Forge Mods for Minecraft 1.20
Browse 235 free Forge mods for Minecraft 1.20 — popular picks include Descend In The Madness, [SmittieKing] Mongolia, Shattered Legacy: Lose Hearts on Death.
Updated daily
Descend In The Madness
A psychological horror survival modpack inspired by Trevor Henderson’s Siren Head, featuring brutal survival mechanics, dangerous exploration, and a world designed to break your sanity.
[SmittieKing] Mongolia
A modpack that incorporates certain mechanics, atmospherics, and wildlife inspired by Mongolia.
Shattered Legacy: Lose Hearts on Death
A mod inspired by medium core, but non hardcore player friendly, where you naturally recover your hearts over time.
Sculk Outbreak
Sculk Outbreak is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, focused on a spreading sculk infection, hostile horde mechanics, deadly nights, ruined cities, and immersive long-term gameplay for both singleplayer and multiplayer servers.
Mechanical Slug
This modpack focuses on machines and sharing with other mods
Hardcore Redeploy
A mod that allows reviving players in hardcore servers, at a cost
Kindling Age
Kindling Age enhances early survival with lightweight, vanilla-friendly mechanics that make the first days more deliberate without adding grind or hard gates.
[SmittieKing] Kenya
A modpack that incorporates certain mechanics, atmospherics, and wildlife inspired by Kenya.
Hardcore Revivestone
A block that spawns when you die can be right clicked by anyone to revive you, at a cost of course.
The Good Life
A light and cozy modpack featuring farming, cooking, decoration, survival mechanics, and stunning biomes, designed for multiplayer fun and creative automation. 🌾✨
Daldon's Immersive Survival
A modpack focused on atmospheric exploration, roleplay , realistic survival mechanics, and cozy world-building in a richly enhanced, performance-friendly environment!
DayX
This is a survival challenge mod where you can customize many properties.The difficulty of the game will increase with the increase of danger level/time, and you can decide the specific reinforcement values of the monsters.
Delta blades
New mechanics, items, and weapons. The mod is small but can make your survival in the Minecraft world easier.
TFC Terra Incognita
TFC Terra Incognita is based on the challenging survival of TerraFirmaCraft combined with the mythical Create mod, a lot of new immersive mechanics, visuals and sounds, featuring addons that perfectly fit the TFC thematic.
jay medical
A hardcore medical and downed system mod for zombie apocalypse and realistic survival gameplay. Features bleeding, fractures, painkillers, reviving, adrenaline injections, and immersive multiplayer combat injuries.
Kamen Rider EX-AID
Bring the thrilling world of Kamen Rider Ex‑Aid into your Minecraft survival world! This mod packs tons of iconic items straight from the series, including Gashats, transformation drivers, signature weapons and lots of classic props.

among us - Mongus
Brings the iconic crewmate Among Us character into Minecraft as a mob, with a survival-friendly spawn egg so you can unleash the sus anywhere.
Undertaker's Totems
A hardcore landclaim system for Forge, Minecraft version 1.19.2
Kamilskis Additions
Its a mod that adds everything I ever thought of and that would make sense in minecraft, and makes it balanced for the survival experience.
Relentless Mobs
Makes (almost) all mobs pursue players from any distance and through blocks, increasing difficulty and intensity in survival gameplay!
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
Cursed Life
A Jujutsu Kaisen–inspired Minecraft modpack featuring cursed energy combat and unpredictable fate mechanics, enhanced with challenging mobs, unique abilities, and multiplayer-focused progression for chaotic, strategy-driven survival.
New Slabs
My first mod where i have many slabs that are not in minecraft. Meant for creative building but are obtainable in survival
Fervente´s Life Hearts
The Best Public Minecraft Hardcore Lifes Mod! With Dynamic HUD And Resurrection Features!
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
Balanced Minecraft Hardcore
Balanced Minecraft Hardcore (BMH) gives you flexibility in difficulty by replacing death by distant respawn based on your difficulty and Eternal Items possessed. BMH is the perfect middle ground between normal Minecraft and hardcore Minecraft.
Dragon Survival: Alternate Altar Recipes
An Addon for Dragon Survival. This mod adds a new crafting recipes for Dragon Altars in the Dragon Survival Mod
UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
Aephera's Survival
Realistic Overhaul of the Early to Mid game
ExtraLives
A mod that adds extra lives to hardcore mode
No Fishing Spam!
No Fishing Spam! is a lightweight anti-AFK farming mod that prevents fishing rod spam by enforcing a short cooldown between casts. Ideal for survival servers and modpacks aiming to keep gameplay balanced and fair.
ModernWarfare to the Max
Modern combat pushed to the limit — realistic weapons, tactical gameplay, survival mechanics, and high-intensity warfare.
Deprive
Deprive is a survival–hardship mod for Minecraft built on Fabric. It introduces a spoilage system for food and new survival mechanics that make staying alive more challenging.
Anomaly Zone
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-inspired survival mod: anomalous zones with contamination, upgradeable artifacts, emissions, detectors, and scientific armor. Zone survival, minecraft-flavored. Requires Terrablender and Curios to work.
Hardcore Architect
This mod allows you to create your own hardcore Minecraft experience, giving you the ability to choose any number of "hardcore" lives and their recovery rate.