diff --git a/HarmonySrc/NecromancerBloodPatch.cs b/HarmonySrc/NecromancerBloodPatch.cs
index af901eb..44d0dc9 100644
--- a/HarmonySrc/NecromancerBloodPatch.cs
+++ b/HarmonySrc/NecromancerBloodPatch.cs
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	///      something adjacent, but it takes exactly ONE item name, not "any item of a category",
 	///      and its actual runtime enforcement point wasn't confirmed by decompilation either -
 	///      not risking an untested mechanism for this).
-	///   2. "При крафте нужно отнимать у персонажа 90% имеющегося ХП" - crafting this recipe
-	///      costs 90% of the player's CURRENT health. Recipes have no cost hook beyond their
-	///      ingredient list at all.
+	///   2. "При крафте нужно отнимать у персонажа 90% имеющегося ХП" (2026-08-30), corrected
+	///      by the user on 2026-11-02: reading CURRENT health there was a bug. The cost is 90%
+	///      of the player's MAXIMUM health, and a necromancer whose current health is below
+	///      that dies from the ritual. Recipes have no cost hook beyond their ingredient list
+	///      at all.
 	///
 	/// "любого ножа" (ANY knife) is detected via ItemClass.DisplayType == "meleeKnife" - decompiled
 	/// Data/Config/items.xml directly: every real vanilla knife (meleeWpnBladeT0BoneKnife,
@@ -200,12 +202,24 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 			{
 				return;
 			}
-			// Deliberately not clamped to leave the player at least 1 HP - the user asked for a
-			// straight 90% cost, and a blood ritual that can genuinely kill you if you're already
-			// badly hurt fits the theme. AddHealth is the same safe, non-combat HP-modification
-			// API vanilla itself uses (decompiled EntityAlive.AddHealth) - not DamageEntity/
+			// 90% of MAXIMUM health, per the user's correction of 2026-11-02 ("Это баг. Должно
+			// быть 90% от максимального здоровья. Таким образом, некромант погибнет, если
+			// здоровья в момент изготовления меньше 90%"). The original 2026-08-30 code read
+			// the CURRENT health, so a queue of jars got geometrically cheaper (100% -> 10% ->
+			// 1% of the starting HP) and could only kill at 1-4 HP through rounding.
+			//
+			// HOW DEATH HAPPENS, from the 3.4 decompile (don't "fix" this into a direct Kill
+			// call): Stat.Value's setter clamps to [0, ModifiedMax] (Utils.FastClamp), so HP
+			// bottoms out at exactly 0, never negative - and EntityAlive.OnUpdateLiving's own
+			// check `Health <= 0 && !IsDead() && !isEntityRemote && !IsGodMode.Value` kills the
+			// entity with DamageEntity(DamageSource.disease, 1) on the next update. A player
+			// who could not pay the full cost thus dies by vanilla's hand one frame later,
+			// logged as disease (god mode skips that check, leaving them merely at 0 HP).
+			// Survival takes strictly MORE than the cost: paying exactly it ends at 0 HP, and
+			// 0 HP is death in vanilla (the check is <= 0, not < 0). AddHealth stays the safe,
+			// non-combat HP-modification API vanilla itself uses - not DamageEntity/
 			// DamageResponse, since this isn't damage from a source, it's a direct self-cost.
-			int amount = Mathf.RoundToInt(__state.Health * NecromancerBloodPatch.HealthCostFraction);
+			int amount = Mathf.RoundToInt(__state.GetMaxHealth() * NecromancerBloodPatch.HealthCostFraction);
 			if (amount <= 0)
 			{
 				return;
@@ -213,9 +227,9 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 			__state.AddHealth(-amount);
 
 			// The grunt goes AFTER the HP is actually gone, so a craft that somehow bailed out
-			// above never makes a sound the player cannot account for. At the 90% cost this is the
-			// big pain clip in every normal case (amount > 15 unless the player is already down to
-			// about 17 HP), and drops to the small one exactly where vanilla would drop it too.
+			// above never makes a sound the player cannot account for. With the cost now a fixed
+			// 0.9 * MaxHealth this is the big pain clip in every normal case (amount > 15 whenever
+			// MaxHealth >= 18), and drops to the small one exactly where vanilla would drop it too.
 			NecromancerBloodPatch.PlayPainSound(__state, amount);
 
 			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] NecromancerBloodPatch: crafted blood, deducted " + amount + " HP from owner=" + __state.entityId);
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