HardUpgrade
This mod artificially slows down progress at the beginning of the game, creating additional difficulties for beginners. To overcome this barrier and…
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HardUpgrade
HardUpgrade is a progressive hardcore mod for Minecraft 1.20.1, which radically changes the approach to survival. Now your abilities are not given to you right away — you need to earn them by developing three key areas: Mining, Fighting and Walking.
Basic mechanics At the beginning of the game, your character is weak and limited. To remove debuffs and increase performance, you need to accumulate experience points in the appropriate categories.
Mining Progress: Each destruction of blocks (stone, ore) gives points.
Removing restrictions: Up to level 50, the effect of Mining Fatigue is applied to the player.
Power-ups: Every 5 levels, your base digging speed increases by 0.1.
- Combat Progress: Defeat hostile and peaceful mobs to level up.
Health: Your maximum HP depends on your combat level.
Levels 1-10: +2 HP (1 heart) per level.
Levels 11-50: +1 HP (0.5 hearts) per level.
🏃 Walking Progress: Just explore the world. Each completed block brings you closer to a new level.
Removing restrictions: Up to level 50, the player is affected by the Slowness effect.
- Skill tree, for points received when leveling up
- 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 HardUpgrade-forge-1.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 84 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.