Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 1,182 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Charred Remains, Darkness-Health, zMCSandbox.
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Charred Remains
Wither Skeletons drop Burnt Bones, a new item that can be crafted into Coal Dust and used as a fuel source. A small but flavourful addition to your survival world.
Darkness-Health
DarknessHealth is a lightweight plugin for Minecraft 1.20+ that introduces a unique survival twist:
zMCSandbox
This mod grants the tools and abilities to both, create wave-based survival maps and play them too!
Cheater Hunt
A survival time-attack mod where you evade an AI-controlled cheater, collect leaked code, deploy decoys, and fight back.
BoatflySurvive
Boatfly compatible with survival!
ChainmailSieve
ChainmailSieve is a lightweight Paper plugin that gives chainmail helmets a special survival mechanic.
CoopRoles
Share responsibilities with friends: each player can only perform actions of their class, making teamwork the key to survival.
Betrayal SMP — Hardcore PvP Progression
Turn any server into a hardcore PvP arena: crafting tables kill you, enchanting is banned, and every player kill drops scaled enchanted books.
JustBed
A simple utility to teleport back to your bed respawn point with a single command. Lightweight and perfect for survival servers.
mSurvival
A comprehensive, modular, and lightweight survival core that brings essential features like Home GUIs, Async RTP, and staff utilities into a single, high-performance package.
PortalRequirements
PortalRequirements is a hardcore progression plugin that locks the Nether and The End behind craftable, ancient scrolls. Players must discover the recipes, craft the scrolls, and read them to unlock portal access.
SafeSteps
SafeSteps is a survival utility plugin that lets players toggle fall damage immunity and shows exact death coordinates with world info.
Splat's Enhanced Hardcore
Enhances hardcore server experience by letting you revive people after death
Ultra Hardcore Attributes
A mod that makes your game much harder than it needs to be by changing your attributes!
RandItem
RandItem, a mod that randomly spawns items if your in survival or creative
Hardcore Tatoo
This mod gives you a Tatoo on your Arm that shows you, your Health and Hunger
Elycher
A lightweight, zero-config Elytra launcher. Give your survival players a seamless way to fly.
CobbleHardcoreMon
Hardcore mode for your Cobblemon, if your cobblemon faints and is not holding a Totem, it's gone. Forever.
Survival Currency
A fair and survival friendly solution to currency.
Rispwind's Survival Spawn Eggs REMAKE
Wandering Traders will occasionally sell spawn eggs.
GensCore
High-performance Paper & Folia core plugin for survival servers (Minecraft 26.1+, Java 25).
Hardcore Death location Spectator
Respawn hardcore players instantly in spectator mode at their exact death location, with no death screen.
Smarter Nether Portals
Modifies how Minecraft creates Nether Portals. The scale of the overworld and nether is now dependent on the difference in center positions and size of the world borders. This is useful for small world border survival games.
modify vanilla
modify vanilla is a practical mod designed to enhance your vanilla survival experience by optimizing and adjusting existing crafting mechanics without adding new items.
Saplingblocker
Prohibits planting tree seedlings It does not give you tree sprouts, which can be interesting for survival underground, for example, in combination with other mods or plug-ins
SR ChestPreviwe Premium
SRChestPreviewer allows you to see the contents of any container without ever opening the UI. Perfect for survival
Rubbercore
A Mix of Hardcore and Normal Survival
ZlAutoGive
Automatic vanilla drops system for Minecraft survival.
VoxaTimber
Lightweight tree felling for faster survival gameplay.
ElementalCrystals
ElementalCrystals adds custom elemental crystals with special abilities. Players can craft and use Fire and Water Crystals in survival gameplay. Thanks
ChatQuests
ChatQuests adds random survival quests with chat accept/decline, progress tracking, rewards, history, leaderboard, languages, admin tools, and many goal types.
mc is too ez
A survival difficulty mod that makes Minecraft harder, more punishing, and less forgiving.
EcoBalance
A hardcore plugin where nature fights back! Cut trees to trigger storms and spirits, or plant saplings to get rewards.
Zippy Portals
Makes traveling through nether portals instant in survival mode.
photomode
PhotoMode is a client mod for taking screenshots from places that are difficult to access in survival. Unlike other free‑camera mods, this mod doesn’t allow you to fly through blocks, thereby not giving a significant advantage on servers.
Phantom Bomber
This mod spawns two bomb-dropping Phantoms every night at sunset. They attack players with timed TNT, making every night a survival challenge.