Juice Guide - Harvest Guide of Kinsect Buffs for Insect Glaive Beginners

This Guide

Greetings hunters, if you have picked up the superior weapon that is the Insect Glaive, but need a little help which monster parts give that sweet, sweet juice, then this is the guide for you. I am myself an Insect Glaive afficienado and can promise you I myself have forgone the ways of the land and am now permanently in the air.

Also, the internet is dying. Trying to search anything these days without it being AI generated and wrong is rough. While doing research for what buffs exactly do, I found too much contradicting stuff. And the game isn't clear on anything either. Some of the numbers I use from this guide are from JVandelous' Guide[gamestegy.com]. With the hours I put in the game, this guide seems most correct numberwise. I will have some of their numbers displayed here as well, mostly the numbers for the buffs from Kinsect extracts and Slinger Ammo. So if you find issues for those, cool, but I'm gonna need proof of it being the case and not "this google search result said something different". Cause they all do, this one just seems most inline with what I actually played in the game.

This guide is done, but I am still missing data on Lunastra. If you know where to hit them and what juice they give, please tell me in the comment section.

Kinsect Juice Basics

There's a total of four extracts a Kinsect can obtain when hitting amonster part: Red, White, Orange, and Green.

These buffs also come from the same body parts most of the time, but the problem there is that a lot of monsters do deviate from this. Full monster guide is in the rest of this guide. In general buffs come from these locations:

Red: Head
White: Wings/Limbs
Orange: Body
Green: Tail

Red extract is your bread and butter. It gives you access to much more powerful weapon animations for 90 seconds, or 135 seconds with Kinsect Charge Stamina Boost. You need this buff at the minimum to start Aerial combat, else you'll just be flying through the air doing minimal damage.

White extract gives faster Movement Speed and higher Vaulting Height, lasting 120 seconds, or 165 seconds with Kinsect Charge Stamina Boost.

Orange extract gives a 5% Defense Boost and Knockback Resistance, lasting 150 seconds, or 195 seconds with Kinsect Charge Stamina Boost.

Green extract heals you for a bit of Health if you're not at maximum Health.

Then there's three total combinations of buffs.

Red + White extracts at the same time gives +10% Attack

Orange + White at the same time gives +10% Defense

Red + White + Orange gives +15% Attack and +10 Defense, plus refreshes the timers off all buffs to 90 seconds, 135 seconds with Kinsect Charge Stamina Boost. Also during this time, buffs can't be refreshed until they've fully run out.

The UI always show you which extracts are active, and they start blinking when they have less than 10 seconds left. The UI is also slightly different when you have a Kinsect Charge active. Also important to know is that as long as Kinsect Charge is active, the UI on the insect itself opens its wings, indicating that it can hold a total of two extracts at the same time.

Useful Skills

Then there's a few Skills for gear that can help you out with these buffs.

Power Prolonger allows buffs to stay active for longer.
Level 1 gives +10%, level 2 + 20% and level 3 + 40%
This would mean the triple extract that normally lasts 90 seconds, can now last 99/108/126 seconds.

Flinch-free gives a stack of Earplugs, Windproof and Tremor Resistance for as long as the triple buff is active. Each level of Flinch-Free gives an extra stack of these skills, up to a maximum of 3 for Earplugs and Windproof, and 2 of Tremor Resist.

Kinsect Charge

Kinsect Charge is a mechanic added with Iceborne. You feed your insect a bite of whatever is in your slinger ammo, and it gains a passive based on what it's fed. You can only have one buff active and feeding new ammo replaces the old buff with a new one.

There's two buffs slinger ammo can give the Kinsect:

Spirit: Feeding ammo that provides this Buff, immediately replenishes all Kinsect Stamina, as well as extending its stamina bar. On top of that, it makes any extracts and triple extract harvested while this buff is active last 50% longer.
Power: Increases your Kinsects damage by 1.5 and Elemental power by 3.5. Also increases dust strength by 1.15 and increases the intervals between dust deposits. Also makes extracts last 50% longer, but not the triple extract buff.

Slinger ammo gives either Stamina buff or power buff, unless the weapon's kinsect bonus is Spirit & Strength Boost. In this case, no matter what you feed it, it always gives both buffs. It shows below where this kinsect bonus would show up in your Equipment's Info.

Below a list of slinger ammos and their respective buffs:

Ammo

Buff

Duration (Seconds)

Stone

Spirit

75

Redpit

Spirit

90

Brightmoss

Spirit

120

Crystalburst

Spirit

120

Slinger Torch / Torch Pod

Spirit

120

Scatternut

Spirit

120

Watermoss / Puddle Pod

Spirit

150

Dragon Pod

Power

150

Thorn Pod

Power

300

Piercing Pod

Power

300

Bomb Pod

Power

300

An Exact Guide on Which Part to Hit

And now for the real reason I wanted to make this guide, a full overview of all monsters, with images on where to hit for the best juice. Below is a list of all monsters in the game, with the buff zones highlighted. Most images are lifted straight from the wikis, with highlights added by myself.

Large Monsters

Great Jagras

Red: Head and small part of Mane
White: Front and Back Legs
Orange: Full Body and Mane
Green: Tail

Kulu-Ya-Ku

Red: Head, Front Legs and Tail
White: Body and Back Legs
Orange: Rock
Green: Not Available

Pukei-Pukei

Red: Head, Neck and Tongue
White: Wings
Orange: Body and Back Legs
Green: Tail

Barroth

Red: Head
White: Back Legs
Orange: Front Legs and Body
Green: Tail

Jyuratodus

Red: Head and Neck
White: Body, Fins, and Back Legs
Orange: Tail
Green: Not Available

Tobi Kadachi

Red: Head, Neck, Body, and Tail
White: Front and Back Legs
Orange: Wings (Can be hit while retracted, but very small hitbox)
Green: Not Available

Anjanath

Red: Head
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body, Front Legs, Neck, Frills, and Tail
Green: Not Available

Rathian

Rathian, Rathalos, Pink Rathian, Azure Rathalos, Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Neck
White: Wings
Orange: Body and Back Legs
Green: Tail

Tzitzi-Ya-Ku

Red: Head and Front Legs
White: Body, Neck, and Back Legs
Orange: Tail and Antennae
Green: Not Available

Paolumu

Red: Head and Neck (Inflated)
White: Wings, Back Legs, Fur Body, and Neck (Deflated)
Orange: Tail and Hardened Belly
Green: Not Available

Great Girros

Red: Head and Frills
White: Front Legs and Back Legs
Orange: Body
Green: Tail

Radobaan

Red: Head
White: Back Legs and Attached Spikes
Orange: Body, Front Legs and Tail
Green: Not Available

Legiana

Legiana and Shrieking Legiana have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Antennae
White: Wings
Orange: Back Legs and Body
Green: Tail and Tail Frills

Odogaron

Odogaron and Ebony Odogaron all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head, Neck, and Front Legs
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body and Tail
Green: Not Available

Rathalos

Rathian, Rathalos, Pink Rathian, Azure Rathalos, Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Neck
White: Wings
Orange: Body and Back Legs
Green: Tail

Diablos

Diablos and Black Diablos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Tail
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body and Wings
Green: Not Available

Dodogama

Red: Head and Neck
White: Front Legs and Back Legs
Orange: Body
Green: Tail

Pink Rathian

Rathian, Rathalos, Pink Rathian, Azure Rathalos, Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Neck
White: Wings
Orange: Body and Back Legs
Green: Tail

Bazelgeuse

Red: Head, Neck, and Tail
White: Wings, Belly, and Back Legs
Orange: Back
Green: Not Available

Lavasioth

Red: Head and Tail
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body and Fins
Green: Not Available

Uragaan

Red: Head and Neck
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body and Front Legs
Green: Tail

Azure Rathalos

Rathian, Rathalos, Pink Rathian, Azure Rathalos, Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Neck
White: Wings
Orange: Body and Back Legs
Green: Tail

Black Diablos

Diablos and Black Diablos all have the same extract spots.

Red: Head and Tail
White: Back Legs
Orange: Body and Wings
Green: Not Available

Elder Dragons

Kirin

Red: Head and Mane
White: Body, Back Legs, and Tail
Orange: Front Legs
Green: Not Available

Zorah Magdaros

Hit his Magma Cores for a random Red, White, or Orange extract. I believe you can also hit him wnen you're not on his back, but what are you gonna use that juice for when firing canons?