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Gold Ecologist's Award

Gold Ecologist's Award

Awarded for photographing many Endemic Lifeforms. Now you're a Guild-recognized researcher!

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How to unlock the Gold Ecologist's Award achievement in Monster Hunter Rise - Definitive Guide

This award is given to hunters who photograph all endemic life that appears throughout all the maps. All of these need to be photographed in order to unlock the achievement.
Many are also reporting that you need
Monster Hunter RiseSilver Ecologist's AwardThe Silver Ecologist's Award achievement in Monster Hunter Rise worth 122 pointsAwarded by one enthusiastic researcher for photographing many Rare Creatures.

to complete this one.

Appears on any map:

red/orange/green/yellow spiritbird: The creatures that give you extra hp, stamina, defense, or affinity.

Prism Spiritbug: Spiritbug that gives you full health and stamina. Only found either at the start of rampage quests or Arena quests.

wirebug: The creatures that give you a third wirebug charge.

vigorwasp: The creatures that refill hp while standing in their aura.

clothfly: Small white butterfly creature that boosts defense when used.

butterflame: Small red butterfly that boosts affinity when used.

peepersects: Small floating batches of yellow butterfly’s that release dust that ups stamina.

Rock / Boulder /scale lizard: These are little lizards crawling around on areas of the map. I often find rock and Boulder lizards near sub-camp 2 in the lava caverns map. Scale lizard is the rare one and can only spawn once per hunt. attached are screenshots of where to find one in the shrine forest.
"https://imgur.com/a/8fkPGTG"

Great Wirebug: The wirebugs you place down to go flying in the air.

Golden / Gilded Spiritbug: these are the little golden bugs that you can collect on each map. Golden Spiritbugs are only in Low rank quests while Gilded spiritbugs are only in High rank quests

Found on specific maps:

Flashfly: Floating yellow bugs used to flash monsters and stun them. Found in Ancient Forest and Sandy Plains

Cutterfly: Dragonfly looking creature that gives affinity up to the hunter. Found in every local but Frost Lands.

Tricktoad: Floating fishlike creature that lures the monster to them when used. Found in Flooded Forest and Lava Caverns

Pincercrab: Giant crab creatures native to the Sandy Plains cliffsides that will fire rocks at monsters when hunters run over them.

Giganha: Native to the Flooded Forest, these jumping fish can be found wherever there is water. These spawn right next to the main camp and just jump out of the water.

Echobat: Native to the Lava Caverns, these endemic life fly in groups and can be found throughout the local.


Frost lands:
Red / Yellow / Green / Golden Lampsquid: These will be harder to photograph. These are the endemic life that swim around in the water and give you buffs similar to the spiritbirds but they swim fast.


Lucky Life: Found randomly on quests on every map. You will see a popup with either an owl or crow to indicate witch one you saw.
Fortune Owl
Felicicrow


For those of you who are more of a visual learner, or just want to see the endemic life to be sure of what they are hunting, here is a video.

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26 Jan 2023 22:58

13 Comments
You're missing the cutterfly info
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By HoggyBear08 on 27 Jan 2023 01:51
Apologies for missing a couple endemic life in text descriptions
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By firestormworld on 27 Jan 2023 09:18
No worries, I found the Cutterfly at the very top of the shrine forest map,
Is the golden squid high rank only or did i just have crap luck when taking my pics?
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By HoggyBear08 on 27 Jan 2023 16:25
Seems like the squid are random. Dont worry I had trouble getting them so spawn as well laugh.
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By firestormworld on 29 Jan 2023 00:01
You also need all rare endemic life as well
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By Gutsy Goddess on 29 Jan 2023 08:37
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By BaronVoNewman on 29 Jan 2023 22:27
I have not seen anything online to confirm nor deny that you need the rare endemic life for gold ecologist. Many had issues with gold unlocking upon completion on other platforms, so that may have transferred over.
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By firestormworld on 30 Jan 2023 00:35
Yeah I did Rare endemic life last and only after getting them I got the gold ecologist award.
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By C11H22O11 on 01 Feb 2023 02:27
I can also confirm that you need the rare endemic life from each of the locales for this one. After snapping Hellbill for #5, this and Silver Ecologist's Award popped.
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By LifeOfDaPartay3 on 05 Feb 2023 05:45
so i have added every photo into the notebook, all normal and rare. i dont get the achievement, i have also waited 24h for a shadow pop but no achievement.
any idea or tips?
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By Pantzarn1 on 09 Feb 2023 12:33
You should probably mention explicitly that the endemic life from the Silver version of this achievement is also required for this this to pop.
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By TymanTheLong on 15 Feb 2023 21:39
Note: I got this achievement without ever even seeing a Gold Lampsquid. Had everything else in the list photographed.
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By Gene Defect on 02 Apr 2023 22:48
The Gold Lampsquid was the last endemic life I needed to photograph and the achievement didn't pop until I photographed it and ended the expedition. YMMV!
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By Greek Ingenuity on 27 Jun 2024 02:17
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This award is given to hunters who photograph all endemic life that appears throughout all the maps. All of these need to be photographed in order to unlock the achievement.
Many are also reporting that you need
Monster Hunter RiseSilver Ecologist's AwardThe Silver Ecologist's Award achievement in Monster Hunter Rise worth 122 pointsAwarded by one enthusiastic researcher for photographing many Rare Creatures.

to complete this one.

Appears on any map:

red/orange/green/yellow spiritbird: The creatures that give you extra hp, stamina, defense, or affinity.

Prism Spiritbug: Spiritbug that gives you full health and stamina. Only found either at the start of rampage quests or Arena quests.

wirebug: The creatures that give you a third wirebug charge.

vigorwasp: The creatures that refill hp while standing in their aura.

clothfly: Small white butterfly creature that boosts defense when used.

butterflame: Small red butterfly that boosts affinity when used.

peepersects: Small floating batches of yellow butterfly’s that release dust that ups stamina.

Rock / Boulder /scale lizard: These are little lizards crawling around on areas of the map. I often find rock and Boulder lizards near sub-camp 2 in the lava caverns map. Scale lizard is the rare one and can only spawn once per hunt. attached are screenshots of where to find one in the shrine forest.
"https://imgur.com/a/8fkPGTG"

Great Wirebug: The wirebugs you place down to go flying in the air.

Golden / Gilded Spiritbug: these are the little golden bugs that you can collect on each map. Golden Spiritbugs are only in Low rank quests while Gilded spiritbugs are only in High rank quests

Found on specific maps:

Flashfly: Floating yellow bugs used to flash monsters and stun them. Found in Ancient Forest and Sandy Plains

Cutterfly: Dragonfly looking creature that gives affinity up to the hunter. Found in every local but Frost Lands.

Tricktoad: Floating fishlike creature that lures the monster to them when used. Found in Flooded Forest and Lava Caverns

Pincercrab: Giant crab creatures native to the Sandy Plains cliffsides that will fire rocks at monsters when hunters run over them.

Giganha: Native to the Flooded Forest, these jumping fish can be found wherever there is water. These spawn right next to the main camp and just jump out of the water.

Echobat: Native to the Lava Caverns, these endemic life fly in groups and can be found throughout the local.


Frost lands:
Red / Yellow / Green / Golden Lampsquid: These will be harder to photograph. These are the endemic life that swim around in the water and give you buffs similar to the spiritbirds but they swim fast.


Lucky Life: Found randomly on quests on every map. You will see a popup with either an owl or crow to indicate witch one you saw.
Fortune Owl
Felicicrow


For those of you who are more of a visual learner, or just want to see the endemic life to be sure of what they are hunting, here is a video.

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26 Jan 2023 22:58

12 Comments
I can also confirm that you need the rare endemic life from each of the locales for this one. After snapping Hellbill for #5, this and Silver Ecologist's Award popped.
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By LifeOfDaPartay3 on 05 Feb 2023 05:45
You're missing the cutterfly info
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By HoggyBear08 on 27 Jan 2023 01:51
Apologies for missing a couple endemic life in text descriptions
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By firestormworld on 27 Jan 2023 09:18
No worries, I found the Cutterfly at the very top of the shrine forest map,
Is the golden squid high rank only or did i just have crap luck when taking my pics?
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By HoggyBear08 on 27 Jan 2023 16:25
Seems like the squid are random. Dont worry I had trouble getting them so spawn as well laugh.
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By firestormworld on 29 Jan 2023 00:01
You also need all rare endemic life as well
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By Gutsy Goddess on 29 Jan 2023 08:37
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By BaronVoNewman on 29 Jan 2023 22:27
Yeah I did Rare endemic life last and only after getting them I got the gold ecologist award.
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By C11H22O11 on 01 Feb 2023 02:27
so i have added every photo into the notebook, all normal and rare. i dont get the achievement, i have also waited 24h for a shadow pop but no achievement.
any idea or tips?
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By Pantzarn1 on 09 Feb 2023 12:33
You should probably mention explicitly that the endemic life from the Silver version of this achievement is also required for this this to pop.
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By TymanTheLong on 15 Feb 2023 21:39
Note: I got this achievement without ever even seeing a Gold Lampsquid. Had everything else in the list photographed.
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By Gene Defect on 02 Apr 2023 22:48
I have not seen anything online to confirm nor deny that you need the rare endemic life for gold ecologist. Many had issues with gold unlocking upon completion on other platforms, so that may have transferred over.
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By firestormworld on 30 Jan 2023 00:35
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Generally speaking, this achievement is pretty straightforward and can be done easily and quickly. The only thing that's a big difficult are the Lucky Life Endemic life forms because their spawns are random.

The fastest way to get Lucky Life pictures is 1) to pick a map and learn the lucky life spawn locations, 2) pick an easy quest (any quest no matter what level) that you can do quickly, 3) run the quest, running past all the spawn locations, checking them each time, 4) rinse and repeat until the Lifeforms spawn. Generally speaking, you should be able to get them both (Owl and Crow) after about 10-15 repetitions.

The way I did this, I ran the level 1 Village Quest Impious Peons on Shrine Ruins, which as 4 Lucky Life spawns. (I would include pictures, but since I play on PC there's no way for me to share captures.) This quest requires you to kill 8 Jagras. I chose a Palamute as my companion. After forging him a nice weapon he could kill the Jagras in two hits each. I could complete my quest and run past the spawn points without ever getting off the Palamute in about two minutes.

This map, linked below, gives the lucky life spawn locations on Shrine Ruins.

https://imgur.com/gallery/MlRroul
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07 Mar 2023 13:15

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if you want to share the pictures, since you play on PC you could always screenshot the pictures.
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By BradleyHeat on 25 Apr 2023 17:09
+1. Thank you, this worked great. Worth noting that the Fortune Owl and Felicicrow appear as icons on the minimap when you are near. So, as you suggest, can do a quick lap without stopping or inspecting the spawn areas.
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By Sir Lumbo on 25 Mar 2024 21:41
Generally speaking, this achievement is pretty straightforward and can be done easily and quickly. The only thing that's a big difficult are the Lucky Life Endemic life forms because their spawns are random.

The fastest way to get Lucky Life pictures is 1) to pick a map and learn the lucky life spawn locations, 2) pick an easy quest (any quest no matter what level) that you can do quickly, 3) run the quest, running past all the spawn locations, checking them each time, 4) rinse and repeat until the Lifeforms spawn. Generally speaking, you should be able to get them both (Owl and Crow) after about 10-15 repetitions.

The way I did this, I ran the level 1 Village Quest Impious Peons on Shrine Ruins, which as 4 Lucky Life spawns. (I would include pictures, but since I play on PC there's no way for me to share captures.) This quest requires you to kill 8 Jagras. I chose a Palamute as my companion. After forging him a nice weapon he could kill the Jagras in two hits each. I could complete my quest and run past the spawn points without ever getting off the Palamute in about two minutes.

This map, linked below, gives the lucky life spawn locations on Shrine Ruins.

https://imgur.com/gallery/MlRroul
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07 Mar 2023 13:15

2 Comments
if you want to share the pictures, since you play on PC you could always screenshot the pictures.
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By BradleyHeat on 25 Apr 2023 17:09
+1. Thank you, this worked great. Worth noting that the Fortune Owl and Felicicrow appear as icons on the minimap when you are near. So, as you suggest, can do a quick lap without stopping or inspecting the spawn areas.
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By Sir Lumbo on 25 Mar 2024 21:41
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31 Jan 2023 20:47