Survival Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 9,765 free Survival mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Trial by Farmer, An Adventure for Two, Nonsense Hardcore.
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Trial by Farmer
Difficult survival pack with cottagecore elements

An Adventure for Two
An Adventure For Two is a cooperative mod meant to be played by exactly two players. Progress, experience, and survival are shared, and the world reacts when one player is missing, pushing teamwork and connection

Nonsense Hardcore
A plugin that resets the world and downloads random Modrinth datapacks every time you die.

GibCoins
Very small client side mod for hypixel skyblock. Focused on party commands and qol.

slime life
a medium mod searching to make playing hardcore easier. The mod pack is made around to principe: it needs to feel alive and dangerous

Time Hunter
Time Hunter is a team PvP survival datapack where players compete by mining resources and eliminating foes to extend their countdown, with elimination on timeout, supporting 2-4 team battles and strategic combat.
FrameMiner
FrameMiner is a BentoBox addon that enable players to mine End Portal Frame on BSkyBlock.

ImmuneCharge++
ImmuneCharge++ makes wind charges and wind burst explosions ignore knockback resistance — just like Blast Protection armor enchantments do. Perfect for balanced PvP and survival gameplay on servers and singleplayer

ItzRealism
A hardcore, realism-focused Minecraft modpack where survival is challenging and immersive. Manage temperature, hunger, and resources, progress through primitive to advanced technology, and explore a dynamic world where every decision matters.

Cheat-Recipe
This mod allows you to get Bedrock, Barrier Blocks, light and Debug Sticks in Survival Mode, in addition to these items it also adds an extra recipe that allows you to craft Nether Stars

Another Hardcore Mod
This Forge mod introduces a heart-based life system for hardcore servers. Players have limited hearts, lose one on death, and are hardcore-banned at 0 hearts. PvP kills steal a heart, making every fight high-risk and meaningful. Perfect for ha

abc: crafting
A collection of new and improved crafting recipes designed to enhance survival without breaking balance. Makes uncraftable items accessible and expands everyday crafting options.

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.

Expedition Overhaul by Mihec708
Expedition Overhaul is a Minecraft modpack focused on adventure, discovery, and survival, featuring new biomes, dungeons, and dimensions to explore.
Ultimate Survival
Ultimate survival, survival, hardcore

Tonten
This mod adds simple building assistance tools that can be used in survival mode.

LuyuBaubles
This mod contains a few accessories to facilitate the survival of players or modpacks.

SteelHold
Steelhold is a Forge mod for Minecraft that adds heavy-duty, lockable safes designed for survival, multiplayer, and roleplay servers.
Skyblock Portals
Adds buildable portals to skyblock versions of overworld and nether dimensions using somewhat difficult to obtain vanilla items, requiring players to progress to a certain degree in order to obtain access to these dimensions.

Soulflare Totem
Item to revive your friends on hardcore in minecraft

Crisis Contract
A module designed in the style of Arknights' Contingency Contract gameplay, with a parasite theme serving as a hardcore challenge.

Adrenaline
Adrenaline gives you a survival boost when you need it most.
Totem resurrection - Hardcore
A multiplayer-friendly datapack that adds a custom totem allowing players to come back to life in Hardcore mode. Requires another player to perform the resurrection — one last chance to cheat death and continue the adventure together!

MAF Unforeseen
Ultra optimised modpack with expanded survival, creative and exploration
Survival Plugin 1.13-1.19
a survival plugin.. (still in a big development, dont expect something big)

Forgotten Apocalypse
Forgotten Apocalypse is a hardcore Minecraft survival modpack set in a world destroyed by a mysterious infection.

CraftGlow Stone Elytra
Replaces the elytra with a stone block texture. Fly through the skies with style!
RIG tech
RIG Mod brings Dead Space-inspired combat suits to Minecraft, adding immersive sci-fi survival with unique abilities. Experience enhanced gameplay through advanced RIG technology designed to improve combat, survivability, and atmosphere.

Red's Survival Overhaul
A minecraft mod designed to make the game a whole lot harder.

Simple Survial
Simple, vanilla-like survival ModPack

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.
CRAFTDIS - Make a network of teleporters
Allows players to create their own teleporters (balanced for survival) to form a centralized network. Can be upgraded to allow for time travel!

MC Oldenbyte Community
This is the modpack used for the Hardcore Oldenbyte Community Server. It contains all the needed clientside mods for the server. Can also be used to get a similar experience on your own server or in single-player.

Light Survive
丰富原版生存内容 Enrich the original survival content

Unforgiving Skies
A heavy, atmosphere-driven weather survival modpack featuring dynamic seasons, severe localized storms, and harsh environmental temperature cycles.

Eternal Winter: The Fog Unseen
Brutal winter hardcore horror survival. Survive the frost and the hidden fog. Extreme sub-zero ice survival horror.