Monster Hunter Wilds is filled with various challenges. Whether you want to hunt monsters as quickly as possible, chase after achievements, or assemble the perfect outfit. However, MyMMO editor Alexander faced a completely different challenge: the damned fluffy chicken.
What is the fluffy chicken? Those who have played Monster Hunter World, especially those who have collected trophies, know it: The damned fluffy chicken (Engl. Phantom Bird). It’s no coincidence that you received the achievement “I’m going insane” when you caught one – because that’s exactly what happened when you dedicated yourself to this task.
The animals were incredibly shy and disappeared very quickly if you approached them without a well-thought-out tactic. Moreover, they appeared extremely rarely. They could be found on the backs of smaller monsters and could be caught there skillfully for a huge chunk of research points, the trophy, and as a quest objective.
When I was told that these pesky chickens could also be caught in Monster Hunter Wilds, I was immediately excited. My hunting instinct was awakened – I WANTED this chicken.
The cult chickens up close
Presumably as a reference to this unspeakable torment in Monster Hunter World, the latest installment has a whole bunch of fluffy chickens in the village of Suja. There you can watch them live and in color as they sit almost innocently among baskets or run around the pig Poogie. You can’t catch them there.
My gaze falls on this fluffy chicken in the basket shelf, as it grins at me maliciously and my mission is clear: I must pursue this search.
Sure, at the moment you can’t specifically release the captured endemic creatures as pets anywhere, like in your own room in Monster Hunter World. Nevertheless: Just the feeling of having caught the fluffy ball again would be priceless.
According to reports, one should be able to find them in the ruins of Wyveria. Just like back then in Monster Hunter World, they should be sitting on the backs of smaller monsters there. So I set out to search.
Missing in the ruins of Wyveria
Still full of vitality and eagerness, I hunted the cute fluffy balls. They had to be somewhere if others had already seen them. I knew it would be a torment again – after all, it had cost me endless nerves in World to catch the little beast in the net.
Hours passed at first, then days, and even weeks. No trace of a fluffy chicken in the wild. Gradually, my courage waned.
Maybe it wasn’t meant for me to catch this noble creature. Maybe, yes maybe, I just hadn’t searched properly yet. I spent many more hours in Wyveria – without success.
But I will not give up! I will keep my eyes open. If the damned – uh, the cutest of all fluffy chickens in Monster Hunter Wilds really exists outside of Suja, I will find it and make it mine.
Or it will remain an eternal mystery and do justice to its English name “Phantom Bird” by planting itself in the minds of the hunters and not actually existing.
Have you perhaps already spotted a fluffy chicken in the wild or even caught one? Do you have any tips on how to get them into the net? Feel free to share it in the comments and free me from my suffering.
A similar nemesis had MyMMO editor Leya Jankowski with a small blue mouse in the beta version of Monster Hunter Wilds.
It is now known that it is a sandus, which is still difficult to catch and even brings an achievement with it. Here you can find out how to find and catch the little sparkling creature: Monster Hunter Wilds: Catching the sandus and securing the trophy – Here’s how to find it
