Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 244 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include ExplorerKit, Scars, SnowPED.
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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.
SnowPED
Is a survival-focused mod that turns the world into a frozen
Ring of the Hundred Curses
A configurable Forge 1.20.1 challenge mod featuring 100 curses for survival, combat, exploration, trading, and progression.
Brocher's Survival+ Mod
BSPM is a mod that adds, and modify ways to play vanilla minecraft without abusing of breaking it's aestetics.
Keep Buffs on Death
Players can inherit various states from before death through a certain method, which can also serve as a survival effect.
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.
Advanced Lock
With Advanced Lock, chests cannot be opened or broken unless the correct code is entered, making it perfect for survival servers, SMPs, a
Basically Gyrokinetic Wand
Adds the Gyrokinetic Wand from Hypixel Skyblock into an item
STOP NUKING JIMWORLD
Cancels/disables ALL explosions from occurring. (Made for modded creative, is not survival friendly.)
Chaolux
A shielding plate that halves all damage and acts as a one-time totem, balancing defense and survival in combat.
Basically Wither Cloak
Adds an item close to the wither cloak from hypixel skyblock
Lightning Everywhere
Spawn a lightning in survival
Cozy Server Kit
Lightweight server utilities for small survival servers: land claims, death chests, homes/TPA, starter kits, and more.
Broken Nightmares
ever needed a mod that made dying/respawning have consenquences without making you lose your world like hardcore mode or have your health reduced unless you get some totem or sumthing? see no further
Ice Flavoured
a collection of small tweaks to make early game survival feel more complete
wShow
Adds custom Totems like "Bed Totem", custom effects, glowing mechanics, and a configurable custom spawner entity for unique survival and event-based gameplay.
Amryx
This mod makes the beginning of survival a little more difficult.
Ancestral Enchantments
A mod that reimagines survival progression by introducing re-usable honing enchants and craftable gadgets as discoverable treasure.
Extremocore
A Forge 1.20.1 mod for hardcore event servers: 5-life system with permanent-loss on kill streaks, buffed vanilla mobs (fire damage, faster creeper explosions), live PvP toggle, and an instant visual/audio alert command for admins.
Basically Shadow Warp
Recreates the shadow warp scroll from hypixel skyblock as an item
SkyLake
A mod for Rede Canary's SkyBlock
Better than hardcore
A hardcore mod that pushes vanilla Hardcore mode to its limits.
Bottled Biomes
Bring the world to you: Capture, store, and transplant biomes anywhere in your survival world.
OneTap Harvester
Break entire ore veins and trees with one block while keeping Fortune, Silk Touch, durability and balanced gameplay.
Reservoir
A survival friendly water filling block for quickly creating lakes, rivers, and other terraforming projects.
Prospector's Arsenal
Prospector's Arsenal is a Forge 1.20.1 mod that turns mining into a true progression system: new ores, prospecting pickaxes, 3x3/5x5 drills, modules, activatable charms, effect vials, and underground survival items.
Enchanted Edge
High-tier utility and "Anarchy-style" enchantments to revolutionize your survival experience.
Kill to Spectate
Switches players to spectator mode when killed by another player, otherwise keeps them in survival.
World of Chaotic Blocks
The project aims to add a new world type for a new survival effect.
Clown Survival
Colorful Peach recreation mini-game, a survival mod featuring a clown.
zMCSandbox
This mod grants the tools and abilities to both, create wave-based survival maps and play them too!
CoopRoles
Share responsibilities with friends: each player can only perform actions of their class, making teamwork the key to survival.
Piglins Trade Gold Ores
Lets piglins trade gold ores by discarding the stone block.
Phantom Bomber
This mod spawns two bomb-dropping Phantoms every night at sunset. They attack players with timed TNT, making every night a survival challenge.
Butter Bot AI - Rick and Morty
Adds a robot worker you command from a control panel. It hunts down ores, digs tunnels, gathers ingredients from your chests and hauls the loot back to you. It runs on redstone block batteries, and you can program it yourself in Lua.