Survival Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 9,764 free Survival mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Gear Grinder, Manul's edition, Seamless Survival Overhaul.
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Gear Grinder
A Create-Aeronautics focused survival pack with extra hard difficulty. Tougher mobs, smarter AI, no waystones, no TPA, items drop on death.

Manul's edition
This modpack aims to balance out between rpg, survival and sandbox aspects of the game, without straying too far from vanilla

Seamless Survival Overhaul
A modpack designed to enhance and deepen the survival experience, adding new challenges, mechanics, and immersive features.

Singleplayer Anticheat 1.21.11
A self-enforcing anticheat for singleplayer hardcore worlds. The mod generates a hidden structure that kills you if it's removed — making cheating impossible without destroying your world.

NoCreativeAbuse
Protect your server from moderator Creative abuse and track suspicious item activity during survival games with friends.

MTrading
A secure and fully configurable trading system for player-to-player trades — perfect for SMPs and survival servers.

PortalRequirements
PortalRequirements is a hardcore progression plugin that locks the Nether and The End behind craftable, ancient scrolls. Players must discover the recipes, craft the scrolls, and read them to unlock portal access.
ClipsEZH
A lightweight and fast homes plugin for Paper servers with unlimited homes, teleport delay, per-player limits, and YAML

Moress
This mod adds new blocks and item for building, role play and survival.

Saplingblocker
Prohibits planting tree seedlings It does not give you tree sprouts, which can be interesting for survival underground, for example, in combination with other mods or plug-ins

Normal NPC Player
A mod that add your baby to hardcore world!

Hypixel Skyblock XP Boost Potions
Adds custom textures for Hypixel Skyblock's XP Boost Potions

Engineering Refreshed
Create mod based modpack designed for survival alone or with friends!

Don't touch my wheel
This mod allows you to prevent players from removing wheels in Adventure and Survival modes, making it useful for hosting events.
Hyperion Mod
This project recreates hyperion from hypixel skyblock but with more bugs :3

Proud Pan Splatters
Subtle yet awesome pan-colored splatters in survival and creative inventory

真正的极限模式
Locks cheats, encrypts worlds, and detects save rollbacks to keep Hardcore mode truly fair.

Create For Survival
Create for Survival is a carefully curated modpack built around the Create mod, designed to transform Minecraft into a fully immersive engineering survival experience.

Grand Depths+
A total conversion survival-adventure experience in a complete new dimension with unique mechanics and progression.

Survival Harmony
This modpack doesn't add anything new; it simply refines existing game mechanics. It's designed to enhance the gameplay experience in the base game and make it more enjoyable.

FurnaceUpgrades
FurnaceUpgrades 1.0.0 initial public release adds survival furnace upgrades with minerals across speed efficiency and fuel paths with per level configurable costs and effects in config and furnace status shown in the action bar

end is no end
From radioactive survival to divine godhood — gather 8 dimensional shards, craft powerful machinery, and defeat the Deity to claim the Essence of Creation.
Fatsan Villager Trade Limiter
A useful villager trade manager plugin for configuring your survival experience.

HardcoreSoulShrines
HardcoreSoulShrines is a plugin designed for Hardcore servers where death is meant to be meaningful but not necessarily final. Buy back your fallen friend from a special shrine.

LsKillGui
Simple GUI-based kill confirmation plugin for survival servers

ChainmailSieve
ChainmailSieve is a lightweight Paper plugin that gives chainmail helmets a special survival mechanic.
The Fallen King - Ultimate Survival Challenge
Extreme Bosses, Ninja Enderman AI & The Fallen King Dragon Phase.

derad-bros Ultimate Survival
Adds light early game progression to Survival mode inspired by bushcraft & vanilla Minecraft.

ZlAutoGive
Automatic vanilla drops system for Minecraft survival.
v0ltzsiREFINED
The Official V0LTZSI Modpack which includes all of the Mods that V0ltzsi uses in his Hardcore Minecraft Series!

WorldStudios' Stoney Bois
Brings some stone blocks to life.

Ocka's Terminator Pack
Changes the Terminator Texture depending on Ultimate Enchant - Hypixel Skyblock Texture pack

Pyrocraft Aeronautics Lite
This is a lite survival modpack for playing with Aeronautics. Simple, vanilla modpack

Endless Villages
Every chunk is filled with villages, creating a unique survival experience focused on exploration and village-based gameplay so turn your Minecraft world into a place where only villages generate.

cooking+++
The Ultimate Culinary & Survival Experience transforms standard Minecraft gameplay into an immersive, realistic, and highly functional world.

Way Too Dark
Way Too Dark is a terrifying client-side survival mod that forces an aggressive, pitch-black visual blindness whenever night falls or you venture deep underground.