Everything You Need To Know About Shields In Minecraft 1.20 – Java

Shields in minecraft are a vital part of modern pvp so in this video i’m going to show you everything you need to know about them starting right now so shields are easily crafted using six oak planks in a pattern like this with one iron ingot at the top that gives you a shield

You put it in your off hand or in your main hand but both work right clicking will activate your shield or shifting and bedrock condition and now you have 90 degrees of protection with the middle degree being where you are so you kind of have from like here to here being

Fully protected so any attack from a mob right in front of you is completely deflected now something that makes shields really cool as well as just being a defense mechanism is that if you make yourself a really nice banner let’s make myself one right here something

Like this and we’ll just add some cool patterns to it just like this we can actually put that banner right on the shield by putting it in the crafting grid just like this you see it does scale down the resolution but we now have that pattern on our shield just

Like this and it works just as well as it did before it’s just a little bit lower of a resolution on the banner there and it’s perfect for making your team banner or maybe just some cool colors you want be on top of your shield you can’t actually get that pattern off

Of the shield no matter what you do so make sure you really like that pattern before you put it on now you can also enchant a shield there are only two enchantments for it however on breaking three and mending so of course unbreaking three might be a good idea

Especially if it is let’s say a banner that has a really nice pattern on it you’ll also see interestingly enough that the shield is renamed from shield to purple shield because it was a purple banner so for instance a magenta banner or a red banner would be renamed to

Let’s say a magenta shield or a red shield now we can enchant it with the unbreaking 3 there and we can also enchant it with mending and of course unbreaking 3 gives the shield a larger amount of durability and mending will let you increase the durability when you

Gain experience which is very important as a shield’s durability can get very low very quickly especially when attacking mobs such as magma cubes now shield blocks attacks especially things like from let’s say zombies or skeletons let’s try dodging an arrow just like this we right click you’ll see we

Actually get the advancement not today thank you which is gotten by dodging an attack with a shield and you can see that as long as we’re holding down right click that skeleton zeros cannot kill us and it works very effectively let’s say we’re gonna turn around and block this

Way of course it would get us because we’re not holding our shield in the right direction just like that the shield is also effective at blocking attacks from mobs such as the husk sort of zombie-like mobs that will hit you with their fists we just simply hold

Right-click like this you can see it does dodge those attacks quite effectively but again make sure you’re facing the mob if we’re going to turn even to the side we would be hit by the husk successfully so make sure you’re holding that you might also see that the

Durability of our shield is slowly going down and that’s also with unbreaking three so be sure that you’re not defending like this for too long as you will eventually run out of a shield but it is a really useful trick as well what’s also nice is when doing pvp with

Players with swords you can effectively block their hits as well just like this you can see by holding right click every single sword attack by that netherright sword is completely dodged which is of course incredibly overpowered as you literally have to only look at your opponent to be protected by them while

Holding down right click again of course being attacked from the side still works so be very careful about that but during pvp a shield can be a vital resource especially for quick blocking of different attacks sort of like maybe running by a mob carefully blocking an attack although i did not carefully

Block an attack right there and then once you block the attack running away more easily now the one weakness of shields which is very important to watch out for is axes and this can actually be any type of axe now when a player has an axe if the player runs towards you at

The axe and hits you and in sprint 100 of the time it’ll disable the shield a mob with the axe will also always disable your shield just like this if i hold it up it disables it you can see it has that cool down there and until the

Cooldown is over i just i can hold right click as much as i want and it’ll only activate the shield once the cooldown is done and of course also as well as deactivating the shield it hits me twice it can kill me almost all the way in one

Hit with let’s say another right axe so it’s important to remember that however if the player that you’re doing pvp with let’s say is not running and they just hit you at a walk there’s actually only a 25 percent chance that it’ll disable the shield however every single level of

Efficiency that their axe has it’ll be an extra five percent chance of disabling your shield so if they have an efficiency 5x and they hit you there is a 50 chance it’ll disable it if they’re not sprinting so overall it’s important to remember that axes and shields do not

Mix as shields can only block one attack from axes there’s also the reason why axes are such a common weapon in pvp now is because shields are also used quite frequently you basically need an axe to defeat an opponent that has a shield planning a trip to the end make sure to

Bring a shield because you can actually effectively block these shulker pellets if you’re facing them while holding down right click although it can be a little bit difficult to do let’s try that right here we’re just going to face this chauffeur pellet here and you can see i

Just blocked it there just be aware this is a little bit difficult to do as these things move around a lot and you only have the 90 degrees in front of you that you can block that shulker pellet from make sure to bring a shield to raids

Because they can block a lot of the knockback and damage from ravagers this works for both their screaming attack and also their charging attack you can completely block the damage and most of the knockback with it which is really effective it’s also cool because these mobs are so dangerous normally you can

Basically make them powerless by just holding down right click with your shield just be aware they damage your shield very quickly so you’ll want to make sure to defeat them rather quickly when using this technique here’s something interesting shields only take damage to their total durability which

Is 336 if the attack is that of three or stronger that is if you didn’t have your shield up it would take away one and a half hertz so if an attack is that much or stronger then it’ll take away durability on the shield but let’s say

The attack would only take away one heart normally like let’s say the hit of a llama spit then that would actually not take away any durability on your shield something that’s also interesting is that the only projectile that can defeat the shield is a piercing crossbow

So a crossbow with any level of piercing on it will be able to go right through your shield and hit you either way so be very aware of the piercing crossbow and the axe when you’re using the shield as those are the only two ways of truly defeating its defense other than just

Breaking the shield over time anyway i hope you enjoyed everything about shields in minecraft 1.18 if you did make sure to press the like button make sure to subscribe comment sure also feel free to join the official like craft mcdiscord server reddit and follow me on

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