
Ruby Heart Progression
Start with three hearts and experience a new heart progression inspired by Terraria! Adds items that add onto your max hearts and also absorb damage
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❤️ Ruby Heart Progression
Start your game with three hearts and experience a new pacing and progression system inspired by Terraria! Adds new items that expand your max hearts, grant special effects, and change how damage and health progression work.
🧩 Overview
Ruby Heart Progression reimagines Minecraft’s health system by introducing a true sense of growth.
You’ll begin fragile, with only three hearts, but through crafting and discovery, you will expand your vitality and unlock new forms of survival.
💎 Core Items
❤️ Ruby Heart
Adds permanent hearts on top of your existing health until you reach a full row.
These hearts persist after death, making them your foundation for long-term progression.
Crafting Recipe:
- 🍎 Apple
- 🔴 Redstone
- 🕷️ Spider Eye
- 🌺 Poppy
Consume it to permanently gain one heart (up to your first full row).
🌸 Heartbloom Fruit
An edible heart extender that also restores hunger and offers temporary regeneration and durability effects.
Its main role is to fill your second row of hearts once Ruby Hearts have maxed out.
Crafting Recipe:
- 🍏 Enchanted Golden Apple
- ✨ Glow Berries
- 🐡 Pufferfish
- 🔥 Magma Cream
A rare and valuable consumable for advanced progression.
💀 Soul Heart
A special kind of absorption heart that takes damage instead of your main health and disappears when depleted.
They serve as temporary protection; ideal for combat situations or as a safety buffer.
You can craft Soul Hearts in two ways:
Option 1:
- ❤️ Ruby Heart
- 😢 Ghast Tear → Yields 4 Soul Hearts
Option 2:
- 🦑 Glow Ink Sac
- 💎 2× Amethyst Shards
- 👻 Phantom Membrane
Details:
- Can stack up to half a row
- Cooldown of 1.5 seconds between activations
- Not meant for spam use, more so to prep before PvP & PvE battles
- Alternative to golden apples with unique risk-reward playstyle
A temporary, strategical buffer to protect your hearts
👑 Credits
Created by nullz
Licensed under MIT
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10
- 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 heartprogression-1.4.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 48 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.