How to use the Hook Slinger in Monster Hunter Wilds

If you’ve played Monster Hunter Worlds, you’ll be familiar with the Slinger. However, it’s been upgraded in Monster Hunter Wilds, adding a grappling hook-like attachment. Here’s how to use the Hook Slinger in Monster Hunter Wilds.

How to use the Hook Slinger

The new Hook Slinger is connected directly with your Slinger, allowing you to easily hook onto and collect resources like never before as well as interact with the environment in monsters in new and unique ways. By default, you use the Hook Slinger by pulling out your Slinger (the side Mouse Button 4 on PC by default). While you’re aiming the Slinger, look at a spot or item you want to grapple into with the Hook Slinger. From here, pushing the ‘F’ key by default on PC will fire the Hook Slinger.

If you fire the Hook Slinger at resources around the area like Herbs, Ore, Mushrooms, and Bugs, your Hook Slinger will automatically latch onto and collect the resource for you. However, if you’re not aimed at a resource and are aiming at just somewhere in the environment, it will fire the Hook Slinger at that exact location.

Here are the controls for using the Hook Slinger by defaul💦﷽t on each platform:

• PC: Mouse Button 4 to aim, then ‘F’ key to fire the hook
• PS5: L2 to aim, then ‘Circle’ button to fire the hook
• Xbox Series X|S: Left Trigger to aim, then ‘B’ button to fire the hook

You can also use the Hook Slinger to grab onto boulders and yꦇank them down, causing damage to the monstဣers below. There are also various creatures like the Wedge Beetle that you can find around the Plains and other regions that you can Hook Slinger onto in order to traverse hard-to-reach places.

Finally, you can also use your Slinger and Hook Slinger while mounted on your Seikret in Monster Hunter Wilds. You simply use the same controls as above but can do so while riding on the Seikret. This allows ✨you to easily and efficiently ride around farming resources using your Hook Slinger and Seikret!