Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 136 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Horror Element Mod, SCP: Overtime, item placer.
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Horror Element Mod
This mod adds gore and horror themed blocks for your horror maps as well as horror themed structures spawning naturally for your survival worlds
SCP: Overtime
SCP: Overtime is a Java Survival mod for version 1.20.1, with the goal of adding SCPs to Minecraft as a tribute to the SCP Community as a whole. The mod is a rebrand of the SCP:XK Unity Addon.
item placer
Place any item on any block side (supports multiple item in one block)
Better Than Wolves: CE
BTW: The most infamous hardcore survival and tech mod in the history of the game

Granular Hunger
A mod that reworks the hunger system to be more granular, and ports some systems from BTW's Hardcore Hunger.
Slabs Expanded (Discontinued)
Stack different slabs into one block, adds slab variants for every block, and craft blocks from slabs
Fahare
Automatically resets your hardcore world when all online players die
Corner Horror Entity
is an atmospheric horror mod that turns your peaceful Minecraft survival into a nerve-wracking experience. You will never feel truly safe again, as something is watching you from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Warlery's Dark Blood | Survival Horror
all nights turns in to a nightmare, its kill and survive!, this mod adds monsters, weapons and more!

Toms Server Additions: Stone!
TSA: Stone! adds a small collection of new stone blocks like Granite Bricks, Diorite Bricks, Polished Dripstone and more!
MT Inventory Weight
Weight mechanics! Manage your load, balance inventory, and enhance survival or RPG-like gameplay.
Aures - Dragon Survival
Global modification for Java Minecraft centered around playable dragons.
FNAF VIRUS MOD
FNAF VIRUS turns Minecraft into a horror experience, because once night falls, survival becomes a nightmare where animatronics start hunting the player!

Nine lifes
Nine lifes - is a mod which gives you only 9 lifes for entire your survival. Cool challenge for those who are tired of the vanilla hardcore
Worldly
Worldly adds a collection of configurable Minecraft world types, from classic Skyblock and OneBlock to Chunklock, Backrooms, Random Drops, Mountaineering, Fishing Border, and more.
Vanilla But Wrong
Vanilla but wrong is a Fabric psychological horror mod for singleplayer and multiplayer. One shared sanity system, adaptive Director events, trauma progression, and UI/audio corruption turn normal survival into a tense mind game.
Zombie Hardcore
Get ready to face thirsty zombies, they will break all blocks to get to you! Literally.
World_0
A psychological horror mod that turns normal survival into an unstable, paranoia-driven experience filled with anomalies, false presence, and staged events.

Hardcore Totem Nerf
A hardcore-inspired collection of nerfs and debuffs applied to Totems of Undying.
ZombieApocalypseSSS
ZombieApocalypseSSS is a comprehensive Minecraft plugin that transforms your server into a thrilling zombie survival apocalypse. Featuring advanced zombie AI, evolving variants, player infection mechanics, psychological horror elements, and dynamic events
7 DAYS TO LIVE
This mod transforms Minecraft into another game adding endings and a 7 day survival progression in your world.
Classic Combined
This mod creates a Classic Minecraft/Modern Minecraft hybrid experience. Recreates modern features in a Classic Minecraft/Alpha Minecraft style. Fully Survival compatible
Backrooms: The Complex
A survival friendly, lore accurate backrooms mod with high quality visuals.
Stomp & Climb
An addon for pehkui which adds many features into the game, including items to change your height that are obtainable in survival mode.
Breaking One Block Breaks All The Blocks
If you break a block... it breaks every block in a 50 block radius.

Randinium
Random item challenges usually have no progression. This mod changes that by introducing a custom resource, drop multiplication and endgame gear. (Intended for Skyblock)
BOMBard
this mod ads 2 bombs currently only available in creative mode (c4 and a nuke) soon to be added into survival via crafting table.
Draventh Ores
⚒ Advanced Tier Ores & Equipment This mod expands Minecraft’s survival progression by introducing 15 new late-game materials, each with full armor and tool sets. The goal of this mod is simple: Extend progression beyond Diamond and Netherite with a struc
Wasteland Wanderer | Fallout
Turns Minecraft into a Survival Fallout Experience!
player tick freezer
freezes survival players too when you do /tick freeze, not creative or spectators
Deepcraft
A hardcore Minecraft mod with new ore, weapons, bosses, mobs, a unique dimension, haunting music, and forgotten secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Heartcore
A configurable Minecraft Hardcore mod that removes hearts when you die, with a few other added features.
Bossmode
Bossmode is the difficulty above hardcore that turns every mob into a boss fight, including passive mobs. Can you survive?
Noches Muertas
A progressive zombie survival mod where every night becomes more dangerous, with evolving infected, hordes, blood moon events, weapons, research, defenses, survivors, structures, and infected Nether progression.
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.
Progression Overhaul
Makes Minecraft's progression system a bit harder so a normal survival world cant be beaten in like 5 minutes. (Mostly the early game is effected)