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Vampirism - Become a vampire!
Vampires are fast, strong and blood-thirsty entities, which do not like the sun, but don't fear the night, and the best thing is: You can become one!
Themed around magical elements, mythical creatures, and enchanted worlds, often inspired by fantasy literature and folklore.
Centers around fantasy elements such as spells, rituals, and magical energies, often involving personal empowerment and magical automation.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Features role-playing elements like character progression, quests, and story-driven gameplay.
Contains enhancements to village mechanics, expanding on existing features or adding entirely new ones.
Includes a custom backstory, written world-building, or narrative writing within the project or through external content.
Features new biomes or content focused on overhauling existing ones.
Introduces player leveling systems with skills and abilities.
Adds skill trees or abilities for character progression.
Adds or overhauls bosses to the game.
Focuses on or is balanced for player versus player combat and competition.
Adds or enhances hostile creatures and enemies.
Introduces new non-player characters with various roles and behaviors.
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For MC 1.12 you can find the downloads here
For MC 1.16 you can find the downloads here
Vampires are fast, strong and blood-thirsty entities, which hate the sun, but do not fear the night - and the best thing is: You can become one!
This mod allows you to become a vampire with all of the classical benefits and drawbacks.
After being bitten by a vampire or manually injecting some vampire blood, you receive an effect called "Sanguinare Vampiris" which will eventually turn you into a vampire.
Alternatively, you can decide to become a vampire hunter and start fighting these evil creatures.
Get an overview about this mod here: Overview

As a vampire
As a vampire you don't need to eat that dry bread or strange fruit called "apples", you prefer some red and tasty blood, which you can to drink from animals or preferably villagers. If you are careful they might regenerate their blood over time, but if you suck all their blood at once, they will die. As a skilled vampire you may turn them into vampires instead. Furthermore, you may notice that you now have red eyes and fangs.
In the beginning you are a very normal and weak vampire, but by performing vampiric rituals you can level up and gain new powers. Aside from becoming stronger and faster, you gain skill points which can be used to unlock abilities like night vision, transformation into a bat, teleportation and many more.
However, becoming a strong vampire also has its drawbacks as you will receive damage from sunlight and have to face stronger vampire hunters. So you probably want to shift your activities to the night, unlock night vision and craft yourself a coffin to sleep through the day. Don't forget to color your coffin to make it match the rest of your home decor.
Become a vampire hunter
If you don't like vampires, this mod might still have plenty to offer. You can choose to become a vampire hunter instead and start hunting down those evil vampires. Equipped with crossbows and other useful weapons, you have a full arsenal at your disposal. By collecting items, fighting strong vampires and exploring the world you can level up and unlock advanced skills which improve your hunting ability or even allow you to use some of the vampires powers against them.
World
There are a few additions to the world. Including new mobs, there is a new biome called vampire forest. This foggy biome mostly accommodates vampiric creatures and is the home of vampire barons you need to fight to gain ritual items.
Since vampires prefer to suck blood from villagers, villages are now protected by vampire hunters. If too many people in a village are bitten they will call for reinforcements or if it gets too dire, the villagers will just grab their pitchforks and start hunting vampires themselves.
Villages can be controlled by vampires or hunters which grants them additional benefits. If you want to capture a village, consider planning a raid to take some territory.
Multiplayer:
This mod is made to work perfectly on multiplayer servers. Players can choose to join the vampire faction, the hunter faction, or even mostly ignore this mod if they want - the choice is yours. You also can enable PVP only between factions, so the war between vampires and humans can take place without interfering with the rest of your server.
Most hostile creatures are affected by player strength. The strength of a spawned creature is affected by the level of nearby players. Around strong vampire players, strong hunters will spawn, but around normal humans only weak vampires will appear.
For common places (e.g. spawn) you can place (cheat only) sunscreen beacons, so vampires can visit them during the day without taking sun damage.
Also consider using the config option to allow/deny players from infecting other human players with vampirism (hunters are immune due to their garlic injection).
Also see https://wiki.vampirism.dev/docs/wiki/multiplayer
Spotlights/Tutorials:
Overview in Brazilian Portuguese:
Installation:
- Install forge (recommend version)
- Add this mod to your mods folder
- Install GuideAPI (1.12) / GuideAPI-VP (1.14+) to get the guide book (optionally, but recommend)
- Play :)
How to get started:
Take a look at the in-game GuideBook or check out the wiki.
Configuration:
This mod is highly configurable, besides several general settings you can change a ton of balance related values to your liking or disable parts of the mod you do not like.
More information here: https://wiki.vampirism.dev/docs/wiki/configuration
Troubleshooting:
FAQ: https://wiki.vampirism.dev/docs/wiki/faq
https://wiki.vampirism.dev/docs/wiki/troubleshooting
Feedback:
Please direct all feedback to the Discord server here.
Report issues to the Github or the forum after reading the troubleshooting section.
Addons:
There are a few known addon mods
Vampirism Integrations: Add compatibility to several other mods
Vampires Need Umbrellas: Add umbrellas for sunprotection
Werewolves: Become a werewolf
Godly Vampirism: Reduce downsides from being a vampire
Vampiric Ageing: Adds an ageing mechanic for Vampires and, if installed, Werwolves. Elder vampires are more powerful
Bloodlines: Bloodlines significantly change the way you play as a Vampire. While each new bloodline rank may come with some penalties, it will also allow you to unlock powerful new skills.
Development:
This mod is Open Source. The code can be found on Github under the LGPL licence.
It is actively developed by maxanier and Cheaterpaul as much as spare time permits.
You can follow the progress by checking out the repository or following maxanier on Mastodon.
If you want to support the development you can give feedback, report issues, help to translate or if you have some coding experience even contribute to the development itself. Coding help is always wanted, alternatively you can develop you own addon mod or mod integration using Vampirism's API.
Official Multiplayer Server
We hope you like this mod, please tell us what you like, what you would improve and what you would add!
Created by maxanier, Cheaterpaul,Mistadon,wildbill22
Special thanks to lunofe, Piklach, PendragonII, TheRebelT, LRA_10, TinkerHatWill, Alis, S_olace, Oreo365, Slippingchip400, Йода, XxKidDowdallxX, F_Spade, Matheo, special_krab, cournualllama2, Random, Shumnik, BugraaK, MrVityaTrash, FrostedOver, Grid, T_Corvus and dimensionpainter for many cool models, textures, lore, support and more.
Thanks to TheBeastCH for a lot of feedback and suggestions when we were getting started..
And finally thanks to all out translators (in no particular order):
Mushi64, sandmanger, MClove229, nikogo.smag, phpr, kupr.andrew, arroslinka, thisismetsu, follower_of_ASRIEL, guitargamerkuliti, berkcona92, gianluccio, alfanerd, icedark1999, Mazdallier, evernife, petrus_ant, Lumblido, MClove229, kissmate0715, demotrailom668, Jaccob, 008Mi, MisterY_vonvon, dragor2012Taiguk, ilyakazaku2013, FunnHydra, Steelboy05, himarcodollars, RobiFoxx, maurojose1997, raul131652, Icefire

Vampirism
Vampires are fast, strong and blood-thirsty entities, which do not like the sun, but don't fear the night, and the best thing is: You can become one!
This mod allows you to become a vampire with all it's benefits and drawbacks.
After being bitten by a vampire or manually injecting some vampire blood you get an effect called "Sanguinare Vampiris" which eventually turns you into a vampire.
Alternatively you can decide to become a vampire hunter and start fighting those evil creatures.
Get an overview about this mod here: Overview
🧛 Vampire
As a vampire you don't need to eat that dry bread or strange fruit called "apples", you prefer some red and tasty blood, which you can to drink from animals or preferably villagers. If you are careful they might regenerate their blood over time, but if you suck all their blood at once, they will die. As a skilled vampire you may turn them into vampires instead. Furthermore, you may notice that you now have red eyes and fangs.
In the beginning you are a very normal and weak vampire, but by performing vampiric rituals you can level up and gain new powers. Aside from becoming stronger and faster, you gain skill points which can be used to unlock abilities like night vision, transformation into a bat, teleportation and many more.
However, becoming a strong vampire also has its drawbacks as you will receive damage from sunlight and have to face stronger vampire hunters. So you probably want to shift your activities to the night, unlock night vision and craft yourself a coffin to sleep through the day. Don't forget to color your coffin to make it match the rest of your home decor.
🏹 Vampire Hunter
If you don't like vampires, this mod might still have plenty to offer. You can choose to become a vampire hunter instead and start hunting down those evil vampires. Equipped with crossbows and other useful weapons, you have a full arsenal at your disposal. By collecting items, fighting strong vampires and exploring the world you can level up and unlock advanced skills which improve your hunting ability or even allow you to use some of the vampires powers against them.
⚙️ Configuration
This mod is highly configurable, besides several general settings you can change a ton of balance related values to your liking or disable parts of the mod you do not like.
More information here: Wiki
🛠️ Troubleshooting
FAQ: FAQ
Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting
Discord: Official Server
🗣️ Feedback
Please direct all feedback to the Discord server here.
🌌 Addons
- Vampirism Integrations: Add compatibility to several other mods
- Werewolves: Become a werewolf
- Vampires Need Umbrellas: Add umbrellas for sunprotection
- Godly Vampirism: Reduce downsides from being a vampire
- Vampiric Ageing: Adds an ageing mechanic for Vampires and, if installed, Werwolves. Elder vampires are more powerful
- Vampire's Delight: Expanding vampirism into the world of Farmer's Delight
- Bloodlines: Adding different bloodlines with additional skills for vampires
💻 Development
This mod is Open Source. The code can be found on Github under the LGPL licence.
It is actively developed by maxanier and Cheaterpaul as much as spare time permits.
If you want to support the development you can give feedback, report issues, help to translate or if you have some coding experience even contribute to the development itself. Coding help is always wanted, alternatively you can develop you own addon mod or mod integration using Vampirism's API.
🏰 Official Server
Official Server sponsored by Apex Hosting
There is an official server sponsored by Apex Minecraft Hosting
Join it here: https://vampirism.maxanier.de/server
🌟 Credits
We hope you like this mod, please tell us what you like, what you would improve and what you would add!
Created by maxanier, Cheaterpaul, Mistadon and wildbill22
Special thanks to lunofe, LRA_10, TinkersHatWiill, Alis, dimensionpainter, PendragonII, TheRebelT, S_olace, Oreo365, Slippingchip400, Йода, XxKidDowdallxX, F_Spade, Matheo, special_krab, cournualllama2, Random, Shumnik, BugraaK, MrVityaTrash, FrostedOver, Grid and T_Corvus for many cool models, textures, lore or others
And finally thanks to all our translators (Top 50 translators):
nerkinlive, TGamer, Minaderm, Echoel, LilyCipher, Mushi64, sandtechnology, MClove229, nikogo.smag, phpr, tipherethonly, kupr.andrew, aroslinka, thisismetsu, follower_of_ASRIEL, regisantonioli, guitargamerkuliti, Just693, Steeminator3000, cool.lefler, MrFalconIX, namkhanhotaku, gianluccio, Icedark1999, steelballrunaddict, Heroin_in_sock, alfanerd, himarcodollars, Skyaction, demotrailom668, maelgold, papertoy1127, 007Mi, Dueliant, quanghuy19062002, lololo20062006, soenam1998, FunnHydra, the.truth.is.cafe.gay, anitagoulart2146, Mazark, jason-rexhai, TheGridExpert, AnmaRR, WithRubium, GridExpert, nninno, Robehh, Joccob ... 🌈
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