Extra Health Addon for Minecraft Bedrock | Life Increase

The main health-upgrade item is the Life Heart. Using one increases your maximum health.

By default, each Life Heart adds 2 hearts.

World operators can configure the maximum total health, with the current system allowing limits of up to 100 total hearts.

Tier progression can be enabled so players must advance through the world before they can continue increasing their maximum health.

The Vitality Altar is the main block used to craft important Life Increase progression items.

The altar is crafted using:

• Amethyst Shards
• Life Fragments
• Gold Ingots
• Crying Obsidian

The altar can craft:

• ❤️ Life Heart
• 🖤 Empty Heart
• 🔥 Nether Life Core

By default, a Life Heart costs 9 Life Fragments, but the world operator can change this cost.

Life Ore generates underground in the Overworld and comes in two versions:

• Life Ore
• Deepslate Life Ore

Breaking Life Ore with a valid pickaxe gives Life Fragments. By default, Life Ore requires an iron pickaxe or better.

Life Essence is an adventure material used by the progression system.

You can obtain it from:

• Hostile mob drops
• Special mobs with improved chances
• Repeatable challenges
• Nether and End exploration rewards

Most hostile mobs use a configurable base chance to drop Life Essence.

Some stronger mobs have their own special chances:

• Blaze
• Piglin Brute
• Ravager
• Evoker
• Elder Guardian
• Warden
• Wither
• Ender Dragon

Challenges are tracked automatically while you play when the world setting is enabled. There is no separate challenge acceptance step.

⛏️ Miner Challenge

Mine 25 valid Life Ores to receive 2 Life Essence.

The challenge starts again after completion.

⚔️ Warrior Challenge

Defeat 100 valid hostile mobs to receive 4 Life Fragments.

The challenge starts again after completion.

Challenge progress can be checked from the Challenges section of the Life Increase Guide.

Dimension exploration can also reward Life Essence:

• First visit to the Nether — 1 Life Essence
• First visit to The End — 2 Life Essence

World operators can enable or disable these rewards.

Operators can register custom bosses from other addons and choose exactly which progression core each boss rewards.

Each custom boss can give one specific reward:

• Tier II — Nether Life Core
• Tier III — Ascendant Life Core
• Tier IV — End Life Core

Custom bosses do not automatically choose their own tier. The operator decides exactly what each registered boss gives.

Every player receives a Life Increase Guide the first time they join the world.

The guide is kept when the player dies.

If another guide is needed, it can be crafted using:

• 1 Book
• 1 Redstone Dust

The guide provides access to:

• Vitality Status
• Challenges
• Personal Settings
• Guide Pages
• Admin Settings for operators

Every player can independently configure their own visual and progression feedback.

• Show upgrade particles
• Play upgrade sounds
• Show progression messages

These settings only affect the player who changes them.

World operators can configure Life Increase directly in-game.

Important settings include:

• Maximum total health
• Enable or disable tier progression
• Death behavior
• Life Fragment cost per Life Heart
• Empty Heart / removal setting
• Refund mode when removing hearts
• Life Ore fragment yield
• Life Essence mob drops
• Life Essence drop chance
• Boss progression
• Exploration rewards
• Repeatable challenges
• Custom pickaxes
• Custom ores
• Custom boss rewards
• Player vitality tools

World operators can choose what happens to a player's extra Life Upgrades when they die.

Available options:

• Keep all permanent hearts
• Lose 1 Life Upgrade
• Lose 25% of Life Upgrades
• Lose all Life Upgrades
• Drop all lost Life Hearts on death

When enabled by the world settings, the Empty Heart lets a player remove one Life Upgrade.

Operators can choose the refund mode:

• No refund
• Return 1 Life Fragment
• Return 50% of the Life Heart cost
• Return the full Life Heart

Empty Hearts are crafted at the Vitality Altar using:

• 4 Life Fragments
• 1 Glass Bottle

Life Increase includes configuration options that make it easier to integrate progression with content from other addons.

Operators can register:

• Custom pickaxe IDs
• Custom ore IDs
• Custom boss entity IDs

This allows Life Ore mining and progression rewards to work more effectively with compatible addon tools, ores and bosses.

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