Offline Mining Guide (MH2)

Offline Mining Guide for Monster Hunter 2 Creator: Artemis Paradox

This guide is about mining offline in the game Monster Hunter 2. I'll display the chance of getting a certain ore with %, and also a rating from Very rare - Common. Please note: Having 40% chance of getting an iron ore at a mining spot doesn't mean you'll get 4 iron ores after 10 mines. You could even get 7, while also none at all! So safe your complaints about this for someone else!

Also I want to make 1 thing clear beforehand, do "NOT" edit any content in this page if you don't have MH2 yourself. Editing spelling and grammar is always welcome though.

Table Of Contents

 * About Mining.
 * List of ores.
 * Mines in every hunting area.

=About Mining.=


 * This section is general, it's for any Monster Hunter game.

Mining is going with your pickaxe to a mining spot in one of the hunting areas (for example: tower), and so obtaining various kinds of stones that are used for armor creation/upgrading and weapon creation/upgrading.

You can mine in any hunting area, a mining spot can be easily recognised by a huge crack in a stone/wall. If you got a pickaxe with you the red X will vanish if you're standing at a mining point.

So you use a Pickaxe to mine ores, these pickaxes can be made by combining items and can also be bought from the merchants in the village. (in this case a felyne merchant)

=List of Ores (offline)=


 * Currently a test section. Sections and information will be edited in the future.
 * Though the game is in Japanese, I thought I'd use the English in Game Descriptions just to make it complete.

English/Japanese Writings
Because the game is entirely in Japanese I thought this might be a nice addition to my guide. I hope the owners of this wiki don't mind me using Japanese writings.

Ore details
=Mines in every hunting area=

Here a list of mines per mining spot per area will come. Under construction.

Area 1
Max mines: 8


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Area 3
Max mines: 8


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Area 4
Max mines: 5


 * Whetstone 32
 * Sunshine Ore/Ice Crystal (night)40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Machalite Ore 10%

Area 7

 * 1) Max mines (Path to area 6): 6
 * 2) Max mines (Left of entrance to area 5): 10

Near path to area 6;


 * Whetstone 32%
 * Sunshine Ore/Ice Crystal (night) 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Machalite ore 10%

Left of entrance to area 5


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Area 8
Max mines: 8


 * Whetstone 32%
 * Sunshine Ore/Ice Crystal (night) 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Machalite Ore 10%

Area 9
Max mines: 10


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Desert (2nd)
Area only available during Green and Blue season!




 * Total Mining Spots: 6

Area 3

 * 1) Max mines: 8
 * 2) Mining spots: 1
 * 3) Location: Left bottom of the area.


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Area 4

 * 1) Mining spots: 3
 * 2) Max mines: 6 (on each spot)

On the right before the entrance to area 6


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron Ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Bottom of area (left half of the map)


 * Whetstone 32%
 * Sunshine Ore/Ice Crystal 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Machalite Ore 10%

Mining spot opposing the entrance to area 2


 * Whetstone 34%
 * Stone 64%
 * Rusted LRG stone (hammer rust) 1%
 * Rusted rod stone (Lance rust) 1%

Area 6

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1
 * 2) Max mines: 6


 * Stone 32%
 * Iron ore 40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Whetstone 10%

Area 10

 * 1) Mining Spots:1
 * 2) Max mines: 5


 * Stone 32%
 * Sunshine Ore/Ice Crystal (night)40%
 * Earth Crystal 18%
 * Machalite Ore 10%

Volcano (2nd)



 * Total Mining Spots: 13

Area 1

 * 1) Mining spots: 1

Area 2

 * 1) Mining spots: 2

Area 3

 * 1) Mining spots: 1

Area 4

 * 1) Mining spots: 2

Area 5

 * 1) Mining spots: 2

Area 6

 * 1) Mining spots: 2

Area 8

 * 1) Mining spots: 3

Tower



 * The tower has 2 different versions. 1 of it has stairways that lead up to the top of the tower, the other only goes to about 3/4th of the tower. Tower 1 here is the one that goes to the top and tower 2 is the one that doesn't.

I'll check the area number during the next quest I do in the tower. Following area number info isn't the definitive.

Tower 1

 * 1) Areas: 9 (excluding base camp).
 * 2) Total mining spots: 4.

Area 1

 * 1) Mining Spots: 2.
 * 2) Max mines: 6 (both)

Area 4

 * 1) Mining spots: 1

Area 5

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1

Tower 2

 * 1) Areas: 7 or 8 (exluding base camp).
 * 2) Total Mining Spots: 4

Area 1

 * 1) Mining Spots: 2

Area 4

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1

Area 5

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1.

Note: Anyone who knows the exact number of areas and mining spots in the 2 different tower areas please go ahead and provide the information here. Even if you only have mhf2!

Forest and Hills



 * Total Mining Spots: 3

Area 5

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1

Area 6

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1

Area 11

 * 1) Mining Spots: 1

Artemis Paradox 10:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)