Gruesome? Probably. Worth it? Definitely! 
Have you ever picked up a magic mod for Minecraft, and thought that it was too tame? Was there not enough danger involved when creating your next high-tech gadget? Bored with all of those peaceful animals just staring at you without a care in the world? Well then, I am glad you came here!
Blood Magic is an arcane art that is practiced by mages who attempt to gather a vast amount of power through utilizing a forbidden material: blood. Even though it does grant a huge amount of power, every single action that is performed with this volatile magic can prove deadly. You have been warned.
For the best experience, you should install JustEnoughItems to find your way through the recipes.
Contact
Have discord? We now have a server if you want to come chat with us! Here's the link.
Getting Started
Getting started in Blood Magic has changed slightly since 1.7.10. Rather than finding a Diamond to craft a Blood Altar, you need to obtain some Demonic Will. To get your first bit of Will, you'll need to craft some Soul Trumpets Snares and toss them at enemies. If you're lucky, this will snare the enemy. When killed, snared enemies will drop a small amount of their Will. I'll let you take it from there.
For a more comprehensive, web-based guide, see this document. Big thanks to Tiyth at MinecraftGuides for putting it together.
Documentation
Documentation is provided via an in-game book managed by Guide API under the name "Sanguine Scientiem".
In 1.16.3+, the in-game book is instead managed by Patchouli! Can confirm, it's naisu.
Art
You may notice the mod has an entirely different look than you may remember. These textures were graciously provided by the Unity team.
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Team
WayofTime
Way works on all the cool content you get to play around with. Can usually be found making a mess for Nut to clean up.
TehNut
Nut is essentially a maid. He primarily works behind the scenes, making sure the codebase itself stays as clean and optimized as it can. He's also in charge of most of the work involved in porting to new Minecraft versions. Can usually be found committing code in the wrong bracing style.
Yulife
One of the art people. Currently on an extended vacation.
CyanideX
Another art person. Currently on sporadic vacations.
BBoldt
Our third art person. Currently on a permanent vacation.
For additional information, see the MinecraftForum thread or the images tab.
VT-14
One of the new members of the team. Works on the fancy rendering in the in-game guide, which makes the user's life a lot easier.
Wrince
The other new member! Works on the content of the in-game guide and constantly updates it when I make arbitrary changes.
Hi :3
I wanted to ask if your modification is translated into Other Languages or if you don't have it plannedWhat's the deal with BBoldt's "permanent vacation"? I tried to check the thread you linked but there are currently 255 pages of that thread so I hope you can excuse me if I don't want to go through every single one :-)
This mod makes when I go in survival and break a block I don’t get a item from the block, like if I break a dirt block no dirt block item. Please fix! When I remove your file from the mod folder it works fine. (1.16.5)
In reply to doggeries:
Version of the mod?
In reply to WayofTime:
BloodMagic-1.16.4-3.1.0-15.jar
Sense Guide API is still 1.12 will i need to download another version of it to get the guide book?
In reply to Rebelord101X:
The 1.16 guidebook uses Patchouli.
In reply to VT_14:
thanks!
Is there a known issue with piping blood into the alter? I have been at it for a few days using all different types of pipes, and only seem to be able to pipe blood out of the alter but not back in.
In reply to Not_Milta:
Known bug, yeah.
permanent vacation makes it sound like I died lmao
In reply to BBoldt:
You're right. Let's rectify that. :knife:
In reply to WayofTime:
aaaa noooo my life essence aaaa
Why is blood magic so baren and barely works now? I'm on 1.16.4 and most of what was in blood magic around 1.12.2 is gone or there's no crafting recipe. Most of the rituals are gone and all of the arrays dont work anymore except for the ones used to get some of the sigils. It's at the point now where there's no reason to try blood magic anymore. The book is less than half completed when there used to be a fully functional themed book. Jei only has maybe 1/3 of the available recipes now. It's like the mod was completely scrapped and built from the ground up with no real effort.
In reply to m0ts:
The mod is still in alpha. Give it time, I'm sure it'll get more fleshed out. Porting stuff over isn't the easiest thing in the world.
In reply to m0ts:
> Why is blood magic so bar[r]en and barely works now?
Because it's a work-in-progress port. It's marked as an Alpha for a reason. You can either have the mod released with a lot of content Not Yet Implemented (NYI) and be able to see how things are going and give feedback on mechanics as they are getting added, or you could have pretty much nothing for a really long time and end up with a 'finished' mod with features already implemented and harder to change.
> The book is less than half completed when there used to be a fully functional themed book.
Assuming you are on an up-to-date version, the book is accurate for the current state of the mod. I'll also point out that the literal first page currently says "A lot of stuff isn't yet implemented" and links to a fairly comprehensive list of what's still to come from older versions.
In reply to m0ts:
The mod is still in alpha, and if you had read the changelog of the 1 version released for 1.16, the mod has been rewritten and little by little they are putting the items back.Be patient
is there no more turret array in the mod or i just cant find it cause non of them guides in the internet worked
there is no guidebook anymore :(
In reply to Pitlos_Tails:
its there. its just not listed in the jei under @Blood. Try no @ sanguine