Heart of Life (HoL)
A single-player heart progression mod. Lose a permanent heart on death and regain hearts by crafting rare Heart Fragments into a Heart of Life. Includes…
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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
- Download the mod JAR.
- Place it in your
modsfolder (Fabric). - 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
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 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 heartOfLife-1.0.4+1.21.2-1.21.10.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.2 MB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.