Life Increase

❤️ Turn Extra Hearts Into a Full Survival Progression System

Have you ever wanted to have way more hearts in Minecraft, but with actual progression instead of simply using one item over and over?

Life Increase turns maximum health into a complete Survival progression system.

Mine rare Life Ore, collect Life Fragments, craft Life Hearts, unlock new Vitality Tiers, explore other dimensions, complete challenges, defeat powerful bosses and keep increasing your maximum health as your world progresses.

✅ Compatibility

• ✅ Compatible with other Add-ons
• ✅ Realms Compatible
• ✅ Multiplayer Compatible
• ✅ Does NOT use player.json
• ✅ No Experimental Gameplay Required
• ✅ Per-player progression
• ✅ Admin & Personal Settings
• ✅ Add-on integration support

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⭐ What Does Life Increase Add?

Life Increase is much more than an extra-hearts addon.

It includes:

• ❤️ Life Hearts to permanently increase maximum health
• 💎 Life Ore & Deepslate Life Ore
• 🧩 Life Fragments
• 🔮 Vitality Altar
• 📘 Life Increase Guide
• 🧪 Life Essence
• 🔥 Nether Life Core
• ✨ Ascendant Life Core
• 🐉 End Life Core
• 🔍 Vitality Scanner
• 🏆 Automatic Challenges
• 🌍 Dimension Exploration Rewards
• 🧟 Boss Progression
• ⚙️ World Admin Settings
• 👤 Personal Player Settings
• 🎮 Configuration Presets
• 🧩 Custom Pickaxe & Ore Support
• 👹 Custom Boss Rewards
• 🎁 Custom Mob Drops
• 🛠️ Integration options for other Add-ons

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🔥 What's New in V2.1?

V2.1.2 expands the progression and configuration systems while making Life Increase much easier to use in Survival, multiplayer worlds and larger add-on packs.

⭐ Main V2.1 Features

• 🔍 Added the new Vitality Scanner
• ❤️ Improved the Vitality Tier system
• 📊 Admins can now configure the maximum health of individual tiers
• 🔒 Tier I, II and III now have progression limits before reaching Tier IV
• ♻️ Excess upgrades are safely returned as Life Hearts when world limits are lowered
• 💾 Unlocked tiers are preserved when tier progression is disabled
• 🎮 Added Casual, Balanced, Hardcore and Server presets
• 🎁 Added configurable Custom Mob Drops
• 🧩 Improved add-on integration menus
• 👹 Improved custom boss reward configuration
• 🏆 Added Explorer Challenge
• ⚔️ Added Boss Hunter Challenge
• 💎 Improved Fortune & Silk Touch handling
• 🛡️ Fixed Silk Touch ore duplication behavior
• 👤 Improved player vitality management for admins
• ⚙️ Reorganized Admin Settings
• 🚀 Improved large-world and multiplayer behavior

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🔍 NEW - Vitality Scanner

Finding Life Ore can now be easier without increasing its natural generation.

The new Vitality Scanner searches for nearby vitality energy and helps guide you toward Life Ore.

🔎 Scanner Features

• Detects Life Ore
• Detects Deepslate Life Ore
• Also detects custom ores registered by the admin
• Searches up to 18 blocks horizontally
• Searches up to 12 blocks vertically
• Reports the approximate distance
• Shows the general direction
• Tells you if the ore is above or below you
• Includes a cooldown to avoid excessive scanning
• Processes the scan progressively to reduce performance spikes

🧱 Vitality Scanner Recipe

You need:

• 1 Compass
• 1 Life Essence
• 2 Life Fragments
• 1 Amethyst Shard

The scanner does not change Life Ore generation. It simply helps you locate ore that already exists nearby.

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❤️ Vitality Progression

Every Life Heart permanently increases your maximum health.

By default, each Life Heart gives:

❤️ +2 Hearts

But you cannot immediately reach the final health limit when Vitality Progression is enabled.

You must advance through 4 Vitality Tiers.

🔒 Tier Capacity

The progression system now ensures that every tier has a purpose.

By default, the maximum available Life Heart upgrades are divided approximately as:

• Tier I: up to 25%
• Tier II: up to 50%
• Tier III: up to 75%
• Tier IV: up to 100%

Only Tier IV can reach the world's full configured maximum health.

Admins can lower the capacity of earlier tiers even further.

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♻️ Safe Progression Changes

Changing world settings no longer needs to punish players who already progressed further.

If an admin:

• Lowers the world's maximum health
• Lowers a Vitality Tier capacity
• Re-enables Tier Progression

and a player has more upgrades than they are currently allowed to keep, Life Increase automatically adjusts their health.

❤️ Excess Life Hearts are returned to the player.

This also works for players who were offline when the rules changed. Their progression is checked when they return to the world.

Disabling Tier Progression also does not erase unlocked tiers.

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🔮 Vitality Altar

The Vitality Altar is the main crafting station for Life Increase progression.

Craft it using:

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

The Vitality Altar allows you to craft:

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

The Life Heart cost is configurable by the world admin.

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🎮 NEW - Configuration Presets

Don't want to manually configure every setting?

World operators can now choose between 4 quick configuration presets.

🟢 Casual

Designed for a more relaxed Survival experience.

• Higher maximum health
• Cheaper Life Hearts
• Better Life Ore fragment yield
• More frequent Life Essence drops
• Keep vitality after death

⚖️ Balanced

The recommended default Life Increase experience.

• Full progression
• Balanced economy
• Balanced rewards
• Normal Survival difficulty

🔴 Hardcore

Designed for slower and more punishing progression.

• More expensive Life Hearts
• Lower ore rewards
• Less Life Essence
• Lose 25% of Life Upgrades on death

🔵 Server

Designed for multiplayer and server progression.

• Moderate maximum health
• Clear progression tiers
• Stable progression economy

All preset settings can still be modified individually afterward.

Custom add-on integrations are also preserved when changing presets.

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📖 Full V2.1 Update Details

🏆 Expanded Challenge System

Life Increase now includes four progression challenges.

⛏️ Miner Challenge

Mine 25 valid Life Ores and receive:

2 Life Essence

This challenge is repeatable.

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⚔️ Warrior Challenge

Defeat 100 hostile mobs and receive:

4 Life Fragments

This challenge is repeatable.

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🌍 Explorer Challenge

Visit both:

• The Nether
• The End

and receive 4 Life Fragments.

This challenge is completed once per player.

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👹 Boss Hunter Challenge

Defeat 3 recognized progression bosses and receive:

2 Life Essence

This challenge is repeatable.

Configured custom progression bosses can also count toward Boss Hunter.

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🎁 Custom Mob Drops

Admins can now configure Life Increase rewards for practically any entity ID.

For every configured mob you can choose:

• Life Essence or Life Fragments
• Drop chance from 0% to 100%
• Reward amount

The custom rule replaces Life Increase's generic Essence roll for that specific entity.

It does not modify the mob's original loot table or edit files from another add-on.

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👹 Improved Custom Boss Progression

Custom bosses no longer receive an automatic progression reward.

The world operator decides exactly what each custom boss gives:

• 🔥 Tier II - Nether Life Core
• ✨ Tier III - Ascendant Life Core
• 🐉 Tier IV - End Life Core

This makes Life Increase much easier to combine with RPG, adventure and boss add-ons.

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⚙️ Improved Admin Menu

Admin Settings are now organized into clearer sections:

• Gameplay & Mining
• Tiers & Progression
• Adventure & Progression
• Addon Integration
• Configuration Presets
• Player Vitality Tools

Admin Settings are available only to actual world operators.

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❤️ Custom Tier Limits

Operators can configure the maximum allowed health for Tier I, Tier II and Tier III.

To preserve progression, the tiers have hard upper limits based on the world's maximum upgrades:

• Tier I: maximum 25%
• Tier II: maximum 50%
• Tier III: maximum 75%
• Tier IV: 100%

Admins can make earlier tiers more restrictive, but only Tier IV can reach the full world health limit.

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♻️ Automatic Progress Reconciliation

If world vitality rules are changed and a player is now above the allowed limit, their health is automatically corrected.

Any excess upgrades are returned as Life Hearts.

Online players are adjusted when the setting changes.

Offline players are checked when they join again.

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💎 Fortune & Silk Touch

Fortune and Silk Touch now follow clearer vanilla-style behavior.

• Fortune increases Life Fragment rewards.
• Silk Touch recovers the Life Ore block.

Silk Touch no longer creates an additional duplicate ore drop.

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🧩 Improved Add-on Integration

Life Increase can recognize content from other add-ons without editing their files.

Admins can configure:

• Custom pickaxes
• Custom ores
• Custom bosses
• Custom mob/entity drops

The Vitality Scanner can also detect registered custom ores.

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🛠️ Integration Hooks

Life Increase also includes lightweight scripting integration for compatible systems and add-ons.

External systems can interact with player Life Increase progression for actions such as:

• Adding vitality levels
• Setting vitality levels
• Unlocking tiers
• Giving Life Essence
• Opening the Life Increase menu

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💎 Life Ore & Life Fragments

Life Ore naturally gen

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🧪 Life Essence

Life Essence is an adventure resource used throughout Life Increase progression.

You can obtain it from:

• 🧟 Hostile mobs
• 👹 Stronger enemies
• 🏆 Challenges
• 🌍 Exploration
• ⚔️ Boss-related progression

Most hostile mobs use a configurable base drop chance.

Some stronger mobs have better chances.

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🏆 Challenges & Adventure

🔎 Show Challenge & Exploration Details

⛏️ Miner Challenge

Mine 25 Life Ores.

Reward: 2 Life Essence.

Repeatable.

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⚔️ Warrior Challenge

Kill 100 hostile mobs.

Reward: 4 Life Fragments.

Repeatable.

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🌍 Explorer Challenge

Visit both the Nether and The End.

Reward: 4 Life Fragments.

One-time challenge.

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👹 Boss Hunter

Defeat 3 progression bosses.

Reward: 2 Life Essence.

Repeatable.

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🌍 Exploration Rewards

Dimension exploration also gives separate first-visit rewards.

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

These rewards can be enabled or disabled by the world operator.

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🧟 Boss Progression

Bosses are an important part of unlocking higher Vitality Tiers.

✨ Wither & Warden

Defeating the Wither or Warden rewards eligible nearby players with an:

✨ Ascendant Life Core

This unlocks Tier III.

🐉 Ender Dragon

Defeating the Ender Dragon rewards eligible nearby players with an:

🐉 End Life Core

This unlocks Tier IV, the final vanilla progression tier.

Boss core rewards are shared with eligible players within 128 blocks, making the system multiplayer-friendly.

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🧩 Custom Bosses & Add-on Compatibility

🔎 Show Integration Details

Life Increase can integrate with tools, ores, mobs and bosses from other add-ons without requiring you to modify their files.

⛏️ Custom Pickaxes

Register custom pickaxe IDs so they can correctly mine Life Ore.

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💎 Custom Ores

Register ore IDs from other add-ons.

Registered ores can participate in Life Increase mining systems and can also be detected by the Vitality Scanner.

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👹 Custom Boss Rewards

Add custom boss entity IDs and choose exactly which progression core they give.

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

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🎁 Custom Mob Drops

Configure custom Life Increase drops for entity IDs from Minecraft or other add-ons.

You can select:

• Life Essence or Life Fragments
• Drop chance
• Reward amount

This does not overwrite or edit the original mob's loot table.

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📘 Life Increase Guide

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

The Guide is kept on death.

If you lose it another way, you can craft another one using:

• 1 Book
• 1 Redstone Dust

The Guide gives you access to:

• ❤️ Vitality Status
• 🏆 Challenges
• 👤 Personal Settings
• 📖 Guide Pages
• ⚙️ Admin Settings - operators only

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👤 Personal Settings

Every player can customize their own feedback options.

Available settings include:

• ✨ Show upgrade particles
• 🔊 Play upgrade sounds
• 💬 Show progression messages

One player can keep all effects enabled while another uses a cleaner experience.

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⚙️ Admin Settings

World operators have extensive control over Life Increase.

🔎 Show Admin Options

Operators can configure:

• Maximum total health
• Tier progression
• Tier I capacity
• Tier II capacity
• Tier III capacity
• Death behavior
• Life Fragment cost per Life Heart
• Empty Hearts
• Heart removal refunds
• Life Ore Fragment Yield
• Life Essence drops
• Base Life Essence chance
• Boss progression
• Exploration rewards
• Challenges
• Custom pickaxes
• Custom ores
• Custom boss rewards
• Custom mob drops
• Configuration presets
• Player vitality levels
• Player Vitality Tiers

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☠️ Configurable Death System

You decide how punishing death should be.

🔎 Show Death Modes

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

This allows Life Increase to work in relaxed Survival worlds, progression servers or much more punishing Hardcore-style worlds.

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🖤 Empty Heart

Want to remove one of your Life Upgrades?

The Empty Heart allows players to remove one upgrade when the feature is enabled.

🔎 Show Empty Heart Details

The admin can configure what the player receives when removing an upgrade:

• 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

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📦 Installation

Life Increase requires both packs:

• 📘 Life Increase BP - behavior, progression and gameplay systems
• 🎨 Life Increase RP - textures, models and translations

✅ Both packs are required.

You do NOT need to enable Experimental Gameplay.

Life Increase does NOT use player.json.

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🌐 Languages

Currently included:

• 🇺🇸 English
• 🇪🇸 Spanish - Spain
• 🇲🇽 Spanish - Mexico

Player-facing text is handled through language files.

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📜 Previous Updates

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❤️ V2.0.10 - Progression Update

V2.0.10 transformed Life Increase from a simple extra-heart addon into a larger Survival progression system.

Major additions included:

• Vitality Altar
• Life Increase Guide
• Vitality Tiers
• Life Essence
• Nether Life Core
• Ascendant Life Core
• End Life Core
• Miner & Warrior Challenges
• Dimension exploration rewards
• Wither, Warden and Ender Dragon progression
• Custom boss rewards
• Admin Settings
• Personal Settings
• Configurable death behavior
• Configurable maximum health
• Configurable Life Heart cost
• Empty Hearts
• Custom pickaxe support
• Custom ore support
• Fortune and Silk Touch support

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V1.4.1

Added Deepslate sound for Deepslate Ore and improved how the ore could be mined with pickaxes.

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V1.4

• Fixed blocks that were not appearing.
• Added ores to the nature category.
• Fixed issues with the heart system.
• Fixed addon ore generation.
• Added addon lore to items and blocks.
• Minerals now require specific pickaxes.

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V1.1

The addon was moved to JavaScript for better performance.

• Experimental gameplay requirement removed
• Particles added when increasing health
• Compatibility with newer Minecraft Bedrock versions improved

Older versions used a much simpler health system. Most of those mechanics have now been replaced by the configurable V2 progression system.

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❤️ Build Your Own Progression

Life Increase can be used as a simple extra-health addon, but it can also become a complete progression system for your world.

Mine resources.

Craft Life Hearts.

Explore new dimensions.

Complete challenges.

Defeat powerful bosses.

Unlock every Vitality Tier.

❤️ How far will you increase your life?

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