Wilds has 50 trophies and most of them fall out of playing normally. The platinum is not decided by the 40-odd you will earn without trying — it is decided by the crown trophies, which are a hunt for randomly sized monsters and can outlast the rest of the list several times over.
The shape of the list
The crowns are the real list
What a crown is
Every large monster spawns at a random size. A miniature or gold crown is recorded in your Hunting Log when you hunt an unusually small or large one, and you cannot make it happen — only hunt more.
Four trophies, escalating
Miniature Crown is your first miniature crown and Giant Crown your first silver crown or higher (both bronze). The Collector pair asks for 10 monsters each (silver). The Master pair — both gold — asks for 'many', which is where the grind lives.
The binoculars trophy is free
A Keen-eyed Observation only asks you to spot a gold-crown monster through the binoculars. You will be using them to check sizes anyway.
Decide early
If you are not going to chase crowns, the other 46 trophies are a comfortable single playthrough. If you are, plan for the crowns to be most of the time you spend.
The ones people miss
- East to West, A Hunter Never Rests — 30 different side missions, which means talking to people rather than hunting.
- Someone Worth Following — 100 quests with your Palico deployed, so leave it deployed from the start.
- A Prize Held High and I Caught a Shooting Star! — two specific creature catches, both silver, both easy to never stumble into.
- Monster (Squid) Hunter — a giant squid, caught while fishing.
- Gossip Hunter and Newly Forged Bonds — social trophies that need other players' profiles.
- Bourgeois Hunter — a million zenny held at once, which is easy to spend past without noticing.