Survival Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 9,765 free Survival mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Harcore, VanillaDisplays, Murder Survival - New Gamemode.
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Harcore
Changes all references from Hardcore to Harcore

VanillaDisplays
Bring text displays to survival!
Murder Survival - New Gamemode
The new era of friend survival server starts now!
SurvivalAnnouncer
An announcer plugin which uses in-game time to determine when announcements are made.

Vital Reflexes
A mod that makes you manually manage breathing and blinking, adding a small but constant survival challenge to gameplay.

Veteran Difficulty
Mod for long-term players who think Minecraft is too easy. I made this mod for my own survival world and decided to publish it. It targets systems that fundamentally break the long-term fun of the game.

AsTeams
Advanced Team Management Plugin for Survival & Network Servers with Roles, Vaults, Diplomacy, and Cross-Server Support.
TreeTwerk – Grow Trees & Crops by Sneaking (1.21+)
Grow saplings and crops by sneaking near them. Fully configurable & survival friendly.

Survival Spawn Eggs
This project adds Spawn Eggs to Minecraft Survival Mode!

DBW KindaCraftable
A datapack that adds an option to craft wires in survival!

KT's Jungle Worldgen
Modifies worldgen to create a lush, tropical world with vanilla and Twilight Forest biomes. Perfect for themed dinosaur, bug-infested, or jungle survival modpacks.
Decayed World - Natural Wrath
A hardcore post-apocalyptic survival modpack featuring devastating natural disasters, abandoned military bunkers, and modern weapons.

Fool's Barrel
Port the barrel-on-head feature from 22w13oneBlockAtATime snapshot. Wear a barrel, hide in plain sight!

Skyblock Itemtracker
This mod adds a system that tracks every time you get an item in Hypixel Skyblock for the first time.

Crousbblemon
A modpack made to provide a great Cobblemon survival experience with trainers, gyms, raids, megas, TMs, (almost) all missing Pokémon and more !

TorraPack
A proper 1.21.10 Hypixel Skyblock modpack with a mix of proper QOL and Optimization

Hardcore wither heart totem of undying
This resource pack changes the texture of te totem of undying to a heart one.

BubbleNaut Survival
Just a Fabric modpack consisting of various optimization, QOL, and a few additional decoration mods.

SnowPED
Is a survival-focused mod that turns the world into a frozen
KaGeneration - Better Skyblock Ore Generation | ItemsAdder support [1.12-1.21.8]
A plugin specifically designed for Minecraft skyblock survival servers.

SurvivalFlight
Allowing players who are playing Survival or Adventure to fly like in Creative game mode.

The Survival Standard
A vanilla-plus modpack that brings tweaks and animation upgrades to Minecraft without changing much of survival gameplay.

Create Resource Regrowth
An addon for create to make basic stuff renewable. Ideal for skyblock setups - does require initial resource setup.
[EI Prem Addon] Light Block Tool
with this tool you can edit light block brightness and break them in survival mode.
TaskManual | 任务笔记
Make survival more fun !

Create: Building Dimension
A dedicated creative-mode dimension for testing Sable/Create Aeronautics contraptions in survival — build, light a portal, test freely, come back with nothing lost.

RinkaMC Client Pack
A polished Fabric client modpack for Minecraft 26.x focused on performance, multiplayer survival, building tools, and visual improvements.

SkyblockTexturesBeGone
Allows you to bypass the forced texture pack on hypixel.

Cinnabar Crafting
Vanilla/survival friendly ways of obtaining cinnabar by crafting with sulfur block. Makes it a renewable block.

Create Elements 6
Elements of Create 6 is a chaotic engineering-survival modpack where powerful Create machines meet deadly storms, forcing you to build smarter or watch nature tear your world apart.

Life Steal by Asafusa553
Inspired by the Life Steal series, this datapack adds a high-stake survival mechanic to multiplayer. When you kill another player, you permanently steal one of their hearts to increase your own health. If you are killed, you lose a heart.

Hero's Immersive VR
This project makes for a perfect, vanilla friendly, VR Co-Op survival experience.

Survival Enhancements
Tons of survival enhancements that only try to improving existing things, and not add new mechanics. Supports 1.21.8 (1.21.9 and 1.21.10 coming soon!)

Christmas Hardcore pack
Hardcore and winter and hardcore
Survival Chaos(Discontinued)
(Discontinued)

Capinfer's Survival Enhanced
It's like your survival, but enhanced.