Heart of Life

A simple heart progression system inspired by Lifesteal, designed for single-player Minecraft.
Lose hearts when you die. Regain them by crafting and using heart-based items.

Want heart-themed tools, weapons, and armor?
Check out the official addon: Heart of Life Additions

Features

1. Permanent Heart Loss on Death

Every death removes 1 permanent heart.
You can never drop below 1 heart.

2. Recover Hearts Through Crafting

Restore lost hearts by crafting Heart Fragments and turning them into a Heart of Life.

Heart Fragment Recipe Unlock

Unlocked automatically once you have:

• Totem of Undying
• Netherite Scrap
• Diamond

Heart of Life Recipe Unlock

Unlocked automatically once you have:

• Heart Fragment
• Heart of the Sea

Using a Heart of Life:

• Grants +1 permanent heart
• Applies Regeneration I (5s)
• Spawns heart particles
• Caps at 20 hearts total

3. Custom Creative Tab

All Heart of Life items appear inside their own custom creative category.

4. Advancements

Includes themed advancements for progression:

• Acquiring a fragment
• Crafting a Heart of Life
• Using a heart
• Reaching max hearts
• Dropping to one heart
• Collecting many hearts

Installation

1. Download the mod JAR.
2. Place it in your mods folder (Fabric).
3. Launch Minecraft.

Addon

Looking to do more with your hearts?
Heart of Life Additions adds heart-themed tools, weapons, and armor forged through a custom smithing template — built as an official companion to this mod.

Custom Recipes

If you want a personalized crafting recipe for the Heart of Life or fragments, I can create one and release a version credited to you.

License

All Rights Reserved.
No redistribution, modification, or reuse without permission.

Contact

https://zubariel.is-a.dev/contact