Mods for Minecraft Java
Browse 184 free mods for Minecraft Java — popular picks include Create: Love & War, Scorchful, Valkyrien Space War.
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Create: Love & War
A survival focused gun mod for the thinking man
Scorchful
Dune-inspired, Vanilla+ mod focused on Heat-based temperature survival and combat - sister mod of Frostiful!
Valkyrien Space War
A comprehensive mod designed to bring a hardcore sci-fi and authentic space travel experience to Minecraft.
Recon Omega: Military Armor
Adds tactical military armor sets to the game! Survival compatible!
Simple Orbital Strike Mod
Low durability fishing rods that call orbital strikes, there are two shot types, works in both survival and creative
Monster Girl
Survival Combat Partner
Zylty's Superpowers
This mod adds superpowers to Minecraft, giving players random mutated genes that can unlock abilities like Superspeed, Flight, Pyrokinesis and more. Awaken your power at spawn or craft gene mutators to enhance exploration, combat, and survival.
HBM-NTM-high-edition
A port of the famous 1.7.10 warfare + technology mod HBM-NTM's Nuclear Tech to Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge. Currently, the mod development is still in its early stages and hasn't yet formed a complete survival system. Communication QQ Group: 929159255
SkyHands
A Hypixel Skyblock mod to fully customize your first-person hands and combat animations, inspired by DulkirMod.
Overeating
Adds overeating and new useful mechanics for survival and combat!
ScytheMod
Scythe Mod adds powerful endgame scythes with unique combat mechanics, active abilities, special right-click skills, HUD timers, custom progression, and dark fantasy-style gameplay for both survival and PvP.
ShieldStatus Mod
This mod adds a simple color indicator — green when your shield is active, red when it’s disabled or recharging. Perfect for PvP and survival players who want better combat awareness without clutter.
PB-Skills
A skill-based RPG progression mod with 18 unique skills across Combat, Mining, and Survival categories.
Simple Orbital Cannons
Circuit & Cartridge is a NeoForge 1.21.1 military simulation framework featuring advanced redstone, drones, orbital weapons, electronic warfare, and a public addon API, built for hardcore SMP and mil-sim servers.
FoxxBoyy's Military Blocks
This mod adds camo blocks, carbon fiber and steel, all survival friendly.
Mystical Gems
MysticalGems brings powerful magical gems into your Minecraft world — each with unique abilities. Collect, activate, and use them in combat, exploration, or to enhance your character. Perfect for survival, RPG, and adventure servers!
SCP outline
Forge 1.20.1 mod adding facility-style systems: advanced doors, access control, custom devices, AI-driven entities, HUD mechanics, progression items, world interactions, and unique combat for a darker high-tech survival experience.
Blue's Sword-Bedwars
This mod recreates Blue's abilities from Alan Becker's Bed Wars stickman animation. It can be used for combat in Bed Wars and Survival.
MobPVP // CANCELLED
MobPVP transforms your Minecraft survival experience by assigning levels to every living creature in the game. Based on these levels, mobs gain different abilities, attributes, and loot chances, creating a more challenging and rewarding combat system.
Dragon Warfare
A great endgame mod that is best used in a survival series
Coalesce
Server-side configurable hardcore combat
ycqin
ycqin is a parasite‑themed add‑on that adds new dimensions, devices, baubles, weapon traits, and integration with Tinkers’ Construct, SlashBlade, and OverLast to enhance combat and survival against the Scape and Run: Parasites mod.
BLACKSOULS II
A hardcore dark-fantasy RPG mod with custom stats, skills, bosses, souls, weapons, accessories, and brutal combat mechanics.
[SBW] ARMA Tactical
Hardcore MilSim PVP addon for Superb Warfare with automated Simple Voice Chat squads, dynamic muzzle flashes and health rework.
Companion-Friend
Your new companion is built to be reliable, customizable, and fun—enhancing exploration, combat, and survival with a genuinely useful in-game partner.
jay medical
A hardcore medical and downed system mod for zombie apocalypse and realistic survival gameplay. Features bleeding, fractures, painkillers, reviving, adrenaline injections, and immersive multiplayer combat injuries.
Girlfriends
Explore the world, meet these girls, build bonds through gifts and quests, and let them become your long-term partners — enhancing your survival, building, and combat journey without ever playing the game for you.
playeraffixes
PlayerAffixes is a highly customizable RPG enhancement mod that introduces a powerful Talent Tree and Special Affix System. Players can unlock permanent upgrades and master unique "Affixes" that fundamentally change combat and survival logic.
Lifesteal999
Battle for survival in this customizable lifesteal plugin featuring heart stealing mechanics, hardcore elimination, combat logging protection, and full configuration control
Ring of the Hundred Curses
A configurable Forge 1.20.1 challenge mod featuring 100 curses for survival, combat, exploration, trading, and progression.

Combat-Hud Indicator
A lightweight multifunctional client-side mod that displays many HUDs necessary for both PVP and Survival gameplay.
Sea's Weaponry
Sea’s Weaponry gathers every iconic weapon from SeaSerpant1040’s mods and adds new, exclusive creations. It expands combat with powerful blades, mystical tools, and cinematic 3D weapons—perfect for RPG worlds or enhanced survival.
UnderBeacon
A Survival War datapack, have fun in this close-to-vanilla PvP!
Haddi
Haddii is a bone-themed survival/combat overhaul for Fabric 1.21.11. It adds custom bone gear (weapons, armor, and a Bone Staff), dangerous Bone Rain weather events, and friendly summonable skeleton guards in creative mode.
SMPEnhanced+
A comprehensive plugin built for survival multiplayer servers that want fine-grained control over combat balance, limits, and quality-of-life improvements which are all configurable in-game.
Nayzy’s Combat Realism
Nayzy's take on gear realism: dynamic damage, speed, and armor penalties based on durability. A must-have for hardcore survival!