

You’ll need to unblock a Dragon Pit once you discover it - which requires a few local resources to do. Image: Omega Force/Koei Tecmo/Electronic Arts via Polygon These are underground fonts of energy you’ll use to build Dragon Karakuri constructions (the permanent ones). Where Dragon Pits are on Wild Hearts’ mapĮach area you visit in Wild Hearts will have Dragon Pits scattered around. Dragon Karakuri draw energy from Dragon Pits. There, you’ll spend Kemono Orbs that you get from hunting and killing Kemono to unlock nodes along the Karakuri tree.īasic Karakuri use the thread you collect from trees and rocks. You’ll also upgrade and unlock additional Karakuri through the Karakuri menu tab. You’ll learn new Karakuri of both kinds as you play through Wild Hearts’ story.

The Karakuri menu where you can learn new Karakuri or upgrade Karakuri you already know. There are two kinds of Karakuri: temporary Basic Karakuri you throw together while exploring or hunting (like crates and springs) and Dragon Karakuri that are permanent fixtures (like tents and campfires). Karakuri is the magic you’ll use to conjure devices and structures. The difference between Basic Karakuri and Dragon Karakuri Instead, there are Dragon Pits where you can construct Dragon Karakuri that serve all the same functions as a “camp” - they allow you to do things like fast travel, cook food, and forge weapons.īut you can’t build every Dragon Karakuri at every Dragon Pit, so your camps are going to have different functions depending on the characteristics of each Dragon Pit. There aren’t really camps in Wild Hearts, per se - at least not the way you’d expect camps (and sub-camps) to work if you’re a fan of Monster Hunter games.

Our Wild Hearts camp guide will explain everything you need to know about Dragon Pits, Dragon Karakuri, what you can build and where, and what every Dragon Karakuri does. Each Dragon Pit is different, though you can’t, for example, build a fast travel tent at every one.

Instead, there are Dragon Pits where you can build Dragon Karakuri and create a customizable hunting camp - we’ll explain all of those words below. Wild Hearts doesn’t have predetermined hunting camps that you stumble across out in the wilds like other games in the monster hunting genre.
