Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 79 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Noches Muertas, Strange Things, Wasteland Survival.
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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.
Wasteland Survival
Survive the wasteland with powerful new gear, lethal monsters, and a full RPG leveling system!
Oculus of Silence
Oculus of Silence is a magical survival artifact that repels nearby hostile mobs for 30 seconds
Tougher Than Steel
Survive against terrifying in a semi-realistic survival horror modpack with immersive gameplay due to mechanics such as sanity and due to immersive sound mods and different mobs that come along those sounds.
DayX
This is a survival challenge mod where you can customize many properties.The difficulty of the game will increase with the increase of danger level/time, and you can decide the specific reinforcement values of the monsters.
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.
SurvivalReborn
Survival Reborn enhances Minecraft survival with dynamic terrain, new biomes, and unique mobs, offering fresh challenges and gameplay mechanics. Explore, craft, and survive in a world full of adventure, ancient secrets, and powerful items!
Relentless Mobs
Makes (almost) all mobs pursue players from any distance and through blocks, increasing difficulty and intensity in survival gameplay!
Kamilskis Additions
Its a mod that adds everything I ever thought of and that would make sense in minecraft, and makes it balanced for the survival experience.
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)
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
True Hardcore Overhaul
A hardcore survival overhaul featuring permanent health loss, bleeding mechanics, enhanced mob AI, and resource scarcity. Can you survive the Mediumcore?
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
MoonBorne
MoonBorne is a highly configurable Minecraft survival experience centered around dangerous special moons, each bringing unique mechanics, events, mobs, hordes, and challenges to your world.
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
Mirohodec Mod
Forget about the familiar Nether and the End — this mod radically expands the boundaries of the familiar game world, turning your survival into an epic journey through an infinite multiverse.
ExplorerKit
A modular adventure toolkit with backpacks, waypoints, minimap, mob health HUD, and survival info.
Extremocore
A Forge 1.20.1 mod for hardcore event servers: 5-life system with permanent-loss on kill streaks, buffed vanilla mobs (fire damage, faster creeper explosions), live PvP toggle, and an instant visual/audio alert command for admins.
Better than hardcore
A hardcore mod that pushes vanilla Hardcore mode to its limits.
zMCSandbox
This mod grants the tools and abilities to both, create wave-based survival maps and play them too!
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.
Piglins Trade Gold Ores
Lets piglins trade gold ores by discarding the stone block.
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 […]
Sky Void Additions Mod (1.21.11, 1.20.1) – Absolute Exciting Features for SkyBlock
Sky Void Additions Mod enhances SkyBlock gameplay by introducing vanilla-like mechanics that make all items, mobs, and advancements obtainable. Features include creating Amethyst Geodes with packed ice and lava, obtaining rare items like enchanted golden apples from cats, and converting mobs like guardians into elder guardians through lightning. Additional mechanics allow Endermites to propagate chorus […]
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. […]
FarmHelper Mod (1.8.9) – Hypixel Skyblock Macro
FarmHelper Mod is a Quality of Life (QOL) mod for Hypixel Skyblock. It automates repetitive farming tasks, helping players save time. Features: Moves and harvests crops (sugarcane, potatoes, wheat, etc.) without requiring constant player input. Safety mechanisms to pause macros when unusual behavior is detected (e.g., sudden teleportation, disconnection). Displays information about macro runtime (24 […]
Cannibal Conundrum Mod (1.20.1, 1.20) – Survive The Savage Life
Cannibal Conundrum Mod introduces brutal cannibal villages, hostile human mobs, and grisly mechanics that push survival into dark territory. The mod throws players into tense encounters with flesh-craving villagers wielding crude bone weapons and a mini-boss that rewards a deadly saw-making wilderness exploration both thrilling and terrifying. Features: Added 5 New items, 2 Useful blocks, […]
Yakurum Mod (1.20.1) – Conquer The Depths
Yakurum Mod is an expansive water-themed mod that brings boss fights, powerful armor, unique weapons, and mystical creatures into your Minecraft world. Explore aquatic structures, battle ferocious sea monsters, and harness new resources to craft legendary gear. Features: Mysterious structures scattered across the world, holding secrets to uncover. Unique mechanics that enhance survival and combat. […]
Nice Mobs Remastered Mod (1.21.1) – Friends and Foes
Nice Mobs Remastered Mod reworks, remasters and adds new mobs and mob related mechanics to the game to make each survival experience more thrilling and exciting. From nearly unlimited combinations for hostile mob equipment over the addition of new mobs to a completly new late game dimension, this datapack offers a vast amount of features […]
Hardcore Ender Expansion Mod 1.7.10 (Overhaul the End Dimension)
Hardcore Ender Expansion Mod completely overhauls the End dimension. This mod adds new islands, dungeons, and biomes to explore, along with challenging new mobs and bosses to fight. You can find a large variety of new blocks, items, and mechanics to try out. To learn about all the new content, use the Ender Compendium, which […]