Disclaimer:
This mod adds changes to vanilla to make it harder and is designed to be used with the Inferno modpack.
It will still work if you download it without the pack but for a better and cleaner experience, play with the modpack.
Modpack link: Inferno - Better Hardcore
Full list of current features:
SpoilerYou can't get one-shot from full hp (except fall damage).
Thunderstorms are a little bit more intense. I would recommend crafting a lightning rod.
Hostile mobs now spawn with random potion effects.
Hostile mobs are modified.
Every zombie that spawns will be a baby.
Saturation is heavily nerfed.
Hunger drains much faster.
Starvation is more severe.
Defeating the Wither is a necessary for going to the end (configurable).
Every trade with a villager results in them being smited by lightning (configurable).
Burning will persist until you enter water.
Using a Totem of Undying will consume 2 maximum hearts and they won’t activate if you're already at half a maximum health (configurable).
Weather conditions affect mob spawns.
Most piglins are replaced with a piglin brutes.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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.
- Ships as infernomode-1.2.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 21 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.