Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 54 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Horror Element Mod, SCP: Overtime, Nightmare Island - Modpack by ShadowMech (100 Days Challenge).
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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.
Nightmare Island - Modpack by ShadowMech (100 Days Challenge)
Nightmare Monster take over!
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!
Corner Entity
is an atmospheric horror mod that turns your peaceful Minecraft survival into a nerve-wracking experience. You will never feel truly safe again, as something is watching you from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Aures - Dragon Survival
Global modification for Java Minecraft centered around playable dragons.
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.
The Dwellers World...
Dive into a world of horror, adventure, and survival with our modpack filled with terrifying creatures, unique structures, and mechanics that challenge your ingenuity. With mods that expand exploration, combat, and customization, every playthrough is a…
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:
PESTCRAFT
☣️ Parasite Apocalypse is a hardcore horror modpack where you must survive the evolving Scape and Run infection using modern firearms and tactical mechanics. Defend your base, lock and load, and try not to become biomass.
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.
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.

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)
Sloths Display Entity Editor
Create, modify, and delete Block and Item displays, even in survival!
Basically Implosion
Adds a sword that has the implosion scroll from Hypixel Skyblock
tally
Survival completion advancement pack — 10,000+ advancements, XP and item rewards, live policy toggles.
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.