Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 212 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include xApocalypse, Evergrowth, Wound & Bleeding.
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xApocalypse
A brutal, customizable zombie apocalypse plugin for survival servers
Evergrowth
This mod overhauls and extends existing Minecraft features, improving core systems and mechanics to create a more advanced and engaging survival experience.
Wound & Bleeding
Wound & Bleeding adds a realistic injury system where players and mobs can bleed from combat, losing health over time unless treated with craftable bandages. It enhances tactical gameplay in PvP and survival by making every hit potentially deadly.
All aggressive
This is a survival mod that turns every mob in Minecraft into a deadly threat. Even the most peaceful creatures - cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens - will now attack!
blazeQOL
Minecraft mod for Hypixel Skyblock which features QOL for Blaze Slayer giving you a HUD with general information about the current boss.
Mobs Drop Their Abilities
Defeat mobs and steal their powers! Unlock unique passive abilities like flight and teleportation, or use active items like the explosive Detonator. Transform your survival experience by using the monsters' own strengths against them.
Compostable
Survival friendly plugin that makes more things usable for the composter block, like rotten flesh and fish!
The Scorched
Explore a volcanic wasteland where the Overworld has been burned into ash and magma. The Scorched adds a dangerous new biome, custom mobs, unique blocks, structures, and progression elements built around survival in a hostile scorched landscape.
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
Blocks spawn mobs
This plugin turns harmless digging into hardcore survival – for every broken block, the world responds with a fierce invasion of hostile creatures. Are you ready for endless waves of darkness, or will you fall under the onslaught of monsters?
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.
Custom Hyperion
This project adds a Hyperion concept, just very different and survival friendly (not OP)...
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
SmartSurvivalRPG
SmartSurvivalPlugin transforms Minecraft into a post-apocalyptic survival RPG with intelligent zombies, dynamic world events, immersive PvE systems, and advanced survival mechanics.
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.
Breached (Standalone)
Breached is a competitive Minecraft survival mod inspired by Rust, built for players who enjoy looting, PvP, raiding, and base-building. It keeps much of Minecraft’s core survival identity, but adds unique systems that force raiding/basing/PVP.
Ghastling
Ghastling is a survival-friendly plugin for Paper 1.21.6+ that lets players keep Baby Happy Ghasts (Ghastlings) as permanent pets. Prevent them from growing up, improve their AI, and build a bond through snowball interactions!
More Actions: squid tentacles
This mod adds something that was sorely missing in vanilla survival: tentacles that drop from squids. Now, instead of useless ink sacs, you can get useful and nutritious food. Squids are no longer such a useless mob!
Enhanced Spawners: Chambers of Control
Enhanced Spawners: Chambers of Control lets players upgrade and customize mob spawners using survival items, with full redstone control and spawn egg integration — all without commands or GUIs. Designed for clean, technical mob farms and dungeon systems.
Tithe
A Hardcore multiplayer mod in which death is a debt. The living can pay a tribute to bring back the fallen.
Skylife
A Skyblock with the goal to make everything different (at least a bit)
ExplorerKit
A modular adventure toolkit with backpacks, waypoints, minimap, mob health HUD, and survival info.
Player Detector
Redstone block that detects if a player is standing on it
SYSTEM SMP
System SMP is a premium Minecraft plugin designed for survival multiplayer servers. It adds unique features including small caps text formatting, tree felling mechanics, custom item displays, and an economy-based spawner mining system.
Bonfi and Girls
Transform your Minecraft survival into a vibrant adventure with intelligent, beautifully animated companion girls! Build deep relationships, automate base chores, and explore the world alongside companions featuri
BloodyPunch
Bare-fisted survival brutality — punch hard blocks or mobs and you bleed. Hard materials require the right tool, or nothing at all.
hunterkill
In HunterKill’s survival chase, hunters track with strength sticks and compasses; runners evade with knockback sticks, winning by slaying the Ender Dragon, while hunters triumph by eliminating all runners (respawning infinitely but losing gear).
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Its corruption messes with your survival.
GrimTactics
⚠️ Hardcore-only plugin. On non-hardcore servers, GrimTactics runs in passive mode and does not modify gameplay
TheConstant
A Fabric mod that channels Don’t Starve–style hardcore survival into Minecraft: manage health, hunger, and sanity; survive seasons, temperature, darkness, and food spoilage with crock-pot cooking and recipe planning.
SuperHardcore
A mod that enhances the survival experience by limiting your health and adds many more challenges.
Survival-Friend
prevents creeper block damage and crop trampling, enables portal based farms on SMP, offers /tpa features and global totem pop messages and the ability to make the ender dragon a bit harder.
HardcoreMobs
Script your own boss!
F&H survival
Dark fantasy survival mod that adds content from the game Fear and Funger
Petrova Wastelands
Petrova Wastelands: An Interstellar Odyssey In a universe where the stars are fading, heat is no longer a resource—it is your only hope for survival.
Silk Harvest
Add the ability to get spawn eggs in survival from killing mobs using a silk touch tool.