Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 212 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include HearthGuard - Mobs Fear Campfires, Appetite Hunger mechanic-port-unofficially, ModernMITE.
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HearthGuard - Mobs Fear Campfires
Campfires become protection. HearthGuard is a survival mod where hostile mobs fear fire: they panic, turn, and flee from lit campfires instead of attacking.
Appetite Hunger mechanic-port-unofficially
Appetite reworks Minecraft's hunger mechanics into something more hardcore and complex.
ModernMITE
ModernMITE is a fork of MITE Equilibrium — a 1.21.1 port of the classic hardcore survival mod Minecraft Is Too Easy (MITE).
Sheepish's Fragments
Allow players to craft Mob Spawners in Survival. Harvest souls of every vanilla mob to make any spawner.
Electro's PowerCraft
Survival Addon/ Partial Realistic and Element Survival Mod
SCP: Modern
Enter a modern world inspired by the SCP universe where exploration, survival, and mysterious encounters change the way you play Minecraft.
Survival Reimagined (NeoForge)
A Minecraft Mod with the goal of making Minecraft harder with a more realistic approach at progression
Phantom Switch
The most vanilla way to turn off phantoms in your survival world.
Advanced Economics
Adds a survival and server economy with money, shops, selling, item unlocks, quests, professions, banking, loans, investments, gambling, duels, paid services, insurance, pet economy, and an in-game menu. Includes server-side player data, configurable price
Villager Pathfinding Fix
Villager Pathfinding Fix makes villagers smarter, polite, and survival-ready. No more getting stuck on doors, infinite shoving matches, or running in circles when attacked. They now yield to each other, open "glitched" doors, and actively seek Iron Golems
Antideath-Carpet-addition
Antideath-Carpet-addition is a Carpet Mod extension for Fabric Minecraft servers (versions 1.21.x - 26.2) designed to enhance and optimize the game experience. It adds a suite of new loggers for server monitoring and game rules for survival, optimizatio
Zombie Plague III
Transforms vanilla Minecraft into a brutal survival experience in a zombie-overrun world.
Wasteland Wanderer | Fallout
Turns Minecraft into a Survival Fallout Experience!
Theosis
Plugin-ready RPG survival with loot, gems, bosses & biomes. Thesis-style modularity. Multilanguage Apotheosis-inspired
Core Companion
An owner-bound AI companion that chats, remembers, builds a relationship, and runs survival tasks with Baritone path finding — local or cloud AI, optional voice and vision.
Deepcraft
A hardcore Minecraft mod with new ore, weapons, bosses, mobs, a unique dimension, haunting music, and forgotten secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Dead Sun - Zombie Apocalypse
Hardcore zombie apocalypse mod for Minecraft. Only zombies spawn in all dimensions. Sunlight doesn't protect you. Zombies got smarter.
Phayriosis:Cataclysm
A hardcore add-on for the PHAYRIOSIS mod that adds a wealth of new mechanics and interesting gameplay.
Bossmode
Bossmode is the difficulty above hardcore that turns every mob into a boss fight, including passive mobs. Can you survive?
CarpetSkyAdditions-Reborn-2
CarpetSkyAdditions Reborn for Minecraft 26.1+. This is a classic skyblock module that has been ported and modified to version 26.1
Sanity System
A subtle psychological horror mod that adds a hidden sanity system, immersive hallucinations, and fear-based survival mechanics to Minecraft 1.21.4 Fabric.
Frens
Companion bots for Minecraft with survival skills, autonomous behaviors, and persistent inventories. They can woodcut, mine, fish, build shelters, ride animals, follow and defend, return to base & sleep at sunset.
D3 FanMod
This fan mod for Minecraft recreates some hardcore survival mechanics of Dedsafio 3. It adds unique commands, activatable mechanics, and progression elements from the series, giving players an experience that captures a bit of the essence of Dedsafio 3.
JOJO - stone block crusaders
Adds many features from the popular manga/anime jojo's bizzare adventure (jjba)
MobPVP // CANCELLED
MobPVP transforms your Minecraft survival experience by assigning levels to every living creature in the game. Based on these levels, mobs gain different abilities, attributes, and loot chances, creating a more challenging and rewarding combat system.

Survival Unlocked
vanilla-friendly tweaks that expand survival gameplay
Noches Muertas
A progressive zombie survival mod where every night becomes more dangerous, with evolving infected, hordes, blood moon events, weapons, research, defenses, survivors, structures, and infected Nether progression.
BLACKSOULS II
A hardcore dark-fantasy RPG mod with custom stats, skills, bosses, souls, weapons, accessories, and brutal combat mechanics.
Minecraft Sigma MCS
Improving b1.7.3 while preserving its charm! Monolith generation, updated existing blocks, survival balance, client side upgrades and more...
Help Me Hardcore
Help Me Hardcore Adds All Kinds of Extra Challenges from Community Ideas to Full-Themed Updates for Your Hardcore Worlds or Even Hardcore SMP Servers!

BloodInfection999
Delve into a world ravaged by a terrifying blood infection, where once-peaceful creatures are corrupted and your own survival is constantly under threat.
RyDaCol's Star Wars Mod [NO LONGER UPDATING]
A mod aiming to bring the world of Star Wars into Minecraft in a Survival friendly manner
Wasteland Survival
Survive the wasteland with powerful new gear, lethal monsters, and a full RPG leveling system!
Oculus of Silence
Oculus of Silence is a magical survival artifact that repels nearby hostile mobs for 30 seconds
Better Happy Ghasts – Fly & Ride
Reimagined Happy Ghasts that make flight and survival more interesting
Hardcore Horizons
A all new survival experience that will add new Bosses Biomes Blocks Dimensions Updated versions of all the current dimensions Mobs Structures Tools music And Lots More