Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 275 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Relentless Mobs, Let There Be Light, Kamilskis Additions.
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Relentless Mobs
Makes (almost) all mobs pursue players from any distance and through blocks, increasing difficulty and intensity in survival gameplay!
Let There Be Light
This pack adds a crafting recipe for light blocks, allowing illumination in your survival world.
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.
Red's Survival Overhaul
A minecraft mod designed to make the game a whole lot harder.
New Slabs
My first mod where i have many slabs that are not in minecraft. Meant for creative building but are obtainable in survival
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
No Armor Hardcore
Adds features from the No Armor Hardcore series
Fervente´s Life Hearts
The Best Public Minecraft Hardcore Lifes Mod! With Dynamic HUD And Resurrection Features!
Dragon Survival: Alternate Altar Recipes
An Addon for Dragon Survival. This mod adds a new crafting recipes for Dragon Altars in the Dragon Survival Mod
Against the Wild: Realistic Survival
Against the Wild is an immersive realism mod that transforms Minecraft survival into something that actually feels like fighting to stay alive. No magic shortcuts, no easy starts. The world is harsh, unforgiving, and beautiful just like the real wilderness
Lethal – Legendary Survival Overhaul Addon
Addon for Legendary Survival Overhaul that makes head or chest damage lethal when they reach 0.
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.
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
ExtraLives
A mod that adds extra lives to hardcore mode
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.
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.
Deprive
Deprive is a survival–hardship mod for Minecraft built on Fabric. It introduces a spoilage system for food and new survival mechanics that make staying alive more challenging.
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.
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.
Aephera's Survival
Realistic Overhaul of the Early to Mid game
UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
🌍 Dynamic Seasons & Weather
A complete survival overhaul of Minecraft’s climate. Survive four unforgiving seasons—from blooming springs to lethal winters.
Three's Chances
Three hardcore chances with auto-respawn, configurable health per life, and a permanent final state when all lives are gone.
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
Hearts of Power
Battle for survival in a heart-based PvP world where death is permanent
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.
Hardcore Architect
This mod allows you to create your own hardcore Minecraft experience, giving you the ability to choose any number of "hardcore" lives and their recovery rate.
Relic Of Nowruz
Relic Of Nowruz for Better Survival
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.
[Bob's] Better Prime
[Bob's] Better Prime - is a mod that add prime and feastables to the game for the purpose to get some effect in the game that can be harder to get in survival
Ardwick
A slower, balanced survival overhaul for players who miss Minecraft's Golden Age.
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
Basically Implosion
Adds a sword that has the implosion scroll from Hypixel Skyblock
Blasc Survival Overhaul
A Survival Overhaul Mod that doesnt add any bars, it makes you feel the effects.