How to Get Gracium & Fucium Ore

If you’re here, chances are you’re missing one specific ore that’s blocking a craft.
Most often it’s because of event gear (yeah — Lumenhymn, or something similar), a weapon upgrade, or an armor piece that suddenly asks for rare ore instead of monster parts.

Gracium Ore and Fucium Ore are two different mining materials in Monster Hunter Wilds, and they come from different regions. If you’re farming the wrong map, you can spend 30 minutes mining and still get nothing — that’s the main trap.

They’re also evergreen ores: even if you’re not crafting a specific weapon today, these materials keep showing up in event recipes and limited-time gear crafts. That includes events such as Lumenhymn, plus various weapon/armor upgrades that pull from rare ore requirements.

Before getting into where to farm each ore, there are a few general mining rules that save a lot of wasted time.

General Mining Tips

Before you go mining Gracium or Fucium in Monster Hunter Wilds, there are two small things you can do to speed it up. You don’t have to. It just saves time.

If you want, eat a meal with the Gatherer effect. This comes from using Truffle Du Conga as a food ingredient, which you get from Congalala. It sometimes gives extra items when you mine ore or gather bones. It’s RNG, it doesn’t always proc, and it’s not something you build around. If it works, cool. If it doesn’t, nothing changes.

The one thing that actually makes a noticeable difference is Geologist Lv 3. Easiest way to get it is from Geology Jewel [1]. At level 3, it gives you one extra item every time you mine a mining outcrop. Rare ores roll per gather, so that extra pull is another chance at Gracium or Fucium. Over a few routes, this adds up fast. Without it, you’ll just need more runs.

When you’re mining, don’t treat it like a hunt. Just hit mining outcrops, ignore monsters unless they’re physically blocking a node, and leave once the route is done. No reason to fight anything.

Also, don’t mix maps. The ore pools are separate:

• Gracium only comes from Iceshard Cliffs

• Fucium only comes from Ruins of Wyveria

If you’re in the wrong region, you’re not getting the ore you’re looking for.

Sometimes your Palico will also mine ores while you’re doing the route, which can give you an extra piece here and there. It’s not something you control, just a small bonus.

That’s all there is to it. You can spend one minute slotting Geologist and eating a meal, or you can skip it and do extra runs. Either works — one just wastes less time.

Gracium Ore – Where to Farm It

Gracium Ore is mined in Iceshard Cliffs.

Open the map and look for mining outcrops. Before you go, check the environment overview — if there’s a mining outcrop upsurge, go farm during that. It increases the value of your time, nothing more to it.

You don’t really “route” Iceshard Cliffs the way you do Wyveria — it’s more about hitting a few good spots, then bouncing.

From the same deposits you can get:

• Carbalite Ore

• Icium

• Lightcrystal

• Gracium (rare)

So don’t expect Gracium every time. It’s part of the pool.

A simple, low-effort way to do it:

Start at base camp.
Go to area 8 — there are three mining deposits there. There are also Comaqchi around if you happen to need them for carapace, but that’s secondary.

After that, teleport:

• to area 18 (Sinkhole) — two deposits

• then to area 20 (Ancient Room) — one deposit

That’s usually enough to make the run worth it. Once those are mined, just leave and reset. No reason to wander — Iceshard doesn’t reward long routes.

If there’s a mining outcrop upsurge, do it then. Otherwise this still works fine.

Fucium Ore – Where to Farm It

Fucium Ore is mined in Ruins of Wyveria.

Just like with Gracium, check the environment overview first. If there’s a mining outcrop upsurge, farm that.

From the same ore deposits in Ruins of Wyveria you can get:

• Carbalite Ore

• Lightcrystal

• Fucium (rare)

• Novacrystal (even rarer)

There are:

• two deposits near camp at area 8

• a good deposit with three ores in area 11

• one deposit right after exiting basecamp if you turn left

A simple route that works:
exit basecamp → turn left (1 deposit) → go through area 5 (1 deposit) down to lower levels → area 7 (1 deposit) → area 8 → finish at area 11.

There is another deposit (the one on the screenshot) in area 5 you can technically reach by gliding with your Seikret, but it’s not special. It’s just a normal deposit and usually not worth the time.

Why You Should Stockpile

If you’ve reached the point where you need Gracium or Fucium once, you’re going to need them again. That’s just how Monster Hunter Wilds works.

What usually happens is this:
you finish the craft that sent you mining, move on, forget about ore entirely — then a few days later you open a new weapon, armor piece, or event recipe and realize you’re missing the same ore again. Not monster parts. Not tickets. Ore.

That’s why it’s worth grabbing extra while you’re already there. You don’t need to hoard hundreds of it, but having a small buffer means:

• you don’t have to drop what you’re doing just to mine

• you don’t lose momentum when new crafts unlock

• you don’t get blocked by something as boring as ore when everything else is ready

Gracium and Fucium aren’t really rare, rather they’re annoying because they’re easy to ignore until you suddenly need them. Mining a few extra while you’re already in Iceshard Cliffs or Ruins of Wyveria saves you time later, even if you don’t know yet what you’ll use them for.

If this helped and you were just looking to unblock a craft and move on, that’s the whole idea. Gracium and Fucium aren’t complicated — you just need to know where to go and not waste time on the wrong map.

If you’re working through more Title Update 4 content, we also have guides for Gogmazios and AT Jin Dahaad that cover mechanics, routes, and common mistakes without overexplaining things.