Minecraft Java 1.20 Mods
Browse 111 free mods for Minecraft Java 1.20 — popular picks include RyDaCol's Star Wars Mod [NO LONGER UPDATING], Noches Muertas, Strange Things.
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RyDaCol's Star Wars Mod [NO LONGER UPDATING]
A mod aiming to bring the world of Star Wars into Minecraft in a Survival friendly manner
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.
Strange Things
Strange Things is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, featuring Demogorgons, infected creatures, atmospheric horror, brutal survival mechanics, and immersive gameplay for both singleplayer and multiplayer servers worldwide.
Wasteland Survival
Survive the wasteland with powerful new gear, lethal monsters, and a full RPG leveling system!
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.
Survival Craft - Lite
A survival and exploration-focused modpack: discover new biomes, dungeons, creatures, and reworked villages and fresh survival mechanics.

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.
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.
Cursed Life
A Jujutsu Kaisen–inspired Minecraft modpack featuring cursed energy combat and unpredictable fate mechanics, enhanced with challenging mobs, unique abilities, and multiplayer-focused progression for chaotic, strategy-driven survival.
FreshArmor ! Hardcore mod
Angry mobs and new weapons. (Recommended using JEI)
Zombie Potion
Zombie transformation potion with unique survival mechanics
Raw-hide
Overhauls how leather is obtained in survival mode.
Nether Improvements
Configurable, survival friendly tweaks to make the Nether more interesting on Vanilla servers!
Expand the border
Expand The Border (ETB) is a unique Minecraft survival datapack that introduces a dynamic world border mechanic. Instead of a fixed world border, players must complete various objectives to expand the playable area.

Hammer-On
Anvils can now take damage from falling one block. Made for balancing carpet extra's renewableSand.
Celestial Elites
Celestial Elites is a datapack that spawns in elite mobs with randomized abilities in your survival world.
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.
TODD: Technological Odyssey — Dawn of Development
A mod that makes initial survival much more difficult
Compostable
Survival friendly plugin that makes more things usable for the composter block, like rotten flesh and fish!
All aggressive
This is a survival mod that turns every mob in Minecraft into a deadly threat. Even the most peaceful creatures - cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens - will now attack!
Blocks spawn mobs
This plugin turns harmless digging into hardcore survival – for every broken block, the world responds with a fierce invasion of hostile creatures. Are you ready for endless waves of darkness, or will you fall under the onslaught of monsters?
Grab Bags
Grab Bags adds craftable Loot Bags to Survival Minecraft. Find them by killing mobs or creating and upgrading your own!
Better Village
A hardcore overhaul mod that changes classic mechanics and adds new ores, biomes, and dungeons.
Aetas Ferrea Lib
Hardcore realism core that overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weight mechanics, and equipment traits for a brutal medieval survival experience.
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.
Enhanced Spawners: Chambers of Control
Enhanced Spawners: Chambers of Control lets players upgrade and customize mob spawners using survival items, with full redstone control and spawn egg integration — all without commands or GUIs. Designed for clean, technical mob farms and dungeon systems.
Mirohodec Mod
Forget about the familiar Nether and the End — this mod radically expands the boundaries of the familiar game world, turning your survival into an epic journey through an infinite multiverse.
SYSTEM SMP
System SMP is a premium Minecraft plugin designed for survival multiplayer servers. It adds unique features including small caps text formatting, tree felling mechanics, custom item displays, and an economy-based spawner mining system.
Bonfi and Girls
Transform your Minecraft survival into a vibrant adventure with intelligent, beautifully animated companion girls! Build deep relationships, automate base chores, and explore the world alongside companions featuri
ExplorerKit
A modular adventure toolkit with backpacks, waypoints, minimap, mob health HUD, and survival info.
Simple Mob Heads Drop
A simple data pack that makes mobs drop their heads when you kill them. Good for survival base decoration.
HardcoreMobs
Script your own boss!
Survival-Friend
prevents creeper block damage and crop trampling, enables portal based farms on SMP, offers /tpa features and global totem pop messages and the ability to make the ender dragon a bit harder.