
Hardcore Architect
This mod allows you to create your own hardcore Minecraft experience, giving you the ability to choose any number of "hardcore" lives and their recovery…
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Hardcore Architect is a mod that adds a more flexible hardcore mode with a configurable number of "hardcore" lives and a timer to restore them.
You need to try this mod if:
- You're bored of playing normal mode, and death in Minecraft is nothing to you anymore.
- You want to add risk to the game, but you are afraid to constantly die in vanilla Hardcore mode (or, conversely, you die there too often).
- You play hardcore with mods like "Corail Tombstone", where death is part of the progression, and in vanilla Hardcore mode, you can only die once.
This mod contains:
- Already configured modes for the finished game ("Easy", "Medium", "Hard"), as well as a fully customizable "Custom" mode right in the world creation menu. If out-of-the-box settings are not enough, you can add countless of your own modes to the config, and new modes will automatically appear in the selection list (this is especially useful for creators of builds with mods).
- A simple interface that does not interfere with the main game, showing your "hardcore" lives, which can be conveniently moved using the mod configuration.
- A separate achievement system.
- Optimized code for minimal load on the server and client.
Also, this mod has its own command "/hardcore_architect stats" – it allows the player to view his current statistics on this mod at any time and not only:
- Game mode with the maximum number of lives and recovery time.
- The current and maximum number of lives, as well as the remaining recovery timer
- Full statistics: the days survived, the total number of deaths, the minimum number of lives before hardcore death, and the time since the last death.
Please share your bug reports, ideas, or suggestions for new features on the mod page.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3
- 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 hardcore_architect-1.1-RELEASE.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 65 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.