
Red's Survival Overhaul
Description
Red's Survival Overhaul is a mod that aims to make Minecraft harder in every way. Through a variety of features and config options, you can elevate your hardcore Minecraft experience to a new level.
Features
Temperature
- Temperature changes with things such as surrounding blocks, biome, time of day, elevation, armor, and more.
- When your temperature is too low or too high you will get hypothermia / heat stroke.
- Makes the nether much harder (VERY hot) and the end much harder (EXTREMELY cold).
- Adds a gauge to the hotbar that will show you your temperature.
Environment Nerf
- Crop growth speed is fully configurable and scalable with difficulty.
- Animal breeding cooldown as well as baby growth speed is also configurable and scalable with difficulty.
- Chicken egg laying cooldown is configurable and scalable with difficulty.
- Nerfs bone meal depending on difficulty.
- Adds a passive exhaustion to the player so that you can't just AFK.
Food Nerf
- Adds a global hunger multiplier scaling on difficulty.
- Overrides all food values to be normalized and far less.
- Adds a food history system preventing you from eating the same food more than a few times in a row.
Health Nerf
- Adds a variety of debuffs when you're at low health or hunger.
- Prevents death resets by modifying respawn health and hunger.
- Prevents the player from dealing knockback when at low health.
Config
- General config values are in the standard config folder in the forge config files
- There are also more specific JSON files that allow more configurability.
Credit & Issues
- Feel free to use my mod in your modpack :P
- Credit to the old Hunger Overhaul mod for some of the inspiration
- Leave issue reports on my GitHub
Quick facts
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as survivaloverhaul-1.0.1-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 109 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.