Partial Hearts Mod FAQ

The mod activates automatically once installed. Open your inventory and look for the Partial Hearts mod menu button, or check your mod settings to confirm it's enabled. Your health bar will immediately start showing fractional hearts instead of half hearts.

Patterns control which pixels disappear first as you take damage. The original pattern removes pixels in a set order, while random patterns remove them unpredictably, creating different visual effects as your health depletes.

Yes, Partial Hearts works with resource packs and will display fractional hearts using your pack's custom heart textures. The mod respects your resource pack's visual style automatically.

Yes, both mods are compatible and work together. You can use Colorful Hearts to change your health bar colors while Partial Hearts shows the exact fractional damage on top of those colors.

Open the mod's configuration menu and select the custom pattern editor. You'll see a heart grid where you can number each pixel to set the removal order—lower numbers disappear first as you take damage.

Partial Hearts reads heart textures from your active resource pack, so changing packs will change how your fractional hearts appear. Make sure your resource pack is properly loaded in your world settings.

Partial Hearts shows fractional health visually through the heart bar itself. For exact numeric values, you would need a separate mod that displays health points as text on screen.

No, Partial Hearts is a visual-only mod with minimal performance impact. It only changes how the health bar renders and doesn't affect gameplay mechanics or server performance.

Your custom patterns are saved in the mod's configuration files and should persist through updates. If you lose them, check your config folder to restore them manually.

Yes, the mod is perfect for extreme survival challenges because it shows you exactly how much health you have left, helping you survive with minimal hearts by seeing precise damage amounts.