Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 1,186 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Survival Dreams, Hardcore compatability for Epic Death Screen, Sun Compass.
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Survival Dreams
Survival, but harder. Like a dream. New mobs, greater risks, and things that shouldn't be there.
Hardcore compatability for Epic Death Screen
Enable in hardcore mode for Neoforge version
Sun Compass
A vanilla-friendly survival tool that uses the sun's position and time to find North
Broken Nightmares
ever needed a mod that made dying/respawning have consenquences without making you lose your world like hardcore mode or have your health reduced unless you get some totem or sumthing? see no further
Wither Survival
Every mob turns into Withers. Try to beat the game
HardModeMod
A hardcore difficulty mod for Minecraft. After killing the Ender Dragon, the game becomes significantly harder permanently.
Kill to Spectate
Switches players to spectator mode when killed by another player, otherwise keeps them in survival.
LevelsSMP (Remake)
A hardcore survival plugin where your multiplier is your life. Steal multipliers from other players to gain more hearts and XP, but be careful dropping to 0.0x results in a deathban.
CampFirePlus
Level-up campfires: fuel, grow power, immersive survival.
Legit sleep
Skip day or night in survival without using /time set or cheats.
STIKS_Mod - magic RPG postapocalypse
survival in postapocalypse with RPG leveling and magic
WaterDehydration
A survival realism plugin that adds dynamic hydration mechanics with dehydration effects and wat
Block4Block Plugin - Advancements
(Recommended Plugin) Survival mode with a unique cost to breaking blocks.
DayNightFaction
A tactical survival plugin that forces players to choose between the light and the dark. Depending on their faction.
Hardcore Reimaginated
With this mod you can transform your normal world into an even more difficult Hardcore world!
FrediFrets-Challenges
Add exciting Minecraft challenges like random drops, chunk effects, expanding borders, and hardcore modes – all controllable with simple commands.
PollutedLands
PollutedLands adds a dynamic pollution system where over-mining and exploitation in a chunk leads to environmental decay, corrupted mobs, and eerie visual effects, creating a harsher, more immersive survival experience.
Last Breath
Last Breath is a Minecraft survival mod that adds a downed system, player revives, and graves to protect your items after death.
Better than hardcore
A hardcore mod that pushes vanilla Hardcore mode to its limits.
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.
The Great Nether Challenge
A mod designed to be a new challenge and experience for streamers, youtubers, friends, whomever! It has a progressive episode and phase system to bring survival to it's highest level.
Caffeine
Adds balanced energy drinks, taurine, returnable empty cans, crafting recipes, and caffeine status-effect mechanics for vanilla survival
Don't touch my wheel
This mod allows you to prevent players from removing wheels in Adventure and Survival modes, making it useful for hosting events.
Final Destination HUD
It adds a kill tracker for final destination armor in hypixel skyblock, visible on the HUD
More Redstone
More fully vanilla style redstone blocks that Mojang should add in Minecraft!
PremiumFly
PremiumFly is a Paper/Spigot plugin that adds double-jump flight for selected players in Survival mode, similar to Creative flight but triggered by a double jump.
Real Temp
A realistic client-side temperature survival mod with dynamic biomes, weather, altitude, armor insulation, and seasons. Survive freezing winters, scorching summers, and extreme climates with immersive environmental mechanics.
Charged Creepers
Adds dynamic natural spawning for Charged Creepers. The spawn rate increases on Hard and reaches 8% in Hardcore for an extreme challenge!
Honest Hardcore
No second chances. No fake Hardcore. This mod disables spectating after death in hardcore and invalidates all advancements if you ever cheat.
Happy Ghast Platforms
Place blocks directly on your Happy Ghast so you can build mid-air from anywhere! No more sky pillars needed! No more ugly bridges in skyblock!
Hardcore Slots
In this mode, every time you take damage, one slot in your inventory becomes locked and can no longer be used.
GlobalHealth
All players share one global health bar. Damage one, damage all. Heal one, heal all. If one player dies, everyone dies. Perfect for challenges, hardcore modes, and teamwork-focused gameplay as well as creating content and events.
PeaceSMP
A server-driven alignment mod introducing an advanced Karma tracking system, and game-changing combat abilities for survival multiplayer.
ArneLifesteal
Lifesteal+ is a competitive PvP plugin where players gain hearts by killing others and lose hearts on death. With crafting, revive mechanics, withdraw system, and GUI-based settings, it creates a high-stakes survival experience perfect for SMP servers.
Amryx
This mod makes the beginning of survival a little more difficult.
Kill Switch
Super hardcore! When a single player dies, your entire server will shut down! Developed in collaboration with Potatoes_Duck