Bloodforge - The Hemalescence
by DevonMK
Bloodforge - The Hemalescence adds three bio-materials, Blood, Dried Blood and Bone Marrow, and a set of bleeding weapons and armor built from them for NeoForge.
What it does
Blood is the base material for most recipes in the mod, and it is required directly or indirectly by most of them. Dried Blood is cooked from Blood in a furnace. Faux Dried Blood is made from one redstone dust and one piece of Bone Marrow, and Bone Marrow is made by putting bone into a stonecutter. Blood pools can be found in the world, surrounded by Hemalescent Flesh blocks, and buckets of Liquid Blood are crafted from six Blood.
Hemalescent Flesh and Hemalescence are the mod's growing-blood materials. Crafting a Hemalescent alloy from Bloodsteel gives a material stronger than Bloodsteel, and smithing diamond tools with Hemalescent Flesh and Blood produces tools that the mod describes as stronger than diamond tools made the usual way. Bloodforge is published for NeoForge only, with files for 26.1.2 and builds covering 1.21.8 – 26.1.1. It is not open source and is released under All rights reserved. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.
The author notes that the release has minor bugs, such as blood pools removing grass blocks, and that these will be fixed in a later update.
Key features
Bleeding weapons
Swords apply a bleeding effect to their target for 5 seconds, and piercing arrows cause the target to bleed.
Bleeding potions
A bleeding potion and a lingering splash potion inflict the bleeding effect on nearby opponents.
Bloodgatherer
The Bloodgatherer blade draws blood for its wielder, paying a small fraction of a heart each time, and its handle is deepslate, used in its own crafting recipe in place of a stick.
Hemalescent armor
A hemalescent chestplate and helmet are described as strong enough to fill the armor bar completely.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Blood Stuff... and Moonstone ：Blood are both NeoForge mods for 1.21.1 that run on client and server and are released under All rights reserved, so they are not open source. The Blood Forest is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 that is client-side only and is released under the Apache License 2.0. Bloodforge is the only one of these built around bio-materials and a bleeding combat system, while the others have different themes.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodforge - The Hemalescence | NeoForge | 1.21.8 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-04-10 |
| Blood Stuff... | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-01-11 |
| Moonstone ：Blood | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-17 |
| The Blood Forest | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Client-side only | 2026-04-12 |
Questions
Does Bloodforge need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft versions does Bloodforge support?
Where do the Blood ingredients come from?
In the catalog
Bloodforge - The Hemalescence is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 7,420 Equipment mods for NeoForge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Bloodforge is a minecraft mod that adds multiple materials. The definition of Hemalescent is something that has grown from blood, and likewise Hemalescence is something growing from blood or maturing blood.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bf-th
- Owner
- DevonMK
- Published
- 2026-04-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15