Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 1,588 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Cinnabar Crafting, tally, Grab Bags.
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Cinnabar Crafting
Vanilla/survival friendly ways of obtaining cinnabar by crafting with sulfur block. Makes it a renewable block.
tally
Survival completion advancement pack — 10,000+ advancements, XP and item rewards, live policy toggles.
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
Forbidden recipes By Anoosh
Forbidden Recipes is a mod that adds crafting recipes for some of Minecraft's most elusive items, including the dragon egg, barrier block, elytra, and more. This mod lets you craft powerful or rare items that were previously unobtainable in survival mode.
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.
Accumulator
Adds a redstone block that pulls in entities in front of it. Uses materials from the Amarite mod. Made for my own personal use, as it requires Connector/Kilt.
Simple SearchBar
SearchBar is a lightweight mod that adds a simple search bar for (Fakepixel) Skyblock.
Red's Survival Overhaul
A minecraft mod designed to make the game a whole lot harder.
Crisis Contract
A module designed in the style of Arknights' Contingency Contract gameplay, with a parasite theme serving as a hardcore challenge.
zombiesbetter
A survival-enhancing mod that gives zombies the ability to mine blocks, build stairs, and use specialist tools to reach the player. No more hiding behind walls!
Another Hardcore Mod
This Forge mod introduces a heart-based life system for hardcore servers. Players have limited hearts, lose one on death, and are hardcore-banned at 0 hearts. PvP kills steal a heart, making every fight high-risk and meaningful. Perfect for ha
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
SteelHold
Steelhold is a Forge mod for Minecraft that adds heavy-duty, lockable safes designed for survival, multiplayer, and roleplay servers.
Tera-surf-mod
A simple lightweight exploration minecraft mod made for all surface travel that entails the survival adventure feel with balances in its core mechanics.
kW1st
Hardcore mod where speedrunner kW1st got out of his world into multiverses and multiplied. Now kW1st is trying to kill you.
Amethyst Platform
Survival on the amethyst platform. All you need is an amethyst.
Expanded End Stone
Expands the End Stone block family by adding new blocksets inspired by Minecraft Dungeons!
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.
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
bedrock armor
Craft Bedrock in survival, forge a powerful Bedrock Armor set, and unlock a new late-game crafting progression for Fabric 26.1.2.
ExplorerKit
A modular adventure toolkit with backpacks, waypoints, minimap, mob health HUD, and survival info.
OmniPlayer Toolbox
An all-in-one in-game menu for full player control: flight options, invulnerability features, and instant access to any item—even in Survival.
Pomkots Mechs Drop Command
This Mod adds survival integration to the Main machines of the Pomkots Mechs Extension. Craft through a series of devices to be able to set up a beacon to call in a machine of your choosing.
Vanilla Apocalypse
A Forge mod that enhances zombie behavior, making them faster, stronger, and more dangerous while creating a harsher survival experience.
coffin-larva-and-fossils
`Coffin, Larva, and Fossils` adds a compact set of archaeology-inspired and sea-themed features without overwhelming vanilla survival.
SXD's Random Blocks
Experience the thrill of surprise in Minecraft! This mod adds five tiers of random blocks that drop completely random loot when broken. Blocks are blast-proof, easy to mine, and feature a dedicated creative tab - perfect for survival, building, and servers
Scars
Scars is a hardcore Minecraft mod that makes every death matter. It introduces a progressive trauma system where your maximum health decreases with each death, forcing you to play more carefully.
SlotZero
SlotZero is a survival-focused gameplay overhaul that transforms how inventory works in Minecraft. Players begin with extremely limited carrying capacity and must unlock additional slots using progression items like pouches, toolbelts, and backpacks.
Vital Reflexes
A mod that makes you manually manage breathing and blinking, adding a small but constant survival challenge to gameplay.
Fluff Gamemode Control
FluffGamemodeControl is a server-side Forge mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that allows players to switch between Survival, Creative, Adventure, and Spectator modes using commands, with LuckPerms permission support!
HLElevators
Simple one block elevator
Basically Gyrokinetic Wand
Adds the Gyrokinetic Wand from Hypixel Skyblock into an item
SurvivalK
SurvivalK is a mod which adds things to help you survive, and thrive.
Chaolux
A shielding plate that halves all damage and acts as a one-time totem, balancing defense and survival in combat.
Brocher's Survival+ Mod
BSPM is a mod that adds, and modify ways to play vanilla minecraft without abusing of breaking it's aestetics.
Primum Opus
Primum Opus - Start from absolute zero. No punching trees, no instant crafting. Earn every piece of technology through primitive survival in this challenging early-game overhaul.