Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 1,470 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Crystal Leveling, Orange Mod, True Hardcore Overhaul.
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Crystal Leveling
Assigns every entity a random “difficulty level”, makes fighting more meaningful.
Orange Mod
[Discontinued] Mod That Adds Orange And Stuff
True Hardcore Overhaul
A hardcore survival overhaul featuring permanent health loss, bleeding mechanics, enhanced mob AI, and resource scarcity. Can you survive the Mediumcore?
Crazy Chaos Mod
✘ Crazy chaos mod, a challenge to complete the game. Or just having fun.
Origins: Caucasus Giant
Caucasus Giant is a massive, strong, but dim-witted schoolboy. He builds rage from combat, unleashing devastating stomps, desk slams, and wallops. However, he's slower, bad with books and complex items, and his heavy footsteps alert mobs.
Pingaland - Unique Loot
Dive into a dark fantasy world where every fallen monster could drop powerful, legendary weapons, turning each battle into a thrilling treasure hunt.
Blacksmith Tweaks
This mod adds Buffs to the tools and armor you find and craft! These buffs can range from something as simple as increased damage and durability to as interesting as making mobs flee or taking their health for your own!
Mit's Synths
Adds synths/robots to Minecraft that will follow your commands and help you!
MoonBorne
MoonBorne is a highly configurable Minecraft survival experience centered around dangerous special moons, each bringing unique mechanics, events, mobs, hordes, and challenges to your world.
End Update But Kind of Scuffed V2
This mod adds some end stuff like leaky chorus fruit, aka a water bucket but different, and also enderite! It has your regular tools and armor but its OP with 8092 durability, this mod also adds 2 mobs! Catty, like a dog but a cat, End Creeper a melee mob!
HeartBound Skills
A dynamic fantasy RPG leveling mod! Train 5 core skills, unlock perks via a custom menu, and face vanilla mobs that scale with your combat level.
Lot's Of Illagers (LOI)
This project adds a couple of illagers.
Slimes Everywhere
Allows Slimes to spawn at night in any biome
Egg of Summoning
Adds a new egg that allows you to capture any entity by throwing it at them, turning them into a spawn egg for easy storage and transportation
Stellarity_x_True_Ending_patch
Compatibility layer for seamless integration between Stellarity and True Ending datapacks.
Pactbound Wardens
Ever wished your enemies would fight by your side? Seal a pact to recruit mobs as loyal wardens: follow, hold, guard a post, or patrol a radius you choose. (No dependencies)
Conjurer's Dream
Summon entities to fight and defend for you using a diverse array of powerful staffs each with unique abilities.
Resin Gun
A weapon to catch and transfer Mobs with fancy animations
Adventure_Awits
Adventure_Awits Summary: Embark on an epic journey with Adventure_Awits
Emeralds Galore
Emerald Ores and Zombie Villagers drop more Emeralds
Scavenger Mobs
Scavenger Mobs makes hostile mobs smarter by having them seek out, compare, and equip nearby gear.
EffectiveLight
Relevant mobs only spawn at 0-7 blocklight (adjustable).
Lactose Kaboom
A silly simple mod adding suspicious cow's that attack back
Pact
Make Pacts with Spirits to get their powers !
Cats Love Tropical Fish too
Cats and Ocelots now can eat Tropical Fish
AngerMod
Makes mobs angry on performing certain actions (e.g. breaking certain blocks). Configurable!

Silent Echo: Residual
A recreation of the mod Silent Echo from the ground up
Mystic Runes
Use magical runes to become more powerful!
TS Better Boss Fighting
TSmod is a GPL v3 licensed balance mod that ensures pure and fair Minecraft Boss fights by implementing participant-death healing and suppressing surrounding mob spawns.
OtherStage
Complete stage-based progression system that blocks Minecraft content until specific conditions are met, featuring automatic configuration tools and advanced optimization.
interactEntity
Turn any mob into a fully scripted NPC with branching dialogues, quests, and conditions, all through simple JSON files, no coding required
No Armored Mobs
Mobs such as skeletons and zombies no longer spawn with armor.
Forged Additions
A bare-bones content update for Forge.
Garfeldi [Cobblemon]
Back in 2024, I made an April Fools' addon for Cobblemon just called "Garfeldi", ironically posted to the Cobblemon server on April 2nd. I found the files, like, 10 minutes ago, made minimal changes, and decided to post it to Modrinth.

Zelda Foes
This mod adds mobs to the game inspired by (if not outright copied from) enemies from the classic N64 game Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It features vanilla-esque enemies with unique mechanics and a few new drops, to spice up adventure and combat!
Truffle Pigs
Makes pigs find brown mushrooms every 6000-12000 ticks, just like how pigs in reallife find truffels