Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 341 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Strange Things, Descend In The Madness, [SmittieKing] Mongolia.
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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.
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.
[SmittieKing] Mongolia
A modpack that incorporates certain mechanics, atmospherics, and wildlife inspired by Mongolia.
Wasteland Survival
Survive the wasteland with powerful new gear, lethal monsters, and a full RPG leveling system!
Surviving Immersium
Modpack with more immersive gameplay, including overhauled survival mechanics, new world generation and structures, a bit of magic and technologies and a bunch of new decoration options
Shattered Legacy: Lose Hearts on Death
A mod inspired by medium core, but non hardcore player friendly, where you naturally recover your hearts over time.
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.
Oculus of Silence
Oculus of Silence is a magical survival artifact that repels nearby hostile mobs for 30 seconds
Mechanical Slug
This modpack focuses on machines and sharing with other mods
Era of Innovation
Era of Innovation is a Minecraft modpack that combines creativity, technology, and exploration. Featuring the 'Create' mod series, YUNG's enhanced structures, and immersive survival mechanics, it offers players a unique blend of engineering and adventure.
Hardcore Redeploy
A mod that allows reviving players in hardcore servers, at a cost
Kindling Age
Kindling Age enhances early survival with lightweight, vanilla-friendly mechanics that make the first days more deliberate without adding grind or hard gates.
[SmittieKing] Kenya
A modpack that incorporates certain mechanics, atmospherics, and wildlife inspired by Kenya.
Hardcore Revivestone
A block that spawns when you die can be right clicked by anyone to revive you, at a cost of course.
The Good Life
A light and cozy modpack featuring farming, cooking, decoration, survival mechanics, and stunning biomes, designed for multiplayer fun and creative automation. 🌾✨
Daldon's Immersive Survival
A modpack focused on atmospheric exploration, roleplay , realistic survival mechanics, and cozy world-building in a richly enhanced, performance-friendly environment!
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.
Delta blades
New mechanics, items, and weapons. The mod is small but can make your survival in the Minecraft world easier.
Undertaker's Totems
A hardcore landclaim system for Forge, Minecraft version 1.19.2
TFC Terra Incognita
TFC Terra Incognita is based on the challenging survival of TerraFirmaCraft combined with the mythical Create mod, a lot of new immersive mechanics, visuals and sounds, featuring addons that perfectly fit the TFC thematic.

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.
jay medical
A hardcore medical and downed system mod for zombie apocalypse and realistic survival gameplay. Features bleeding, fractures, painkillers, reviving, adrenaline injections, and immersive multiplayer combat injuries.
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.
New Slabs
My first mod where i have many slabs that are not in minecraft. Meant for creative building but are obtainable in survival
Fervente´s Life Hearts
The Best Public Minecraft Hardcore Lifes Mod! With Dynamic HUD And Resurrection Features!
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
Let There Be Light
This pack adds a crafting recipe for light blocks, allowing illumination in your survival world.
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
Balanced Minecraft Hardcore
Balanced Minecraft Hardcore (BMH) gives you flexibility in difficulty by replacing death by distant respawn based on your difficulty and Eternal Items possessed. BMH is the perfect middle ground between normal Minecraft and hardcore Minecraft.
Aephera's Survival
Realistic Overhaul of the Early to Mid game
No Fishing Spam!
No Fishing Spam! is a lightweight anti-AFK farming mod that prevents fishing rod spam by enforcing a short cooldown between casts. Ideal for survival servers and modpacks aiming to keep gameplay balanced and fair.