Blood Manipulation

Quickstart

1. Craft the Blood Manipulation item at a crafting table:

1. Hold it in your main hand. The action bar shows the currently selected ability and its cooldown.

2. Press sneak once to cycle abilities in this order:

   Piercing Blood → Convergence → Supernova → Flowing Red Scale → Piercing Blood

3. Press the item’s use button to activate the selected ability.

4. Try Piercing Blood first by aiming at a mob or a wall. While it is active, look around to steer the beam even though your movement is slowed.

In Creative mode, you can also obtain the item with:

/give @s com_blood_manipulation_jk7wpues:my_sword 1

Overview

Blood Manipulation is a combat focus built around four selectable techniques:

• Piercing Blood fires a sustained, aimable blood beam.
• Convergence creates orbiting blood orbs that poison enemies.
• Supernova launches Convergence orbs as fast projectiles.
• Flowing Red Scale restores your health and temporarily enhances you.

Keep the item in your main hand to see the selected ability and its status on the action bar.

What It Adds

Blood Manipulation

The mod adds one non-stackable item named Blood Manipulation. It is used to select and cast every technique.

Ability Selection

Sneaking once advances to the next ability. Release sneak before sneaking again if you want to move to the next selection. The action bar displays:

• The selected technique
• Remaining Convergence orbs
• Active effects
• Ability cooldowns

How To Use

Piercing Blood

Select Piercing Blood and press use.

• Casts for up to 6 seconds.
• Slows your movement while active, but does not lock your view.
• Continuously follows the direction you are looking.
• Deals 6 damage per game tick to living targets caught in the beam.
• Repeatedly damages targets that remain in its path.
• Can destroy non-air blocks in front of you as the beam advances.
• Reaches roughly 16 blocks.
• Has a 10-second cooldown.

Use the item again during the cast to cancel Piercing Blood. Cancelling also starts its cooldown.

Convergence

Select Convergence and press use to manifest an orb beside you.

• Up to three orbs can be manifested in one cycle.
• The orbs float around you and remain active until they hit a living target or are launched with Supernova.
• On contact, an orb deals 3 damage and applies Poison I for 3 seconds.
• The orb then bursts and disappears.
• A new orb can be created after one is destroyed, provided you still have uses remaining.

After all three orbs in a cycle have been used, Convergence enters a 5-second cooldown.

Supernova

First create one or more Convergence orbs, then select Supernova and press use.

• Launches one active Convergence orb in the direction you are looking.
• Each use launches one orb.
• A launched orb travels forward and disappears when it hits a living target or a solid block.
• Hitting a living target deals 4 damage and applies Poison I for 1 second.
• Hitting a block creates a burst that affects living targets within roughly 2 blocks, dealing 4 damage and applying Poison I.
• Supernova requires at least one active Convergence orb.

Aim carefully before pressing use, since each orb travels in the direction you are facing at launch.

Flowing Red Scale

Select Flowing Red Scale and press use.

• Immediately restores your health.
• Grants additional maximum health through Health Boost II.
• Grants Strength I and Speed I.
• Lasts 15 seconds.
• Has a 60-second cooldown after the effect ends.

A red visual coating surrounds your character while the technique is active.

Crafting And Obtaining

Blood Manipulation is crafted at a crafting table from:

• Redstone
• Iron ingot
• Stick

The recipe produces one Blood Manipulation item.

Abilities And Mechanics

Combining Convergence With Piercing Blood

Active Convergence orbs enhance Piercing Blood. When you begin a Piercing Blood cast, each manifested Convergence orb increases the beam’s damage by 1.

This lets you prepare orbs first, then fire a stronger beam while keeping the orbs available for later Supernova launches.

Orb Management

Convergence can maintain up to three orbiting orbs at once. You can:

• Leave them orbiting you to threaten nearby enemies.
• Let them strike enemies automatically.
• Switch to Supernova and launch them individually.
• Save unused orbs for a stronger sequence of attacks.

The action bar shows how many Convergence orbs remain available.

Cooldowns

• Piercing Blood: 10 seconds
• Convergence: 5 seconds after completing a three-orb cycle
• Supernova: Uses active Convergence orbs instead of having a separate cooldown
• Flowing Red Scale: 60 seconds after its 15-second effect ends

Progression And Strategy

• Start encounters with Convergence to build up to three orbs.
• Keep orbs around you when enemies are close so they can trigger on contact.
• Use Supernova against distant targets or to fire several projectiles in succession.
• Use Piercing Blood when you need sustained damage and can keep your aim on a target.
• Prepare Convergence orbs before Piercing Blood to increase the beam’s damage.
• Use Flowing Red Scale before a difficult fight to heal and gain temporary defensive and combat benefits.
• Watch the action bar when switching abilities so you do not attempt to use an ability that is still recharging.