Town

In Town, you can obtain and freeze monsters.
You can only have one active monster at a time. To obtain a new monster, you will have to either freeze or sell your current monster.

Market

Here you can obtain certain monsters or sell your current monster.

Obtaining a Monster

Select one monster out of the three options presented to you.
You can choose from ①Zuum, ②Mocchi, and ③Suezo/Arrow Head/Hare/Gaboo (depending on the season).
Once you obtain a new monster, you will need to name it. Note that names cannot be changed later.

You can obtain new monsters as many times as you want.

Zuum

Mocchi

Suezo (March-May)

Arrow Head (June-August)

Hare (September-November)

Gaboo (December-February)

Selling Monsters

You can sell a monster that you have raised.
The amount of money you will receive will depend on the monster's training level.
A monster that wasn't trained well may be given a price of 0 gold.

Shrine

Here you can generate monsters by using our CD database. You can also carry over a monster you raised in the “Monster Rancher" ("Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX" ver. only).

Disc Stones

Search our original database for CD titles and discover what monsters they will generate.There is a wide variety of monsters that can be obtained with various CDs.

Random Matches

Slating

You can carry over a monster that you raised in the "Monster Rancher" ("Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX" ver. only). Slating will only work if you have saved data from "Monster Rancher 1".

Lab

Here you can combine or revive frozen monsters.
You won't be able to combine or revive monsters if you currently have a monster with you.

Combine

Merge two frozen monsters to create a new monster.
In the RESULT window, you will see the probability of creating each of the listed monsters.

Freeze

Store your monster at the lab by freezing it.
You can have up to 20 frozen monsters at a time.

Note that combining, reviving, deleting, as well as choosing monsters for download matches can only be performed using frozen monsters.

Revive

Revive a frozen monster.

Delete

Delete a frozen monster.
Once a monster is deleted, it can no longer be revived. Be sure to consider carefully before deleting.

Analyze

View info on the status changes for your current monster.
There are a variety of status changes. Some affect all monsters, regardless of type, while others only occur with specific monster types. It would probably be smart to check this info on a regular basis.

Status Changes

Hall of Fame

View the records of monsters with outstanding achievements.
Only available when you have a monster that has entered the Hall of Fame.

Jobs

Pick up a job for your monster. Accepted jobs are carried out by selecting "Job" on the title screen. After completing a Job, select Job Report in Town to receive your reward.
You may even receive rare items depending on how well you do.
The "Job" option on the title screen will only appear after you accept a job in the town. You can accept only one job at a time, and if you accept another job it will overwrite the previous one.

Job flow

Accept a job.
Begin the job by selecting "Job" on the right side of the title screen.

Job Controls (Nintendo Switch™) Job Controls (Steam®) Job Controls (Smartphone/Tablet)

Reporting jobs

Report the results of the job and receive the appropriate payment.
You can receive payment once for each job. If you want to earn more, you need to accept a new job.

Files

Save or load your data.
There are 2 types of saved data: manually saved data and autosave data. Autosaves occur at the beginning of each week and other select times.

Note: Files can also be accessed through the Ranch screen menu.