Survival Sickness
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📋 About This Mod
Survival Sickness 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 villagers. This mod is made for survival, hardcore worlds, and multiplayer servers where health management should feel more meaningful. Features 10 survival diseases Disease stages and symptoms HUD disease icons Screen effects for some illnesses Cough, sneeze, and symptom sounds Medicine Mixer workstation Custom medicines and ingredients Doctor villager with medicine trades Raw Crystal Ore world generation Crystal Salt smelting system Custom ingredients found in village, shipwreck, and ruined portal chests Multiplayer disease spread between nearby players Server-friendly survival gameplay How To Start Start your world normally. Collect wood, food, stone tools, and basic resources. As you explore, collect medicine ingredients from crafting, mining, and loot chests. You will need these to prepare medicines later. Useful early items to collect: Kelp Wheat Seeds Bone Meal Charcoal Flint Honeycomb Brown Mushroom Glow Lichen Moss Block Vine Rooted Dirt Cactus Blue Orchid Azure Bluet You can also find custom ingredients inside: Village chests Shipwreck chests Ruined portal chests Raw Crystal Ore and Crystal Salt Crystal Salt is an important medical material used for medicine crafting and the Medicine Mixer. To get Crystal Salt: Mine Raw Crystal Ore underground. Get Raw Crystal from the ore. Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace. Receive Crystal Salt. Raw Crystal Ore has two variants: Raw Crystal Ore Deepslate Raw Crystal Ore Best mining level: Y 16 Good mining range: Y 0 to Y 32 Full generation range: Y -24 to Y 56 Raw Crystal Ore generates in the Overworld with iron-like underground generation. Medicine Mixer The Medicine Mixer is the main workstation used to create medicines. To use it: Place the Medicine Mixer. Add Medical Catalyst as fuel. Add a Clean Water Bottle. Add the correct two medicine ingredients. Wait for the mixing progress to finish. Take the finished medicine from the output slot. One Medical Catalyst gives fuel for multiple medicines. Medicines are made inside the Medicine Mixer, not in the crafting table. Important Crafting Recipes Clean Water Bottle Water Bottle + Kelp = Clean Water Bottle Medicinal Herb Wheat Seeds + Bone Meal = Medicinal Herb Mint Leaf Fern + Bone Meal = Mint Leaf Ginger Root Rooted Dirt + Bone Meal = Ginger Root Silverleaf Flower Azure Bluet + Bone Meal = Silverleaf Flower Blue Aloe Flower Blue Orchid + Cactus = Blue Aloe Flower Swamp Moss Moss Block + Vine = Swamp Moss Cave Fungus Brown Mushroom + Glow Lichen = Cave Fungus Charcoal Powder Charcoal + Flint = Charcoal Powder Honey Extract Honeycomb + Sugar + Glass Bottle = Honey Extract Bandage Cloth String + White Wool = Bandage Cloth Crystal Salt Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace = Crystal Salt Medical Catalyst Crystal Salt + Charcoal Powder + Cave Fungus = Medical Catalyst Medicine Recipes All medicines are prepared inside the Medicine Mixer. Fever Tonic Cures Fever. Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Medicinal Herb Cold Syrup Cures Cold. Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Honey Extract Cough Syrup Cures Cough. Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Medicinal Herb Flu Remedy Cures Flu. Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Silverleaf Flower Pain Relief Tablet Cures Headache. Clean Water Bottle + Silverleaf Flower + Crystal Salt Muscle Balm Cures Leg Pain. Clean Water Bottle + Blue Aloe Flower + Honey Extract Breathing Elixir Cures Respiratory Issue. Clean Water Bottle + Swamp Moss + Crystal Salt Digestive Medicine Cures Diarrhea / Digestive Illness. Clean Water Bottle + Charcoal Powder + Ginger Root Antibiotic Mix Cures Infection. Clean Water Bottle + Cave Fungus + Bandage Cloth Warmth Potion Cures Frostbite. Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Charcoal Powder Diseases Diseases build up from survival conditions. Most diseases give warning messages before becoming active. Disease How You Get It Cure Cold Rain, wet exposure, cold conditions Cold Syrup Cough Rain exposure, slime exposure, nearby sick players Cough Syrup Flu Witch exposure or nearby sick players Flu Remedy Fever Desert heat, husks, overheating Fever Tonic Headache Lack of sleep, heat and hunger Pain Relief Tablet Leg Pain Sprinting too much Muscle Balm Respiratory Issue Repeated diving, low air, drowned exposure Breathing Elixir Diarrhea Rotten flesh, unsafe food, witch exposure Digestive Medicine Infection Zombies, spiders, cave spiders, low-health wounds Antibiotic Mix Frostbite Freezing, powdered snow, stray exposure Warmth Potion Doctor Villager Villagers can become Doctors when a Medicine Mixer is nearby. How to get a Doctor: Place a Medicine Mixer near a villager. Wait for the villager to become
Survival Sickness
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 villagers.
This mod is made for survival, hardcore worlds, and multiplayer servers where health management should feel more meaningful.
Features 10 survival diseases Disease stages and symptoms HUD disease icons Screen effects for some illnesses Cough, sneeze, and symptom sounds Medicine Mixer workstation Custom medicines and ingredients Doctor villager with medicine trades Raw Crystal Ore world generation Crystal Salt smelting system Custom ingredients found in village, shipwreck, and ruined portal chests Multiplayer disease spread between nearby players Server-friendly survival gameplay How To Start
Start your world normally. Collect wood, food, stone tools, and basic resources.
As you explore, collect medicine ingredients from crafting, mining, and loot chests. You will need these to prepare medicines later.
Useful early items to collect:
Kelp Wheat Seeds Bone Meal Charcoal Flint Honeycomb Brown Mushroom Glow Lichen Moss Block Vine Rooted Dirt Cactus Blue Orchid Azure Bluet
You can also find custom ingredients inside:
Village chests Shipwreck chests Ruined portal chests Raw Crystal Ore and Crystal Salt
Crystal Salt is an important medical material used for medicine crafting and the Medicine Mixer.
To get Crystal Salt:
Mine Raw Crystal Ore underground. Get Raw Crystal from the ore. Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace. Receive Crystal Salt.
Raw Crystal Ore has two variants:
Raw Crystal Ore Deepslate Raw Crystal Ore
Best mining level:
Good mining range:
Y 0 to Y 32
Full generation range:
Y -24 to Y 56
Raw Crystal Ore generates in the Overworld with iron-like underground generation.
Medicine Mixer
The Medicine Mixer is the main workstation used to create medicines.
Place the Medicine Mixer. Add Medical Catalyst as fuel. Add a Clean Water Bottle. Add the correct two medicine ingredients. Wait for the mixing progress to finish. Take the finished medicine from the output slot.
One Medical Catalyst gives fuel for multiple medicines.
Medicines are made inside the Medicine Mixer, not in the crafting table.
Important Crafting Recipes Clean Water Bottle Water Bottle + Kelp = Clean Water Bottle Medicinal Herb Wheat Seeds + Bone Meal = Medicinal Herb Mint Leaf Fern + Bone Meal = Mint Leaf Ginger Root Rooted Dirt + Bone Meal = Ginger Root Silverleaf Flower Azure Bluet + Bone Meal = Silverleaf Flower Blue Aloe Flower Blue Orchid + Cactus = Blue Aloe Flower Swamp Moss Moss Block + Vine = Swamp Moss Cave Fungus Brown Mushroom + Glow Lichen = Cave Fungus Charcoal Powder Charcoal + Flint = Charcoal Powder Honey Extract Honeycomb + Sugar + Glass Bottle = Honey Extract Bandage Cloth String + White Wool = Bandage Cloth Crystal Salt Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace = Crystal Salt Medical Catalyst Crystal Salt + Charcoal Powder + Cave Fungus = Medical Catalyst Medicine Recipes
All medicines are prepared inside the Medicine Mixer.
Fever Tonic
Cures Fever.
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Medicinal Herb Cold Syrup
Cures Cold.
Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Honey Extract Cough Syrup
Cures Cough.
Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Medicinal Herb Flu Remedy
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Silverleaf Flower Pain Relief Tablet
Cures Headache.
Clean Water Bottle + Silverleaf Flower + Crystal Salt Muscle Balm
Cures Leg Pain.
Clean Water Bottle + Blue Aloe Flower + Honey Extract Breathing Elixir
Cures Respiratory Issue.
Clean Water Bottle + Swamp Moss + Crystal Salt Digestive Medicine
Cures Diarrhea / Digestive Illness.
Clean Water Bottle + Charcoal Powder + Ginger Root Antibiotic Mix
Cures Infection.
Clean Water Bottle + Cave Fungus + Bandage Cloth Warmth Potion
Cures Frostbite.
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Charcoal Powder Diseases
Diseases build up from survival conditions. Most diseases give warning messages before becoming active.
Disease How You Get It Cure Cold Rain, wet exposure, cold conditions Cold Syrup Cough Rain exposure, slime exposure, nearby sick players Cough Syrup Flu Witch exposure or nearby sick players Flu Remedy Fever Desert heat, husks, overheating Fever Tonic Headache Lack of sleep, heat and hunger Pain Relief Tablet Leg Pain Sprinting too much Muscle Balm Respiratory Issue Repeated diving, low air, drowned exposure Breathing Elixir Diarrhea Rotten flesh, unsafe food, witch exposure Digestive Medicine Infection Zombies, spiders, cave spiders, low-health wounds Antibiotic Mix Frostbite Freezing, powdered snow, stray exposure Warmth Potion Doctor Villager
Villagers can become Doctors when a Medicine Mixer is nearby.
How to get a Doctor:
Place a Medicine Mixer near a villager. Wait for the villager to become
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Minecraft Mods
- Author
- SG327
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Downloads
- 200
- Endorsements
- 1
- Category
- adventure
- Created
- 7/8/2026
- Updated
- 7/7/2026
- Game Versions
- 26.2
- Tags
- adventure, game-mechanics
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which Minecraft Mods versions does Survival Sickness support?
The author lists 26.2. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.
What is the latest version of Survival Sickness?
Version 1.0.0, published 2026-07-07 with 200 downloads recorded at the source.
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