You’re going to reach a point in the Monster Hunter Wilds story where this strange term will be introduced. Rest assured, it’s not what you think.

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Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t even been out for a week and it’s already breaking records on Steam. Despite all the technical issues, players are logging into the game and continuing their monster hunting shenanigans. One of the most talked about topics is about the Wyvern Milk substance that players are coming across in the game’s story.

Players riding their mount in Monster Hunter Wilds.Get ready to be mind blown. | Image Credit: Capcom

The Monster Hunter franchise is no stranger to odd materials. But the idea of getting milk from wyverns, which are biologically incapable of producing it, is confusing to say the least. As it turns out, it isn’t what any of us could’ve predicted. Instead, it’s a classic case of a localization/translation blunder. And no, you can’t milk any Rathalos in the game.

There is no Rathalos milking in Monster Hunter Wilds

A player faces a Rathalos in Monster Hunter WildsCan you imagine how cursed that would be? | Image Credit: Capcom

At some point in Monster Hunter Wilds, you’ll run into something called Wyvern Milk. Now, given the game’s core mechanics of hunting and harvesting monsters, players immediately thought that they’d have to milk the next Rathalos they fought. Rest assured, no such cursed thing is in the game.

Thankfully, Wyvern Milk isn’t actually milk at all. Instead, it’s a type of life energy used in the game. And its unfortunate name may be just a translation or localization error. In the Japanese version, the item is called “Ryuunyuu.” The word “Ryuu” translates to dragon, while “nyuu” can mean milk when used in specific contexts such as “gyuunyuu” for cow’s milk and “tonyuu” for Soy Milk.

Unsurprisingly, the Monster Hunter community has fully embraced the ridiculousness of Wyvern Milk. The Reddit post discussing the topic is filled with memes about Rathalos farms and wyvern dairy production.

Some players have even suggested that Capcom should lean into the joke and add a full wyvern dairy farm to the game. Instead of sounding mystical or something out of the game’s fictional universe, Wyvern Milk sounds like something out of a dairy aisle.

It’s been a speedy but rocky rise to success

Players fighting a monster with their Palico in Monster Hunter WildsEveryone’s trying to figure out how to get 60 FPS. | Image Credit: Capcom

While the whole Wyvern Milk situation is amusing, it’s far from the biggest topic that we are discussing. Within hours of launch, the game shattered records by surpassing 1.3 million concurrent players on Steam, placing it among the platform’s top five most-played titles of all time. The series has finally reached a global audience compared to the niche it was back in the day.

Despite its historic launch numbers, the game has around 56,000 reviews on Steam and only 57% of those reviews are positive. This is a lot lower than previous titles of the series like Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise and if you’re wondering why, that’s because it’s painfully unoptimized on PC. The performance on PC is just not up to our standards, and it doesn’t look like Capcom is changing that anytime soon.

Going back to Wyvern Milk, what is Capcom going to do? Was it an intentional mistranslation pun left in? Or are the devs planning to fix its name? Capcom could maybe at least add an in-game explanation or alternative name to clarify what Wyvern Milk actually is.