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Browse 124 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include BIG Challenges, tally, Scary Survival.

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BIG Challenges
1.21.1neoforge

BIG Challenges

BIGChallenges: The Ultimate Survival Test 💀

155downloads
tally
26.2fabric

tally

Survival completion advancement pack — 10,000+ advancements, XP and item rewards, live policy toggles.

150downloads
Scary Survival
1.20.1fabric

Scary Survival

Scary Survival is a Fabric mod that recreates the world, progression, mechanics, and atmosphere of Eystreem's Scary Survival series, allowing players to experience that style of survival themselves instead of just watching it.

128downloads
RealityShift
1.20

RealityShift

Make every day a new adventure! RealityShift activates a random anomaly daily from a pool of 50+ unique events, completely changing the rules of survival.

126downloads
Grass=Random Item
1.20.3fabric

Grass=Random Item

Break grass blocks to receive a random block every time! Perfect for chaotic survival, challenge runs, and randomizer gameplay.

120downloads
Nonsense Hardcore
26.1.2

Nonsense Hardcore

A plugin that resets the world and downloads random Modrinth datapacks every time you die.

119downloads
[DISCONTINUED] Travis Takeover
1.21.1neoforge

[DISCONTINUED] Travis Takeover

Its corruption messes with your survival.

113downloads
GhostBulb
26.2fabric

GhostBulb

Mod that provides survival friendly invisible alternatives to items.

106downloads
Glassification
1.21.1fabric

Glassification

Glassification transforms the entire world into fragile glass, removing structural safety and leaving survival to pure mechanical mastery.

105downloads
STOP NUKING JIMWORLD
1.20.1forge

STOP NUKING JIMWORLD

Cancels/disables ALL explosions from occurring. (Made for modded creative, is not survival friendly.)

101downloads
Disaster SMP
1.21

Disaster SMP

DMSP (Disaster Management System Plugin)Cinematic Natural Disasters for PaperMC 1.21+DMSP is not just a plugin; it's an environmental overhaul designed to challenge even the most seasoned survivalists.

100downloads
Red-Light Green-Light Challenge
1.21

Red-Light Green-Light Challenge

A high-intensity Red Light Green Light game inspired by Squid Game, where movement detection and timed phases create a thrilling survival challenge.

99downloads
mutationcraft-plus
1.21.1fabric

mutationcraft-plus

Adds 24 random world mutations that completely change Minecraft every 5 minutes, making every survival adventure unique.

87downloads
FrediFrets-Challenges
1.21

FrediFrets-Challenges

Add exciting Minecraft challenges like random drops, chunk effects, expanding borders, and hardcore modes – all controllable with simple commands.

87downloads
Wither Survival
1.21

Wither Survival

Every mob turns into Withers. Try to beat the game

79downloads
Kill Switch
1.19fabric

Kill Switch

Super hardcore! When a single player dies, your entire server will shut down! Developed in collaboration with Potatoes_Duck

76downloads
Hardcore Slots
1.21.1fabric

Hardcore Slots

In this mode, every time you take damage, one slot in your inventory becomes locked and can no longer be used.

75downloads
Broken Nightmares
1.20.1forge

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

73downloads
GlobalHealth
1.21

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.

71downloads
Random Eventy
1.21.11fabric

Random Eventy

When creating a new world you have a new button, there you can configure the randomness of your survival world!

69downloads
NotQuiteDead
1.21

NotQuiteDead

Become a zombie, husk, and drowned in survival!

65downloads
Rule Breaker's Guide
1.21.8neoforge

Rule Breaker's Guide

Breaking open Minecraft for those who seek more in survival.

56downloads
Survival Petrified Oak Slab
1.20.1fabric

Survival Petrified Oak Slab

Adds a petrified oak slab to survival

55downloads
STIKS_Mod - magic RPG postapocalypse
1.20.6fabric

STIKS_Mod - magic RPG postapocalypse

survival in postapocalypse with RPG leveling and magic

50downloads
SurvivalChallengesPlugin
1.21

SurvivalChallengesPlugin

The Survival Challenges Plugin is a Minecraft Spigot plugin for servers that adds 23 unique gameplay challenges to your survival adventure. Each challenge changes the way you play Minecraft Survival, making the game either easier or more difficult.

48downloads
DayNightFaction
1.18

DayNightFaction

A tactical survival plugin that forces players to choose between the light and the dark. Depending on their faction.

47downloads
Enchanted Edge
1.20.1forge

Enchanted Edge

High-tier utility and "Anarchy-style" enchantments to revolutionize your survival experience.

46downloads
Xtra Weapons
1.21.8neoforge

Xtra Weapons

This mod adds 10+ weapons, and they are all obtainable in survival minecraft!

43downloads
simulator infection  epidemic crisis
1.21

simulator infection epidemic crisis

apocalyptic zombie infection simulator that transforms servers into a pandemic survival experience. Features progressive infection spread, contaminated players, quarantined villages, multiple zombie variants, vaccine crafting, and crisis events.

42downloads
RandItem
1.16fabric

RandItem

RandItem, a mod that randomly spawns items if your in survival or creative

40downloads
MaxTools
1.21

MaxTools

Perfect for a survival game with progression.

39downloads
Happy Ghast Platforms
1.21.6

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!

36downloads
Hardcore Tatoo
1.21.8neoforge

Hardcore Tatoo

This mod gives you a Tatoo on your Arm that shows you, your Health and Hunger

36downloads
Phantom Bomber
1.20.4forge

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.

30downloads
mc is too ez
1.21.8neoforge

mc is too ez

A survival difficulty mod that makes Minecraft harder, more punishing, and less forgiving.

27downloads
Distorted Darkness
1.20.1forge

Distorted Darkness

Official story DLC: Explore a world consumed by primordial darkness, features new survival mechanics and cursed items.

18downloads