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Survival Needs

Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.20–1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.

by Javieljefe · on CurseForge

Which build do you need?

This mod ships a separate file for every mod loader and every version of the game. Pick both, then download — the wrong build installs fine and then does nothing in the game.

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Minecraft version

⬇ Download for 1.21.1 · NeoForge⬇ Download for 1.20.1 · Forge
I don't know my version or loader
Open the Minecraft launcher and look at the profile you play on — it names both, like fabric-loader-1.21.4. The version also shows in the bottom-right corner of the game's main menu.
No loader in the profile name? Then it's plain Minecraft, and these mods won't run — you need Fabric or NeoForge installed first.
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Survival Needs

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Survival Needs is a life sim inspired survival mod that adds thirst, hygiene, energy, bladder, fun, and social motives to Minecraft.

Take care of your needs while surviving: drink water, rest, stay clean, and manage your motives to avoid penalties and gain helpful bonuses.

Includes custom water bottles, soap, drinks, effects, configurable HUD icons, and a short rest cutscene.

The vanilla hunger system is replaced with a custom hunger need.

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New features 📌

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Needs 💧

Hunger: Replaces the vanilla food system with a custom need. It slowly decreases over time and also drops when sprinting, jumping, or swimming. Eating restores Hunger, but raw or uncooked food restores less and can reduce Hygiene and give you negative effects.

Thirst: New survival need that decreases over time, you need to drink clean water, milk, soups, stews, coffee, tea, or hydration potions. Thirst drops over time and decreases faster during physical activity and in the Nether. Dirty water can be purified in a furnace or turned into drinkable water using a brewing stand. Drinking from beach and swamp biomes is not recommended!

Energy: Slowly decreases during the day and drops faster when sprinting, jumping, mining, attacking, or swimming. Sleeping restores Energy and you can also take a short daytime nap if you are very tired.

Hygiene: Slowly decreases over time and drops faster when mining, fighting, taking damage, killing mobs, eating raw food, or eating rotten flesh. You can clean yourself by standing in water or rain, but swamp water makes Hygiene worse. Soap can also be used while in water to clean yourself and gain a temporary bonus.

Bladder: Drinking and some foods affect your bladder. If it gets too low, you will need to relieve yourself with a configurable keybind.

Fun: Represents boredom and decreases when you spend too much time doing nothing, but it increases through normal gameplay activities such as mining, building, crafting, fighting, fishing, discovering new biomes, and earning advancements.

Social: Social slowly decreases over time, especially in lonely or hostile dimensions like the Nether and the End. It increases when you stay near players, villagers, pets, or domesticated animals, and also when interacting or trading with villagers.


Effects ✨

Positive Effects

Negative Effects

All effects can be enabled or disabled individualy in the .toml file or in Mods - Config in game.

Effects

Works in singleplayer, multiplayer, and LAN.

Mod Collection ⚔️

Villagers Reborn Fantasy Factions   Survival Needs   Immersive Walk

Credits

HUD fantasy icons by outobugi / Dopesan, from NORDIC UI - Interface Overhaul. Used with credit according to the original mod permissions.

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Quick facts

Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.

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