Survival Upgraded
Java modpack listed for Minecraft 1.16. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on CurseForgeThe author built this one for Minecraft 1.16–1.16.5 on Forge. On other versions it may install and then do nothing.
Survival Upgraded is a modpack for Minecraft 1.16.5. It focuses on enhancing your Survival experience with new blocks, sounds, mobs and more! You can even use the pack in a multiplayer server with friends!

Requisites:
-Forge 36.1.x (tested with Forge 36.1.4)
-4gb+ of RAM (recommended)
-Use Optifine (you'll have to install it manually)
-Particles set to "All" (highly recommended)
-Play with sounds on (highly recommended)
Features:
- Your adventure always begins in a village

- Oh The Biomes You'll Go world generator, with tons of new realistic biomes and blocks + extra biomes



- End biomes

- Nether biomes revamped

- New dimension: The Undergarden. Includes different biomes and mobs to fight


- New dimension: The Abyss. Tons of new blocks, weapons and armors and many bosses to defeat in order to finish an inside story

- Amazing new caves and mineshafts which change based on the biome you are currently in


- A solar cooker to cook your favourite rostbeef usign the infinite power of the Sun and new boats to travel throught the oceans, with included chests to transport your item


- Tree's chopping: use your axe to destroy wood until the entire tree breaks

- New small and medium animals to make your experience more realistic


- JEI for all the recipes and a minimap to explore your world

- Riverb inside caves, new natural ambient sounds and revamped the existing ones, for example during walking on different blocks. Your audio experience will never be the same!
- To enter the Nether dimension, you'll need to find dimensional rifts underground while to come back to the overworld you'll need to find reclaimers in the Nether


- Artifacts and Relics are uncraftable items which you can equip to have some boosts or new skills
- Backpack to add 9 extra slots to your inventory

- Waystones to travel through your world

- New amazing strongholds



- New structures will spawn in your world

And much more!
Mod list:
- Artifacts
- Backpacked
- YUNG's Better Caves
- Better Diving
- BetterEnd
- Better Weather
- Burnt Forest
- YUNG's Better Caves
- YUNG's Better Mineshafts
- YUNG's Better Portals
- YUNG's Better Strongholds
- Carry On
- Charm Reforged
- Charmonium Reforged
- Clumps
- Colds: Ostriches
- Creatures and Beasts
- Curious Elytra
- Desolation
- Dungeon Crawl
- Dynamic Surroundings
- Enhanced Celestials
- Falling Leaves
- FastFurnace
- Fins and Tails
- GraveStone Mod
- Guard Villagers
- Infernal Expansion
- Iron Chests
- Just Enough Items (JEI)
- Oh The Biomes You'll Go
- Outvoted
- Project: Vibrant Journeys
- Reap
- Relics
- Repurposed Structures
- Shutup Experimental Settings!
- Small Ships
- Solar Cooker
- Spawner Bug Fix
- Stoneholm
- Subterranean Wilderness
- SwingThroughGrass
- [Add-On] The Abyss: Beginning
- The Abyss: Chapter II
- The Conjurer
- The Undergarden
- Toast Control
- HT's TreeChop
- Valhelsia Structures
- Village Spawn Point
- Waddles
- Waystones
- [SBM] Wooden Shears
- Xaero's Minimap
- Xaero's World Map
Core mods:
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16, 1.16.5, 1.16.4
- 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 CurseForge — 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.
- Downloads as Survival Upgraded-1.8.1.zip
- Download size: 101 KB
- Download link checked 14 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.