Wild Hearts: Where to find Pointed Scales and Crustaceous Moss

Upgrade your Wild Hearts weapons and crafting new armor requires parts from the giant Kemono you hunt along with materials from each region you visit — stuff like ores or parts from small Kemono. While killing the next big Kemono will unlock the next set or weapon upgrade, it is much more difficult to locate the other materials.

Two armor and upgrade materials you’ll be looking for early in the game are Pointed Scales and Crustaceous Moss. The following are our Wild Hearts The Crustaceous Moss and Pointed Scales Guide will show you where and how to locate them. It also gives a few tips on how to search for similar Kemono materials in Azuma.

Why you’ll need Pointed Scales and Crustaceous Moss in Wild Hearts

You have to kill the first one. SapscourgeHarugasami Way chapter one, “Azuma, Land of the East,” you’ll open up the upgrade path to turn an Edgestone weapon into an Birch is intoxicating weapon. You’ll have the various Sapscourge parts, but you won’t pick up any of the Pointed ScalesYou will need it for quite a while.

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You’ll be able to make the beach-themed Ocean WaveOnce you are at your destination, get armor. Natsukodachi Isle (“The Spirit Isle”) In the second part of Chapter 1. You won’t need giant Kemono parts for it, but you will need some Moss Crustaceous.

Wild Hearts: Where can I find Crustaceous Moss and Pointed Scales?

Some materials such as Mirrorstone and Lightstone can only be found by visiting the regions that you find. Others materials can be obtained by killing, or from petting Kemono small.

Like the ores themselves, smaller Kemono can differ between areas. So finding Pointed Scales and Crustaceous Moss depends on what region of Azura you’re in.

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The Crustaceous Moss This is where it comes from Grassghoul Decapods that you’ll encounter in the latter half of chapter one when you get to Natsukodachi Isle (“The Spirit Isle”). You’ll get Crustaceous Moss every time you pet them, or some of the time when you kill (slay) them.

Natsukodachi Isle (“The Spirit Isle”) is also where you’ll find Snapspine WispsThat drop Snapspine CottonWhen you kill them. You’ll need that for the Ocean Wave Momohiki leg armor. You’ll find them in the narrow canyon at the east end of the island.

Pointed Scales Are dropped by Nightshade MonitoringOr Shardshower monitorsWhen you kill them. You’ll find Nightshade Monitors in Akikure CanyonThat unlocks the door at the start of chapter two, “Ancient Technology.”Shardshower Monitors are available in Fuyufusagi FortThat unlocks the second half chapter 2.

The Small Kemono: To Pet or To Kill?

You might have missed the two main options you have for interfacing with smaller Kemono, depending on how attentive you listened to the tutorial.

If you approach a small Kemono while crouching and remaining unnoticed, you’ll get the option to pet them by hitting L2. “Unnoticed” here just means, basically, not sprinting straight at their face — there’s a lot of wiggle room in their awareness of you.

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Petting and slaying the small Kemono drop different materials — kind of like how attacking different parts of the giant Kemono drop different stuff. You can see what you’ll get in your Cyclopedia Below the Kemono Small tab. In the upper right, the material next to the sword icon is what you’ll get for slaying (killing) them, and the material next to the hand is what you’ll get for sneaking up and petting them.

You’ll also get the Tender TouchTrophy or achievement for petting 30 small Kemono.

Get more information at Wild HeartsYou can read the beginners guide, explaining multiplayer, fast traveling, stamina and building camp.