WithMonster Hunter World’s resurgence is infull swing, players are now returning to Astera to coincide with Capcom’s “Return to World” blog posts. Whether they’re veterans of the series or newcomers, mods can help smooth the rough edges of World and create a far more enjoyable experience. Of course, if you’re new, it’s recommended to enjoy the game without any mods installed first, then look into adding mods to solve problems you run into.
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These mods will be ranked based on how much they improve your overall experience and how necessary they can be for enjoying the game beyond the base modless version. All of these mods can be found onNexusmods.
This list excludes all NSFW mods and mods that “cheat” the game too much like impossibly powerful weapons or conjuring rare materials.
10Better Palico AI
Reasons This Mod Is Worth Your Time
Better Palico AIis a godsend for solo players. Normally, your cat only has a 55% chance of hitting you out of status effects like sleep or paralysis. They’ll also use flashflies or sonic drums at times when it may be detrimental to the hunt.
With this mod installed, your cat will now help you 100% of the time. Flashflies and sonic drums can still be used, but they’re removed from the randomly selected move pool, making your Palico more focused on helping you rather than performing either of these attacks. you’re able to still command your Palico to perform them when you need them.
9Performance Booster And Plugin Extender
The benefits of thePerformance Booster and Plugin Extendermod are more subtle than the rest of the mods on this list, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less important. This mod removes useless code, helps the game run more efficiently, and if you plan to use other mods that require more advanced plugins, it enables those plugins to work.
this mod can be the difference between playing the game through what feels like PowerPoint slides or playing the game with a smooth frame rate.
Once you install this mod, nothing too crazy should change besides freeing up your CPU and GPU. For some computers, this could be the difference between being able to run MHW or not. For other computers, this mod can be the difference between playing the game through what feels like PowerPoint slides or playing the game with a smooth frame rate.
8Realistic LUT
Realistic LUTis another small mod that does a ton of work for your overall experience. This mod brings out the vibrancy of color in each of Monster Hunter World’s objects and modifies the game’s lighting so you’ll have more dramatic contrast between dark and well-lit areas.
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For some players, those minor aesthetic improvements may sound insignificant, but once you walk around a more lively Astera, or hunt a monster in a more gorgeous locale, you won’t want to go back to a world without this mod.
7MHW Costume Armor (Transmog)
This mod is great for anyone looking to be a fashion hunter. As the name suggests,Costume Armor (Transmog)gives you all the Layered Armor options for your armor. This means you can customize how each piece of your armor looks without losing the benefits of your armor and without the need to grind for the materials necessary to create Layered Armor in the game.
6Guiding Lands Gathering Indicator
When you first start playing Monster Hunter World, it can feel like gathering points just randomly pop up during your expeditions into the Guiding Lands. To some degree, they absolutely do, but despite their random timing, resource nodes still follow a general trend of where they’re most likely to appear.
This is especially useful when an event happens and extra rare resource nodes spawn in an area.
With that in mind, theGuiding Lands Gathering Indicatormod is perfect to help players learn where each of the unique gathering points is at a glance. This is especially useful when an event happens and extra rare resource nodes spawn in an area. With this mod, you’ll see how many and what rarity they are.
5Skippable Cutscenes
The worst part of Monster Hunter World is the sheer number of unskippable cutscenes you or your friends have to watch if you replay the game. In all fairness, the cutscenes themselves are awesome to watch; it’s everything that’s built around the cutscenes that makes a fresh playthrough so miserable. Friends can’t join your quest until you watch a cutscene, and you’ll often have to travel around the map to look for the unskippable cutscene area.
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With theSkippable Cutscenesmod, you’ll finally be able to progress through your game without needing to watch every single cutscene in its entirety again. Your friends will now be able to join you sooner instead of having to wait for you to finish watching cutscenes. If this is your second playthrough of World or if you just picked up the PC version after playing on console, this mod is practically a “must download.”
4Extra NPCs
One of the most convenient mods to own is the Extra NPCs mod inAsteraandSeliana. Normally, if you want to raise your research level or dispatch a new Tailrider Safari, you’ll have to return to Seliana from the hub, interact with the NPCs in charge of those tasks, and then return to the lobby area so you can continue enjoying multiplayer.
With this mod installed, you’ll be able to do all of that from the multiplayer hub instead. This should reduce the need to go into town for anything other than the Elder Melder, making life much more convenient while you’re playing with friends.
3Cake’s Hub Improvements
Cake’s Hub Improvementsis more heavy-handed in its changes compared to the Extra NPCs mod, adding a quest board, cooking, and all the relevant NPCs into its hubs and your room instead of just adding NPCs to multiplayer hubs.
With this mod installed, you could spend most of your time in your room instead of running around Astera and Seliana to talk to NPCs or start quests.
With this mod installed, you could spend most of your time in your room instead of running around Astera and Seliana to talk to NPCs or start quests. For people who love being in their room all the time, this is a fantastic mod to make life much easier. However, the increased number of people inside your room can make it feel cramped, so if you prefer a more wide open room, stick with the Extra NPCs mod.
2Dropped Items EFX
As far as necessary mods are concerned, this is a mod that should have been baked into the game. Whenever a monster has a part broken, or if you Clutch Claw the monster into a wall, small white pieces will drop off of them. These pieces are collectible and are free monster parts for you to loot. However, in the base game, the hardest part is finding these dropped parts, since the normal effects aren’t very noticeable among the colorful and rich environments of World’s biomes.
With theDropped Items EFXmod, now you’ll always know exactly where these drops are. Each item now emits a large pillar of neon symbols to indicate both what item it is and where it is. The colors and symbols used by these pillars are also customizable in this mod. But with these pillars of light helping you, collecting dropped items becomes a far easier task to accomplish.
1HunterPie
Monster Hunter does its best to encourage teamwork between Hunters. This is usually done by creating cooperative mechanics like the Clutch Claw’s soften or by hiding total damage numbers. For the latter point, numbers are hidden so no one will know who’s contributing the least to the hunt and who’s contributing the most. But with the loss that data, players also don’t have a way of judging how well they’re doing between each hunt (besides completion time) or how much damage they’re doing relative to their teammates.
HunterPierectifies that problem by showing you all the data you’ll ever need. If you want to stay within the spirit of the game, stick to just the damage meter widget so you can keep an eye on your own damage relative to your teammates. This is a good indicator of when you’re squeezing every last drop of DPS from your weapon and when you’re not.
However, if you’re getting frustrated with a hunt and want to see the monster’s health bar (something that’s very much against the spirit of the series as a whole) you can always turn on the Monster widget to see the monster’s HP and each part’s HP. The ability to pick and choose exactly what you want to display, where to display it, and how is what makes HunterPie a necessity for almost any hunter to run with. Plus, this mod also works withMonster Hunter Rise, which is a great bonus.
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