Passive Shield

🛡 The shield is hidden and provides protection passively when held idle in the offhand.
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About the mod

Passive Shield is a configurable mod which makes some changes to the shield mechanics. When a shield is held in the offhand and not in use, it will not be rendered. Whenever the player right-clicks to raise the shield, it will be shown again. When the shield is not raised, it will still negate some damage. By default 33% extra negation, but this can be changed in the config file.

 

The shield provides the same passive protection when held idle in the main hand.



Dependencies

Requires Collective
Included in The Vanilla ExperienceIncluded in Serilum's Client Bundle
Environment: Client & Server




Configurable

Configuration guide

   All available config options:

hideShieldWhenNotInUse  default true
When enabled, the shield will be hidden unless a player presses right-click.

passiveShieldPercentageDamageNegated  default 0.3333, min 0.0, max 1.0
The percentage of damage that will be negated when a player is hit while holding a shield that's not held high.




Showcase

The shield is hidden when held in the offhand until raised:



The default damage without a shield:

 

The shield passively negating damage when not raised in the offhand:



The shield passively negating damage when not raised in the mainhand:




Notes and links

You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.

Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.

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For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!


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