Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 400 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include TenLives, HardcoreAxol's Mithril Mod, Still Alive !.
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TenLives
TenLives is a Minecraft plugin designed to add an extra layer of challenge and excitement to your survival gameplay
HardcoreAxol's Mithril Mod
this mod add mithril to minecraft
Still Alive !
Re-balance of the health system, better early game, making survival harder but not absurdly hardcore.
Drac's Builder Wands
Drac's Builder Wands is a lightweight Fabric mod for Minecraft 26.1.2 that adds multiple tiers of survival-friendly building wands with placement previews, shared placement modes, and scalable building power progression
UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
SkyBlock Together
Ready for a new SkyBlock experiencie with your friends? Welcome to SkyBlock Together a unique world with a hardcore experiencie of SkyBlock parcels, this is going to make skyblock a harder way to play, with store, and your skill you need to survive...
Alexey Navalny Block
Meet the Alexey Navalny Block in Minecraft! Perfect for your vanilla survival. Texture is 188x188, and the block naturally generates in mineshafts.
SurvivalCreativity
Client-side mod for Minecraft. Enter a local creative-like imagination, save your build, then preview it as a hologram in survival while you place the real blocks.
TODD: Technological Odyssey — Dawn of Development
A mod that makes initial survival much more difficult
DirtExtras
DirtExtras adds new dirt, coarse dirt and gravel decorations to Minecraft, all obtainable in survival through crafting.
Half Heart Only?
Survival challenge where players only have half a heart.
Different Survival
This mod offers a blend of the vanilla Minecraft experience and traditional survival challenges. The mod also seeks to rebalance and rework certain mechanics, while also giving more function to existing, yet under utilized features.
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
Against the Wild: Realistic Survival
Against the Wild is an immersive realism mod that transforms Minecraft survival into something that actually feels like fighting to stay alive. No magic shortcuts, no easy starts. The world is harsh, unforgiving, and beautiful just like the real wilderness
Forbidden recipes By Anoosh
Forbidden Recipes is a mod that adds crafting recipes for some of Minecraft's most elusive items, including the dragon egg, barrier block, elytra, and more. This mod lets you craft powerful or rare items that were previously unobtainable in survival mode.
Onyx Ore
Onyx Ore Mod adds a new rare ore to Minecraft: Onyx! Mine it deep underground to craft powerful tools and durable armor. Enhance your survival with stronger gear and expand progression with this shiny new resource.nture
Rotwire
A Zombie Survival take on Minecraft with infested cities. Establish a radio connection with the survivors to maintain your ammunition and resource supply. Migrate from town to town as their difficulty scales with your activity within each of them.
Killer Host's More Ores
Really usefull new ores to your survival gameplay.
Cozy Cherry Fields
A small quality-of-life mod for relaxed survival in Cherry Grove.
Waffled
This is a skyblock-style mod, but with waffles!
The Sky Dimension
this mod adds a sky dimension, located 20k blocks above spawn there is the sky dimension, there is a classic skyblock island there.
JAD OC's
JAD MOD: Master survival with my OCs! Explore new dimensions, use powerful potions, and freeze time with a single click. The classic adventure is back!

Elomod
An expensive survival & tech mod adding cameras, monitors, thermal vision, new ores, and more !
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.
SuperFlat Survival Addon
An addon that allows for players to survive on superflat, without structures and without using cheats. (Works with most mods)
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.

Ashen World
A Fallout-inspired survival mod for NeoForge that introduces radiation, mutations, contaminated environments, chem crafting, and dangerous evolutionary changes to your Minecraft world.
WT SkyGrid
A modern Sky Grid world generation mod for Minecraft 1.21.X where blocks are placed in a 3D grid pattern, floating in the void. Every block is random — ores, wood, lava, chests, spawners — making for a unique survival challenge where every block counts.

envision
A minecraft mod for Stoneblock and Skyblock.
SmartSurvivalRPG
SmartSurvivalPlugin transforms Minecraft into a post-apocalyptic survival RPG with intelligent zombies, dynamic world events, immersive PvE systems, and advanced survival mechanics.
Schematicon
A creative planning dimension for builders. Switch from survival to creative and back with fully separate inventories and no balance disruption.
Bedrockite
This mod adds a survival friendly but a hard way to destroy bedrock. It adds a material called bedrockite which can be used to upgrade a netherite pickaxe to a bedrockite pickaxe (which can mine bedrock)
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.
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.