Survival Sickness
by SG327
Survival Sickness adds a health system to survival play, with diseases, medicines and a Doctor villager who trades them.
What it does
Players may contract any of ten survival illnesses, triggered by weather, hostile mobs, spoiled food, heat in deserts, cold temperatures, insufficient rest, injuries, time spent underwater and related hazards. Each disease moves through stages with its own symptoms, shown on the HUD with disease icons, screen effects and, for some illnesses, cough or sneeze sounds. Diseases can spread between nearby players in multiplayer.
Treatment depends on medicines. Players gather medical ingredients, and the Medicine Mixer workstation turns them into custom medicines. Crystal Salt, a key medical material, comes from smelting Raw Crystal Ore, which generates in the Overworld and in a Deepslate variant. Village chests, shipwreck chests and ruined portal chests also contain ingredients, and a Doctor villager sells medicine trades.
Fabric API is required, and Survival Sickness is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files exist for Fabric only, for Minecraft 26.2, under the MIT License. The mod is not open source.
Key features
Ten survival diseases
Each disease progresses through stages, with symptoms that show on the HUD and as screen effects.
Medicine Mixer workstation
The workstation crafts custom medicines from collected ingredients and Crystal Salt.
Raw Crystal Ore
Ore generates underground in two variants and smelts into Crystal Salt in a furnace.
Doctor villager trades
A Doctor villager offers medicine trades, giving an alternative to crafting every cure.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Hardcore survival worlds
Health management carries more weight when illness can strike during exploration and mining.
Multiplayer servers
Disease spread between nearby players makes shared bases and travel part of the health system.
Who it’s for: Players who want health and illness to matter in survival worlds, and server owners who run survival gameplay for groups.
Questions
Does Survival Sickness need Fabric API?
Does the server need Survival Sickness?
Where do players get Crystal Salt?
In the catalog
Survival Sickness is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,052 Adventure mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
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. To survive, you must prepare medicines, collect medical ingredients, use the Medicine Mixer, and trade with Doctor…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/survival-sickness
- Owner
- SG327
- Published
- 2026-07-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
