Vital Reflexes
A mod that makes you manually manage breathing and blinking, adding a small but constant survival challenge to gameplay.
⬇ Download on ModrinthVital Reflexes is a survival realism mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge) that adds basic human body functions you can’t ignore anymore.
You now need to manually breathe — inhale (Z) and exhale (X) every few seconds. If you forget, you’ll start to suffer from Weakness, Slowness, and eventually lose health.On top of that, you must also blink (V) regularly. If you don’t, you’ll get Darkness effects and a red flashing screen border as a warning that your eyes are overdue for a blink.
All keybinds can be fully reconfigured in the controls menu.
Credits
Thanks to Roman Svyatkov for the development help.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3
- 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 VitalReflexes-1.2.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 44 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.