Sensible Survival (RPG Tweaks)
With Sensible Survival installed on a server, armor and shield durability loss, repair costs and experience splitting are all adjusted by the server's configuration.
What it does
Sensible Survival changes several survival mechanics in Minecraft. It can adjust how often armor and shields lose durability, cap the chance of that loss, and tune how much a repair costs. Repairing an item does not make its next repair more expensive, and the Too Expensive limit that blocks high-level anvil work can be removed. A level limit setting lets the server decide how far anvil costs may climb.
Experience picked up by players is split evenly with nearby players, and the grouping can follow vanilla scoreboard teams or FTB Teams. When the experience does not divide evenly, the remainder goes to a random player in the group. A setting can also share experience with nearby players regardless of team. The mod was formerly known as Durability Tweaks, and updating keeps the old config file. Changes made to the two main options affect only chunks generated after they are switched on.
The mod is built for Fabric and NeoForge, with files published for 1.21.1. Fabric API is required on the Fabric build. Sensible Survival runs on the server, and players join without installing it, except for two cosmetic details that live on the client. Its code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved, though public links to its source code and issue tracker exist.
Key features
Durability loss tuning
Armor and shield durability loss chances can each be adjusted, with a cap applied through a multiplier.
Repair cost control
Each repair leaves the item's next repair price unchanged, since the prior work penalty is lowered.
Too Expensive limit
The wall that blocks high-level anvil repairs can be removed, and a level limit can be set instead.
Shared experience
Nearby players share experience orbs picked up by one of them, with the split made evenly, and vanilla scoreboard teams as well as FTB Teams are recognized.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Mending Rework is a server-side mod for Fabric and NeoForge covering 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later and open source. Power and Cost is a client and server mod for Fabric only, covering 1.21.10 – 1.21.11, under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and open source. No Increasing Repair Cost is a client and server mod for Fabric and NeoForge, covering 1.21 – 26.1, under the MIT License and open source, so it needs installing on both sides.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensible Survival (RPG Tweaks) | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-09-25 |
| Mending Rework | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2025-12-22 |
| Power and Cost | Fabric | 1.21.10 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-08-24 |
| No Increasing Repair Cost | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-25 |
Questions
Does Sensible Survival need Fabric API?
Do players need to install Sensible Survival?
Do changes apply to terrain that already exists?
In the catalog
Sensible Survival (RPG Tweaks) is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Formerly known as Durability Tweaks. Updating carries the old config file over automatically. Both are off by default, and only affect chunks generated after turning them on.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/sensible-survival
- Owner
- ZsoltMolnarrr
- Published
- 2025-05-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
