Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 744 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Survival Sickness, Different Survival, Hunter And Hunted.
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Survival Sickness
Survival Sickness adds a deeper survival health system to Minecraft. Players can catch diseases from bad weather, mobs, unsafe food, desert heat, freezing, low sleep, wounds, and underwater strain.
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.
Hunter And Hunted
Hunter and Hunted makes mobs smarter and deadlier—creepers ambush from cover, skeletons kite you, and Endermen silently stalk if you stare too long. It’s a lightweight plugin that turns survival into a true predator-versus-prey experience.
MoonBorne
MoonBorne is a highly configurable Minecraft survival experience centered around dangerous special moons, each bringing unique mechanics, events, mobs, hordes, and challenges to your world.
Creepers Eat You
Adds a fun twist to the game in which creepers eat you! Good luck beating the game in Hardcore ;D
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
Electro's PowerCraft - OMV/Older Minecraft Version Edition
Survival Addon/ Element Survival Mod
Evergrowth
This mod overhauls and extends existing Minecraft features, improving core systems and mechanics to create a more advanced and engaging survival experience.
Crystal Gacha
Add the gacha from ARK: Survival Evolved
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.
xApocalypse
A brutal, customizable zombie apocalypse plugin for survival servers
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!
SoundSight
See the danger you can't hear. A creeper behind you doesn't care why your sound is off. SoundSight turns survival-critical audio into visual threat warnings, designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players, useful for anyone who plays muted, mid-podcast, or
blazeQOL
Minecraft mod for Hypixel Skyblock which features QOL for Blaze Slayer giving you a HUD with general information about the current boss.
Killer Host's More Ores
Really usefull new ores to your survival gameplay.
Outer Mines
This is a Minecraft survival mod heavily inspired by the game Outer Wilds. You can fly a ship, solve puzzles, and defeat a monster in a custom dimension.
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!
Waffled
This is a skyblock-style mod, but with waffles!
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?
Normal NPC Player
A mod that add player's baby to hardcore world!
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.
Shrink and Growth Potions
Fun alice in wonderland inspired potions to grow or shrink players and mobs! Use carefully! Survival-obtainable
zombiesbetter
A survival-enhancing mod that gives zombies the ability to mine blocks, build stairs, and use specialist tools to reach the player. No more hiding behind walls!
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.
Vanilla Apocalypse
A Forge mod that enhances zombie behavior, making them faster, stronger, and more dangerous while creating a harsher survival experience.