The Surgery Kit in Devil Hunter is one of the most important tools in the game. It sits at the center of three major systems: harvesting organs from defeated enemies, progressing devil contracts, and unlocking Hybrid transformations. It can also be used on downed bodies in certain contexts.
What the Surgery Kit does in Devil Hunter
The Surgery Kit is a utility item rather than a combat weapon. It enables two key interactions with bodies on the ground:
- Biological harvesting from dead devils and fiends, letting you pull out Devil Flesh, Limbs, Eyes, and the rare Devil’s Heart.
- Surgical interaction with downed bodies (players/NPCs, depending on server rules), which can be used to revive or perform surgery-type actions such as preparing a Hybrid conversion.
This is the bridge between simply killing enemies and actually progressing your build. Most mid– to late–game power spikes, especially contracts and Hybrids, assume you are regularly using the Surgery Kit to process corpses.
How to get a Surgery Kit
There are two main acquisition paths: earning it through the early tutorial mission chain or buying it once you have enough yen.
Get a free kit through the tutorial
Step 1: Start the initial Cleaning quest. This early mission line introduces basic interaction with the environment and gives you your first yen income.
Step 2: Progress to the Fiend Extermination quest. After Cleaning, you are pushed into simple combat missions where you hunt low-level fiends and devils for additional yen and combat practice.
Step 3: Complete the Surgical Training mission. Once combat basics are covered, a training step introduces harvesting. Finishing this phase awards access to the Surgery Kit, which becomes part of your toolset for the harvesting loop.
Buy a Surgery Kit at Public Safety HQ (Division 2)
If you skipped the tutorial, lost track of the kit, or want a straightforward purchase, you can buy one with yen.
Step 1: Travel to Public Safety Headquarters. This is the central multi-floor hub where the different divisions are located.
Step 2: Go to the Division 2 area. Use the internal routes (stairs or elevator) to reach the Division 2 floor.
Step 3: Enter the shop room on the left. Inside the Division 2 space, look to the left-hand room where the vendor/armory merchant is located.
Step 4: Purchase the Surgery Kit. The kit costs roughly 3,500 yen, which is tuned so that a short burst of early Cleaning and basic missions covers the price.
Once bought, the Surgery Kit is added to your inventory as a permanent progression tool. You do not lose the kit on death, although you can still lose harvested materials depending on the current death penalties.
How to use the Surgery Kit on corpses
The harvesting interaction is where the kit’s risk–reward design really shows. You turn a kill into real progression, but you expose yourself while doing it.
Step 1: Defeat a devil, fiend, or other eligible target. The body must be on the ground and not already processed.
Step 2: Equip the Surgery Kit. Make sure the kit is the active tool instead of your weapon or other item.
Step 3: Move close to the corpse until the harvest prompt appears. Positioning matters; stand near the torso area until interaction becomes available.
Step 4: Hold the interaction input (commonly Mouse 1 / tap and hold on mobile). The game locks you into a 3–5 second harvesting animation where your character crouches over the body.
During this animation, you cannot move, attack, block, or dodge. That animation lock is intentional and is one of the main PvP pressure points around corpse processing. Other players can wait for you to start harvesting and then attack while you are helpless.
Step 5: Wait for the extraction to complete and collect the organ(s). When the animation ends, the relevant biological material(s) are added to your inventory based on the loot table for that enemy type.
What you can harvest with the Surgery Kit
The Surgery Kit uses a probability-based drop table tied to what you killed. Harvested materials are core ingredients for contracts and transformations.
| Component | Typical rarity | Primary use |
|---|---|---|
| Common Devil Flesh | Common | Basic offerings, contract requirements, quest filler. |
| Limbs (Arms/Legs) | Uncommon | Required for certain mobility-focused contracts and specific skill setups. |
| Devil Eye | Uncommon | Critical for vision-oriented powers, such as Future Devil–style abilities. |
| Devil Heart | Rare | Mandatory for Hybrid surgery and high-tier devil contracts. |
The Devil Heart is the rarest and most important outcome. Securing one usually requires repeatedly hunting stronger devils or fiends and processing their bodies with the Surgery Kit. Since Devil Hearts gate Hybrid transformation and some top-tier contracts, most long-term progression loops revolve around farming with the kit until a heart drops.
Using the Surgery Kit on downed players and bodies
Beyond dead enemies, the Surgery Kit can be used on downed bodies in some situations. The exact behavior depends on context and server settings, but there are two broad uses:
- Reviving downed teammates by interacting with their body and holding the primary input, letting you bring them back into the fight.
- Performing surgery for Hybrid-related actions on eligible downed humans, connecting the kit to later transformation steps.
Step 1: Approach the downed body (teammate or other eligible target). Get close enough for the interaction prompt to appear.
Step 2: Equip the Surgery Kit and hold the primary input (Mouse 1 / tap-and-hold on mobile). As with harvesting, your character locks into an animation and cannot act until the interaction is finished.
Step 3: Wait for the progress to complete. On completion, the body is either revived or processed, depending on the mode and the intended use (revive vs surgery).
Do not mash the button; the system expects a continuous hold until the animation naturally finishes.
How the Surgery Kit connects to Hybrid transformation
The Surgery Kit is the practical starting point for becoming a Hybrid. Hybrids are humans who undergo a Devil’s Heart transplant and gain access to a transformation form with unique combat abilities.
Collecting a Devil’s Heart
Step 1: Use the Surgery Kit on higher-tier devils or fiends. Focus your harvesting on more dangerous enemies, where Devil Hearts are part of the possible loot pool.
Step 2: Continue farming until a Devil’s Heart drops. The heart is a rare outcome, so expect repeated runs and harvests.
Keep the heart in your inventory; it is required in full for the later surgery and should not be sold or discarded.
Performing Hybrid surgery with the Devil’s Heart
Once you own a Devil’s Heart and have enough yen, you can commit to Hybrid surgery.
Step 1: Accumulate 10,000 yen. This is the fixed fee for the surgery at the Hospital and is separate from the cost of obtaining the Surgery Kit itself.
Step 2: Go to the Hospital in the city. The Hospital is the medical hub where surgical transformations are handled.
Step 3: Talk to the Nurse NPC. Initiate conversation with the nurse to open the Devil’s Heart transplant option.
Step 4: Confirm the surgery. When prompted, provide the Devil’s Heart and pay the 10,000 yen fee to proceed with the operation.
After a successful surgery, your character becomes a Hybrid. This is a permanent change tied to the heart you used.
How Hybrid transformation works in combat
Hybrids gain a powerful transformation form but accept some important restrictions while transformed.
- Transformation input: Press the T key to transform into your Hybrid form.
- Power gain: While transformed, Hybrids gain unique abilities and much stronger combat output compared to their base human state.
- Contract lockout: You cannot use contract skills while in Hybrid form. Devil contract abilities are only available in the non-transformed state.
- Item lockout: You also cannot use items, such as other utility tools, during Hybrid transformation.
Hybrid type is assigned randomly from a pool of eight. These include:
- Bomb, Chainsaw, Flamethrower (generally regarded as top-tier offensive forms).
- Deep Sea (strong but slightly below the top tier).
- Katana (mid-tier).
- Whip and Shield (typically considered lower on the power curve).
Since the type is random, some players pursue multiple hearts and surgeries over time in search of a specific Hybrid form, subject to the reroll options and limits available in the current version of the game.
Using the Surgery Kit for contracts instead of Hybrid play
Not every build needs to go Hybrid. The same Surgery Kit materials are central to a pure Human–contractor route as well.
Many mid-tier contracts require a combination of yen and specific organs harvested via the kit. A common benchmark is around 20,000 yen plus particular parts for stronger deals. NPCs such as division leaders, Senior Hunters, and late-game figures like Dorian Graves are gatekeepers to these contracts and expect precise organ offerings alongside cash.
If you follow this path, the Surgery Kit becomes your engine for stockpiling Devil Flesh, Limbs, Eyes, and occasional Hearts, then converting them into contract-based power instead of surgical transformations.
Surgery Kit vs Fiend path
Devil Hunter offers two major transformation routes that intersect with the Surgery Kit but emphasize different mechanics: Hybrids via surgery and Fiends via contracts.
| Aspect | Hybrid path (Surgery Kit) | Fiend path |
|---|---|---|
| Core requirement | Surgery Kit, Devil’s Heart, 10,000 yen, Hospital surgery. | Three contracts from the same devil, no surgery required. |
| Primary playstyle | High burst damage via toggleable transformation. | Sustained combat with passive regeneration and native abilities. |
| Contract interaction | Contracts disabled while transformed. | Cannot sign new devil contracts once Fiend, but gains other tools. |
| Item usage while powered | Items disabled in Hybrid form. | Standard item rules for Fiends, depending on build. |
In practice, the Surgery Kit is mandatory if you intend to become a Hybrid and is still highly valuable even if you prefer the Fiend or pure Human routes, because harvested organs underpin both the contract economy and endgame transformations.
Once you understand how the Surgery Kit connects to harvesting, revives, contracts, and Hybrid surgery, it stops being a confusing utility item and turns into the backbone of your progression. Get the kit early, respect the animation lock, and treat every corpse as a potential step toward your next contract or transformation.
