Forge Mods for Minecraft 1.20
Browse 41 free Forge mods for Minecraft 1.20 — popular picks include Horror Element Mod, SCP: Overtime, Slabs Expanded (Discontinued).
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Horror Element Mod
This mod adds gore and horror themed blocks for your horror maps as well as horror themed structures spawning naturally for your survival worlds
SCP: Overtime
SCP: Overtime is a Java Survival mod for version 1.20.1, with the goal of adding SCPs to Minecraft as a tribute to the SCP Community as a whole. The mod is a rebrand of the SCP:XK Unity Addon.
Slabs Expanded (Discontinued)
Stack different slabs into one block, adds slab variants for every block, and craft blocks from slabs
Warlery's Dark Blood | Survival Horror
all nights turns in to a nightmare, its kill and survive!, this mod adds monsters, weapons and more!
Zombie Hardcore
Get ready to face thirsty zombies, they will break all blocks to get to you! Literally.
World_0
A psychological horror mod that turns normal survival into an unstable, paranoia-driven experience filled with anomalies, false presence, and staged events.
R.M. Apocalyptic Zombies
Survive in a new and dauting desolate world as you scavenge and rebuild against hordes of zombies whilst balancing a series of new and harsh survival mechanics.
7 DAYS TO LIVE
This mod transforms Minecraft into another game adding endings and a 7 day survival progression in your world.
Realm of Resilience
A DnD Style modpack with custom mechanics, worldgen, and mobs! Configured to be a nightmare.
The War of the World
The War of the World is a performance-optimized Minecraft 1.20.1 survival modpack featuring alien invasion themes, ruined cities, hostile nights, dynamic seasons, advanced AI, survival mechanics, and gameplay for singleplayer and multiplayer servers. Now!
BOMBard
this mod ads 2 bombs currently only available in creative mode (c4 and a nuke) soon to be added into survival via crafting table.
SURVIVE THE FALLOUT
based off fallout 3 this modpack is about surviving the wastes, and fighting mutated enemies and robots, you will need to ration your food and water to survive, GOOD LUCK AND SURVIVE THE FALLOUT
Wasteland Wanderer | Fallout
Turns Minecraft into a Survival Fallout Experience!
[SmittieKing] Transylvania
A modpack that incorporates certain mechanics, atmospherics, and wildlife inspired by Transylvania.
Veil of the Ancients
A modpack blending horror, challenge, and adventure. Adapt to new survival mechanics, manage food wisely, and face smarter enemies. Explore new biomes, dimensions, and structures. Master magic, automate with Create, and uncover hidden mysteries.
Coalesce
Server-side configurable hardcore combat
War of Z
This Zombie Mod Pack for Minecraft enhances your gameplay with terrifying zombies, new weapons, and challenging survival mechanics. Perfect for horror and adventure fans, this pack includes:
RyDaCol's Star Wars Mod [NO LONGER UPDATING]
A mod aiming to bring the world of Star Wars into Minecraft in a Survival friendly manner
Noches Muertas
A progressive zombie survival mod where every night becomes more dangerous, with evolving infected, hordes, blood moon events, weapons, research, defenses, survivors, structures, and infected Nether progression.
Strange Things
Strange Things is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, featuring Demogorgons, infected creatures, atmospheric horror, brutal survival mechanics, and immersive gameplay for both singleplayer and multiplayer servers worldwide.
Descend In The Madness
A psychological horror survival modpack inspired by Trevor Henderson’s Siren Head, featuring brutal survival mechanics, dangerous exploration, and a world designed to break your sanity.
Sculk Outbreak
Sculk Outbreak is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, focused on a spreading sculk infection, hostile horde mechanics, deadly nights, ruined cities, and immersive long-term gameplay for both singleplayer and multiplayer servers.

among us - Mongus
Brings the iconic crewmate Among Us character into Minecraft as a mob, with a survival-friendly spawn egg so you can unleash the sus anywhere.
Relentless Mobs
Makes (almost) all mobs pursue players from any distance and through blocks, increasing difficulty and intensity in survival gameplay!
Cursed Life
A Jujutsu Kaisen–inspired Minecraft modpack featuring cursed energy combat and unpredictable fate mechanics, enhanced with challenging mobs, unique abilities, and multiplayer-focused progression for chaotic, strategy-driven survival.
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
Basically Implosion
Adds a sword that has the implosion scroll from Hypixel Skyblock
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
STOP NUKING JIMWORLD
Cancels/disables ALL explosions from occurring. (Made for modded creative, is not survival friendly.)
Broken Nightmares
ever needed a mod that made dying/respawning have consenquences without making you lose your world like hardcore mode or have your health reduced unless you get some totem or sumthing? see no further
Enchanted Edge
High-tier utility and "Anarchy-style" enchantments to revolutionize your survival experience.
Phantom Bomber
This mod spawns two bomb-dropping Phantoms every night at sunset. They attack players with timed TNT, making every night a survival challenge.
Distorted Darkness
Official story DLC: Explore a world consumed by primordial darkness, features new survival mechanics and cursed items.
Zombie Nightmare Expansions Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – Undead Horror Monsters
Zombie Nightmare Expansions Mod adds multiple high-detail undead creatures with different mechanics, combat styles, and special drops. The mod is designed for horror, zombie apocalypse, RPG, and hardcore gameplay packs. Features: Undead Mobs Disemboweler Large heavy zombie variant Targets players and cows High melee damage Drops Deathly Heart Tormented Zombie Disguises itself as a normal […]
Gonebutnotforgotten.jar Mod (1.20.1, 1.20) – Phobia Themed Exploration
Gonebutnotforgotten.jar Mod inspired by wonderland.jar (but built with entirely original assets, lore, and dimensions). It introduces 8 eerie dimensions, each themed around a major phobia or horror concept. These dimensions bring unique entities, mechanics, and survival challenges, turning exploration into a psychological and atmospheric experience. Features: 8 custom dimensions, each themed around a phobia or […]
The Chuchoteur Mod (1.20.1) – A Stalking, Teleporting Monster
The Chuchoteur Mod adds a custom horror entity designed to stalk players with unpredictable and immersive mechanics. Unlike typical mobs, it uses psychological horror elements-appearing, vanishing, and striking when least expected-to transform exploration into a survival-horror experience. Features: Introduce a unique horror entity that stalks players, teleports unpredictably, and reacts to player movement and gaze. […]