How to make a Shield in Minecraft: Materials, crafting recipe and more

How to make a Shield in Minecraft

Minecraft has many craftable items that the players can build in order to protect themselves from various attacks. In this article we take a look at how to make a Shield in Minecraft.

Minecraft has a lot of mobs that can hurt the players like skeletons, zombies and much more. These mobs deal damage to the players and can even kill them upon which the players lose all their items. To protect themselves, players can apply a variety of measures, one of which is the Shield.

Down below we take a look at how to make a Shield in Minecraft with all the steps.

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Shield in Minecraft

The Shield is a very useful defensive item in Minecraft and blocks almost all the attacks from enemy mobs.

The Shield is a very useful tool that protects players from attacks and most effectively the Skeleton arrows. Players can equip it by placing it in the Shield section of their inventory.

Using the shield slows down the player to sneaking speed and blocks all damage. When taking more than 4 hearts of damage, the durability of the shield.

Uses

Most of the projectiles will be blocked and the status effects from tipped arrows and shulker boxes will go through. The Projectiles can also be deflected into other targets. Knockback from knockback based attacks is also drastically reduced. Explosion damage is also significantly reduced.

However, it cannot block all kinds of attacks. Some of the un-block able attacks include:

Ender Dragon Breath
TNT that the players lit themselves
Lasers from Guardians and Elder Guardians
Crossbow enchanted with Piercing
Attacks from Axe wielding mobs

Enchantments

The Shield in Minecraft can be Enchanted with 3 types and they are:

Unbreaking – Makes the durability higher
Mending – Consumes a part of XP gained to regenerate durability f shield
Curse of Vanishing – Vanishes when dropped

Fun tip: Players can combine a banner together with a Shield to make various patterned shields.