Data Packs for Minecraft Java
Browse 23 free data packs for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Better Furnace, True Survival, Vanillabean.
Updated daily
Better Furnace
BetterFurnace introduces seven new types of furnaces with varying cooking speeds, wihout Resource Pack ! They're getting harder and harder to get and fit perfectly with your minecraft survival.

True Survival
True Survival Mode is a comprehensive set of 1.21+ datapack features that aim to overhaul Minecraft's survival mode. It tackles difficulty and progression through means that don't disrupt Minecraft's regular gameplay, while also providing new adventures!
Vanillabean
A pack that adds many well-designed, vanilla-friendly features to enhance your survival gameplay experience!
Mr_ChibisMMO
Survival based MMO for players to have fun in either (Singleplayer, Multiplayer, or Modded) skills such as, "Agility", "Attack", "Cooking", "Defense", "Excavation", "Fishing", "Hitpoints", "Hunter", "Magic", "Mining" & "Commands/Custom World Gen loot".
RandomDirtDrops
RandomDirtDrops is a fun Minecraft data pack that makes breaking dirt blocks drop completely random items from the entire game — from diamonds to dragon eggs! Perfect for chaotic survival challenges and OP item speedruns.
Survival Rebalanced
Improves a variety of parts in the survival experience.
Acorn's Tweaks
Many small changes to freshen up survival gameplay, but keep things very vanilla.
Thirsty
A vanilla-friendly datapack that adds a balanced hydration system to Minecraft survival.
IRE
A datapack that overhauls and expands the survival experience for slower, more rewarding progression with a renewed focus on mining. Dig through numerous rock layers, each one requiring a better pickaxe than the last, until you reach the Nether itself.
Rotten Flesh Can Be Smelted To Leather
This datapack lets you smelt rotten flesh into leather using any furnace or blast furnace. A simple, survival-friendly way to recycle mob drops, reduce clutter, and create useful leather resources.
Survivalism
Make more with less, whether you want some wheat without a whole farm or want some charcoal without a whole furnace
EVE - Entity Visualization Editor
The best editor text_display and item_display for survival and creativity
Blocked In Hardcore
A challenging version of the Blocked In datapack
Auto Replant Crop
Automatically replants crops after harvesting. Works in survival and multiplayer.
HardSurvivalStrategie
Minecraft Datapack with realistic crafting and behaviour.
Notch Apple Recipe Restored
This Datapack adds the Ability to craft Enchanted Golden Apples in Survival Minecraft using 8 Blocks of Gold and 1 Apple.
Ultra Hardcore by DWizard
A feature-rich datapack that aims to increase Minecraft's difficulty and turn the game into a true survival experience, by expanding it's progression and all of it's survival aspects.
Hardcore meat
Meat from cows and pigs drops much less
Vanilla With Sugar
A close-to-vanilla datapack that slows Minecraft's early game pacing and makes survival a bigger focus
Coming Darkness
Survival data pack with my ideas to rebalance gameplay. It makes game passing a bit harder and longer.
Survival+
Survival+ is a datapack that adds difficulty and suprise to Minecraft again. By adding tougher enemies and cool unique items. Along with a bunch of new mechanics and reworks of some old ones, causing you to relearn Minecraft in a whole new way!
Lactose Intolerance
Turns milk into a per-player survival system with reactions, tolerance, events, advancements, statistics, and safe recipes.
Survivor's Elegy Data Pack (26.2, 1.20.1) – Survive Decaying Mobs
Survivor's Elegy Data Pack expands your survival world with new game mechanics, updated structures, and extra items. It changes how the day and night cycle works, adds new ways to cook food, and brings fresh challenges to the Nether. Features: Time Control: Lets you change how long daytime lasts using a simple menu. Rotting Mobs: […]