
LifeDrain
LifeDrain adds a simple but powerful mechanic to Minecraft: stealing life from hostile mobs. Every time you attack, you’ll heal yourself based on the damage dealt, making combat a way to stay alive rather than just survive.
About this Mod
🩸 LifeDrain
LifeDrain adds a simple but powerful mechanic to Minecraft: stealing life from hostile mobs. Every time you attack, you’ll heal yourself based on the damage dealt, making combat a way to stay alive rather than just survive. 🛡️✨
🌟 Recommended mods that suit the mechanic:
- RpgDifficulty - 🔥 Strengthen mobs over distance and/or time
🩸 Features:
- Healing mechanics:
- Base healing scales with the difficulty level:
- 🟢 Easy: 2.0 HP
- 🟡 Normal: 1.0 HP
- 🔴 Hard: 0.5 HP
- Bonus healing based on the damage dealt: 🪓 20% of the damage dealt.
- Lifesteal cooldown is set to 1000 milliseconds (1 second) by default.
- Base healing scales with the difficulty level:
- Mob Healing:
- Hostile mobs now heal when they hit the player. The healing amount is also difficulty-dependent:
- 🟢 Easy: 0.5 HP
- 🟡 Normal: 1.0 HP
- 🔴 Hard: 2.0 HP
- This feature adds a challenge by making mobs more dangerous.
- Optional Disabling: If you prefer to disable mob healing, you can do so in the configuration settings.
- Hostile mobs now heal when they hit the player. The healing amount is also difficulty-dependent:
- ✨ Client-Side Features:
- Particle Effects: 🎇 Enable or disable particle effects when healing is triggered.
- Client-Side Configuration Options: Through Cloth Config and Mod Menu, you can customize particle effects, cooldown settings, and other features directly from the in-game settings menu.
- Applies only to hostile mobs, ensuring lifesteal is balanced and works as intended in combat. ⚔️
- Update Checker: 📡 The mod checks for updates on GitHub and notifies you when a new version is available. If a new version is found, it provides a link to the Modrinth page to download the update.
⚙️ Configuration:
- Server-Side Customization:
- Customize healing values for different difficulty levels:
- 🟢 Player Base healing for Easy, Normal, and Hard modes.
- 🔴 Mob healing for Easy, Normal, and Hard modes.
- 🔧 Bonus healing multiplier based on the damage dealt.
- ⏳ Adjust the cooldown for lifesteal activation (time between consecutive lifesteal uses).
- Disable Mob Healing: You can disable mob healing entirely by setting
mobsHealOnHittofalsein the configuration.
- Customize healing values for different difficulty levels:
- Client-Side Customization:
- 🎆 Enable or disable particle effects when healing is triggered.
- 🔍 Configuration options are accessible through Cloth Config and Mod Menu.
- 📁 All settings are saved to
lifedrain.jsonand can be modified directly. - The config file is automatically updated to add missing values if they are not found. ✅
- Use the
/check_configcommand to automatically check and update the config file if necessary.
🌐 Translations Available:
The mod is fully translated into the following languages:
- 🇺🇸 English
- 🇵🇱 Polish
- 🇲🇽 Spanish (Mexico)
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
- 🇨🇳 Chinese (Simplified)
- 🇰🇷 Korean
- 🇷🇺 Russian
- 🇩🇪 German
- 🇯🇵 Japanese
- 🇫🇷 French
- 🇨🇿 Czech - Thanks to DvopHeh
This mod is lightweight and perfect for anyone who enjoys combat-focused gameplay or just wants a little extra survivability. ⚔️🛡️
Note: ⚠️ Although the mod can be loaded in Minecraft 1.21.X, it is not recommended. Attacking a hostile mob in versions other than 1.21 will cause your game to crash.
🛠️ Requirements:
- 📦 Fabric Loader 0.16.10
- 🧩 Fabric API 0.102.0 (for Minecraft 1.21)
- 🖥️ Minecraft 1.21
- ☕ Java 21
- Cloth Config 15.0.140 (Client-side, optional)
- Mod Menu 11.0.3 (Client-side, optional)
Available Versions
How to Install LifeDrain on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "LifeDrain". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
LifeDrain server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is LifeDrain compatible with fabric?
LifeDrain officially supports fabric for Minecraft 1.21. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with LifeDrain – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if LifeDrain consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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