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Challenge Craft

⚔️ Play the challenges from your favorite YouTubers! ⚔️ 45 challenge modes, randomizers, and chaos mechanics combined with lifetime XP progression. Every world is a new challenge run.

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Updated 6 days ago
Latest stable file challengecraft-1.1.1.jar
Game version 26.2
Loader Fabric

Challenge Craft challengecraft-1.1.1.jar targets 26.2 with Fabric. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Is Challenge Craft required on the client, server, or both?

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What else does Challenge Craft challengecraft-1.1.1.jar need?

challengecraft-1.1.1.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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Before you install it

Add Challenge Craft without breaking your instance.

Built for Challenge Craft challengecraft-1.1.1.jar. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

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    Stick to this file

    Use challengecraft-1.1.1.jar. It targets 26.2 with Fabric; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

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About this project

What does Challenge Craft add?

Challenge Craft — turn every world into a challenge run

Minecraft Loader Java Challenges

Challenge Craft turns normal survival into replayable challenge runs. Pick from 46 challenges — run one, or stack a brutal combination — and every world you finish earns permanent Lifetime XP that unlocks more challenges and perks. Play the runs you know from YouTubers or invent your own.

Play the full modpack

The modpack is this mod plus shaders, proximity voice chat, a full ambient soundscape, quality-of-life mods and a custom menu — already configured.

Have an idea? Suggest a challenge on Discord and I will build it.

How it works

  1. Pick your challenges when creating a world — a single one, or several stacked. Every combination gets a difficulty rating.
  2. Beat the run. Defeat the Ender Dragon to complete the world.
  3. Earn Lifetime XP. The payout scales with your difficulty rating — and it is permanent, carrying across every world and server.
  4. Level up (1–20). Each level unlocks new challenges and permanent perks.
  5. Go infinite. Past Level 20, every 1,000 XP earns an Infinity Star: colored name auras, and one final secret at 20 stars.

Fair play: changing challenges mid-run sets the XP payout to 0, and dying in the Hardcore challenge fails the run.

Features

  • 46 challenges — modifiers, randomizers, and full game modes like Lockout Bingo, Force Item Battle, Trivia, Skyblock, Chunk Hunt or roll a dice to walk blocks
  • Stack challenges for a higher difficulty rating and bigger XP payouts
  • Permanent progression — Lifetime XP, levels, perks and name auras persist across worlds
  • Built for co-op — every challenge works in multiplayer, and progression syncs to each player
  • Fresh worlds in one click — restart into a new challenge world from inside the game with /challenges; the old world is archived automatically
  • Clean challenge UI — goal trackers, timers, and reward popups

Challenges

All 46 challenges, in the order they unlock.

Level 1

Map Lockout Bingo
Teams race on a shared 5×5 board — every goal can only be claimed once. The winning team earns 100 Lifetime XP.

Item Frame Force Item Battle
Every player races to collect their own random target item — a floating icon above your head reveals what's next. Most items when the timer runs out wins 100 Lifetime XP, solo or in teams.

XP Bottle Level = Item
The Challenge Stick converts your current XP levels into that many copies of a random item.

Clock Random Item every 30s
Every player receives a random item every 30 seconds.

Bedrock Random Chunk Blocks
Every chunk is rebuilt from a single random block type.

Diamond Boots 500 Blocks = Item
A random item for every 500 blocks walked.

Iron Sword Damage = Item
A random item for every heart of damage taken.

Level 2

Iron Bars No Chest Loot
Loot chests generate empty.

Golden Apple No Regeneration
No natural health regeneration.

Pig Spawn Egg Random Mob Spawn
A random mob spawns near you every 30 seconds — baby zombies, chicken jockeys and armored mobs included. Even passive mobs turn hostile.

Level 3

Emerald No Villager Trading
Villagers cannot be traded with.

Apple Max Health Modifier
Set everyone's maximum hearts with a slider.

Repeater Game Speed
Speed up the entire game — 1× to 10×.

Level 4

Crafting Table No Crafting Table
Crafting tables cannot be used.

Enchanted Book Random Enchantment every 30s
Your held item gets a random enchantment every 30 seconds.

Ladder Only Down
Your lowest point becomes your ceiling — climb more than a quarter block above it and you die. Portals are safe; everything else is one-way, down.

Level 5

Grass Block Skyblock World
The world generates as a Skyblock.

Bundle Limit Inventory Slots
Lock away part of your inventory with a slider.

Chainmail Chestplate No Armor
Armor slots are blocked.

Level 6

Knowledge Book Randomized Crafting
Every crafting recipe is shuffled.

Writable Book All Achievements
Complete every vanilla advancement, with a built-in progress tracker.

Stone Progressive Block Drops
Blocks drop nothing until unlocked. Mine the block shown on your HUD to permanently unlock its drops and reveal the next target.

Level 7

Totem of Undying Hardcore Challenge
Die once and the run fails — no XP payout.

Glow Ink Sac Chunk Hunt
Entering a new chunk locks the world border around it, transforms its blocks, and spawns a glowing target mob you must defeat to escape.

Honey Block No Jumping
You physically cannot jump while this challenge is active.

Level 8

Glistering Melon Slice Mob Health Multiplier
Multiply the health of every mob.

Iron Boots Walk = Damage
One heart of damage for every block walked.

Anvil Heavy Pockets
The fuller your inventory, the slower you move — a full one means Slowness VI.

Level 9

Heart of the Sea Damage = Border
Taking damage expands the world border.

Stone Pickaxe Corrosive Tools
Every tool use has a 5% chance to downgrade it a tier (Iron → Stone).

Die Dice Movement
Right-click to throw a real, physically tumbling die. However many pips land face up is how many blocks you may walk — then you must roll again. Only horizontal distance counts, and a subtle ring shows how far you can still reach.

Level 10

Map Level = Border
The world border matches your XP level.

End Crystal Symbiotic Bond
All players share one health pool — damage to one is damage to all.

Level 11

Lava Bucket The Floor is Lava
Stand still for 3 seconds — or on natural blocks — and you burn.

Level 12

Cobweb No Block Drops
Blocks drop nothing when broken.

Slime Ball Size Matters
Mobs spawn at random sizes — small ones are fast, big ones have more health and reach.

Level 13

Zombie Spawn Egg No Mob Drops
Mobs drop nothing when killed.

Cooked Beef No Food
Eating is disabled. Including cake.

Level 14

Phantom Membrane Upside Down Drops
Dropped items float upward and despawn at build height — catch them fast.

Level 15

Creeper Spawn Egg All Entities
Kill every mob that has a spawn egg, in a random order.

Level 16

Cobblestone Random Block Drops
Every block type drops a different random item, fixed by the world seed.

Level 17

Bone Random Mob Drops
Mob loot tables are shuffled — mobs drop each other's loot.

Written Book Minecraft Trivia
Answer a trivia question every 2 minutes — or die.

Level 18

Spawner Double Trouble
Mob spawns are multiplied — 2× to 10×.

Level 19

Iron Pickaxe Mine = Potion Effect
Each block type applies its own random potion effect when mined.

Level 20

Nether Star All Items
Collect every survival-obtainable item, in a random order.

Perks

Permanent perks unlock as you level up and apply to every future run.

Golden Carrot Night Vision — Level 3
Permanent Night Vision.

Feather Swift Footing — Level 5
Permanent Speed I.

Netherite Chestplate Tough Skin — Level 10
+2 permanent max hearts.

Magma Cream Fire Resistance — Level 11
Permanent Fire Resistance.

Diamond Sword Strength — Level 14
+3 permanent attack damage.

Book Scholar — Level 15
+50% experience gain from all sources.

Shield Resistance — Level 18
+4 permanent armor points.

Infinite Chest Infinite Chest — Level 20
Craft the Infinite Chest: an endless storage block.

Beyond Level 20: Infinity Stars recolor your name — green, blue, red, purple, gold, rainbow — and 20 stars unlock one final secret.

Multiplayer

Challenge Craft is built to be played together. Challenges, Lifetime XP and levels sync to every player, and name tags show each player's level and aura.

  • Lockout Bingo — up to 4 teams race on a shared 5×5 board
  • Symbiotic Bond — the whole server shares one health pool
  • World restart in-game — the server generates a fresh challenge world and archives the old one; no file juggling between runs

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Server Requirements

Challenge Craft ships as two builds. Pick the file that matches your Minecraft version — they are not interchangeable.

Minecraft Java Loader Dependency
26.2 25 Fabric Fabric API
1.21.5 21 Fabric Fabric API

How to install

  1. Create a new server with BisectHosting.
  2. Select your Minecraft version (26.2 or 1.21.5) and Fabric as the server type.
  3. Start the server once so all files generate, then stop it.
  4. Upload Challenge Craft and Fabric API into the mods folder.
  5. Start the server.
  6. Install the same two mods on your client.

⚠️ The mod must be installed on both client and server, and both must run the same Minecraft version.

Screenshots

Coming soon — challenge selection, the progression journey, HUDs, and gameplay.

Why play

If vanilla survival feels predictable, Challenge Craft gives you a reason to start over — again and again. Every run is a different world with a different ruleset, and the progress you earn is yours to keep.

Or take the whole thing

The Challenge Craft Modpack is this mod with everything already set up around it: Iris with three shader presets, Simple Voice Chat for proximity audio, AmbientSounds and Sound Physics Remastered for a world that actually sounds like one, the usual quality-of-life mods, performance mods to survive Double Trouble at 10×, and a custom pixel-art menu made for it. One click, no modlist.

Play the full modpack

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Project description from CurseForge.

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