Survival Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 9,765 free Survival mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Growth Essence Recipe, Hostage Run, Survival-Friend.
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Growth Essence Recipe
Makes the growth essences from Cobblemon Size Variations survival friendly/craftable.

Hostage Run
A survival hunt where a Hostage must outlast the timer while Captors battle each other for the killing blow.

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.

STOP NUKING JIMWORLD
Cancels/disables ALL explosions from occurring. (Made for modded creative, is not survival friendly.)
N_lives | hardcore
Provides hardcore with limited respawns

Balanced Craftable Heart of the Sea
A simple datapack that adds a challenging crafting recipe for the Heart of the Sea (requires a Nether Star) Intended for Skyblock, Superflat, Skyleaf Biomes and other limited overworld types.

aj.pack
a fabric pack based on exploration and building. built for both creative and survival players in mind.
Potatous
HardCore
Hardcore Multilife and More
multiple lives in hardcore and many other features

UBS_PVP+
UBS PVP is a high performance Fabric modpack optimized for competitive PvP and multiplayer Survival featuring extreme FPS boosts network optimization and clean combat visual advantages

Hardcore Additions
Adds configurable revives and other small changes to hardcore difficulty!

Advanced Crafting
This datapack allows players to craft items in Survival mode that are normally only available in Creative mode or cannot normally be obtained. Instead of needing to ask a server owner or administrator to give you these items

Better Adventure Mode
This mod turns your survival mode into the ultimate adventure mode, built for exploration instead of creation.

Block Roulette
Every few minutes, you must find a randomly selected block or lose permanent health! A challenging survival mod with timed block collection and smart block selection.

BACAP: New Horizons Hardcore Edition
Hardcore Compatible version of BACAP: New Horizons

Hell of a spawn
A lightweight Vanilla+ survival modpack where you spawn in the Nether and must fight your way to the Overworld.

Tide's Perfected Survival
An opinionated minecraft modpack that focuses on improving the survival experience

Stagehand
A mod for build artists playing in survival multiplayer settings!

Osis Survival
This is an great survival modpack

Turkish Lemon Cologne XP
Ever wanted to clean up those mobs with some freshness? This resource pack changes the Experience Bottle (XP) into a classic bottle of Turkish Lemon Cologne. Perfect for a fresh start in your survival world!

True Simply Survival
Simple, Fun, Easy. A lightweight pack made for a vanilla+ experience. Best used with friends

Time Bank
A hardcore survival plugin where players have limited lifespan based on real playtime. Time is tradeable as physical crystals, creating a unique time-based economy!

Honeymotes
Honeymotes is a datapack that adds a myriad of fun emotes and visual gags to the game. Honeymotes do not impact gameplay and are purely visual in nature. They work in survival/creative mode as well as single/multiplayer!

Basically Wither Cloak
Adds an item close to the wither cloak from hypixel skyblock

Lightning Everywhere
Spawn a lightning in survival

Vanilla Apocalypse
A Forge mod that enhances zombie behavior, making them faster, stronger, and more dangerous while creating a harsher survival experience.

Forgotten Horizons
A premium Vanilla+ exploration modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1. Discover breathtaking world generation, immersive audio, enhanced visuals, rare relics, exploration-driven progression, and a world designed for hundreds of hours of meaningful survival.

Standarijn
Everything you need for an SMP Survival or single-player world!

SlotZero
SlotZero is a survival-focused gameplay overhaul that transforms how inventory works in Minecraft. Players begin with extremely limited carrying capacity and must unlock additional slots using progression items like pouches, toolbelts, and backpacks.
Border cell
This data pack makes survival more interesting. It’s a reimagining of the survival map set in the Barrier, but with unique mechanics and random elements-after all.

qTonttuzz Pack
This Resource Pack Is Made For PvP And Survival!

25% Opacity Totems
25% Opacity totems for pvp and survival worlds
Equdeco Crafting Recipes
Adds balanced survival crafting recipes for a selection of decorative items from Equdeco, so builders and roleplayers can obtain beautiful props without creative mode.

Glassification
Glassification transforms the entire world into fragile glass, removing structural safety and leaving survival to pure mechanical mastery.
Apocalipsis
Turn your server into an Apocalyptic Survival Series: Ranks, Daily Missions, Events & Disasters.

Player Lives
A mod that adds customizable player lives to create a mix between hardcore and normal survival.