Data Packs for Minecraft Java
Browse 118 free data packs for Minecraft Java — popular picks include MANAGEMENT WANTED: SURVIVAL PATCH!, PermaEfe Extreme Survival, Vanilla Extra Difficulty.
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MANAGEMENT WANTED: SURVIVAL PATCH!
A Data pack that allows those that use management wanted to craft a majority of the animatronics.
PermaEfe Extreme Survival
PermaEfe is a Minecraft datapack that increases the difficulty progressively for 30 days, with mechanics such as permanent death, boosted mobs and unique craftables. Ideal to play with friends and test your survival.
Vanilla Extra Difficulty
This datapack is designed for players seeking an extra layer of challenge and excitement in their survival gameplay.
MZZ's Desert Survival
Makes the whole world a desert; overhauls Minecraft's crafting recipes to provide unique progression and highlight Minecraft's overlooked features.
The Dark Forest
This datapack replaces vanilla minecrafts adventure based survival with a more difficult base-building based survival
Blissful Origin Layer
An Origins datapack which adds per-player difficulty options, such as making mobs passive to players, disabling hunger, loosely inspired by the modpack Bliss. Also adds a per-player "Ultra Hardcore" mode that disables natural health regeneration.
CraftStands
A Crafting Focused Armor Stand Datapack focused on Survival, Limited, but unique Armor Stands. Unique functionality with special item based animations & commands!
Expand the border
Expand The Border (ETB) is a unique Minecraft survival datapack that introduces a dynamic world border mechanic. Instead of a fixed world border, players must complete various objectives to expand the playable area.
Celestial Elites
Celestial Elites is a datapack that spawns in elite mobs with randomized abilities in your survival world.
Spider Drops OP Loot
Turn spiders into an overpowered loot source for intense and rewarding survival combat.
SpaceFrog's Frog Variant Changer
Change a frog's variant type using a vanilla/survival-friendly method. Works with vanilla (cold, temperate, warm) and optionally 'More Frogs 2' variants: crimson, ender, infernal, poison dart, purpur, sculk, spirit, warped, and wood.
STEVE MUST DIE difficulty
Focuses on a much harder Vanilla Survival experience. Not only by making mobs stronger or more resistant, but adding new mechanics and unique twists. Also letting you progress slightly faster (if you're skilled enough)
Trade Less
This data pack stops all villagers from selling emeralds Perfect for servers with a tight economy or a more challenging survival experience
Harrowing Hells (Data Pack)
[NOW SURVIVAL SUMMONABLE] Adds the Cinderscourge, a highly developed boss entity with a diverse arsenal of attacks at its disposal. Usable in mob battles.
Simple Mob Heads Drop
A simple data pack that makes mobs drop their heads when you kill them. Good for survival base decoration.
Scalable Mobs
A survival data pack that allows players to change the scale of passive mobs for decorative purposes.
Super Hardcore
A datapack that makes hardcore actually hard. You now only have 5 hearts and you take damage from a fall taller than 2 blocks.
Blocked In Hardcore
A challenging version of the Blocked In datapack
Balanced Villager Trades
Adds 295 balanced, vanilla-style villager trades for bulk building materials, useful items, and survival progression. Server-side; no mods required.
Time Hunter
Time Hunter is a team PvP survival datapack where players compete by mining resources and eliminating foes to extend their countdown, with elimination on timeout, supporting 2-4 team battles and strategic combat.
Renewable Survival
Makes All Items Renewable. Adds crafting or mob drops.
SpaceFrog's Cat Variant Changer
Change a cat's breed (variant type) using a vanilla/survival-friendly method. Choose from all kitty varieties: black, calico, jellie, orange (red), persian, ragdoll, shorthair, siamese, tabby, tuxedo, white & a special random type.
PermaEfe
PermaEfe is a Minecraft datapack that increases the difficulty progressively for 30 days, with mechanics such as permanent death, boosted mobs and unique craftables. Ideal to play with friends and test your survival.
HardSurvivalStrategie
Minecraft Datapack with realistic crafting and behaviour.
Simple Skyblock
A datapack that adds a lot of unobtainable items to the skyblock experience.
MC Unbalanced World
A great overhaul to survival progression, adds 30+ hours of content, to enjoy alone or with friends
No Totems
Removes totems from the evoker loot table, making them impossible to get in survival. perfect for servers if you want to ban totems
Survival Refightalized
A reworked survival experience with more varied mobs and new armor and shield mechanics.
Escalating Hardcore Mode
This is a datapack that drastically increases the difficulty of your game.
Craftable Mob Eggs
With this project you can simply craft mob eggs. Perfect for survival worlds!
Ultra Hardcore by DWizard
A feature-rich datapack that aims to increase Minecraft's difficulty and turn the game into a true survival experience, by expanding it's progression and all of it's survival aspects.
Vanilla With Sugar
A close-to-vanilla datapack that slows Minecraft's early game pacing and makes survival a bigger focus
True Man's World
This data pack is designed to make your survival more difficult without adding new mobs, using hardcore or reducing health to zero.
Hardcore meat
Meat from cows and pigs drops much less
Better Hardcore Datapack
Completely overhauls Hardcore mode to be true danger.
Cool Tools & Weapons - Data Pack
This Data Pack adds: 5 new bosses,30+ new items,1 new dimension,1 new soul system to allow changes to spawners in a survival friendly way,3 new structures to that dimension,5 new biomes;