DatapacksJava
Vanilla but Harder
makes vanilla Minecraft harder. Makes you have 5 hearts, its always night, armour makes you take damage (except turtle shell and elytra), limited…
I don't know my version or loader
Open the Minecraft launcher and look at the profile you play on — it names both, like fabric-loader-1.21.4. The version also shows in the bottom-right corner of the game's main menu.
No loader in the profile name? Then it's plain Minecraft, and these mods won't run — you need Fabric or NeoForge installed first.
This Datapack:
- sets your hearts to 5
- sets difficulty to hard
- sets random tick speed to 40 (eg. crops grow faster, saplings grow faster)
- sets world/server to midnight (always night)
- sets reduced debug info to true
removes:
- ability to heal naturally (gamerule)
- ability to wear armour (except for turtle helmet and elytra)
- ability to sleep (gamerule)
adds:
- limited crafting (gamerule)
- universal anger (gamerule)
- OP mace (breach, density and wind burst are compatible together)
- harder eye of ender recipe
making the vanilla game harder
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as Vanilla but Harder.zip
- Download size: 34 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.