Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 208 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Oculus of Silence, NPC Mannequins in Survival, Better Rotten.
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Oculus of Silence
Oculus of Silence is a magical survival artifact that repels nearby hostile mobs for 30 seconds
NPC Mannequins in Survival
A Paper plugin allowing for vanilla mannequin mobs to be used in survival
Better Rotten
BetterRotten adds a small but immersive way to recycle rotten flesh instead of letting it pile up in chests. Turn zombie drops into useful leather scraps, combine them back into full leather, and integrate the cycle into your survival progression. The mod
Sanity System – Psychological Survival
A subtle psychological horror mod that adds a hidden sanity system, immersive hallucinations, and fear-based survival mechanics to Minecraft 1.21.4 Fabric.
Invincible Pets
A survival friendly option to adding invulnerability to pets and other animals.
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UltraSpawners [LITE]
UltraSpawners is a lightweight spawner management plugin featuring basic stacking, simple trust permissions, and economy based mob unlocking, designed for survival and economy servers.
Deaths Accounted For (DAF)
A lightweight mod focused on tracking kills, deaths, and enforcing a configurable death limit for competitive or hardcore servers.
Area Light Up
Automatically places torches in dark areas to prevent mob spawning. Preview scan, survival inventory support, and grid-based placement for efficiency.
Paleolithic Era
Adds paleolithic era crafting, survival tools, and tech to early Minecraft gameplay. Expands the early game tiers a bit more.
DayX
This is a survival challenge mod where you can customize many properties.The difficulty of the game will increase with the increase of danger level/time, and you can decide the specific reinforcement values of the monsters.
Sudden Death
Enhance the monster's abilities, survival becomes impossible.
among us - Mongus
Brings the iconic crewmate Among Us character into Minecraft as a mob, with a survival-friendly spawn egg so you can unleash the sus anywhere.
Ultra Blood Moon
Blood Moon turns ordinary nights into survival events with stronger mob variants and unique lunar events, pushing players toward inevitable, high-stakes encounters.
SurvivalReborn
Survival Reborn enhances Minecraft survival with dynamic terrain, new biomes, and unique mobs, offering fresh challenges and gameplay mechanics. Explore, craft, and survive in a world full of adventure, ancient secrets, and powerful items!
Relentless Mobs
Makes (almost) all mobs pursue players from any distance and through blocks, increasing difficulty and intensity in survival gameplay!
Kamilskis Additions
Its a mod that adds everything I ever thought of and that would make sense in minecraft, and makes it balanced for the survival experience.
Bigger and Better?
The mod can change the body shape of any organism in survival mode
lighter Golden Apples 26.2
this mod adds an easy recipe for golden apples for survival and competetive servers and for easier healing
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
TeamLifeBind
TeamLifeBind is a Minecraft team survival PvP mode built around shared lives: when one teammate dies, the whole team is wiped.
ZombieSMP
Turns Minecraft into a contagious zombie survival experience: quadruple zombie spawns, explosive beds, and players who become zombies after infection. Perfect for custom server SMP events and dangerous nights.
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
Villager Breeding Tweaks
A plugin that decreases villager breeding cooldown and growing age, making villager breeding and growth faster for survival servers and SMPs.
Nether Improvements
Configurable, survival friendly tweaks to make the Nether more interesting on Vanilla servers!
Better Carpet Bots
Better Carpet bots, more options and regulations for survival via the /bot command
Theyab Skyblock: Ramadan
A Ramadan-themed Skyblock mod with a custom trader, currency system, and themed food items.
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Simple Egg Spawn Recipe [MOD]
Designed to expand survival progression by making every spawn egg obtainable through crafting rather than relying on creative mode or commands.
Hammer-On
Anvils can now take damage from falling one block. Made for balancing carpet extra's renewableSand.
Hunter And Hunted
Hunter and Hunted makes mobs smarter and deadlier—creepers ambush from cover, skeletons kite you, and Endermen silently stalk if you stare too long. It’s a lightweight plugin that turns survival into a true predator-versus-prey experience.
True Hardcore Overhaul
A hardcore survival overhaul featuring permanent health loss, bleeding mechanics, enhanced mob AI, and resource scarcity. Can you survive the Mediumcore?
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
MoonBorne
MoonBorne is a highly configurable Minecraft survival experience centered around dangerous special moons, each bringing unique mechanics, events, mobs, hordes, and challenges to your world.
Creepers Eat You
Adds a fun twist to the game in which creepers eat you! Good luck beating the game in Hardcore ;D
Survival Sickness
Survival Sickness adds a deeper survival health system to Minecraft. Players can catch diseases from bad weather, mobs, unsafe food, desert heat, freezing, low sleep, wounds, and underwater strain.
TODD: Technological Odyssey — Dawn of Development
A mod that makes initial survival much more difficult