Monster Rancher 2 Expedition Maps

Expeditions in Monster Rancher 2 are a carry-over from MR1, wherein your monster goes on an adventure of sorts where it can discover useful items which are key to unlocking several monsters, or are in general not obtainable otherwise. Expeditions will always be initiated on the same month and week of a given year if your monster meets the requirements, and you can either choose to go or to decline. How effective your monster will be on the expedition is dependent only on their stats, and very slightly on their nature- breed has no effect other than ease of stat acquisition. Your monster must return to base camp to properly end the expedition.

Your monsters stats affect Expedition in the following ways:

• Life:
  Every 70 Life will add 70 more "Energy" you can use on the Expedition. This caps at 700 Energy- meaning Life above 700 is not useful for Expeditions. Certain amounts of Life are required to get invited on Expeditions. Your monster may "fail" and incur additional fatigue/stress penalties or be hospitalized once your Energy becomes -11.
• Power:
  Higher power increases the odds of breaking obstacles encountered during Expeditions. While in MR1 obstacles did not respawn, this is not the case in MR2. While any obstacle can be broken with 1 power, the odds greatly increase as your monster approaches 300 power, and again at 500 power. Power above 500 doesn’t show a useful increase in the odds of success.
• Intelligence:
  Intelligence is the measure of how effective your monster is at finding items during the searches on Expeditions, and is mandatory for finding several types of items. Generally it is considered the most important Expedition stat as lacking in this area can be both frustrating and lock out items entirely. Additionally, certain amounts of Intelligence are required to find shortcuts on Expeditions.
• Skill/Speed/Defense:
  No effect aside from a low Skill requirement for the Joker Mask (and Pure Platina, which also checks Nature for chances).
• Nature:
  While often overlooked, Nature has an impact on which items are found on Expeditions. Nature during Expeditions is judged as: +1 or higher = Good; 0 or lower = Bad. These can be variants on Neutral, so it can be somewhat difficult to judge if your monster has that nature.
• Rank/Fame:
  Certain amounts of Fame are required to get invited on Expeditions, along with a minimum rank requirement, but doesn’t do anything on the Expeditions themselves.

• If your inventory is full when you pick up an item on an Expedition, and you would prefer to throw away this new item, press Triangle (/\) to select it. This works in all "items full but new item acquired" situations as well.
• Shortcuts remain open between Expeditions, even if the current monster lacks the INT.
• You can only find Disc Chip variants of breeds you have already unlocked.
• Every step taken costs 1 Energy, and each trip into a location costs 10 Energy.
• Each attempt to get rid of an obstacle costs 5 Energy.
• Expeditions give +72 fatigue at the end if finished normally, but no stress.
• If you’re forced to end the expedition, the lifespan hit is -13 weeks!

• Items which are listed in the maps below do not appear 100% of the time, as there’s also some random element in whether an item decides to show up. Just be aware that items your monster does not meet the Intelligence requirement for will never show up!

The same item can be found in a building more than once. There are some items that are "special" that cannot be found more than once in the game, though.

Special Items:
These special items will be replaced at the time of the duplicate special item being found:

• "Old Sheath"
• "Mask"
• "Big Footstep"
• "Fire Feather"
• "Strong Glue"

Disc Chips:
The Disc Chips can only be found if the corresponding monster has been unlocked in the game.
If the monster has not been unlocked, then the Disc Chips item will be replaced at the time of the locked Disc Chips item being found.

Replacement items:
Duplicate Special, or Locked items will be replaced randomly with one of following three items:

1. Half-eaten
2. Irritater
3. Mint Leaf