Farming research points have become a hassle at high rank. I’ve done some research and experimentation of my own and developed a simple but efficient route. With my route by the time you’re done the first node will start to respawn and you can repeat until your satisfied. I’ll lay out everything you need to help farm research points more effectively. You’ll need to be at least HR:13 for my route but you can take the general strategy and make your own route. I’ll also be including a video route.

Investigations

Some investigations have “flourishing” nodes, and some have “upsurge” nodes. Flourishing nodes will have higher chances of being rare, they will have a sparkly appearance. Rare nodes have a higher chance of giving more valuable resources. Upsurge will produce additional nodes, sometimes adjacent to original nodes and sometimes in new places. For farming research points you’ll want to find investigations with upsurge research nodes. This includes things like Beryl deposits, amber deposits, and conch shells. The elder recess has some of the easiest to reach nodes, with upsurge: Beryl deposits you can easily run around and farm all the research points you need. As an example, I’ve included a picture of an investigation with upsurge: Beryl deposits, but any investigation with Beryl deposits in the Elder recess will do.

Skills

To farm research points your going to want Geologist level 3 and Forager’s Luck. Level 2 allows you to gather one extra time and level 3 allows two extra, despite the description having only said one. Forager’s luck is also extremely helpful by giving the nodes a chance to be rare, possibly giving you an item worth many times more than normal.

Food skills

Felyne Harvester will reduce the time it takes for gathering points to respawn and is a must for farming nodes. The ingredients required are two drinks from the Fortune category. This skill is what causes the nodes to respawn fast enough to make the route infinite. (within the time limit of the investigation)

Route

My route starts simply at camp 1. Take the first left to go underground and then circle around up top to finally loop back around near camp 1, repeat. You will only need to wait just a few extra seconds before repeating the route, so I suggest gathering from a couple mining nodes and bone piles. This process can be repeated over and over until the investigation runs out of time or your return from the quest using the options menu.