Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 323 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Spruce's Vanillabean, ModernMITE, [Archived] New Vanilla Items (NVI).
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Spruce's Vanillabean
A mod that adds many well-designed, vanilla-friendly features to enhance your survival gameplay experience!
ModernMITE
ModernMITE is a fork of MITE Equilibrium — a 1.21.1 port of the classic hardcore survival mod Minecraft Is Too Easy (MITE).
[Archived] New Vanilla Items (NVI)
A mod that will improve your survival. This mod adds new structure, new blocks, ores, music discs from Terraria, new weapons and obsidian with emerald armor.
Assorted Ores
Assorted Ores To Make Survival Better And As Fun As Possible!
Bottom Sugar Cane Harvest
Breaking the bottom of a sugar cane more than one block tall harvests all the bottom, which stays there
Beware The Dark
A mod that rehauls survival to be like Don't Starve.
Nish
Dimensions, biomes and more for your survival game !
Smart Survival
Smart Survival is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 that adds campfire comfort, sleep quality effects and nutritional food buffs to enhance survival.
Wasteland Wanderer | Fallout
Turns Minecraft into a Survival Fallout Experience!
Human Survival – Realistic Items & Survival Tweaks
A lightweight NeoForge survival mod that adds simple, realistic items and tweaks to make Minecraft feel more grounded without changing the core gameplay.
Deepcraft
A hardcore Minecraft mod with new ore, weapons, bosses, mobs, a unique dimension, haunting music, and forgotten secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Zombie Plague III
Transforms vanilla Minecraft into a brutal survival experience in a zombie-overrun world.
MetalCamp
It's a survival mod with several items and blocks
Yet Another Thirst
Adds a dynamic thirst bar and customizable hydration mechanics to elevate your survival gameplay.
Artifacts and souls
Get souls and create items useful for survival items
Rot Timer
Adds realistic food spoilage, barrel storage bonuses, temperature-based decay, and long-lasting canned stew for a deeper survival experience.
More Item Craftability
Allows players to craft items that could not be crafted in survival Minecraft.
Preserved: Inferno
Enhances the "survival" aspect of Minecraft's gameplay. Core mod for the Preserved mod set.
Dragons Eat People
A human flesh food mod for Dragon Survival
FPS Drop When You Hurt
This mod links your framerate to your character's health. If injured or near death, your framerate drops and only recovers by eating food to heal. Adds a challenging survival twist to gameplay!
Emerald Matcha Craft V3
Most of the functions and items are expanded and inspired from the original minecraft, and are developed mainly for survival convenience.
SharedSoul
Experience true cooperative survival where all players share health, hunger, inventory, XP, and death. When one player takes damage, everyone feels it. When one dies, all die together. Perfect for close-knit groups seeking the ultimate teamwork challenge.

Esoteric Distillation
Esoteric Distillation adds new brewing recipes for vanilla status effects that are otherwise unobtainable (as potions) in survival Minecraft.
Nether Survival Improvement Mod (NSI)
Improves survivability in the nether, without the overworld.
Vecturnn's Survival Mod
This Mod is created for a better survival mod experience! This mod adds more ores, tools, blocks, biomes and more. This mod changes your survival story! Why don't you try now?
Food and Utilities Mod
adds more food, survival items and game mechanics into vanilla minecraft
D3 FanMod
This fan mod for Minecraft recreates some hardcore survival mechanics of Dedsafio 3. It adds unique commands, activatable mechanics, and progression elements from the series, giving players an experience that captures a bit of the essence of Dedsafio 3.
Coalesce
Server-side configurable hardcore combat
Fishing Trap
🎣 Passive fishing made fun (and lazy)! Toss a trap in the water, bait it with snacks, and let it reel in the loot while you do literally anything else. A vanilla-friendly mod for chill builders, pro survivalists, and professional slackers alike. 🐟🌊
___ULTIMATESURVIVALMOD___
Best survival mod ever
HanToKe1's More Golden Apple
Added four variants of golden apples and their enchanted versions, obtainable in Survival Mode, to enhance players' adventures.
Better Survival Tweeks
Makes Minecraft better.
SimpleSurvivalStuff
A few things i like for convenience
Enhanced Playthrough
Survival mode, enhanced and expanded.
Undertale Delight (Addon)
Undertale Delight (Addon) [1.20.1] is a useful expansion for the Undertale Delight mod that adds missing crafting recipes for almost all items, blocks, and food in survival mode! The mod also introduces new crafting ingredients.
Raiders MD
Adds Rust and 7DTD style raid and survival tools