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About this mod
Transforms every ailment into impactful mechanics — this mod aims to deepen Monster Hunter Wilds status and blight systems by making each effect more meaningful, flavorful, and interactive.
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Wild Status Effects: Reworked Mechanics
A. Why These Changes?
In the base game, many status ailments and elemental blights feel either too weak to matter. This mod aims to:
The mission of this mod is to make you think twice before letting a status build up or ignoring blight resistances on your build.
B. Design Changes
Note: For more detail, check the mod's README.txt.
I. Reworked Status Effects
Note: For a visual showcase of the changes, check the Videos section of this page.
🔥 Fire Blight
- Increased Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Red Health Bar, this acts as a regeneration counter mechanic.
- Reduced Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Green Health Bar compared to the damage done in vanilla. This is done to compensate the increased damage on the red health bar.
Reasoning: Fire should has now an anti-regen identity, rather than simply being another DoT mechanic.
☠️ Poison Status
- Poison Damage is now exponential, each damage tick multiplies itself with a multiplier.
- UI: Added the health bar's danger effect when poison damage scales into high numbers.
Reasoning: I want poison to become a pressure mechanic, reflecting venom effect worsening if left untreated. The first damage ticks deal minimal damage but if the player forgets about the poison status, it can be fatal.
💥 Blast Status
- Hunters dodges reduces the incoming Blast Damage, whenever the Blast Damage is reduced to zero the Blast Status disappears.
- Blast Damage is greater compared to vanilla to compensate Hunters being able to reduce it by dodging.
- Blast Duration has been greatly reduced, in vanilla you had 25 seconds to execute 3 dodges which was inconceivably easy.
- Blocking while having the Blast Status will accelerate the blast detonation.
- UI: Whenever you block and explosion effect is triggered to signal the timer reduction the Blast detonation.
- Hotfix (Vanilla): Now the game updates the Health Bar Blast Damage indicator (UI) when having the Blast Resistance skill active.
Reasoning: Rather than being a binary damage/no‑damage mechanic, players can chip away damage at the potential explosion.
😴 Sleep Status
- Sleep status has now a Wake Up Multiplier, while the hunter is asleep on the ground the incoming hit will deal additional damage. Don't worry, the multiplier is not x2 as the wake hit for monster.
Reasoning: Sleep should mirror monster mechanics patterns and differentiate itself from Paralysis.
🩸 Bleed Status
- Bleed has improved build-up, monsters attacks that deal bleed build-up have been increased so the hunter suffers the Bleed Status in less hits.
- Bleed punishes reckless use of Seikret carelessly, now hunters suffers damage whenever they use:
Reasoning: In the vanilla version of MHWs using the Seikret is too safe of a mechanic no matter the location or the situation, I want to change that. I want bleed to focus on countering Seikret utilization and make you think twice before using it.
🦠 Frenzy Status
- Frenzy is harder to overcome, hunters have less time to overcome the virus and If a monster hits it advances much more the virus incubation.
- Frenzy Outbreak applies a -15% affinity on the hunter's weapon.
Reasoning: This change emphasizes Frenzy as a risk/reward mechanic based on weapon affinity (thematically makes more sense given the Chaotic Gore weapons' affinity values).
💩 Stench Status
- Your palico will try to heal you... but you STINK!. Stench makes the palico unable to heal you, but because he's still your best companion, he will try... wasting his cooldowns and emoting in disgust.
- Stench duration increased.
Reasoning: The palico makes this mechanic irrelevant in the base game, with his heals and his status cleaning tools. That's why I've chosen this mechanic to focus on countering your palico and his gadgets. Also I want to expose the comedic aspect of this status.
🕸️ Webbed Status
- Web proyectiles cannot be blocked. That's it.
Reasoning: Monster Hunter, as a franchise, doesn’t feature many unblockable mechanics. The idea of blocking spider webs always felt odd to me—getting immobilized should happen even if your shield is up.
II. Other Status Effects
C. Mod Roadmap
D. Installation Guide
1. Download StatusEffectsMod.rar
2. Extract to reveal reframework/autorun/Wild_Status_Effects.lua
3. Copy the reframework/ folder into your Monster Hunter Wilds game directory.
4. Launch the game — your customized status overhaul loads on startup.
E. Tutorial - Modify the Mod's parameters (ReFramework UI)
Note: To get a visual tutorial check the Videos section of this page, check the video: Modify Params in Real Time Test.
For further customization, open the mods UI by executing the following steps:
[/i][/i]
¡Changes apply immediately—no restart needed!
Enjoy the mod & Happy hunting!
A. Why These Changes?
In the base game, many status ailments and elemental blights feel either too weak to matter. This mod aims to:
- Differentiate effects so each status has its own identity and counterplay.
- Encourage tactical decisions around using counter skills and resource management.
- Enhance thematic immersion by tying mechanics to narrative concepts (e.g., fire as anti‑regen mechanic, sleep having aditional damage on wake up hit).
The mission of this mod is to make you think twice before letting a status build up or ignoring blight resistances on your build.
B. Design Changes
Note: For more detail, check the mod's README.txt.
I. Reworked Status Effects
Note: For a visual showcase of the changes, check the Videos section of this page.
🔥 Fire Blight
- Increased Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Red Health Bar, this acts as a regeneration counter mechanic.
- Reduced Fire Blight Damage dealt to the Green Health Bar compared to the damage done in vanilla. This is done to compensate the increased damage on the red health bar.
Reasoning: Fire should has now an anti-regen identity, rather than simply being another DoT mechanic.
☠️ Poison Status
- Poison Damage is now exponential, each damage tick multiplies itself with a multiplier.
- UI: Added the health bar's danger effect when poison damage scales into high numbers.
Reasoning: I want poison to become a pressure mechanic, reflecting venom effect worsening if left untreated. The first damage ticks deal minimal damage but if the player forgets about the poison status, it can be fatal.
💥 Blast Status
- Hunters dodges reduces the incoming Blast Damage, whenever the Blast Damage is reduced to zero the Blast Status disappears.
- Blast Damage is greater compared to vanilla to compensate Hunters being able to reduce it by dodging.
- Blast Duration has been greatly reduced, in vanilla you had 25 seconds to execute 3 dodges which was inconceivably easy.
- Blocking while having the Blast Status will accelerate the blast detonation.
- UI: Whenever you block and explosion effect is triggered to signal the timer reduction the Blast detonation.
- Hotfix (Vanilla): Now the game updates the Health Bar Blast Damage indicator (UI) when having the Blast Resistance skill active.
Reasoning: Rather than being a binary damage/no‑damage mechanic, players can chip away damage at the potential explosion.
😴 Sleep Status
- Sleep status has now a Wake Up Multiplier, while the hunter is asleep on the ground the incoming hit will deal additional damage. Don't worry, the multiplier is not x2 as the wake hit for monster.
Reasoning: Sleep should mirror monster mechanics patterns and differentiate itself from Paralysis.
🩸 Bleed Status
- Bleed has improved build-up, monsters attacks that deal bleed build-up have been increased so the hunter suffers the Bleed Status in less hits.
- Bleed punishes reckless use of Seikret carelessly, now hunters suffers damage whenever they use:
- Seikret Recovery.
- Seikret Dash.
- Seikret Dodges.
- Hunter Jump Off while riding Seikret.
Reasoning: In the vanilla version of MHWs using the Seikret is too safe of a mechanic no matter the location or the situation, I want to change that. I want bleed to focus on countering Seikret utilization and make you think twice before using it.
🦠 Frenzy Status
- Frenzy is harder to overcome, hunters have less time to overcome the virus and If a monster hits it advances much more the virus incubation.
- Frenzy Outbreak applies a -15% affinity on the hunter's weapon.
Reasoning: This change emphasizes Frenzy as a risk/reward mechanic based on weapon affinity (thematically makes more sense given the Chaotic Gore weapons' affinity values).
💩 Stench Status
- Your palico will try to heal you... but you STINK!. Stench makes the palico unable to heal you, but because he's still your best companion, he will try... wasting his cooldowns and emoting in disgust.
- Stench duration increased.
Reasoning: The palico makes this mechanic irrelevant in the base game, with his heals and his status cleaning tools. That's why I've chosen this mechanic to focus on countering your palico and his gadgets. Also I want to expose the comedic aspect of this status.
🕸️ Webbed Status
- Web proyectiles cannot be blocked. That's it.
Reasoning: Monster Hunter, as a franchise, doesn’t feature many unblockable mechanics. The idea of blocking spider webs always felt odd to me—getting immobilized should happen even if your shield is up.
II. Other Status Effects
- Elemental Blights (Water / Ice / Thunder): All elemental blights now share the same dodge‑consume duration rates with the Dragon Blight (decreased values).
- Defense Down: The defense reduction is further increased.
- Paralysis: Base paralysis duration increased, but button‑mashing has greater influence than vanilla. Player must keep active even when hitted with this status ailment.
C. Mod Roadmap
- Reworked Status
- Stench: Make Vigor wasps flee from the hunter.
- Stench: Make Seikret stop on his tracks when you call him.
- Bubbleblight: Seikret trips over when trying to get the hunter.
- Improving Mod's Flair
- Stench: Make the palico and the Seikret emote in disgust when aproaching you.
- Stench: All endemic life (fauna) will get away from you.
- Known Bugs
- No reports.
- No reports.
D. Installation Guide
1. Download StatusEffectsMod.rar
2. Extract to reveal reframework/autorun/Wild_Status_Effects.lua
3. Copy the reframework/ folder into your Monster Hunter Wilds game directory.
4. Launch the game — your customized status overhaul loads on startup.
E. Tutorial - Modify the Mod's parameters (ReFramework UI)
Note: To get a visual tutorial check the Videos section of this page, check the video: Modify Params in Real Time Test.
For further customization, open the mods UI by executing the following steps:
[/i][/i]
- Start the game with ReFramework & Wild Status Effects Mod installed.
- Press the Insert Key to open the Reframework menu, if it wasn't open.
- Scroll down the menu and click on the Script Generated UI & the [Wild Status Effects Editor] Open.
- In any hunt, click [Wild Status Effects Editor] at the top‑left to open the menu.
- Expand a category (e.g., Poison, Blast) by clicking its header.
- Adjust numerical sliders for durations, multipliers, dodge‑consume timings, etc.
- Click Save Configuration button to save your changes to disk (<game_directory>/reframework/data/Wild_Status_Effects.json).
- (Optionally) Use Reset to Saved or Reset to Mod Defaults to undo tweaks.
¡Changes apply immediately—no restart needed!
Enjoy the mod & Happy hunting!