Better Survival (BSurvival)
Modpackby ExileDev
Survival But Better
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
5,128
CurseForge ID
1551229
Last Updated
Jul 29, 2026
Description
Survive, explore, and conquer a world transformed.
a massive Minecraft survival modpack designed to upgrade every part of the vanilla experience while keeping the game fun, balanced, and immersive. Explore dangerous new biomes, battle powerful creatures, discover improved structures, and progress through an enhanced survival journey packed with adventure.
With over 100+ carefully selected mods, Better Survival expands Minecraft with:
> Tougher combat and dangerous mobs
> Beautiful world generation and exploration
> New structures, villages, and dungeons
> Expanded fishing, farming, and survival systems
> Better storage, inventory, and quality-of-life features
> Enhanced progression while staying true to vanilla gameplay
> Optimized performance and smoother gameplay experience
Whether you want to build, explore, fight bosses, or survive with friends, Better Survival delivers the ultimate enhanced survival experience for both casual and hardcore players.
Can you survive the better world?
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Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
JourneyMap
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GeckoLib
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Waystones
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FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
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Puzzles Lib
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Cupboard
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Sophisticated Core
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YetAnotherConfigLib
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Sodium
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Sound Physics Remastered
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Not Enough Animations
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Carry On
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Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
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FTB Quests (NeoForge)
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Better Advancements
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AttributeFix
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ShatterLib | OctoLib
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Resourceful Config
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FTB XMod Compat
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Connectivity
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Crash Assistant
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Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Artifacts
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Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
Cristel Lib
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NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
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Better Compatibility Checker
Changes the default server compatability check to compare modpack versions
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Biomes O' Plenty
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GlitchCore
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TrashSlot
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Prism [Neo/Forge]
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BadOptimizations
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Legendary Tooltips [Neo/Forge]
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Aquaculture 2
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Towns and Towers
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Macaw's Bridges
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Sophisticated Storage
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Explorer's Compass
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FTB Ultimine (Forge)
Harvest multiple blocks at once
Not Enough Recipe Book [NERB]
Completely removes recipe book from the game, optimizing player data.
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
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Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]
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FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
Adds many essential utility commands for servers
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
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Security Craft
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Prickle
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Terralith
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MidnightLib
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Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Structory
An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.
Loot Integrations
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Cooking for Blockheads
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
Shoulder Surfing Reloaded
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Let Me Despawn
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Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)
JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays breeding information
MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures
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MES - Moog's End Structures
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Cherished Worlds
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JamLib
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Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
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GuideME
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Pipez
Simple and efficient pipes
Goblin Traders
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RightClickHarvest
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Inventory Sorter
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FTB Filter System
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Ping Wheel
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Easy Villagers
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Client Crafting
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Easy Anvils
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Immersive Aircraft [Fabric/Forge]
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Modonomicon
Data-driven minecraft in-game documentation with progress visualization.
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
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Dynamic FPS
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Tool Belt
A utility belt that holds your tools
Silent Lib (silentlib)
Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.
FTB Ranks (NeoForge)
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MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
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XP Tome
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Mutant Monsters
The mutants are back! Face scary creatures and powerful beasts like never before.
Chunky (Forge/NeoForge)
Pre-generates chunks, quickly, efficiently, and safely
Simple Magnets
Simple Magnets adds Magnets that pickup items around the player!
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
Reliquary Reincarnations
Many magical items to help you in your minecraft world
Durability Tooltip
Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!
Simple Backups
A simple mod to create scheduled backups.
ForgeEndertech
Core library powering Endertech mods
Trading Post
Rule the village! Trade with every villager at once!
Baubley Heart Canisters
Bauble Heart Canisters
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Construction Sticks
Sticks that make building easier
Silent Gear
Upgradeable tools, weapons, and armor. Custom materials system!
TerraBlender (NeoForge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Better Archeology
Discover artifacts & fossils by encountering new structures that'll enhance your adventure and exploration!
Traveler's Backpack
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Curios API integration and more!
Tree Harvester
🌲 Harvest full trees and huge mushrooms instantly with an axe. Includes fast leaf decay and sapling placement. Also wor...
Advanced Netherite (Forge / NeoForge)
A configurable, vanilla friendly, open-source mod that adds in more tiers of Netherite!
Silent's Gems
Customizable tools! Colorful building blocks! Handy gadgets!
bad packets
Bad Packets allows packet messaging between different modding platforms.
JustHammers
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Homeostatic Seasons
Performance and realism-driven full-featured seasons mod, dynamically changing biomes and weather as you play.
Animal Pens
Reduce lag and keep your animals neatly stored while maintaining full interactivity!
Photon Shader
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
Spawner Control
Edit the Monter Spawner speed, delay, range and limit
Tax Free Levels
Flattens the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs and makes renaming items always cost 1 level
Merge Enchantments
merge the enchants that could not be combined like Silk Touch with Fortune, Infinity with Mending, Frost Walker with Dep...
Fresh Waystones Texture
Resource pack that improve textures from the waystones mod.
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Advanced Hook Launchers
Adds different hooks with launchers that give you the ability to climb, abseil, jump off cliffs, pull entities or player...
Advanced Fishing
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Better Than Mending
A small quality of life tweak to the Mending enchantment
Fish On The Line
🐟 Rings a bell held in the offhand when something's on the line while fishing.
Only Excavators
A simple mod that adds various type of excavators, that mine 3x1 area
Transmog
Change the appearance of your items without modifying their behavior/stats!
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
Building Wands
Building Wands (Fabric/Forge)
Simple Tomb
Simple Tombstone is a grave to store your items when you die
Solas Shader
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Armor Statues
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Elytra Trims
Lightweight and customizable support for elytra trims, patterns and dyes
Inventory Totem
🎴 Makes the totem of undying effect work when it's anywhere in the inventory.
Obscure Tooltips
Stylized tooltips with beautiful effects and smooth animations!
Bagus Lib
This mod is using baguchi's mod and you can use too!
BucketLib
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ColorBlindness
Potion effects that simulate color blindness (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
Glow Sticks
Glow Sticks sticks in different colors which can be lit up in the world / underwater for a limited time for better explo...
Wooden Bucket
A Wooden Bucket for all bucketable fluids, entities & blocks! (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu [NEOFORGE]
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It Takes a Pillage Continuation
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Motschen's Better Leaves
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Spyglass Improvements: Zoom, Quick Access... [Fabric/NeoForge]
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Hunter'sReturn
Add evil Hunter's mob! They hunt the animals while making a cheeky laugh...
Mellow
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Stardew Fishing
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Enchanting Infuser
An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.
Better Treasure Map
Display Block Distance on Treasure Maps
Fresh Animations: Extensions
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Too Many Bows
A bunch of amazing crazy bows with unique abilities!!!
(Bee's) Fancy Crops
My take on prettier farming, compatible with mods!
Armor Stand Arms (RPG Theme)
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Sildur's Vibrant shaders
Very optimized shaderpack for MC: Java edition, around since 2012! Runs on any hardware and supports every MC version si...
Useful Hats
Hats with special abilities. (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
Create Style Sophisticated Backpacks
Sophisticated Backpacks but Creatified!
Paragliders
BotW style Paraglider
Fixed Anvil Repair Cost
💰 Patches the anvil to set the default level cost, material cost and percentage repaired.
Achievements Optimizer
Improved achievement performance
Abandoned Structures
This mod adds 4 abandoned structures to the world
Berezka's library
this mod allows to generate json files in code, adds custom structure type, custom structure placement type, provides ov...
Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]
Supported entities and items such as torches or lanterns emit light!
Anvil Restoration
🔨 Repair placed anvils with iron ingots and damage them with obsidian.
Storage Delight (Forge & Neoforge)
Extra furniture for Farmer's Delight that makes your kitchen or any space look better. Vanilla style.
Ceramic Bucket
A Ceramic Bucket made of clay for ALL fluids! (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
Tough As Nails
A difficult, survival-based mod that adds body temperature and thirst!
Crab Claws - Place/Break blocks from a distance!
With these crab claws you can place, break or interact from 8 blocks away!
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Fragmentum (NeoForge)
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Chunky McChunkFace
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Healing Campfire
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Effortless Building
Makes building easier by providing tools like mirrors, arrays, build modes and a block randomizer. For survival and crea...
Wooden Shears
Adds Wooden Shears (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
Universal Enchants
Better enchantments! Use them on all tools and weapons. Infinity crossbow, or looting trident anyone?
FTB Backups 3
Simple, but powerful backups system for Minecraft
Advanced Finders
Discover ores faster with new finders that revolutionize the mining experience
Better Respawn
This mod adds a mechanic that lets you respawn near your death location.
Player Animation Library
A library that allows mods to animate the player, in a way that doesn't conflict with other mods. (and much more!)
Customizable Elytra
Adds a variety of colorful ways to customize your elytra!
Simple Teleporters Reforged
Simple Teleporters adds a craftable teleporter block to quickly travel your world!
Crate Delight (Forge & Neoforge)
Useful crates and bags for Farmer's Delight that will save you storage and look great.
MidnightControls
Adds controller support and enhanced controls overall.
Ore Harvester
⛏️ Harvest entire ore veins instantly and drop ore items at the initial block position. An updated alternative to the ve...
The Lost City
The mod adds a simple abandoned city and other remnants of civilization to the world
Spawn Animations [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]
Hostile mobs dig out of the ground or poof into existence when they spawn!
Undead Nights - Zombie Horde Nights
This Mod adds Horde Nights to the game, with hordes of Zombies hunting the player in a Zombie Apocalypse.
Abandoned Structures: Aviation
This mod adds 3 abandoned structures in aviation thematic to the world
Artifacts Crafting
Implements crafting recipes for Artifacts mod
Middle Age: castles
This mod adds new Castles in Middle Age style.
Villagers Respawn (for Forge, Fabric,NeoForge)
In this vanilla+ mod, Villagers respawn at their bed when they die. (if they have a bed!)
FPS Booster - Ultimate Lag Optimizer
powerful client-side performance FPS booster
Chunky Offline
An add-on/extension of Chunky to generate chunks when no players are online.
Fantasy 3D Weapons CIT
Adds 30 3D weapons models! (Custom Item Textures)
Weather Refined
Replaces vanilla rain & snow with improved, more polished particles. Less visual clutter, more atmosphere.
OutpostZero
Start the game inside an underground survival bunker and discover additional bunkers hidden throughout the world.
Abandoned Villages
This mod adds simple abandoned villages to your world.
Sodium/Embeddium Device Check
A Minecraft mod can check you device
Vaseria Travelnes
One of the best survival and fun mods with new ores and features!
Mineable Spawner
Mine spawners with a pickaxe (spawn eggs drop too!) Configurable
Overly Realistic
Introduces overly-realistic game mechanics, making the game extremely hard and time-consuming as to incentivize players...
SpawnGuard
Mod that protects players from mob attacks for a set duration after spawning, ensuring a safe start in any world. Ideal...
Upgradeable Spawners
Upgrade mob spawners to boost spawn rate, lower spawn delay, or make spawned mobs have low HP or no AI
Nature Loading Screens
Adds nature loading screens instead of the basic ones
Abandoned city buildings: Updated
Ports "Apocalypse structures: Abandoned city buildings" to more versions
Builder's Shulkers
Open your shulker boxes from your inventory, and hold one in your hotbar to place blocks straight from it !
Designer Pack
Design your builds directly in your survival worlds without interference!
Immersive Torches
Get your torches some new look by modeling, retexturing and animating them!
Stack Size Tweaks
A mod changing the default stack size of items for a better survival experience.
