Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 244 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Raw-hide, Balanced Minecraft Hardcore, Aephera's Survival.
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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.
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
UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
ExtraLives
A mod that adds extra lives to hardcore mode
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.
Hearts of Power
Battle for survival in a heart-based PvP world where death is permanent
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.
Three's Chances
Three hardcore chances with auto-respawn, configurable health per life, and a permanent final state when all lives are gone.
Kamen Rider EX-AID
Bring the thrilling world of Kamen Rider Ex‑Aid into your Minecraft survival world! This mod packs tons of iconic items straight from the series, including Gashats, transformation drivers, signature weapons and lots of classic props.
True Hardcore Overhaul
A hardcore survival overhaul featuring permanent health loss, bleeding mechanics, enhanced mob AI, and resource scarcity. Can you survive the Mediumcore?
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
Relic Of Nowruz
Relic Of Nowruz for Better Survival
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[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
Sloths Display Entity Editor
Create, modify, and delete Block and Item displays, even in survival!
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.
Builders Bundles
A survival friendly fix to minecraft's inventory problem - designed for builders.
Blasc Survival Overhaul
A Survival Overhaul Mod that doesnt add any bars, it makes you feel the effects.
Basically Implosion
Adds a sword that has the implosion scroll from Hypixel Skyblock
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
🌍 Dynamic Seasons & Weather
A complete survival overhaul of Minecraft’s climate. Survive four unforgiving seasons—from blooming springs to lethal winters.
Anomaly Zone
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-inspired survival mod: anomalous zones with contamination, upgradeable artifacts, emissions, detectors, and scientific armor. Zone survival, minecraft-flavored. Requires Terrablender and Curios to work.
Cinnabar Crafting
Vanilla/survival friendly ways of obtaining cinnabar by crafting with sulfur block. Makes it a renewable block.
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.
tally
Survival completion advancement pack — 10,000+ advancements, XP and item rewards, live policy toggles.
Red's Survival Overhaul
A minecraft mod designed to make the game a whole lot harder.
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.
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.
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.