Timeless Simple Zombie Infection adds a slow, deadly infection system to Minecraft. Getting hit by a zombie isn't just a minor inconvenience anymore — it could be a death sentence. The infection spreads through multiple stages over time, getting worse the longer you ignore it. Penalties stack up, your options narrow, and if you wait too long, you die and come back as one of them. The good news? Everything you were carrying comes back with you. Your items sit inside the zombie until someone kills it and picks them up. No item loss, ever.
The mod comes with suppressor and antidote syringes to give you a fighting chance, a HUD indicator so you always know how bad things are, and infection commands for server admins or modpack makers who want more control. The zombification system handles full inventories, Curios slots, and Sophisticated Backpacks without breaking a sweat — all stored safely and dropped when the zombie goes down.
It's designed to make survival feel genuinely threatening. If you're building or playing in a zombie apocalypse, wasteland, horror, or hardcore modpack, this fits right in.
Features
- Zombie-type mobs can infect players
- Three-stage timed infection progression
- Visual infection timer
- Configurable infection duration and infection chance
- Suppressor and antidote syringes
- Infection HUD indicator
- Commands for infecting, clearing, and controlling infection
- Death by infection transforms the player into an infected zombie
- Full item preservation — inventory, armor, offhand, and Curios slots all saved and dropped on kill
- Works even with completely full inventories
- Forge config support
- Compatibility with The Lost Cities, Corpse, Corpse x Curios API Compat, Sophisticated Backpacks & Hardcore Revival when using v1.0.5 or up
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Requires Geckolib & Epic Core API
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Ships as timeless_simple_zombie_infection-1.0.7-forge-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 865 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.