survival redefined
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survival redefined is a vanilla-friendly modpack built as if Mojang made the sequel. Explore upgraded structures, new biomes from BetterEnd and Incendium (biomes only), and a world that feels fresh—yet true to the spirit of the original game.
Description

What is survival redefined?
Survival Redefined is a modpack I originally made for me and my friends to play, but now it's become something many others can enjoy!
This modpack features over 200 carefully selected mods, all fully compatible with each other. It’s designed to be bug-free, with tons of new structures to explore, fresh mobs to encounter, and new advancements to unlock — all while keeping that classic vanilla Minecraft feel!
Survival Redefined is built with the idea of what Minecraft 2 could look like — blending the familiar with bold, exciting additions!
There’s something for everyone here!
What are the main mods in survival redefined?
Terralith 🌍 – A complete overhaul of terrain generation, now running flawlessly. Experience breathtaking, lifelike biomes that feel alive and immersive.
Tectonic ⛰️ – Adds dramatic, natural mountain ranges and realistic elevation to the world, redefining how you explore the landscape.
Oh The Biomes You’ll Go 🌸 – Discover over 80 beautifully designed biomes, seamlessly integrated for a richer and more diverse world.
Terralith Tweaks 🛠️ – Enhanced cave systems bring more depth, variety, and atmosphere to underground exploration.
Structure Expansion 🏛️ – Includes ATI Structures, Structory, and more—dozens of new, lore-filled structures to find, each packed with loot, secrets, and adventure.
Structurify ⚙️ – Expertly configured for biome-specific spawns, flatland placement, and structure rarity based on loot value—ensuring a balanced and immersive experience.
Better End + Nullscape 🌌 – The End dimension completely reimagined with surreal, breathtaking landscapes and floating terrain that invites exploration.
YUNG’s Mods 🔍 – Major improvements to nearly every vanilla structure, adding intricate design, smart layouts, and deeper gameplay.
Backports & Extras 🐄👻 – Brings in features from newer versions like the 1.21.6 animal variants, the Happy Ghast, and more—blending modern content into a timeless experience.
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Recommended Gear
AffiliateHardware and extras that pair well with this modpack.
LEGO Minecraft Set
Official sets that translate the building side of the game off-screen.
Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
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Contained Mods (244)
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Advancement Plaques [Neo/Forge]
Replace those boring advancement popups with something flashier.
AmbientSounds 6
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Amendments
Cauldron Potion Mixing, Lanterns Animation, Carpeted Stairs, Candle Skulls, Double Cakes, Better Lilypads and much more
Amplified Nether
256-tall nether with 3D biomes, mountains and more!
Animated Textures
Some texture of objects are animated.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
ATi Structures - Vanilla Edition
A collection of custom structures and dungeons
AzureLib
Java Minecraft mod using Bedrock models to create custom models and animations for items, blocks, entities
Backported Animal Variants
Adds new animal variants from 1.21.5 to older versions
Backported Wolves
Backports the wolf variants from the latest version to older versions of the game.
Bad Wither No Cookie - Reloaded
Localizes the wither and dragon death sounds.
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
BCLib
A library mod for BetterX mods
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Better Burning
Improves the burning and fire mechanics of Minecraft.
Better chunk loading[Forge/Fabric]
Predicts player movement to pre-load chunks and increases chunk load speed
Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]
⚔️ Easy, spectacular and fun melee combat system from Minecraft Dungeons.
Better End Cities Vanilla
Makes End Cities far more intricate, and contain more loot. All with Vanilla Blocks.
Better Farmer's Combat
Compatibility for Farmer's Delight with Better Combat
Better Fog
Improve immersion with a more pronounced fog!
Better Modlist
enhances default neoforge modlist.
Better Statistics Screen
A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.
Better Than Mending
A small quality of life tweak to the Mending enchantment
Better Third Person
Improves third-person camera view.
Better Treasure Map
Display Block Distance on Treasure Maps
Better Tridents
You didn’t know your trident could do that! A crafting recipe, better loyalty, and more!
BetterEnd
This mod adds content to the End (biomes, mobs, blocks, etc.)
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
Blur (Forge)
Unofficial port of Blur Fabric on the Forge
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Boss Refreshed
Minecraft's Bosses with a Refreshed Take!
Build Your Campfire
A lightweight, vanilla friendly mod that changes the way campfires are built
CameraOverhaul
Makes gameplay more satisfying through the use of various camera tilting.
Canary
A performance mod designed to optimize Minecraft's general performance and unofficial fork of Lithium mod for Minecraft...
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Cave Dust
Cave Dust is a Minecraft mod that adds the white ash particle from the Basalt Deltas biome to the underground to simulat...
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Chef's Delight [Forge] - Farmer's Delight Villagers
Add-on for the Farmer's Delight mod. Adds 2 new professions to villagers.
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village
Enhances and creates new villages and pillager outposts, that perfectly fit into your Minecraft world.
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Clear Despawn [Forge]
Makes dropped items flash when they're about to despawn.
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Cobweb
Crystal Nest API
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Colourful Containers GUI
Adds a new look to all the boring GUI's
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Cool Rain
Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
CoroUtil
Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc
Corpse
Never lose your items again!
Crawl on Demand
A simple mod to allow the player to go prone by usng a hotkey
CreativeCore
a core mod
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Crops 3D Reforged
Makes all the crops 3D in the default style of Minecraft.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Deep Grass
Alternative grass texture, supports vanilla and modded terrain!
Deimos Lib
Config and datagen library based on midnight lib
Detail Armor Bar [Fabric]
Show more details of armors in Armor bar!
DnT Ancient City Overhaul
Standalone Splinter version of Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
Do a Barrel Roll
Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Easy Shulker Boxes
Supercharge shulker boxes with browsing, inserting and extracting contents directly from your inventory.
Eating Animation [Neo/Forge]
A Neo/Forge port of the Eating Animation mod
Eclectic Trove (Legendary Tooltips)
Adds 10 various custom frames for use with Legendary Tooltips.
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Enchant Icons
makes enchantment names have icons and colors for enchanted books and items, colored enchanting, enchants
Enderman Overhaul
A mod which overhauls the vanilla enderman!
Enhanced Boss Bars
New improved boss bars!
Enhanced Falling Trees
Ensure that trees topple in a lifelike manner when they are felled.
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Essential Mod
The best way to play Minecraft. Enhanced Minecraft features in one simple mod. Fast, friendly, and for everyone!
Explorify – Dungeons & Structures
A simplistic, vanilla-friendly collection of new structures.
Explosive Enhancement: Reforged
Make the explosions look cooler. Now for (Neo)Forge.
ExtraSounds Next
UI sounds & more.
Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)
Falling Leaves from trees
Fancy Block Particles - Renewed
3D Digging Particles! Original mod by MorphoxL
Farmer's Cutting: Oh The Biomes We've Gone
Adds Farmer's Delight cutting recipes for Oh The Biomes We've Gone
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
FastSuite
A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.
Feur - Extension Fossil
[Vanilla+] 15 new structures of old fossil, dragon skull and monster camps !
First-person Model
Enables the third-person Model in first-person
Fishing Real
Fish up real entities instead of the items! Configurable with Datapacks!
Flow
Configurable in-out inventory UI transitions.
Forgified Fabric API
Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
Fresh Animations: Extensions
A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations
Fresh Buckets
A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D bucket models!
Fresh Moves
This is EMF Player Animation resource pack. Gives fancy animations to the player entity. Compatible with animations from...
Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Geophilic – Vanilla Biome Overhauls
A subtle-ish overhaul of vanilla Overworld biomes! Reworked!
Geophilic Reforged – Biome Additions
A subtle overhaul of vanilla and mod Overworld biomes
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Goblin Traders
Adds goblins that you can find underground with unique and useful trades!
Golem Spawn Animation
An animation that plays when an Iron Golem or Snow Golem is spawning
GroovyModLoader (GML)
A language provider for Forge Groovy mods.
Guard Ribbits
Add guard ribbits to the Ribbit villages
Happy Ghast Backport
Adds the rideable and walkable Happy Ghast with all it's variants, Ghastlings, and Dried ghast!
Healing Campfire
🔥🩹 Creates an area around the (soul) campfire where players and passive mobs receive regeneration.
Herd Mentality
Attacking a mob will aggrevate nearby mobs of the same type.
Hopo Better Underwater Ruins
Explore new ocean ruins to your world
Horseman
Improved horses: fast hitching, smooth riding, QOL features and more...
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
iChunUtil
Shared library used by iChun's mods
Immersive UI
Enhance your gameplay experience with animated UI components
Improved Grindstone [Forge]
Disenchant and transfer enchantments using a grindstone.
Improved Pillager Outpost
The "Improved Pillager Outpost" Datapack revamps the standard Minecraft Pillager Outpost into a challenging, multi-level...
Improved Village Placement
Forces villages to spawn on flat terrain.
Incendium
New biomes and structures with the vanilla blocks! (1.18+)
Incendium: Biomes Only
Removes structures, items, mobs and bosses from Incendium, leaving only the biomes and terrain.
It Takes a Pillage
The Pillager civilization has evolved.
Item Borders [Neo/Forge]
Add colored borders to inventory slots to make your rare items stand out!
Item Highlighter [Neo/Forge]
Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Kiwi 🥝 (Neo/Forge)
Minecraft modding library
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Forge)
Dogs should not be left sitting. They should be allowed to lie down. This lets 'em.
Library Ferret - Forge
Shared lib for the mods of jtorleon-studios-team
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Loot Integrations
Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
Make Bubbles Pop [Client] [Forge/Fabric/Quilt]
Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Mobs Refreshed + Fresh Animations
Fresh Animations compatibility for Mobs Refreshed
Model Gap Fix
Fixes small gaps in item and block models
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Necronomicon API
A personal utility library, making development in both platforms easier.
Neko's Enchanted Books
Gives each and every Enchanted Book a unique texture!
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
No Resource Pack Warnings Forge
Unofficial port of No Resource Pack Warnings for forge
Noisium (archived)
Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Not Enough Recipe Book [NERB]
Completely removes recipe book from the game, optimizing player data.
Notes
A clientside mod that provides a fully functional in-game notepad.
Nullscape
Vanilla End expansion for Fabric and Forge. More varied terrain - same barren, unforgiving void.
Nyf's Spiders
Modifes spiders to be more realistic.
Oculus
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML
Oh The Biomes We've Gone
An astounding sequel to the original BYG mod for 1.20.1+ with over 50+ biomes ranging from the magical to the realistic...
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Tree library used by popular mods such as Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
Particle Effects Reforged
Particle Effects is a simple visual client-side Fabric mod that adds unique textured particles for every effect in vanil...
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
Passable Foliage 🌳 (Neo/Forge)
Remove collision from leaves
Perception
Enriching the world with immersive visual effects
Photon Shader
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Ping Wheel
Allows players to temporarily mark locations and entities
Placebo
A library mod
playerAnimator
player animation library
Presence Footsteps (Forge)
An unofficial port of Presence Footsteps from Fabric to Forge
Pretty Rain
Pretty Rain replaces the default weather with prettier particle effects. Port of Particle Rain to NeoForge
Prism [Neo/Forge]
A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Realistic Explosion Physics
A realistic overhaul of Minecraft's explosion mechanics.
Realm RPG: Fallen Adventurers
Improves world exploration by adding skeletons wtih treasures. Vanilla style.
Remove Mouseover Highlight (Fabric-Forge-NeoForge)
Remove Mouseover Highlight - Remove Selection Box
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
REVIVED Farmer's Delight crops 3D
UNOFFICIAL update for Farmer's Delight crops 3D
Ribbits
Swamp villages and musical frogs!
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
Scribble
Expertly edit your books with rich formatting options, page utilities and more!
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
Shoot Glass
Did you wish arrows could break glass? Well it does now!
Simple Grass Flowers
Gives Grass, Podzol, Mycelium, Crimson Nylium, and Warped Nylium vanilla-friendly flowers, clovers, and rocks!
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Sinytra Connector
Lets you play Fabric mods on NeoForge
Sit
Allows you to sit on slabs and stairs.
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
SmartBrainLib (Forge/Fabric/Quilt)
A smarter brain system for Minecraft
Smooth Boot (Reloaded)
Tweaks for Minecraft CPU scheduling and unofficial fork of Smooth Boot mod for Minecraft Forge 1.18.2+
Smooth Swapping - Forge Updated
Moves items smoothly in inventories. For Forge, but updated.
Snow Under Trees
Adds snow under trees in snowy biomes
Snow! Real Magic! ⛄ (Neo/Forge)
Not a magic mod. | Snow Gravity & Accumulation | Snow-covered blocks | Tweak snow behaviors
Sodium/Embeddium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu
Soul fire'd
Let Soul Fire burn!
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
Spyglass Improvements: Zoom, Quick Access... [Fabric/NeoForge]
Enhance Minecraft's Spyglass with adjustable zoom, quick access and various spyglass overlays. Versions for Fabric and F...
Starlight (Forge)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
Status Effect Bars Reforged
A client-side mod that adds small customizable bars to the status effects overlay and in the inventory to show the remai...
Steve's Realistic Sleep
Makes sleeping speed up time instead of skipping to day.
Structory
An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.
Structure Gel API
An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.
Structurify
A structure configuration mod that eliminates the need for datapacks. Spread out structures, prevent overlap, enforce fl...
Subtle Effects
Adding many new subtle details through particles and a few sounds
Super Duper Vanilla Shaders
A shader pack created to convey the style of the cancelled Super Duper Graphics Pack and other popular Minecraft titles.
TCDCommons API
TheCSDev's personal library mod for the Minecraft modding enviroment.
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Tectonic-Tweak
Tweaks the worldgen of Tectonic mod.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Terralith
A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!
The Conjurer
A mod that expands the Illager family by adding a new Magician illager called The Conjurer.
Tidal Towns
Several pieces of driftwood have been gathered to form a village that floats on the waves.
Tips
Adds a tip section to various loading screens.
Toast Control
Control toasts, those popups in the corner!
Torchflower: Relit
Makes the torchflower emit light
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
True Ending ~ Ender Dragon Overhaul
True Ending: Ender Dragon Overhaul Public A dramatic overhaul to the Ender Dragon boss fight. New attacks and elegant pa...
TxniLib
Multiversion library mod for Txni projects
Villages&Pillages
Structure mod that brings an exciting twist to Minecraft by introducing hostile and unfriendly pillages, providing a thr...
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Visuality: Reforged
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
Wakes Reforged
Adds splashes and wakes while traveling on water, Forge port ! v1.4.0 10x performance update
What Are They Up To (Watut)
Lets you see if players are typing, in a GUI, idle, with cool ingame visuals
Wither Spawn Animation
An animation that plays when a Wither is spawning
World Play Time
Displays the world's play time in the world selection menu.
WorldEdit
In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Yung Structures Addon for Loot Integrations
Adds better loot to yung mods structures, an addon to the lootintegrations mod
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
A library mod for YUNG's Minecraft mods
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
YUNG's Better Dungeons (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
YUNG's Better End Island (Forge/NeoForge)
An overhaul of the main End Island where the dragon fight takes place!
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (Forge/NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!
YUNG's Cave Biomes (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds new vanilla+ cave biomes and underground content!
YUNG's Menu Tweaks (Forge/NeoForge)
A small, lightweight mod that makes browsing menus a lot easier
Zeta
Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods
👻 Hysteria Shaders
Atmospheric, highly customizable eerie shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.