Horizon Forbidden West Upgrade Guide: Workbenches, Parts & Pouches

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Horizon Forbidden West Upgrade Guide: Workbenches, Parts & Pouches

Choose the equipment you want to keep using before farming materials. An upgrade has value when it improves a weapon, outfit or carrying limit that supports the way you play.

Read the next workbench tier

Guerrilla describes Workbenches as the place to strengthen weapons and outfits with collected materials. Inspect the exact next-tier requirements and effect. Note the missing component rather than collecting every resource in the same quantity.

Turn a requirement into a hunt plan

Use the Focus to identify and tag the relevant machine part. Check whether its entry requires detachment or another method, then prepare the ammunition and approach. For the collection procedure, use the machine component guide.

Consider carrying upgrades

The developer's resource overview identifies animal skins and bones as materials for Pouch and Quiver upgrades. If frequent capacity limits are interrupting every trip, inspect those upgrades alongside weapon damage instead of treating them as an unrelated side task.

Compare an upgrade with a replacement

Look at the role, ammunition and perks of the equipment you already own. A higher-tier item that you cannot supply or use effectively may not solve the current problem. Avoid abandoning a working setup solely because another item has a different rarity color.

Use a short collection checklist

• One chosen upgrade and its remaining requirements.
• A machine or animal route that supplies those requirements.
• Enough ammunition and recovery supplies to complete it.
• A return to the workbench to apply and inspect the result.

After upgrading, test it in an encounter you understand. If the weakness was aim, positioning or an unsuitable damage type, another material spend may not be the next useful step.

Official references

• Guerrilla workbench, machine-part and pouch overview