
Description
Difficulty Origins is a mod that adds in a new origins layer for difficulty options. This will allow players on an SMP world to pick and choose how difficult they want the game to be.
Origins
- Standard
- The default way of playing Minecraft.
- Peaceful

- Most mobs will ignore you and you will keep items on death.
- Easy

- You will keep items on death.
- Inconvenient

- You cannot sleep or set a spawn point with a bed.
- Hard

- You cannot regenerate health passively.
- Difficult

- You cannot sleep nor passively regenerate health.
- Impossible

- You have one heart, and you can't sleep or regenerate health.
(Both Difficult and Impossible provide a free Orb of Origin for frustrated players.)
Localization
Difficulty Origins has localization for these languages:
- toki pona
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as difficulty-origins-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.