

Growing Box Challenge is a singleplayer Minecraft challenge mod that traps the player inside a small, expanding square border and turns progression into a block-based quest system.
You begin at Stage 0 inside a 1×1 area, with the border centered on your spawn position. At each stage, you are given a quest to break a specific type of block that exists within your current border. Completing the quest expands the playable area and advances the stage.
The border expands horizontally only, allowing the player to dig up or down freely inside the square. All progress is persistent per world, and the mod is designed specifically for singleplayer survival.
This mod is intended as a self-contained survival challenge and works out of the box with no configuration required.
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as growing_box-0.6.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 26 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.