







Heart Balance Mod Health pickup hearts can be dropped by enemies, healing the player if they touch them. If you touch them at full health, they become a healing item later and can be crafted into stronger versions. This mod allows you to customize the players’ initial starting health; you can start at 3, 5, or even 20 hearts. By default, we still give ten, but in your single-player world or modpack you could set this number lower for a challenge! This mod is intended for early game survival, allowing you to use the hearts as a means of healing yourself when no other food sources are available yet. Later on in the game, you can use it to craft new types of items that grant special effects when eaten by players.
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Features:
- It makes enemies drop ‘health pickup’ hearts.
- Allows you to customize the player’s initial starting health.
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Heart Balance Mod Download Links
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.20.1
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 25590.mcaddon
- Download size: 20 KB
- Download link checked 23 Sept 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.