Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 124 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include BIG Challenges, Hardcore Death, Grass=Random Item.
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BIG Challenges
BIGChallenges: The Ultimate Survival Test 💀
Hardcore Death
A paper plugin which deletes a player inventory upon death
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
Scary Survival
Scary Survival is a Fabric mod that recreates the world, progression, mechanics, and atmosphere of Eystreem's Scary Survival series, allowing players to experience that style of survival themselves instead of just watching it.
Glassification
Glassification transforms the entire world into fragile glass, removing structural safety and leaving survival to pure mechanical mastery.
GhostBulb
Mod that provides survival friendly invisible alternatives to items.
RealityShift
Make every day a new adventure! RealityShift activates a random anomaly daily from a pool of 50+ unique events, completely changing the rules of survival.
mutationcraft-plus
Adds 24 random world mutations that completely change Minecraft every 5 minutes, making every survival adventure unique.
Nonsense Hardcore
A plugin that resets the world and downloads random Modrinth datapacks every time you die.
Disaster SMP
DMSP (Disaster Management System Plugin)Cinematic Natural Disasters for PaperMC 1.21+DMSP is not just a plugin; it's an environmental overhaul designed to challenge even the most seasoned survivalists.
[DISCONTINUED] Travis Takeover
Its corruption messes with your survival.
STOP NUKING JIMWORLD
Cancels/disables ALL explosions from occurring. (Made for modded creative, is not survival friendly.)
Red-Light Green-Light Challenge
A high-intensity Red Light Green Light game inspired by Squid Game, where movement detection and timed phases create a thrilling survival challenge.
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
FrediFrets-Challenges
Add exciting Minecraft challenges like random drops, chunk effects, expanding borders, and hardcore modes – all controllable with simple commands.
Kill Switch
Super hardcore! When a single player dies, your entire server will shut down! Developed in collaboration with Potatoes_Duck
Hardcore Slots
In this mode, every time you take damage, one slot in your inventory becomes locked and can no longer be used.
Wither Survival
Every mob turns into Withers. Try to beat the game
Random Eventy
When creating a new world you have a new button, there you can configure the randomness of your survival world!
GlobalHealth
All players share one global health bar. Damage one, damage all. Heal one, heal all. If one player dies, everyone dies. Perfect for challenges, hardcore modes, and teamwork-focused gameplay as well as creating content and events.
Survival Petrified Oak Slab
Adds a petrified oak slab to survival
NotQuiteDead
Become a zombie, husk, and drowned in survival!
Rule Breaker's Guide
Breaking open Minecraft for those who seek more in survival.
Enchanted Edge
High-tier utility and "Anarchy-style" enchantments to revolutionize your survival experience.
SurvivalChallengesPlugin
The Survival Challenges Plugin is a Minecraft Spigot plugin for servers that adds 23 unique gameplay challenges to your survival adventure. Each challenge changes the way you play Minecraft Survival, making the game either easier or more difficult.
STIKS_Mod - magic RPG postapocalypse
survival in postapocalypse with RPG leveling and magic
DayNightFaction
A tactical survival plugin that forces players to choose between the light and the dark. Depending on their faction.
RandItem
RandItem, a mod that randomly spawns items if your in survival or creative
Xtra Weapons
This mod adds 10+ weapons, and they are all obtainable in survival minecraft!
Happy Ghast Platforms
Place blocks directly on your Happy Ghast so you can build mid-air from anywhere! No more sky pillars needed! No more ugly bridges in skyblock!
simulator infection epidemic crisis
apocalyptic zombie infection simulator that transforms servers into a pandemic survival experience. Features progressive infection spread, contaminated players, quarantined villages, multiple zombie variants, vaccine crafting, and crisis events.
MaxTools
Perfect for a survival game with progression.
Hardcore Tatoo
This mod gives you a Tatoo on your Arm that shows you, your Health and Hunger
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.
mc is too ez
A survival difficulty mod that makes Minecraft harder, more punishing, and less forgiving.
Distorted Darkness
Official story DLC: Explore a world consumed by primordial darkness, features new survival mechanics and cursed items.