Survival Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 9,764 free Survival mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include xApocalypse, Crusted Gears, MaxTools.
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xApocalypse
A brutal, customizable zombie apocalypse plugin for survival servers

Crusted Gears
This modpack transforms your Minecraft survival into a massive industrial and exploration journey. It forces you to rethink automation from basic gears to quantum lasers while exploring colossally overhauled dungeons and realistic mountain ranges

MaxTools
Perfect for a survival game with progression.

Immersive World
Vanilla faithful survival modpack, with focus on a world that feels alive and immersive, without losing the core that makes minecraft great.

Sandy Pistons
Changes the Piston texture to be made of Sandstone instead of cobblestone

EggSpawn Scrambled
This makes it possible to acquire Mob Spawners and Spawn Eggs in Survival Minecraft.
Death's Door, VanillaTweaks Graves Extension - teleport back
VanillaTweak's Graves are great! But, sometimes you don't want to op your players so they can use the execute teleport. This is an extension that will make the teleport survival friendly when running graves and give 10 seconds of damage immunity.

DayNightFaction
A tactical survival plugin that forces players to choose between the light and the dark. Depending on their faction.

Wokenpok's Create Modpack
Create Mod with all the required addons to make sure it plays perfectly in Survival Mode!

AgeOfOrigin
Evolve Your Survival Experience

Item Bingo
This is a SpigotMC plugin that allows you to play Bingo with survival obtainable items. You get a bingo card (3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, 8x8 or 9x9) and your goal is to collect the displayed items. First team to collect a full row, column or diagonal wins.
Nomad's Finds
Adds small and medium tents, wells, and other wilderness structures like wheat fields and fishing spots to enhance world generation with immersive, survival-friendly details.
SwapHunt | Mind-Swap Survival game [1.13-1.21x]
A chaotic game where the Runner and Hunters randomly swap bodies, gear, and positions.
SkyTime ✈️ | TempFly Plugin für Survival-Server
Verwalte temporäre Flugzeiten für deine Spieler – einfach, flexibel und permissionsbasiert!

Legacy Red
This is a simple texture in Programmer Art style that adds multiple highlighting/utility features to improve players' survival/redstone experience.

Lantern Nights
Cozy aesthetic survival modpack for peaceful Minecraft nights.

EscoltaCore
Cooperative hardcore arcade minigame. Protect the Escort, stay inside the radius, and find the random objective item to win. Multi-arena, PlaceholderAPI & RGB support.
KickBlong's Survival+
makes Minecraft more interesting and adds boats that work

Bon Appétit
[NOT SURVIVAL FRIENDLY RIGHT NOW] A new age food mod for NeoForge
Hardcore Relay
Transform the classic hardcore experience into a cooperative, high-stakes relay race!

Hardcore meat
Meat from cows and pigs drops much less

Kids Military Games
This project is intended for a prviate server for a few kids. Miliatry games, survival play, no cheating! Thanks for inspiration on miliatry mod list goes to "military role play mod pack" on CF, but it was too small and had no quality of life.

Ironhaven: To the Skies and Beyond
The official Modpack for my Create Mod survival multiplayer Minecraft server based on the Just Create SMP modpack.

Meric's Wonderland
A large NeoForge 1.21.1 modpack focused on Create engineering, Aeronautics, exploration, world generation, food, decoration, and a richer survival experience.

LumaVale
A polished vanilla-plus survival experience built for beautiful worlds, smooth performance, and cozy co-op.

Survival Optimizations XVIII
This project adds many good mods for better survival.

Bottled Biomes
Bring the world to you: Capture, store, and transplant biomes anywhere in your survival world.

WorldPluginManager (WPM)
Controls which commands are allowed or blocked per world. For example, /fly might work in the lobby but be blocked in a Survival world.
HeroPets
Adopt, level up, and care for RPG Tamagotchi companions with custom vitals, digital PC storage, and mountable pets!

Mythrift's Modpack
A modpack for Mythrift, a 1.21.1 Minecraft MMORPG survival server by KY25NGIE

OrjusBlockStats
OrjusBlockStats is a powerful and lightweight flexible block tracking plugin designed for survival and competitive Minecraft servers.

GiveMeYourHead
GiveMeYourHead is a simple yet essential plugin for any competitive Minecraft server. Whether you are running a hardcore survival world or a high-stakes PvP arena, this plugin adds a rewarding twist to every player encounter

Sapphire Mod
A lightweight Forge mod that introduces sapphire ore and a full tool set, offering stronger and more durable gear for players seeking a simple survival upgrade.

Debug Stick (Folia)
Debug stick functionality for survival mode with Folia support

Common-Light
Small tools for light blocks usage in survival

Clear gemstones
This project, created by qtFlaw makes gemstones/glass transparent. Adds nice QOL making your glass no longer look terrible. This is a pack meant for hypixel skyblock