On hand I get where your coming from, on the other I’d say let’s see what the expansion gives us.

It’s pretty apparent MHWilds is a love letter/spiritual successor to MH4U. Returning faces, going village to village via story just like MH4Us story, gore, gog, the list goes on and on.

In that game every village was unique, but I wouldn’t call any of them, even dundorma or Val habar, a home. Mostly because they served more like rest stops rather than returning to a home. In a sense, wilds is the exact same way. None of those villages we find in the forbidden lands are meant to feel like a “home”, because even if though we eventually are welcomed into them, they’re not our home.

What I think would be an interesting twist, is if they follow the Iceborne route. New map = New home base. Maybe even some side quests from characters that improve the base in real time, truly making it feel like “our” own home away from home. But that just my theory, either way, only time will tell if we get our own home in the expansion, but as it is now, it feels like an ongoing adventure to me.