Guiding Lands Monster List

Where to find and how to use the Guiding Lands Monster List

The Guiding Lands in Monster Hunter World is the endgame hunting area, and keeping track of which monsters are currently residing in each territory can get messy fast. I've seen people print out sheets and tape them to their monitors. I just keep a simple list on my phone. Here's what I use. It's not fancy but it works because it covers the actual monsters you'll run into and the territories they spawn in. Territory 1 (Western Wilds)

Gore Magala, Anjanath, Brute Tigrex, Kulu-Ya-Ku, Great Jagras, Radobaan, Loto, Bnahabra, Mosswine, Slagtoth, Pukei-Pukei Territory 2 (Northern Wilds) Anjanath, Tobi-Kadachi, Kulu-Ya-Ku, Great Jagras, Rotten Virustodon, Banbaro, Bazelgeuse (rare), Glavenus, Tigrex

Territory 3 (Eastern Wilds) Viper Tobi-Kadachi, Rajang, Nerscylla, Ukanlos, Odogaron, Rajang, Shrieking Legiana, Kirin (rare), Zinogre Territory 4 (Southern Wilds)

Crushing Khezu, Shrieking Legiana, Nergigante (rare), Xeno'jiiva (quest only), Velkhana (rare), Brachydios, Raging Brachydios, Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Territory 5 (Central) All high-rank monsters eventually show up here once you hit max population. This is where the real grind happens.

I learned this the hard way after spending three hours running around Territory 3 looking for a Gargwa Bone when it turned out Gargwa had never spawned there because the population requirements hadn't been met. You need at least 40 of a monster in a territory before it starts appearing. I had 23 Gargwa in my data and was wondering why I couldn't find any. The list above covers the ones that matter for crafting. Most people don't need every single monster on it. Focus on the ones that drop materials for the weapons you're actually building. I stopped tracking Loto and Mosswine materials entirely after realizing I'd never craft anything from them past the early endgame phase. If you want an automated version, the community has spreadsheet templates that track territory populations for you. There's a popular one on GitHub by a hunter named "ghibli321" that updates based on what you input after each quest. I switched to that after my handwritten list got too messy to read at 2 AM.

One thing the list doesn't tell you — and this is important — is that monster populations shift based on what you've been farming. If you spend two days grinding Zinogre materials in Territory 3, the game will slowly push other monsters out of that territory. The population cap per monster species is around 60-80 depending on territory size. Once you hit that number, newer spawns replace older ones of different species. So your list is only accurate for maybe 30 minutes after you check it if you've been actively farming. I also found that rare spawns like Kirin and Nergigante don't show up on any printable list because they have random spawn conditions. Kirin requires a thunderstorm and a specific territory. Nergigante shows up when you complete certain central quests. These aren't tracked by population mechanics the same way regular monsters are. The biggest pitfall I see people make is thinking they need to max out all territories before moving on. You don't. I maxed out Territories 1 and 2 completely before touching 3, 4, and 5. That took me about 18 hours. If I'd just picked a territory and stuck with it until I had what I needed, I would've saved that time and still gotten the same gear. The population mechanic rewards focused grinding, not completionism.

There's also no official Monster Hunter app or in-game tracker for this, so everything you'll find is community-maintained. The Monster Hunter Community wiki has a section on it, but the data gets stale because people stop updating it after a patch. I use the spreadsheet method and update it myself after each hunting trip. Takes about 90 seconds.