Blood Serpent Ascension

Quickstart

1. Open the Creative inventory and take the Blood Arcane Gem, Bloodlock Blade, and Obsidian Blood Crown. You can also craft them in a crafting table.
2. Hold the Bloodlock Blade and use it twice quickly to open the Ability Hub.
3. Select one permanent Blood Route: Wrath, Pride, or Gluttony. The blade will not deal normal damage until you choose a route.
4. Hold the blade and attack enemies to test its route-based damage, bleed effects, siphon healing, and killstreak progression.
5. After hitting a target, use the blade once within roughly 2.5 seconds to activate Blood Lock. Do not use it a second time unless you want to reopen the Ability Hub.
6. Sneak and use the blade to fire Blood Slash. This costs two hearts, so keep enough health available.
7. Equip the four Blood Serpent armor pieces for their passive bonuses. Use the Ability Hub to activate Full Armor Resonance when the complete set, blade, and Obsidian Blood Crown are available.

For quick command access, use the following player-visible item IDs:

• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:blood_arcane_gem
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:bloodlock_blade
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:obsidian_blood_crown_helmet
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:blood_serpent_crown_helm
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:blood_serpent_chestplate
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:blood_serpent_leggings
• com_blood_serpent_ascension_vjcki4oz:blood_serpent_boots

Overview

Blood Serpent Ascension is a combat progression system built around the Bloodlock Blade. Choose a Blood Route, fight with the blade, and build a killstreak that unlocks passive effects, faster cooldowns, stronger bleeding, and the final God Hunter state.

The blade also provides:

• Route-based melee damage
• Bleed stacks
• Chance-based healing through Siphon
• A defensive Blood Lock
• A ranged Blood Slash projectile
• A low-health Last Chance counterattack
• Blood Route abilities
• Black Plague against other players
• Killstreak-based passive effects

Deaths reset the current killstreak. The streak can reach a maximum of 50.

What It Adds

The Bloodlock Blade has 2,031 durability. Netherite ingots repair one quarter of its maximum durability, while a Nether Star repairs it completely.

The Obsidian Blood Crown has protection 6 and 407 durability. The Blood Serpent pieces have the following protection and durability:

All of these armor pieces can be repaired with Netherite Ingots.

How To Use

Bloodlock Blade controls

The blade's route-based melee damage is:

• Wrath: 8 damage
• Pride: 6 damage
• Gluttony: 7 damage

Before choosing a route, the blade refuses to deal normal melee damage and applies an extremely powerful Weakness effect. Open the Ability Hub and choose a route before entering combat.

The action bar displays your current streak, title, route, and the cooldown states of your main abilities.

Blood Lock

A successful blade hit opens a short Blood Lock activation window. Use the blade once during this window to gain Resistance I for 3 seconds.

Blood Lock has an 18-second cooldown, reduced after reaching a killstreak of 20.

Blood Slash

Sneak and use the Bloodlock Blade to launch a straight projectile.

• Costs two hearts
• Deals 8 damage if it hits
• Has a 9-second cooldown
• Must physically hit its target; it does not damage entities through walls

Siphon

Successful blade strikes have a chance to restore a small amount of health. Siphon occurs automatically during combat and has a 5-second cooldown.

Gluttony has the highest chance to trigger Siphon, Pride has the lowest, and Wrath is between them.

Ability Hub

Use the blade twice quickly to open the Ability Hub. It shows:

• Current killstreak and title
• Chosen Blood Route
• Unlocked streak passives
• Ability cooldowns
• Black Plague
• Heart Sacrifice
• Full Armor Resonance
• Blood Route abilities

The Hub also lets you choose a route if you have not chosen one yet. Route choices are permanent for that player.

Crafting And Obtaining

Blood Arcane Gem

Craft the Blood Arcane Gem in a crafting table using Crying Obsidian, Echo Shards, a Nether Star, and a Diamond.

Bloodlock Blade

The Bloodlock Blade requires a Blood Arcane Gem, Closed Eyeblossoms, Coal Blocks, Ancient Debris, and a Diamond.

Obsidian Blood Crown

The Obsidian Blood Crown requires Obsidian, a Blood Arcane Gem, and Netherite Ingots.

The Blood Serpent armor pieces can be obtained from the Creative inventory or with their item IDs. The complete set requires:

• Blood Serpent Crown Helm
• Blood Serpent Chestplate
• Blood Serpent Leggings
• Blood Serpent Boots

The Obsidian Blood Crown is a separate helmet and does not replace the Blood Serpent Crown Helm when activating the full-set passive.

Abilities And Mechanics

Bleed

Blade attacks can inflict Bleed. Bleed stacks up to six times and periodically deals damage based on the number of stacks.

• Each stack deals 0.25 damage per bleed pulse
• Bleed normally lasts about 5 seconds
• At 21 kills, Bleed lasts about 8 seconds and becomes stronger
• Repeated hits can refresh and build the effect

Wrath applies the most stacks, Gluttony applies a moderate amount, and Pride applies the fewest.

Heart Sacrifice

Select Heart Sacrifice in the Ability Hub while holding the Bloodlock Blade.

• Costs one heart
• Grants Haste I and Speed I for 4 seconds
• Has a 12-second cooldown

You must have more than one heart remaining to use abilities that sacrifice health.

Blood Routes

Each route provides four abilities. Every route ability costs one heart and has its own cooldown. Route cooldowns become shorter after reaching 20 kills.

Wrath

Wrath focuses on direct damage, shockwaves, counterattacks, and heavy bleeding.

Wrath's main drawback is the Weakness that follows its strongest attacks.

Pride

Pride focuses on defense, crowd control, shields, and judgment.

Pride's defensive powers often slow you while they are active.

Gluttony

Gluttony focuses on healing, life-drain, poison, and movement.

Gluttony's healing comes with a strong hunger cost.

Black Plague

Black Plague becomes available when your killstreak reaches:

• 10 kills
• 30 kills
• 40 kills

Open the Ability Hub and select Cast Black Plague. It targets the last player you attacked if that player is still in the same dimension. Otherwise, it targets the nearest other player in that dimension.

The target receives the following effects for 30 seconds:

• Poison II
• Weakness I
• Slowness I

Black Plague has a 20-second cooldown after casting.

Last Chance

Attacking another player with the Bloodlock Blade arms Last Chance. If you are later hurt while at two hearts or less, the blade can:

• Restore one heart
• Grant Resistance I for 5 seconds
• Grant Fire Resistance for 5 seconds
• Knock back and counterattack a player attacker for 14 damage, or 7 hearts

Activating Last Chance consumes 50 points of blade durability and starts a 20-minute cooldown.

Obsidian Blood Crown

Use the Obsidian Blood Crown to gain:

• Strength I for 4 seconds
• Resistance I for 4 seconds

The crown has a 90-second cooldown.

If you are also holding the Bloodlock Blade, using the crown immediately refreshes the cooldowns of:

• Siphon
• Blood Slash
• Black Plague

The crown can be worn as a helmet and is also checked from your inventory when activating Full Armor Resonance.

Full Armor Resonance

To activate Full Armor Resonance, you need:

• The complete Blood Serpent armor set equipped
• The Bloodlock Blade in your main hand
• The Obsidian Blood Crown equipped or in your inventory

Select Resonate Full Armor in the Ability Hub.

The resonance:

• Costs one heart
• Grants Resistance I for 5 seconds
• Grants Speed I for 6 seconds
• Grants Absorption for 5 seconds
• Has a 60-second cooldown

The full Blood Serpent set also grants passive effects while equipped:

• Speed I at all streak levels
• Resistance I once your streak reaches 25
• Wrath route: Strength I and Fire Resistance
• Pride route: Resistance I and Absorption
• Gluttony route: Regeneration I and Hunger

Progression And Strategy

Killstreak points

Only kills made while wielding the Bloodlock Blade advance the streak. The final blow must be credited to you.

Other creatures can still be useful for practicing combat, but they do not increase the streak.

Your killstreak resets when you die. While carrying the blade below 25 kills, its hunger can deal 1.5 damage about every 5 seconds when you are out of combat. Attacking or being attacked pauses this pressure, and reaching 25 kills removes it for the current streak.

Streak milestones

At 50 kills, God Hunter grants Regeneration I while you remain active. Continue killing or dealing blade damage at least once every 30 seconds to maintain the effect.

Combat advice

• Choose your route before your first serious fight; the decision cannot be undone.
• Use ordinary attacks to build Bleed and trigger Siphon, then save Blood Slash for targets outside melee range.
• Strike a player before opening the Hub if you want Black Plague to prioritize that target.
• Activate Blood Lock immediately after a hit rather than waiting until the window closes.
• Keep food and healing available during the early streak, when carrying the blade can cost health.
• Reach 20 kills to improve every major cooldown, then push to 21 for stronger Bleed.
• Use Pride with the full armor set for sustained defense, Wrath for burst damage, and Gluttony for healing and area control.
• Repair the blade before attempting Last Chance plays; its emergency defense consumes significant durability.