Game Crashing whenever I go to forge Zoh and Misutsune weapons.

[Frosty]

Easily repeatable and extremely annoying. Boot up game, I can play the game, fight monsters, run around, interact with my menus. I go to forge the new weapon for Misutsune or Zoh Shia and the game instant crashes to desktop. Any tips? Anyone else having this issue?

[Frosty]

Fix is to disable the loose file loader in Reframework and restart the game

[Sleeves]

Originally posted by Frosty:

Fix is to disable the loose file loader in Reframework and restart the game

This disables pretty much all mods, which isnt ideal if there is some mods you want enabled.
The question is, WHICH mods are doing it?
I was getting stuck on the loading screen after TU1 and after a looot of digging, found the mod that replaces Nata was the culprit.
But I still hard crash every time I look at a mizu weapon - which is weird as I have zero mods that change weapons, stats, the weapon tree, previews etc.

Obviously some mod is causing the crash, but its not obvious which one. The entire game works fine - even the mizu fight, just not the viewing of the weapon.
I'll update here if I find out what it is, and I hope someone else does too.
"just dont use mods lol" isnt really a good answer

if youre having this issue, start by identifying any mod that changes stats or weapon models first and removing them. Then anything that may be linked to those weapons. For me, im at a loss as I have no such mods, except like, SFX change mods

[Sleeves]

FOUND: the issue was the Gathering Enhanced mod
The mod was essentially changing the whole skill sheet, a skill sheet that doesnt contain the new weapon-specific skills of the new monsters. Once you hover over the weapon the game doesnt know what to do with that skill because the mod essentially uploads a whole skill sheet that over-writes the new one.

[Reps]

Originally posted by Sleeves:

FOUND: the issue was the Gathering Enhanced mod
The mod was essentially changing the whole skill sheet, a skill sheet that doesnt contain the new weapon-specific skills of the new monsters. Once you hover over the weapon the game doesnt know what to do with that skill because the mod essentially uploads a whole skill sheet that over-writes the new one.

Can you elaborate because I haven't been able to fix this issue yet same as Topic Poster.

[Frosty]

The only "loose files" mod I had installed was the Congalala fart with reverb mod. So I wasn't too upset to disable loose files. Not sure why that was breaking it but all I did was uncheck the loose files box load in, save, then relaunch the game and re-enable loose files and it worked.

There was a topic about it on Apr 4, 2025 on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MHWilds/comments/1jre2o2/hovering_on_zo_shia_or_mizutsune_weapons_crashes/

Top comment solution is what I followed and it worked perfect.

[Neon]

Uses mods. Game crashes.

How could this happen.

But seriously 'disable all mods' should be step one in trying to track down a crash. In any game.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Neon:

Uses mods. Game crashes.

How could this happen.

But seriously 'disable all mods' should be step one in trying to track down a crash. In any game.

They deserve the issues for not reading the mods instructions correctly.

[O.G]

Originally posted by Sleeves:

FOUND: the issue was the Gathering Enhanced mod
The mod was essentially changing the whole skill sheet, a skill sheet that doesnt contain the new weapon-specific skills of the new monsters. Once you hover over the weapon the game doesnt know what to do with that skill because the mod essentially uploads a whole skill sheet that over-writes the new one.

|Yep this fixed it for me too. Anyone who wants a easy way to remove this mod (Becaus Fluffy Doesn't do it properly)

use this tool
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/1651

Right after I added my root game directory, it found all the outdated loose file mods and selected the option to remove them. Once it did, and I restarted the game (as it was already running), I was able to view new gear items without issues.