Best Monster Hunter Rise Mods

Want to play Monster Hunter Rise with PC mods? Check out this list of the best Monster Rise mods to improve the game.

Monster Hunter Rise is the latest installment in the Capcom multiplayer franchise and sees players exploring novel tools and strategies in their never-ending pursuit of shiny weapons and armor.

Furthermore, now that the game is no longer a Switch exclusive, modders have begun to peel back the numerous layers of Rise’s code and develop mods that improve the PC version.

In this list, we’ll highlight the finest Monster Hunter Rise mods to enhance graphics, gameplay, UI, weapons, enemies, and just about anything else you can think of.

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Before you start tinkering with Rise PC mods, we suggest first installing praydog’s REFramework modding tool.

This will allow you to experiment with more complex mods that require scripting as well as those that affect Rise’s FOV, timescaling, etc.

In fact, many of the mods included on this list require REFramework as a crucial prerequisite to installing them.

If you’re feeling a bit wistful for Rise’s predecessor, the Embers – Cinematic Reshade mod will make the game look a lot more like Monster Hunter World.

This is achieved by desaturating visuals and increasing the sharpness along with a few other graphical modifications that change the overall tone of the game.

While Rise may still always look like a Switch port at the end of the day, mods like this are a great way to up the graphical fidelity.

Clarity Shader is another Monster Hunter Rise reshade mod that enhances graphical fidelity without making too many drastic changes.

Created by Revonlieke, this mod is designed to soften some of Rise’s sharp horizontal lines as well as remove the blurring effect that washes out details on characters and scenery.

It also appears to add a slight increase in saturation and contrast, making for a more lively presentation.

Building off of our first recommendation, Rise Scripts is a compilation of scripts for REFramework that lets players modify several of the game’s technical aspects.

Some examples include removing the FPS limit for cutscenes, forcing the game to adjust to the size of whatever screen you’re playing on, and forcing the game to display in a specific resolution.

Each setting can be customized to your preference by editing specific values in Notepad, just make sure to follow the steps provided in the mod’s description.

Anyone who’s played Monster Hunter knows just how data-heavy the game can be what with all the buffs, debuffs, weapon/armor stats, and not to mention the enormous monster in front of you.

One of players’ options for dealing with this, especially if you don’t want to constantly sift through menus, is to use an overlay mod such as Haato’s HunterPie v2 – Overlay and Rich Presence.

This adds streamlined and easy-to-ready HUD elements to display all of the above along with info regarding monster health, parts broken, etc. with the ability to modify each element’s position on screen.

If you don’t want to commit to an entirely new HUD layout but would still stand to benefit from more data conveyed in-game, this next mod will come in useful.

Created by celluloid, the Monster Weakness Icon Indicator adds a helpful little in-game icon to clue you into which elements the monster you’re hunting is most vulnerable to.

No longer will you have to stop playing to open your hunter’s notes, google a monster’s weaknesses, or spend time trying to commit them to memory.

An unfortunate consequence of Rise being a Switch port is many of its UI elements still retain the original Switch resolution.

To remedy this, we recommend installing Chalk’s 4K HUD Mod, which replaces the standard in-game HUD/UI with a crisper resolution version.

This is achieved using a mixture of recreated elements as well as some upscaling intended for 4K screens, though you should be fine on anything 1080p and above.

The aptly named Weapon Stay Big mod by cursey is ideal for hunters who can’t stand watching their weapons diminish every time they’re sheathed.

The most common offenders are typically Great Swords but you’ll find most weapons of a particular mass will be reduced down to size once put away.

With this mod installed, weapons will always remain sizable without affecting their in-game performance.

If you’ve always wanted to layer any weapon like it was Rampage S, then Peasly Wellbott’s Layer Any Weapon mod will provide you with a swift fix.

Once installed, this alteration will make it so all weapons in your Equipment Box can be selected at the Smithy upon choosing to “Layer Rampage Weapons.”

Remember that this modification depends on the REFramework modification tool and the developer advises making a copy of your saved file prior to installation.

As pleasurable as Monster Hunter Rise is, some of the rare rewards for certain monsters can feel quite unbalanced at times.

To help out, we suggest using Korayshin’s Drop Rates Enhanced mod, which allows you to get more rewards per monster in a balanced manner that’s compatible with multiplayer sessions.

The mod includes both balanced and unequal versions that increase the quantity of rewards by 50% and x2, respectively.

Another way to reduce the amount of grind in Rise is to enhance the melding rate for decorations using ShizuDesu’s Improved Wisp of Mystery and Rebirth Melding Rate mod.

This makes it so all skills have a 97-99% chance of being at their maximum level, including charms with both primary and secondary skills.

The mod also removes less-desirable endgame skills from the selection available, such as Botanist, Carving Pro, Geologist, etc.

The pacing for each quest in Rise may be different throughout but always end just as unsatisfying, with your character unceremoniously knocking out the monster for good.

To add some much-needed zest and end each hunt on a high note, we suggest installing Bolt’s Remove Monster Kill-Cam Plus Stylish SlowMo Finishers mod.

This makes it so the ultimate blow on any monster plays out in slow-mo while removing the default kill cam that takes over anytime a monster is slain.

Alternatively, the Carve Timer Skip and Swift Return mod by godoakos is for any hunter who can’t be bothered to linger after a monster is killed.

As its name suggests, this mod lets you bypass the in-game carve timer and quest-ending sequence and return to your camp or Kamura Village in just instants with the push of a button.

Like many of the modifications previously highlighted, it requires you to have REFramework installed beforehand.

Wirebugs are a fantastic new addition to Rise that shake-up traversal and combat in some entertaining and intriguing ways.

However, as you already know, they operate on a cooldown that resets each time one is consumed, leaving some players to contemplate what would happen if you had an infinite supply.

Well, with Fylex’s Infinite Wirebugs mod you can finally find out by unlocking a boundless supply of wirebugs to zip around the environment and damage monsters.

For those who want to get shop items easily without doing too much work, dtlnor’s All Legal Item In Shop mod is a total game-changer.

It modifies Rise’s in-game shop to display all legitimate items (or rather non-modded items) while filtering out those with a selling price of zero.

If you’re more disposed to track down these items for yourself feel free to do so, just know you have another option should you grow weary of scavenger hunting.

Our final Monster Hunter Rise PC mod suggestion is for players who are fine with cheating as long as it’s reasonable.

Created by Fexty, the Charm Editor and Item Cheat mod allows you to modify your charms’ rarity, skills, levels, and slots as well as spawn an infinite number of items in your inventory/box.

It also lets you modify your stash of Zenny and Kamura Tickets, just remember to create a backup save file and install REFrameworks beforehand.

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