Forge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 35 free Forge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include End Portal Recipe, Dragon Survival, Hardcore Ender Expansion.
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End Portal Recipe
📝 Makes the end portal craftable, movable and available in survival plus other tweaks.
Dragon Survival
Global modification for Java Minecraft centered around playable dragons.
Hardcore Ender Expansion
Overhauls the End with many new areas to explore, bosses to fight and rewards to gain.
Vestiges of the Present
Hardcore challenges awarded with powerful and unique Vestiges from unknown God-like creature. Has worldwide leaderboards, lore progression and a lot of cool stuff like anti heal, heal debt, shields, over heal and shields, etc.
JoJo's Bizarre Survival
A mod that adds Stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to Minecraft.
RPG Mob Leveling System
Every mob has the potential to grow stronger, smarter, and more dangerous as they gain levels. With dynamic scaling of health, damage, and special abilities, each encounter becomes a unique challenge that will test your survival skills
Hardcore Lite - You Die You Lose a Heart (LifeDrain)
Lose hearts when dying, gain a heart when eating enchanted golden apples (similar to LifeDrain LifeSteal)
Revive Hardcore Players
crystal to revive players in hardcore
Origins x Iron's Spells n' Spellbooks Addon - Alignments
Small Compat mod for Origins and Iron's Spells n' Spellbooks, albeit hardcore. You can select an Alignment, but other spell alignment spells will be disabled (nerfed into oblivion) If a team is enabled for a school (Ex: team called Lightning), you join it.
Valorant Origins (deprecated)
Introduces Valorant agents as new origins while keeping it survival friendly.
Cursed Fate: Special Grade
This Mod allows you to become a special grade in survival using Huragan's Cursed Fate.
Orpheus
A way of KeepInventory in survival!
Survival Inc.
A mod that makes minecraft a little more annoying
Improved Happy Ghast
Allows players to create a not-wandering, faster, smaller, silenced Happy Ghast, get damage alerts and even summon it back in survival using items.
Survival Wings Rebrushed
Adds wearable wings that grant creative flight in survival mode
Divine (Path to Divinity)
Divine is a mod that allows the player to obtain/earn a form of creative mode and immortality in survival mode without commands. Previously known as Path to Divinity.
Naturalis - Realistic Remorphed
RP Survival morph progression for ReMorphed: Knowledge XP, instincts, Resonance bonding, Humanity, and body-specific mechanics.
Divine
Divine is a mod that allows the player to obtain/earn a form of creative mode and immortality in survival mode without commands. Previously known as Path to Divinity.
SensoryAbyss
A total survival overhaul where you choose a sensory affliction that permanently changes how you experience the world — blind, deaf, numb, anosmiac, starving, or all — and build power from your loss.
KumoDesu: Ascension
KumoDesu: Ascension adds a system-driven progression where skills grow through actions, perception is earned, and evolution depends on survival. No fixed classes—your behavior shapes your path and defines your strength.
Artifacts and souls
Get souls and create items useful for survival items
Piglet RPG - Ridiculous Weapons
Adds a few fancy weapons balanced for survival
BLACKSOULS II
A hardcore dark-fantasy RPG mod with custom stats, skills, bosses, souls, weapons, accessories, and brutal combat mechanics.
Balanced 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.
LuckyMiooiku
MiooikuMod – Cave Survival with Lucky Block
Op Armors
This mod adds 10 new craftable armors in survival mode, each with a different characteristic
Zombie Nightmare Expansions Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – Undead Horror Monsters
Zombie Nightmare Expansions Mod adds multiple high-detail undead creatures with different mechanics, combat styles, and special drops. The mod is designed for horror, zombie apocalypse, RPG, and hardcore gameplay packs. Features: Undead Mobs Disemboweler Large heavy zombie variant Targets players and cows High melee damage Drops Deathly Heart Tormented Zombie Disguises itself as a normal […]
Entity Protector Mod (1.20.1, 1.20) – Control Damage And Behavior
Entity Protector Mod allows modpack creators and server administrators to customize entity damage protection and behavior through JSON configuration files. This mod enables fine-tuned control over how entities take damage, interact with players, or behave in specific scenarios, making it ideal for tailored gameplay experiences in survival, RPG, or adventure modpacks. Its lightweight design and […]
Cursed's hardcore mode
This mod aims to make Minecraft more challenging by starting the game with a limited amount of heart (by default 3 heart but you can configure this in the config file).
duckmasters lucky blocks
test your luck with these wacky lucky blocks
Oceanic Equipment
This mod added new bosses and things for survival
Depths and Dimensions
Depths and Dimensions is a survival adventure mod that adds new weapons, ores, mobs, and a new dimension.
ConRad's Scary Spiders
Scarier Spiders perfect for horror, hardcore and vanilla+ modpacks! New boss, dungeons and weapons (and obviously spiders)
Elemental Craft MC
An RLCraft based survival mod that tries to be as "vanilla" as possible. New original ideas and concepts!
Honey Bucket
A mod that upgrades exploration and survival through new and magical biomes, mobs, and treasures found across your world.