Health Canisters
by baranhan123
Health Canisters adds items that raise a player's maximum health, and the hearts that carry the boost are hard to keep through death.
What it does
Health Canisters adds a way to increase maximum health in vanilla-friendly play. The mod brings six new items and four new crafting recipes. Hearts are the key item: by default they drop only when a player is at full health, so collecting one from the ground restores any missing health at once. Golden hearts are not kept in the inventory under the default settings, and they only drop while the player is at full health.
Two heart types are included. The first is the normal heart, which heals the player. The second is the golden heart, which grants stacked absorption instead of ordinary healing. Because the hearts are hard to keep through death, the mod suits survival worlds where players collect them over time. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Health Canisters is for Forge and NeoForge, with files for 1.16.4 – 1.21.1, and it is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Maximum health boost
Canister items raise the maximum health a player can reach, adding to the default heart count.
Six new items
The mod adds six items, including the two heart types, for players to find, craft and use.
Four crafting recipes
Four new recipes let players build the new items from materials available in survival play.
Full-health heart drops
Hearts drop by default only when the player is at full health, so they do not heal a player who is injured.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Create: Gas canisters is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 that is released under the BSD 3-Clause License and is not open source, with the client and server environment. lifecan（生命罐头） is also a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1, released under the MIT License, with the client and server environment. Hearts In A Bottle is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and is server-side only for 1.21.1, so players can join without installing it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Canisters | Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.4 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-04 |
| Create: Gas canisters | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-24 |
| lifecan（生命罐头） | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-21 |
| Hearts In A Bottle | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2024-12-14 |
Questions
Which loaders does Health Canisters support?
Does the server need Health Canisters?
Why do golden hearts drop only at full health?
In the catalog
Health Canisters is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
It is a vanilla friendly, minor mod that allows you increase your maximum health points and adds couple of other stuff. It brings 6 new items as well as 4 new crafting recipes.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/health-canisters
- Owner
- baranhan123
- Published
- 2025-11-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15