diff --git a/src/gateway/events/Message.ts b/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
index 7a2e49d3d..b76ab889a 100644
--- a/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import WS from "ws";
 import OPCodeHandlers from "../opcodes";
 import { check } from "../opcodes/instanceOf";
 import { PayloadSchema } from "@spacebar/schemas";
+import { HTTPError } from "lambert-server";
 
 const bigIntJson = BigIntJson({ storeAsString: true });
 
@@ -90,7 +91,9 @@ export async function Message(this: WebSocket, buffer: WS.Data) {
         return await OPCodeHandler.call(this, data);
     } catch (error) {
         console.error(`[Gateway/${this.user_id ?? this.ipAddress}] Error: Op ${data.op}`, error);
+        let message: string | undefined = undefined;
+        if (error instanceof HTTPError) message = error.message;
         // if (!this.CLOSED && this.CLOSING)
-        return this.close(CLOSECODES.Unknown_error);
+        return this.close(CLOSECODES.Unknown_error, message ?? `Unknown opcode error while handling opcode ${data.op}`);
     }
 }