About Overly Realistic
From ModrinthIntroduces overly-realistic game mechanics, making the game extremely hard and time-consuming, as to incentivize players to cooperate!
Overly Realistic is a datapack & mod that adds a variety of features to minecraft, it mainly aims to incentivize cooperation between various players through a medium of realism! This takes inspiration from Civilization's Beginnings and Joyful's video on the problem with simulating civilizations in minecraft
The project is also inspired by real human evolutionary history and how it ultimately unfolded; a core idea for this project is to make lone survival hard and unfruitful, meaning, players need to (and are pushed to) be grouping into tribes in order to more easily progress and survive.
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Note that this makes the progression system in the game intentionally slower and more difficult!
If you're unsure on how to progress, please check out the advancements tab in-game!
Also note that if you are using the datapack version of Overly-Realistic, you will need to use the resourcepack found here
Overly Realistic has pretty frequent updates (updated every 1-2 weeks currently!) - Make sure you check up on this page from time to time!!
While the versions uploaded for this project are marked as releases, such versions should be considered as beta updates! There is still a lot I haven't done/changed/added!
New advancement system as a progression tree- Minecraft's vanilla advancements have been removed and replaced with Overly-Realistic's advancements, which act as a progression tree to help players know what they should be doing to progress.
- All advancements fully explain and describe the next progression milestones, so players are able to play without tabbing into a wiki all the time or remaining hopeless.
Progression overhaul- Progression is now much more realistic and made with cooperative aspects in mind, making it both harder and more complex, although, in a way that is easy to understand and follow.
Various new player stats- Players must now care for their temperature, thirst, sanity, stamina, hygiene, vitality, and many other stats.
- Players now have genetics, which affect various aspects of the game such as movement speed, attack damage, height, etc. Genetics can be customized in a character customization menu when spawning in.
- Players are now generally much weaker and slower when spawning in, although, they can train their stats to improve them through time.
Harsher health- Health is now much harder to manage, and will generally require a groupmate who can specialize into healthcare: players are able to bleed, fracture bones, get infections, create medicinal items, receive illnesses, etc.
- Players are able to receive different debuffs depending on what body part they were hit on.
- Natural regeneration is now slower and dependent on various factors.
Hunger complexity- Players must eat different types of foods so they are able to manage their nutrients: fats, proteins, and carbs. Only ever eating 1 type of food is no longer a viable approach.
- Players' hunger now decreases through time, and, the lower the player's hunger, the weaker they get.
New wisdom and intelligence systems
- Certain actions can add up onto skill experience, which allows players to be able to become better in that skill through time. Wisdom skills include combat, blacksmithing, cookery, archery, healthcare, etc.
- Wisdom skills have categories, those being: primary skills, secondary skills, and sub-skills.
- When leveling up one skill, other skills of the same category will decrease in level (by default), which makes it so one singular player isn't able to specialize into all skills at once, thus needing to rely on other players, who have specialized into different skill sets than their own.
Animal overhaul
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 10 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Overly Realistic as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Data packFabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 9 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorWilozyx, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseCC0-1.0Free










