Health Levels Mod (1.21.8, 1.20.1) – Gain Extra Hearts Through Experience in Minecraft

The Health Levels Mod (1.21.8, 1.20.1) reimagines Minecraft’s leveling system by tying your maximum health to your accumulated experience points. Rather than limiting XP to enchantments and repairing tools, this mod lets you earn additional hearts the more you level up turning your survival journey into a true RPG progression. As you gather XP through mining, combat, or smelting, your health pool increases, offering tangible rewards for staying alive and investing in experience. With flexible configuration options, this mod fits a variety of playstyles, from hardcore survival to multiplayer RPG servers.

Features:

• XP-Based Health Scaling: Your maximum health increases as you gain experience levels. Each configurable threshold unlocks an extra heart.
• Customizable progression curve:
  • Set how much XP is required per heart.
  • Define the minimum and maximum number of hearts a player can have.
  • Choose whether health resets to default on death, allowing for a hardcore-style challenge or persistent growth.
• Survival-focused design: Encourages players to preserve XP instead of spending it recklessly, adding a strategic layer to survival.
• Balanced implementation: Players won’t instantly become overpowered heart increases are gradual and tied to active experience management.
• Fabric-compatible and optimized for Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.20.1. Lightweight and designed to blend naturally into vanilla or modded environments.

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Crafting Recipes:

Recommend that you should install Just Enough Items (for mods using Forge) or Roughly Enough Items (for mods using Fabric) to view the full recipes included in this mod.

Requires:

Fabric Modloader

Fabric API

Cloth Config API

Fabric Language Kotlin Mod

How to install:

How To Download & Install Mods with Minecraft Forge

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Why use Health Levels Mod?

This mod is ideal for players seeking a more rewarding experience curve in survival or RPG-based worlds. It gives purpose to XP beyond enchanting and encourages exploration, farming, and combat as paths to character growth. Whether you’re running a roleplay server or just want a progression system tied to your survival skill, Health Levels provides a clean, configurable way to make XP meaningful. The mod also adds replay value and raises the stakes of staying alive since dying may mean resetting your health gains, depending on your configuration.