium Ore.
Need help navigating the Forbidden Lands? Our Monster Hunter Wilds guides can outline your progress with our main story walkthrough and monster list ahead of reaching High Rank, help you settle on an armament with our weapons list and best weapons explainers, and teach you how to uncover ores, bones, and get monster tails.