Data Packs for Minecraft Java
Browse 71 free data packs for Minecraft Java — popular picks include True Survival, Mount & Ride, Enhanced Mobs.
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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!
Mount & Ride
Mount and ride more mobs in survival.
Enhanced Mobs
Makes mobs stronger, tougher, and follow you from over 100 blocks away, perfect for hardcore challenges!
Mob Wrangler
Ride and control more mobs like the Ravager, Sniffer, Zoglin, Phantom & more! Survival friendly.
Better, Faster Happy Ghasts
Configurable speeds for the Happy Ghast, perfect for survival servers!
Movable Spawners
Spawners made movable in survival
Vanillabean
A pack that adds many well-designed, vanilla-friendly features to enhance your survival gameplay experience!
Bayi's Create Sykblock Loot Table
Loot table changes for Skyblock with Create
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.
Endless Desert
A challenging survival datapack that changes the world generation, adds a thirst system, new structures and tougher mobs.
Hardcore Ender Dragon
Datapack that makes the Ender Dragon significantly harder with new attacks and behaviors.
Runechant
This Data Pack is meant as a reimagining of Survival Minecraft adding in a multitude of features to enhance progression and existing content as well as create new content for a Survival Player to explore.
Candid - A True Adventure
Welcome to Candid! This project adds structures, enchantments, and all things catering to a true adventure. It's built as a companion to True Survival Mode, but can be played independently.
Survival Rebalanced
Improves a variety of parts in the survival experience.
MC-Themed Powers
Adds special abilities you can unlock in survival Minecraft. Each power is based on Minecraft mobs/biomes.
Shearing Sheeps Drop op loot
Shear a sheep → get insane end-game loot. Works on every version from 1.21 to 1.21.10. Adds custom loot table, and turns sheep into walking OP supply crates. Perfect for chaos survival or challenge world
Create Mob Egg
Do you want to get a mob egg in survival? With this data pack, you can do anything!
HardcoreLive
10-day datapack for hardcore mode where the difficulty increases every day.
Acorn's Tweaks
Many small changes to freshen up survival gameplay, but keep things very vanilla.
Limitbreak
Minecraft transformed into a roguelite wave-survival RPG with classes, relics, bosses, and permanent progression.
Zombie Survival
Datapack that replaces most overworld hostile mobs with zombie variants
Graveling Zombies
Zombies now drop gravel when killed, letting you double dirt easily and speed up your Skyblock builds!
Sulfur cube +
This datapack allows you to put EVERY blocks in the game inside the Sulfur Cube And allow you to increase the size of the sulfur cube in Survival
HSB Weapons
Adds many Hypixel Skyblock weapons to your world!
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.
Petroglyph
This Datapack changes deserts and desert survival. It adds hydration, changes World generation and adds unique artifacts. Survive in the desert!
Zombie Drops OP Loot
Turn zombies into an overpowered loot source for intense and rewarding survival gameplay.
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.
Sandy Husks
Husks now drop sand when killed, with chances increasing using Looting - perfect for Skyblock and fast sand farming!
PermaEfe Extreme Survival
PermaEfe is a Minecraft datapack that increases the difficulty progressively for 30 days, with mechanics such as permanent death, boosted mobs and unique craftables. Ideal to play with friends and test your survival.
MZZ's Desert Survival
Makes the whole world a desert; overhauls Minecraft's crafting recipes to provide unique progression and highlight Minecraft's overlooked features.
Expand the border
Expand The Border (ETB) is a unique Minecraft survival datapack that introduces a dynamic world border mechanic. Instead of a fixed world border, players must complete various objectives to expand the playable area.
The Dark Forest
This datapack replaces vanilla minecrafts adventure based survival with a more difficult base-building based survival
Celestial Elites
Celestial Elites is a datapack that spawns in elite mobs with randomized abilities in your survival world.
CraftStands
A Crafting Focused Armor Stand Datapack focused on Survival, Limited, but unique Armor Stands. Unique functionality with special item based animations & commands!
Spider Drops OP Loot
Turn spiders into an overpowered loot source for intense and rewarding survival combat.