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Survival Redefined is a modpack I originally made for me and my friends to play, but now it's become something many others can enjoy!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