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Better Blood Overlay

Better Blood Overlay 2.1 — Complete Rewrite, Procedural Wounds, Environmental Gore, Multiplayer Sync

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Latest stable file betterbloodoverlay-forge-1.20.1-2.2.0.jar

Game version 1.20.1

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Better Blood Overlay betterbloodoverlay-forge-1.20.1-2.2.0.jar targets 1.20.1 with Forge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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About this project

What does Better Blood Overlay add?

🩸 Better Blood Overlay

Every hit leaves a mark.

Better Blood Overlay turns damage into a real wound simulation. Get slashed across
the back by a vindicator, and a bleeding cut appears exactly there — it drips down
your body, dries to a brown crust, and washes off in water leaving a one-of-a-kind
scar. No two wounds ever look the same: every single wound texture is generated
at runtime from the hit itself.

✨ Features

🩸 True wounds, not overlays - every hit creates an individual wound at the
actual hit position: right body part, right side, right height.

🎲 Procedurally generated - wound shapes, blood drips, splatter and scars are
seed-generated per hit. Infinite variety, zero texture packs.

💉 Living blood - fresh blood runs downward pixel by pixel, dries to brown over time, and washes off in water or rain.

🔥 Damage types matter— weapons and arrows cut, fire and lava leave charred
burns scattered across your body, fists leave bruises that age like real
hematomas: purple → green → yellow.

🧟 Mobs bleed too - zombies, piglins, villagers, illagers and more carry
wounds exactly like players (zombies bleed dark, rotten blood). Skeletons don't -
bones don't bleed.

🌍 Environmental gore - blood pools grow on the ground under the wounded,
heavy hits splatter nearby walls, fresh wounds drip particles, and your weapon
stays bloody after a kill.

🖥️ Feel your damage - a red vignette closes in the more wounded you are, and
heavy hits splatter blood across your screen.

🎚️ Your gore, your rules - a first-launch setup screen lets you pick a preset
(Realistic, RPG, Cinematic, Soft, Minimal) or build your own. Share your
preset as a short code with friends - or enforce one server-wide so every player
gets the same experience. Reopen anytime with /bloodsetup or the Blood...
button in Options.

📦 Installation

Install on client and server (singleplayer just works). No other mods
required

Now on Modrinth too:
https://modrinth.com/mod/better-blood-overlay

You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the Curseforge or Modrinth ecosystem.

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