Diminishing Health

!(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/137ee04c1cab0475d658b4c847aeb33839cffc78.png) # Diminishing Health

Diminishing Health is an attempt to make Minecraft's death system more meaningful and less of a chore. Instead of just losing your items or progress, the mod punishes you by cutting your current maximum health in half every time you die, down to a minimum of 1 heart. Making every death impactful and, most importantly, lasting.

For example: starting at 20 health, after dying once you'll have 10, then 5, then 2, and finally 1. It is meant to punish you for dying repeatedly until you have nothing left to lose. Everything with its own flavor texts and little sound alerts.

By only reducing your health, you can still mine, build, and even explore right after you die. Instead of having to stop whatever you are doing to go pick up your stuff. The mod is meant to be used with KeepInventory, any grave mod, or whatever death mod you prefer. But it can be used with vanilla death.

There are lots of mods that use health as a mechanic, but few have the same detail, configurability, and unique approach to health management as Diminishing Health, especially for this version. While health is often treated as a simple or secondary feature in other mods, this mod is fully centered around it as a lightweight and focused alternative.

### Broken Body

When you lose any amount of maximum health, you’ll receive the Broken Body effect as a visual reminder that a piece of you is missing. This effect has no gameplay impact and disappears once you fully recover your maximum health. It can be toggled on or off in the config.

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## Recovering Health

The mod offers 5 different ways of recovering your health max health. Each recovery method has its own flavor texts and subtle sound alerts, making every healing moment feel special, and none of these can push your health beyond your original maximum. They are healing, not power ups.

### Partial Health Recovery.

Eating a golden apple restores 25% of your original max health. For example, if you have 10 hearts left, eating one will bring you back to 15. Golden apples are the default, rare enough to feel valuable, but not so hard to find that healing feels impossible. You can choose to use them early for safety, or save them for when you’re really desperate.

### Full Health Recovery

An enchanted golden apple will instantly restore your health to its full original maximum. Meant to be a magical "restart". Having all your hearts feels refreshing for once.

### Sleeping Health Recovery

Sleeping through the night restores 5% of your original max health. This recovery only works if you wake up in daytime, so modded ways to skip nights, like the hammocks in (https://modrinth.com/mod/comforts) will not work. It's supposed to give you a reason to sleep, to heal rather than just skipping the night.

### Passive Health Recovery

Every full Minecraft day (around 20 minutes), you’ll regain 15% of your max health naturally, healing by just surviving. As such, this timer resets on death, to give you a reason to relax and do something less deadly.

### Determination

When reduced to just half a heart, dying three times in a row triggers a burst of determination, restoring 15% of your max health. This mechanic can only activate once every half Minecraft day, meant to keep you from getting stuck too hard. Recovering any bit of health will reduce your frustration, and thus your determination.

### Cravings!

If the mod (https://modrinth.com/mod/cravings-dyrohc) (By me hehe) is installed, satisfying any craving while missing health, will recover 5% of your max health!

Under certain circumstances, like recovering help with sleeping, dying with max health or triggering Determination, you might be granted Grace with varying durations. If you die while having Grace, you will not suffer any consequence for dying. Won't lose health, timers won't be reset, neither will streaks.

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# Balanced by Design

Unlike most health-based mods that use flat values, this mod is built around a percentage-based system. Loss and recovery always scale with your current and original max health, respectively, whether you have 5 hearts or 30. That means death penalties and healing rewards stay consistent and fair.

This is actually rarely seen in health mods. Since your health is always changing and customizable, using percentages keeps everything balanced, intuitive, fresh.

HardMode is Diminishing Health’s new, reworked optional _Hard mode_. No longer a gimmick.

Instead of losing health on every hit, HardMode introduces a damage threshold mechanic. Each time you take damage from any source, that damage is accumulated. If th