Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 84 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Strange Things, DayX, among us - Mongus.
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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.
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.
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
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.
Generic FNAF Mod
This is a project that adds multiple Blocks and Decorative items from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise in a Vanilla Style while also having Survival Elements
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.
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
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.
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
True Hardcore Overhaul
A hardcore survival overhaul featuring permanent health loss, bleeding mechanics, enhanced mob AI, and resource scarcity. Can you survive the Mediumcore?
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.
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
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.
Piglins Trade Gold Ores
Lets piglins trade gold ores by discarding the stone block.
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.
Distorted Darkness
Official story DLC: Explore a world consumed by primordial darkness, features new survival mechanics and cursed items.
Your Last Silhouette
A Forge 1.20.1 survival horror modpack focused on realism, temperature, thirst, and hostile environments. You must manage water, heat, cold, and dangerous creatures to survive. Includes hardcore survival mechanics, horror entities, and realistic environmen
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.
Generator Craft Lootboxes Gambling RNG Economy by ignDante Mod (1.20.1)
Generator Craft Lootboxes Gambling RNG Economy by ignDante Mod turns standard survival gameplay into an RNG-driven progression system. The mod adds multiple custom currencies, drop multipliers, and luck-based mechanics inspired by simulator games. Players defeat mobs to collect lootboxes, spin slot machines in the shop, and build automated generators across their world. It also brings […]
KS Enchantments Mod (26.3, 1.21.11) – Walk Over Lava Pools and Fell Trees
KS Enchantments Mod transforms the survival gear upgrade system with dozens of custom enchantments and useful mechanics. You can find unique effects that repair items under the sun, walk over dangerous lava pools, and cut entire trees down in one swing. The mod also lets you collect mob heads with axes, shoot special projectiles from […]
Pintsized Pizza Poltergeists Mod (1.20.1) – Tame Tiny Animatronics
Pintsized Pizza Poltergeists Mod brings small, friendly animatronics from the Five Nights at Freddy's universe into your survival world. Instead of running from scary monsters, you can recruit these pocket-sized robots to fight alongside you. Each companion comes with unique special skills that protect you from hostile mobs. You can upgrade their forms or change […]
Cyber Craft Remake Mod (1.20.1) – Upgrade Your Body with Deadly Cybernetic
Cyber Craft Remake Mod introduces cybernetic implants, high-tech blocks, and dangerous cyborg mobs to your survival world. You can install body augmentations on your character or even attach them to mobs from other mods. Hostile cyborg mobs spawn with random implants that you can collect after defeating them in battle. You can also trade with […]
Wonderous Sea Mod (1.20.1, 1.20) – Endless Ocean
Wonderous Sea Mod adds over 30 new aquatic animals, items, and mechanics to Minecraft, aiming to make survival oceans lively and immersive. Features: Adds 31+ new aquatic animals with spawn eggs. Expands oceans, rivers, and mangroves with diverse wildlife. Includes new items tied to aquatic survival. Focused on livelier oceans for exploration and immersion. Screenshots: […]
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, […]