Daily Heart Loss
Every Minecraft day, you permanently lose a heart until only half a heart remains. Configure the challenge to your liking and see how long you can survive…
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Every Minecraft day, you permanently lose one heart until only half a heart remains. Daily Heart Loss is a Fabric 1.21.4 challenge mod that makes survival progressively harder by permanently reducing your maximum health over time. All settings can be configured in-game with commands.
Commands
Most Common
/dhl status
View all current settings.
/dhl set healthLostPerDay <double>
Change how much health is lost each cycle.
/dhl set daysPerLoss <integer>
Change how many Minecraft days pass before health is lost.
/dhl set minimumHealth <double>
Set the minimum health players can reach.
/dhl set startingHealth <double>
Set the starting maximum health for new players.
/dhl set enabled <true|false>
Enable or disable the mod.
Message Settings
/dhl set broadcastMessages <true|false>
Broadcast heart loss messages to all players.
/dhl set sendPrivateMessages <true|false>
Send heart loss messages only to affected players.
Information & Admin
/dhl player <player> info
View a player's health progression.
/dhl reload
Reload the configuration.
/dhl reset
Reset all settings to their default values.
/dhl debug forceloss <player>
Immediately apply a heart-loss event for testing.
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.4
- Fabric Loader
- Fabric API
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.4
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as daily-heart-loss-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 23 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.