Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 1,661 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Crisis Contract, Grass=Random Item, Grab Bags.
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Crisis Contract
A module designed in the style of Arknights' Contingency Contract gameplay, with a parasite theme serving as a hardcore challenge.
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
Accumulator
Adds a redstone block that pulls in entities in front of it. Uses materials from the Amarite mod. Made for my own personal use, as it requires Connector/Kilt.
zombiesbetter
A survival-enhancing mod that gives zombies the ability to mine blocks, build stairs, and use specialist tools to reach the player. No more hiding behind walls!
Another Hardcore Mod
This Forge mod introduces a heart-based life system for hardcore servers. Players have limited hearts, lose one on death, and are hardcore-banned at 0 hearts. PvP kills steal a heart, making every fight high-risk and meaningful. Perfect for ha
SteelHold
Steelhold is a Forge mod for Minecraft that adds heavy-duty, lockable safes designed for survival, multiplayer, and roleplay servers.
Virtual-Redstone-Wire
A Minecraft mod for long-distance redstone signal transmission that does not rely on physical redstone blocks, supporting one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one connections.
Mirohodec Mod
Forget about the familiar Nether and the End — this mod radically expands the boundaries of the familiar game world, turning your survival into an epic journey through an infinite multiverse.
bedrock armor
Craft Bedrock in survival, forge a powerful Bedrock Armor set, and unlock a new late-game crafting progression for Fabric 26.1.2.
Ring of the Hundred Curses
A configurable Forge 1.20.1 challenge mod featuring 100 curses for survival, combat, exploration, trading, and progression.
kW1st
Hardcore mod where speedrunner kW1st got out of his world into multiverses and multiplied. Now kW1st is trying to kill you.
Basically Wither Cloak
Adds an item close to the wither cloak from hypixel skyblock
Amethyst Platform
Survival on the amethyst platform. All you need is an amethyst.
Tera-surf-mod
A simple lightweight exploration minecraft mod made for all surface travel that entails the survival adventure feel with balances in its core mechanics.
SlotZero
SlotZero is a survival-focused gameplay overhaul that transforms how inventory works in Minecraft. Players begin with extremely limited carrying capacity and must unlock additional slots using progression items like pouches, toolbelts, and backpacks.
Vanilla Apocalypse
A Forge mod that enhances zombie behavior, making them faster, stronger, and more dangerous while creating a harsher survival experience.
OmniPlayer Toolbox
An all-in-one in-game menu for full player control: flight options, invulnerability features, and instant access to any item—even in Survival.
HLElevators
Simple one block elevator
ExplorerKit
A modular adventure toolkit with backpacks, waypoints, minimap, mob health HUD, and survival info.
Scars
Scars is a hardcore Minecraft mod that makes every death matter. It introduces a progressive trauma system where your maximum health decreases with each death, forcing you to play more carefully.
SXD's Random Blocks
Experience the thrill of surprise in Minecraft! This mod adds five tiers of random blocks that drop completely random loot when broken. Blocks are blast-proof, easy to mine, and feature a dedicated creative tab - perfect for survival, building, and servers
Vital Reflexes
A mod that makes you manually manage breathing and blinking, adding a small but constant survival challenge to gameplay.
SnowPED
Is a survival-focused mod that turns the world into a frozen
coffin-larva-and-fossils
`Coffin, Larva, and Fossils` adds a compact set of archaeology-inspired and sea-themed features without overwhelming vanilla survival.
Transport And Survival
Transport & Survival is vision of me to add stuff on Minecraft
Fluff Gamemode Control
FluffGamemodeControl is a server-side Forge mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that allows players to switch between Survival, Creative, Adventure, and Spectator modes using commands, with LuckPerms permission support!
Ancestral Enchantments
A mod that reimagines survival progression by introducing re-usable honing enchants and craftable gadgets as discoverable treasure.
SurvivalK
SurvivalK is a mod which adds things to help you survive, and thrive.
Brocher's Survival+ Mod
BSPM is a mod that adds, and modify ways to play vanilla minecraft without abusing of breaking it's aestetics.
Chaolux
A shielding plate that halves all damage and acts as a one-time totem, balancing defense and survival in combat.
Keep Buffs on Death
Players can inherit various states from before death through a certain method, which can also serve as a survival effect.

Cats and Cats
This mod aims to add a meowy challenge to Minecraft survival and allow you to do things like have a personal friend or fight off the evil corruptions.
Primum Opus
Primum Opus - Start from absolute zero. No punching trees, no instant crafting. Earn every piece of technology through primitive survival in this challenging early-game overhaul.