Neoforge Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 219 free Neoforge mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Perfect Light (Survival Light Blocks), Pickaxes+, Sky Crushes.
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Perfect Light (Survival Light Blocks)
Full control of invisible light blocks: craft, adjust by right-click, remove
Pickaxes+
a collection of cursed, enchanted, and hella beefed-up pickaxes designed to make your survival world weep and your friends ask 'what the hell is that.'
Sky Crushes
SkyCrushes is a progression-based processing mod that adds mechanical Trituradores (Crushers) to process raw minerals, geodes, and space materials.
Inferno - Hardcore
Transforms Minecraft's hardcore mode into an unforgiving survival experience.
Kindling Age
Kindling Age enhances early survival with lightweight, vanilla-friendly mechanics that make the first days more deliberate without adding grind or hard gates.
FlexBorder
FlexBorder adds a fully configurable world border system designed for PvP, survival, and Battle Royale–style servers.
Let There Be Light
This pack adds a crafting recipe for light blocks, allowing illumination in your survival world.
Rasterpiece Theater
A mod that adds the FNaF franchise to Minecraft. This mod is more survival-based than creative.
Bigger and Better?
The mod can change the body shape of any organism in survival mode
Simply Fly
It just adds a survival command. /fly lets you fly just like creative mod for constructing.

Elomod
An expensive survival & tech mod adding cameras, monitors, thermal vision, new ores, and more !
FirmaLifeHardCore
A mod that completely overhauls Firmalife's cellar and greenhouse mechanics — no Climate Station required. Enclosed spaces are auto-detected via BFS floodfill with dynamic AABB tracking. Any insulating blocks form a functional cellar or greenhouse.
No Armor Hardcore
Adds features from the No Armor Hardcore series
简易生存 Simple Survival
I added over 100 recipes! 【Breaking the balance】
FullBelly
All forms of movement now consume hunger, making food a fully utilized resource and turning every action into a meaningful part of survival.
Cobblemon Nuzlocke & Soul Link
A Hardcore Nuzlocke ruleset for Cobblemon: one catch per zone, permadeath, nicknames, shiny clause, level caps — plus Soul Link co-op, where linked parties share fates.
Squid Improvements
Squids and Glow Squids will give blindness and glowing effect when you try to attack them! Survival friendly addition to vanilla worlds. Available as plugin / mod
Command Suite
Command Suite adds a collection of useful commands for survival, creative building, testing, and administration, including God Mode, flight, healing, night vision, and more.
MineRP
A mod with items and mechanics for RP servers and survival.

Ashen World
A Fallout-inspired survival mod for NeoForge that introduces radiation, mutations, contaminated environments, chem crafting, and dangerous evolutionary changes to your Minecraft world.
Grass=Random Item
Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.
[SW] Aether Tweaks
Simplifies Aether accessories to capes + gloves, replaces survival inventory with accessories screen, and restricts Sun Altar to OP players.
Crops 'n' Corpses: Survival Additions (CNC: Survival Additions)
A Mod that add to Crops n Corpses´s Mod new things like recipes, loot, and items. For the Survival Experience
Rotwire
A Zombie Survival take on Minecraft with infested cities. Establish a radio connection with the survivors to maintain your ammunition and resource supply. Migrate from town to town as their difficulty scales with your activity within each of them.
Cozy Cherry Fields
A small quality-of-life mod for relaxed survival in Cherry Grove.
World Expand
Expand your world with every achievement! Introduces border growth for advancements, a Trident Flight Totem, and a block-tracking brush to overhaul your survival progression

BIG Challenges
BIGChallenges: The Ultimate Survival Test 💀
The Krptonians
A mod made in 3 hours that aims to add Kryptonian superpowers and supermans costume! fully obtainable in survival! (part of my 3 hour challenge series)
Stonecutter Sifting
Give the Stonecutter a second purpose: sift common blocks into renewable paths to RNG-locked resources in OneBlock, SkyBlock, and other limited worlds.
One Tick One Block
Adds new tools that are perfect for convenient world editing, map creation, and pure chaos!
Half Heart Only?
Survival challenge where players only have half a heart.
Bedrockite
This mod adds a survival friendly but a hard way to destroy bedrock. It adds a material called bedrockite which can be used to upgrade a netherite pickaxe to a bedrockite pickaxe (which can mine bedrock)
The Scorched
Explore a volcanic wasteland where the Overworld has been burned into ash and magma. The Scorched adds a dangerous new biome, custom mobs, unique blocks, structures, and progression elements built around survival in a hostile scorched landscape.
RPGSouls
A hardcore RPG mod: collect souls from slain enemies, upgrade active skills, craft the Devourer set, and try not to lose everything upon death. / Хардкорный RPG-мод: собирай души, прокачивай навыки и крафть сет Пожирателя.
Build Sandbox
Creates a separate creative flat world for testing builds without affecting survival gameplay.
Impossiblecore: Hardcore Ascended
A mod aimed at improving the survival/hardcore experience.