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A shield is a tool used for protecting the player against attacks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Any Planks +
Iron Ingot

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Shield +
Matching Banner


Repairing

Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Damaged Shield


The durability of the two shields is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. The repaired shield has no pattern.

Shields may also be repaired on an anvil by using planks or another shield. Shields repaired on anvils retain their pattern.

Trading

Journeyman-level armorer villagers have 13[BE only]/25[JE only] chance of selling a shield for 5 emeralds as their sixth trade.

Usage

Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, it cannot be smelted into iron nuggets.[1]

Defense

Shields are used for blocking incoming attacks. Using[JE only] or sneaking[BE only] causes a player to slow to a sneaking pace, and after Template:Convert, attacks coming from in front of the player are blocked, dealing no damage. When the shield blocks an attack of 49px9px or stronger, it takes durability damage equal to the strength of the attack rounded up.

Most blocked projectiles that carry status effects (such as shulker bullets‌[JE only], flaming arrows, or tipped arrows) do not affect the blocker. Tridents & arrows can be deflected into other targets. Knockback from melee attacks and projectiles is prevented, while knockback from explosions, hoglin and ravager attacks is significantly reduced.

The shield directionally blocks all attacks coming from within 90° of the direction the wielder is facing, providing a full hemisphere of coverage to them. If the wielder faces straight up or straight down, they are likely to miss their blocks.

Blockable attacks include:

  • Melee attacks, except by axe-wielding mobs or by a sprinting player wielding an axe, however even without sprinting an axe still greatly decreases the durability
  • Normal, tipped and spectral arrows
    • Arrows are totally deflected and can hit other targets.
    • Status effects do not carry through to the blocker‌[JE only].
  • Flaming arrows
    • Burning does not carry through to the blocker‌[JE only].
  • Tridents
  • Snowballs and eggs
  • Spines from pufferfish
  • Bullets from shulkers
    • The levitation effect does not carry through to the blocker‌[JE only].
  • Spit from llamas
  • Fireballs, such as from blazes and fire charges
    • Burning does not carry through to the blocker.
  • Direct hits from ghast fireballs
    • These still cause environmental damage.
  • Explosion damage from creepers
  • TNT that another player lit
  • Ravager headbutts
    • These still knock the blocker back by about 3 blocks.
    • Blocking these strikes can stun the ravager for a moment, and it roars afterward.
  • Ravager roars are blocked but still knock back the blocker.
  • Bee stings are blocked, but bees continuously attack until the player stops blocking and the player is stung.

They cannot block:

  • Arrows from a crossbow enchanted with Piercing
    • This does not reduce the shield's durability.
  • Status effects from tipped arrows or shulker bullets ‌[BE only] [2]
    • Direct projectile damage is blocked, but the effect still carries through.
  • Status effects from splash/lingering potions, evokers' fangs, or breath from the ender dragon
  • Beam attacks from guardians or elder guardians
  • TNT that the blocking player lit themselves‌[JE only]
  • TNT that a redstone mechanism lit‌[JE only]
  • Teleport and fall damage
  • Strikes from any axe-wielding mob (e.g., vindicators, piglin brutes, zombies) or from axe-wielding players that are sprinting
    • Such axe strikes disable the shield for 5 seconds‌[JE only].
    • Axe strikes from a player that isn't sprinting still have a 25% chance to disable the shield.

Applying patterns

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Shields can be decorated by applying a banner pattern.

Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Shield +
Matching Banner


Applies the banner pattern to the shield. The banner is consumed.
The shield must have no preexisting patterns.
Does not change existing durability or enchantments on the shield.

Unlike with banners, shields cannot be repainted or washed in a cauldron. Shields have only half the resolution of banners, making patterns look slightly different. In the game files, the pattern textures can be found in a separate directory called entity/shield.

Shields with patterns can also be obtained using the same commands as banners, except banner has to be replaced with shield.

Enchantments

A shield can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil:

Name Max Level Method
Unbreaking III
Mending I
Curse of Vanishing I

Sounds

SoundSubtitleSourceDescriptionNamespaced IDTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
File:Shield block1.oggFile:Shield block2.oggFile:Shield block3.oggFile:Shield block4.oggFile:Shield block5.oggShield blocks??item.shield.blocksubtitles.item.shield.block??16
File:Random break.oggItem breaks?When durability is exhausteditem.shield.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break1.00.916

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameNamespaced IDFormTranslation key
ShieldshieldItemitem.minecraft.shield

Bedrock Edition:

NameNamespaced IDNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Shieldshield513Itemitem.shield.name

Advancements

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History

July 10, 2011During an interview, Jeb says that "shields for the left arm" might be added.
Java Edition
1.915w33c22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px22px 22px 22px 22px 22px Added shields.
Shields replace the blocking functionality of swords, although blocking more damage.
The current crafting recipe of shields includes wool, producing 16 possible colored shields. There currently isn't a blank, uncolored shield.
Any of the colored base shields can be crafted with a banner of the same base color, to produce a patterned shield.
15w34cWhen an attack is blocked by a shield, the attacker now may be knocked back.
Being attacked with an axe now may disable shield use for 5 seconds.
15w37aThe crafting recipe of shields has been changed to 6 planks and 1 iron ingot.
22px Crafting a shield now produces a base wooden shield that can be crafted together with any banner.
The cooldown of shields has been reduced from 0.5s to 0.25s.
Blocking with shields now prevents some side effects.[verify]
Arrows now ricochet off shields.
15w44aShields can now be repaired by combining with other shields. This removes any banner that had been applied.
15w45aCrafting a banner onto a shield now consumes the banner.
15w47bAdded shield blocking sounds.
16w07aAdded more variation of shield blocking sounds.
pre1The durability of shields has been increased from 181 to 337.
1.1116w33aCrafting a shield with a banner no longer changes the durability, nor does it remove enchantments from it.
16w35aShields now block 100% of damage/knockback/debuffs dealt in melee combat.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 442.
1.1418w43a22px The texture of shields has been changed.
Shields no longer knockback attackers when they block due to a bug with rework of the blocking mechanic with the introduction of the ravager.[3]
19w11aShields can now be bought from armorer villagers.
1.14.3Pre-Release 3Shields blocking flaming arrows no longer put the player on fire.
Upcoming Java Edition
Combat Tests1.14.3 - Combat TestCritical hits now bypass shields.
The warm-up delay has been removed from shields.
When in the off-hand, shields now activate when sneaking.
Combat Test 2Shields now protect against critical attacks again.
Shields can only be activated when the weapon is charged to 200%.
Combat Test 3A "Shield Indicator" option that displays when the shield is active, similar to the attack indicator, has been added.
An option to hide shields when active has been added.
The arc of available protection of shields has been decreased to 100 degrees instead of 180 degrees.
Combat Test 4An option to disable shields being activated by pressing crouch has been added.
The option to hide the shield has been removed.
Combat Test 6Shields now protect up to 5 damage for melee attacks (still 100% against projectiles).
Shields activate instantly regardless if the weapon is charged, similar to Combat test 1.
Shields now recover faster after an attack.
Combat Test 7cShields now add a 50% knockback resistance when active.
Shields now protect against 100% explosion damage.
Combat Test 8cThe knockback calculations for shields have been fixed.[more information needed]
Crouch-shielding while jumping has been disabled.
Shields with banners are now temporarily stronger than normal shields (10 absorption instead of 5, and better knockback resistance) to test different shield types.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.322px Added shields.
Shields cannot be customized with banners.
Shields are activated by crouching or mounting mobs.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.4Shields can now be bought from armorer villagers.
1.16.210beta 1.16.210.51Now grants partial knockback protection from the goat ram attack.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.220beta 1.16.220.50Mobs that pick up shields now place them to their off-hand.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.9022px Added shields.
Shields do not have banner application features.

Issues

Issues relating to "Shield" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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