How to get a mount: The Wild Hunt walkthrough and mount skins

1. Find Vannaka and start The Wild Hunt

GameRant reports that neither Vannaka nor the spirits get a quest icon on the map, so use the landmarks below. The wiki lists Vannaka at several camps across Ashenfall, including Temple Woods; The Wild Hunt starts at his Bleakfields Valley camp in Fellhollow.

1. Progress Withering Heights until you are in Fellhollow and have met Cathan in Bleakfields Valley, the first area of the region.
2. Head west of Cathan to Vannaka’s camp. Guides describe a small camp beside a ruined wall, between the left and centre paths where the main road splits.
3. Talk to Vannaka. He asks you to hunt Nature Spirits in western Fellhollow’s willow groves and bring back three Primordial Hearts.
4. Optional: one guide suggests placing a Lodestone beside his camp so the hand-in trip is quick.

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2. All three Nature Spirit locations

Each kill gives one heart, and the groves can be done in any order. Every grove sits around a pond: the map’s willow-tree symbols mark the groves, but the spirits have no icon of their own. Look for a white, glowing terrorbird and listen for a metallic wail as you get close.

Sources agree on the three areas but word the spots differently: the quest walkthrough places the spirits inside Witchwillow Range, Emberwood and Dragon’s Run, while the Nature Spirit page says south of Witchwillow Range and west of the other two. In each area, head for the pond with the willow symbol rather than an exact coordinate.

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Fighting a Nature Spirit

The spirits share the terrorbird moveset, which the wiki describes as quick beak strikes that cause Bleed. GameRant warns that nearby undead can swarm you during the fight, and All Things How suggests carrying a shield.

Sources disagree on extra hearts. The wiki lists exactly one heart per kill; All Things How says a kill can sometimes give a second. An Early Access guide (VGC, May 2026) says each co-op player gets a heart from the same kill; that hasn’t been rechecked for 1.0.

Jagex’s 1.0.1 notes (October 14, 2026) made enemies stay dead for longer in general without naming Nature Spirits, so the wiki’s 3-day respawn may predate that change. If a grove is empty, try the spare grove east of Skekven Kara.

3. Hand in the hearts and unlock the Terrorbird

Rewards: the Terrorbird mount, which adds +200 carry weight while you ride it, and 50 Soul Fragments. The quest page ties the Soul Fragments to spare hearts, and the Primordial Heart page says handing three hearts to Vannaka after the quest gives 50 Soul Fragments. Check his dialogue if you carry extras.

Since 1.0 the hearts are a basic material rather than a quest item, and the 1.0.0.5 hotfix (September 25, 2026) lets you destroy or store them.

Finishing The Wild Hunt opens Vannaka’s next Fellhollow quest, Things That Go Boom In The Night: ten spectral chinchompa skulls for a Spectral Chinchompa Cape.

1. Return to Vannaka with three Primordial Hearts and finish his dialogue. He uses an old Garou ritual to bind the spirits’ essence to you, and the quest completes.
2. Look for the new Mount prompt in the actions list at the bottom right of the screen, then hold the mount button to summon your Terrorbird.

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How to summon and ride your mount

A short hold is enough. Jagex made the input hold-to-mount in 0.11.1, then cut the hold from 2 seconds to 0.25 seconds in 0.11.1.5 (April 30, 2026). If the mount vanishes, hold the button again to call it back. Sprint while riding with Shift on PC.

While mounted your stamina lasts longer, and the Terrorbird jumps higher and takes less fall damage than you do on foot. Since 1.0 you can eat and drink from the hotbar as well as the inventory while riding. You earn no Agility XP while mounted (Jagex, 0.12.1), and an Early Access guide says you can’t fight or gather from the saddle.

Taking any damage, being attacked or building up Wither makes the mount vanish. VGC adds that Fellhollow’s soul-sapping mire counts as damage.

Mounts don’t work in dungeons, and the wiki says most or all of Dowdun Reach blocks them. Players also report they can’t mount indoors, in combat, with enemies very close or in the rot.

Jagex’s 1.0.1 update (October 14, 2026) fixed the map not opening correctly while mounted and a short freeze the first time you unmount after launching the game.

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Terrorbird or Magic Carpet: the two mounts

There are two base mounts. Every other mount you see is a skin for one of them and only changes its look: Terrorbird skins all keep +200 carry weight, and carpet skins add none. Jagex added the Terrorbird with the Fellhollow update (0.10.0, December 15, 2025) and the Magic Carpet with Umbral Sands (0.12.0, June 2026), so guides older than June 2026 don’t cover the carpet or skins.

Leggings of Lightness don’t raise either mount’s jump, according to the wiki, and Jagex’s 0.12.0.6 notes said the mega-jump from Leggings of Lightness or Windstep with a mount was being removed.

Every mount skin and how to unlock it

Skins come from vestige items whose names start with MOUNT:, such as MOUNT: Springdown Runner. Using the vestige adds the skin to your Mounts list. No source gives drop rates for the dropped vestiges.

A skin found before you finish The Wild Hunt won’t let you ride: Jagex says you still need the quest to access the mount.

Shops: Death’s Exchange takes Soul Fragments and Postie Pete’s Evil Emporium takes Infernal Fragments; BisectHosting places both in the Forgotten Temple, with the Emporium also at the Courtyard. Domri’s shop opens after Rogue Trader, and the wiki says full access needs all three Alcarrid tasks without saying which tier stocks the mount vestiges.

How to change your mount skin

The same tab switches between the Terrorbird and the Magic Carpet once you have both. Jagex added the Mounts menu in the 0.12.0 interface update, so Early Access videos from before June 2026 show an older layout.

1. Open the Spell Book. Sources name different shortcuts: J for the Journal and then its Spell Book tab (a July 2026 Steam reply), P (a September 2026 Steam reply and the wiki’s carpet page), or Q then P (the wiki’s Terrorbird page). GameTyrant says you can also reach it from the general overlay or the Spell Wheel.
2. Switch from Spells to the Mounts tab at the top.
3. Scroll the whole list. Skins you own can be selected; locked ones are greyed out.
4. Select the skin and press Equip on the right. A newly unlocked skin doesn’t replace your current one automatically.

Mount greyed out, won’t summon or skin won’t work

These checks can’t fix every bug. Jagex’s 1.0.1 known-issues post (October 15, 2026) lists no mount problems, so record your platform, build and whether you host the world before reporting one.

1. Mount button dimmed or Alt does nothing: move into the open. Players report you can’t mount inside buildings or dungeons, in combat, with enemies very close or in the rot, and most of Dowdun Reach blocks mounts.
2. Quest finished but no mount: open the Spell Book and look for the Mounts tab, as a Steam reply suggests, and check the Journal that Vannaka’s hand-in completed. Death sells skins, not the mount itself.
3. Mount prompt on your HUD but no Terrorbird: Jagex says unlocking a skin before The Wild Hunt leaves a defunct mount prompt until you complete the quest.
4. Carpet skins greyed out: Jagex has said two flying carpet skins can’t be unlocked. It didn’t name them, but the wiki lists Manafem Midnight and Scorchweave Rug as unreleased with no source, so don’t farm for them.
5. New skin missing: use the MOUNT: vestige from your inventory (the wiki says it grants the skin when used), then scroll the full Mounts list and press Equip.
6. Two different drops gave the same Terrorbird skin: Jagex listed four drops unlocking one variant as a known issue in June 2026 and later included it in its 0.12.0.3 fix list. If it happens on 1.0, note both vestige names for a report.
7. Mount stopped working after an Agility Course: Jagex fixed this in 0.12.1.2 (July 2026). Report it with your build number if it returns.
8. Can’t mount as a co-op guest: one October 11, 2026 Steam report describes a dimmed button everywhere for a non-host player while the host could ride. Changing skins and restarting didn’t help, and no fix was posted.