Minecraft Java 26 Mods
Browse 35 free mods for Minecraft Java 26 — popular picks include Progression Reborn, Granular Hunger, Better Furnace.
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Progression Reborn
Completely reimagines and rebalances early and mid-game progression in a vanilla-like fashion. The definitive survival progression overhaul mod.

Granular Hunger
A mod that reworks the hunger system to be more granular, and ports some systems from BTW's Hardcore Hunger.
Better Furnace
BetterFurnace introduces seven new types of furnaces with varying cooking speeds, wihout Resource Pack ! They're getting harder and harder to get and fit perfectly with your minecraft survival.

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
Jabs Fixed MC
A mod designed to fix the core gameplay elements of Survival Minecraft
Vanillabean
A pack that adds many well-designed, vanilla-friendly features to enhance your survival gameplay experience!
Auto Replant
Automatically replant harvested crops in Fabric. Saves time, respects survival gameplay, and supports configurable crop and tool rules.
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
Survival Rebalanced
Improves a variety of parts in the survival experience.
Preserved: Inferno
Enhances the "survival" aspect of Minecraft's gameplay. Core mod for the Preserved mod set.
Acorn's Tweaks
Many small changes to freshen up survival gameplay, but keep things very vanilla.
IRE
A datapack that overhauls and expands the survival experience for slower, more rewarding progression with a renewed focus on mining. Dig through numerous rock layers, each one requiring a better pickaxe than the last, until you reach the Nether itself.
Hardcore Horizons
A all new survival experience that will add new Bosses Biomes Blocks Dimensions Updated versions of all the current dimensions Mobs Structures Tools music And Lots More
Rotten Flesh Can Be Smelted To Leather
This datapack lets you smelt rotten flesh into leather using any furnace or blast furnace. A simple, survival-friendly way to recycle mob drops, reduce clutter, and create useful leather resources.
lighter Golden Apples 26.2
this mod adds an easy recipe for golden apples for survival and competetive servers and for easier healing
TeamLifeBind
TeamLifeBind is a Minecraft team survival PvP mode built around shared lives: when one teammate dies, the whole team is wiped.
FFCropEvaporation
A mod that makes crops/trees require water, and has a chance to replace nearby water with a block when growing. Useful for survival type modpacks.

Replenish++
Auto-replant crops on Paper/Purpur servers, inspired by Hypixel SkyBlock's Replenish enchantment. Break a crop and it replants itself. Supports wheat, carrots, potatoes, nether wart, cocoa and beetroot, with direct pickup and lag-friendly replanting.

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.
Be Polite
Hardcore Pacifist Challenge where Mom watches you: no junk food, sleep early and follow other rules or die 🤓
Compostable
Survival friendly plugin that makes more things usable for the composter block, like rotten flesh and fish!
RB's Survival Tweaks
Overhauled enchanting compatibility, overeat, hotkey totem and much more.
Ardwick
A slower, balanced survival overhaul for players who miss Minecraft's Golden Age.

Descent into the Realm, Forsaken
A Java neoforge survival mod, intergrating custom weapons, a seasonal system, different boss progression, culinary aspects, new creatures, and much more.
Paraphernalia Reforged
This datapack adds over 50 new items to Minecraft to enhance your survival experience.
Blocked In Hardcore
A challenging version of the Blocked In datapack
Flight Potions
Various potions enabling creative style flight, for the survival mode. Fall damage optional.
Ice Flavoured
a collection of small tweaks to make early game survival feel more complete
Vanilla With Sugar
A close-to-vanilla datapack that slows Minecraft's early game pacing and makes survival a bigger focus
hardfood
A Fabric mod for Minecraft that makes survival more challenging by reducing crop growth speed and increasing hunger depletion.
ChaosCraft- Random Events
Turn Minecraft survival into a chaotic adventure with unpredictable random events, dangerous encounters, and unexpected rewards.
TurakarudMC
A carefully curated Fabric modpack featuring exploration, building, survival mechanics, performance improvements, shaders, and the TurakarudMC multiplayer experience.
Survival Thirst
This datapack adds a thirst bar, hydration and custom potions making the game more challenging
GameTweaks
Rebalances combat & survival with Sharpness/Protection III caps, 8-minute Tier II potions, cheap Golden Apples, and craftable Cobwebs.

RealHeal
A small datapack designed for hardcore worlds. (SINGLEPLAYER ONLY) It adds 3 new ways to heal and disables natural regeneration. Small and optimized Data-pack For Minecraft +26.3.