Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak - Qurious Crafting Guide

Published by Emma o n September 3, 2025, 6:28 am

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How To Unlock Qurious Crafting

How To Augment Armor

How To Augment Weapons

How To Get Amber Essence

Where To Get Each Afflicted Material

The release of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak's first title update came with the additions of Anomaly Investigations and Qurious Crafting. These two features allow you to upgrade your gear with random effects, letting you chase the perfect piece of equipment.

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Through Qurious Crafting, you can add random skills to your gear by using materials earned from hunting Afflicted monsters. Let's take a look at how to unlock Qurious Crafting, how to augment your gear, and where to find all of the materials you'll need to utilize these features.

Updated April 19, 2023: As more crafting materials are added to Monster Hunter Rise for the purposes of higher and higher-level Qurious Crafting, we've taken steps to ensure the information below is exhaustive, up-to-date, and correct.

How To Unlock Qurious Crafting

Qurious Crafting is unlocked by first speaking toBahari about Anomaly Investigations after unlocking Afflicted monsters at Master Rank 10.

Then, head to the Smithy and talk to Minayle to unlock Qurious Crafting.

Before you can use Qurious Crafting to upgrade your gear, you'll need to enable Augmentation for the gear first.

How To Augment Armor

To Augment Armor, you'll need to first enable Augmentation by spending Amber Essence and Afflicted Materials. The type of Amber Essence and number of Afflicted Materials required depends on the rarity of the armor you want to Augment.

Only Rarity 8 and higher gear can be Augmented for Qurious Crafting.

Armor Rarity

Materials Needed

Rarity 8

1x Amber Essence
10pts Afflicted Materials

Rarity 9

1x Amber Essence+
20pts Afflicted Materials

Rarity 10

1x Prime Amber Essence
30pts Afflicted Materials

After enabling Augmentation, you can now use Qurious Crafting to add random bonuses to that piece of armor. To do so, you'll need to spend Amber Essence of varying amounts.

Deliver enough Amber Essence, and you will be able to add random effects to your armor. If you're unsatisfied with the skills, slots, or stats of that attempt, you can repeat the process as much as you want by spending more Amber Essence.

How To Augment Weapons

Augmenting weapons is similar to Armor, but does not involve random bonuses. To enable the Augmentation of weapons, you'll need to spend Afflicted Materials and some Zenny.

After enabling Augmentation, you will have access to three out of five of the weapon's Anomaly Slots, which allow you to add various upgrades to your weapon. Each weapon has different bonuses available, allowing you to customize your equipment however you wish.

Only Rarity 10 Weapons can be Augmented through Qurious Crafting.

Each upgrade costs different Afflicted Materials and takes up a certain number of your weapon's available Anomaly slots. You can unlock the two additional slots by spending Afflicted Materials of varying types and amounts.

How To Get Amber Essence

Amber Essence, Amber Essence+, and Prime Amber Essence are required when Augmenting weapons and armor, and can be obtained from Anomaly Investigations at different levels, detailed below.

Anomaly Investigation Level

Essences Found

Anomaly Investigations Level 1+

Amber Essence

Anomaly Investigations Level 31+

Amber Essence+

Anomaly Investigations Level 51+

Prime Amber Essence

You can increase your Anomaly Investigation level by hunting monsters in Anomaly Investigations and gathering materials affected by the Qurio during Investigations. Higher-level Investigations will give more Anomaly Investigation points.

Additionally, Amber Essence can be purchased from Bahari by spending 25 Investigation Coins, earned by completing Anomaly Investigations and Research Requests.

Where To Get Each Afflicted Material

Doing any amount of Qurious Crafting will have you spending tons of Afflicted Materials. Listed below is each type of Afflicted Material and which monster it can be obtained from, as well as the Investigation Level required for that material to drop.

Afflicted Material

Monsters Dropped From

Anomaly Investigation Level Requirement

Afflicted Bone

Arzuros
Lagombi
Volvidon

A*1/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Pelt

Great Baggi
Great Izuchi
Kulu-Ya-Ku
Great Wroggi

A*1/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Monster Bone

Aknosom
Barroth
Basarios
Royal Ludroth

A*2/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Blood

Bishaten
Daimyo Hermitaur
Khezu
Tetranadon

A*2/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Shell

Blood Orange Bishaten
Jyuratodus
Shogun Ceanataur
Somnacanth

A*3/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Scale

Anjanath
Pukei-Pukei
Rathian
Tobi-Kadachi

A*3/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Claw

Almudron
Aurora Somnacanth
Goss Harag
Rakna-Kadaki

A*4/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Fang

Barioth
Garangolm
Mangamalo
Nargacuga

A*4/Anomaly Investigation Level 1+

Afflicted Bone+

Arzuros
Lagombi
Volvidon

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Hide+

Great Baggi
Great Izuchi
Kulu-Ya-Ku
Great Wroggi

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Monster Hardbone+

Aknosom
Barroth
Basarios
Royal Ludroth

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Dragon Blood+

Bishaten
Daimyo Hermitaur
Khezu
Tetranadon

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Carapace+

Blood Orange Bishaten
Jyuratodus
Shogun Ceanataur
Somnacanth

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Scale+

Anjanath
Pukei-Pukei
Rathian
Tobi-Kadachi

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Claw+

Almudron
Aurora Somnacanth
Goss Harag
Rakna-Kadaki

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Fang+

Barioth
Garangolm
Mangamalo
Nargacuga

Anomaly Investigation Level 31-100

Afflicted Dire Scale

Astalos
Mizutsune
Rathalos

Anomaly Investigation Level 51-100

Afflicted Dire Bone

Lunagaron
Magna Almudron
Tigrex

Anomaly Investigation Level 51-100

Afflicted Dire Horn

Diablos
Seregios
Zinogre

Anomaly Investigation Level 51-100

Afflicted Dire Claw

Pyre Rakna-Kadaki
Rajang

Anomaly Investigations Level 71-110

Afflicted Dire Shell

Bazelgeuse
Espinas
Gore Magala

Anomaly Investigations Level 71-110

Afflicted Dire Blood

Chaotic Gore Magala
Flaming Espinas
Seething Bazelgeuse

Anomaly Investigations Level 91-140

Afflicted Dire Fang

Furious Rajang
Scorned Magnamalo

Anomaly Investigations Level 91-140

Afflicted Dire Wing

Gold Rathian
Silver Rathalos

Anomaly Investigations Level 91-140

Afflicted Cortex

Blood Orange Bishaten
Jyuratodus
Shogun Ceanataur
Somnacanth