The sheer number of new or changed features is too numerous to list in full here, but each and every system serves one purpose, and one purpose alone: to make Minecraft survival mode a little closer to reality, and a lot more difficult. Each and every step requires specialist resources that are few and far between, as well as brand new structures and mechanics to get the metal to actually melt and form in the way you want it to. You’ll also discover that tools are much more difficult to make, requiring a smelting process that stretches from simple casting right through to full-on steel smithing. Once you install this mod, you can and will die of starvation and thirst, and you will have to manage your nutrition levels as well: no more simply surviving off a diet of pork chops and bread. Terrafirmacraft is a mod that styles itself as “survival mode as it should have been”: that is, more complex, more difficult, and most of all, more engaging.
Want more games to scratch that wilderness survival itch? Check out our list of the 10 best survival games you can play right now in 2018. Wish Minecraft Survival mode was a little more… focused on actual survival? Then you might need one of these four free wilderness survival mods to make your game a little more realistic-and a little more difficult.
