Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 388 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include UnderBeacon, Drac's Builder Wands, Still Alive !.
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UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
Drac's Builder Wands
Drac's Builder Wands is a lightweight Fabric mod for Minecraft 26.1.2 that adds multiple tiers of survival-friendly building wands with placement previews, shared placement modes, and scalable building power progression
Still Alive !
Re-balance of the health system, better early game, making survival harder but not absurdly hardcore.
Rasterpiece Theater
A mod that adds the FNaF franchise to Minecraft. This mod is more survival-based than creative.
Survival Resurrected
A mod that I envisioned would make the survival gameplay experience entertaining in its own fashion.
HardcoreAxol's Mithril Mod
this mod add mithril to minecraft
Alexey Navalny Block
Meet the Alexey Navalny Block in Minecraft! Perfect for your vanilla survival. Texture is 188x188, and the block naturally generates in mineshafts.
Half Heart Only?
Survival challenge where players only have half a heart.
DirtExtras
DirtExtras adds new dirt, coarse dirt and gravel decorations to Minecraft, all obtainable in survival through crafting.
TODD: Technological Odyssey — Dawn of Development
A mod that makes initial survival much more difficult
More World Presets
This mod brings 6 new world generation presets. Old classics like Skyblock, Oneblock, Skygrid and more are included!
SurvivalCreativity
Client-side mod for Minecraft. Enter a local creative-like imagination, save your build, then preview it as a hologram in survival while you place the real blocks.
Against the Wild: Realistic Survival
Against the Wild is an immersive realism mod that transforms Minecraft survival into something that actually feels like fighting to stay alive. No magic shortcuts, no easy starts. The world is harsh, unforgiving, and beautiful just like the real wilderness
Killer Host's More Ores
Really usefull new ores to your survival gameplay.
SuperFlat Survival Addon
An addon that allows for players to survive on superflat, without structures and without using cheats. (Works with most mods)
Onyx Ore
Onyx Ore Mod adds a new rare ore to Minecraft: Onyx! Mine it deep underground to craft powerful tools and durable armor. Enhance your survival with stronger gear and expand progression with this shiny new resource.nture
Forbidden recipes By Anoosh
Forbidden Recipes is a mod that adds crafting recipes for some of Minecraft's most elusive items, including the dragon egg, barrier block, elytra, and more. This mod lets you craft powerful or rare items that were previously unobtainable in survival mode.

envision
A minecraft mod for Stoneblock and Skyblock.
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.

Ashen World
A Fallout-inspired survival mod for NeoForge that introduces radiation, mutations, contaminated environments, chem crafting, and dangerous evolutionary changes to your Minecraft world.
SmartSurvivalRPG
SmartSurvivalPlugin transforms Minecraft into a post-apocalyptic survival RPG with intelligent zombies, dynamic world events, immersive PvE systems, and advanced survival mechanics.
The Sky Dimension
this mod adds a sky dimension, located 20k blocks above spawn there is the sky dimension, there is a classic skyblock island there.
The Scorched
Explore a volcanic wasteland where the Overworld has been burned into ash and magma. The Scorched adds a dangerous new biome, custom mobs, unique blocks, structures, and progression elements built around survival in a hostile scorched landscape.
Rotwire
A Zombie Survival take on Minecraft with infested cities. Establish a radio connection with the survivors to maintain your ammunition and resource supply. Migrate from town to town as their difficulty scales with your activity within each of them.
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
WT SkyGrid
A modern Sky Grid world generation mod for Minecraft 1.21.X where blocks are placed in a 3D grid pattern, floating in the void. Every block is random — ores, wood, lava, chests, spawners — making for a unique survival challenge where every block counts.
Different Survival
This mod offers a blend of the vanilla Minecraft experience and traditional survival challenges. The mod also seeks to rebalance and rework certain mechanics, while also giving more function to existing, yet under utilized features.
Skylife
A Skyblock with the goal to make everything different (at least a bit)
Tera-surf-mod
A simple lightweight exploration minecraft mod made for all surface travel that entails the survival adventure feel with balances in its core mechanics.
Hardcore Ore Generation
Reduces the amount of ores in veins to 25% of the normal amount.
Waffled
This is a skyblock-style mod, but with waffles!
Custom Hyperion
This project adds a Hyperion concept, just very different and survival friendly (not OP)...
Bedrockite
This mod adds a survival friendly but a hard way to destroy bedrock. It adds a material called bedrockite which can be used to upgrade a netherite pickaxe to a bedrockite pickaxe (which can mine bedrock)
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.
Oneblock-Dirt
A minimalist oneblock survival plugin that generates infinite dirt blocks
Cozy Cherry Fields
A small quality-of-life mod for relaxed survival in Cherry Grove.