Spartan Shields (Unofficial Port)

📜 Original mod

This is an unofficial port of Spartan Shields 3.1.1 by ObliviousSpartan (Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge). Original source: github.com/ObliviousSpartan/SpartanShields, license Apache-2.0, which allows derivative works. All of the content, art and ideas are the original authors'.

How this port differs from the original

• Runs on Minecraft 1.21.1 and 1.21.11, NeoForge and Fabric; the original stops at 1.20.1 Forge. Content, recipes and numbers are those of 3.1.1.
• Fixes bugs of the original: the out-of-memory crash on launch in big packs (#10), vanilla_only having no effect (#1), uncraftable shields cluttering JEI (#6), the unclear bash key in the tooltip (#4).
• Powered shields use the configured energy per point of blocked damage, and the server checks the reach of a Shield Bash.

Raise your shield. Then hit them with it.

Spartan Shields by ObliviousSpartan brought 64 shields, tower shields with banners and the Shield Bash to Minecraft 1.20.1, and stopped there. This port carries all of its content to Minecraft 1.21.1 and 1.21.11 for NeoForge and Fabric and fixes the bugs of the original.

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Features

• 64 shields: a basic and a tower variant for wood, stone, copper, iron, gold, diamond, netherite and obsidian.
• Modded metals: tin, bronze, steel, silver, electrum, lead, nickel, invar, constantan, platinum, aluminium, signalum, lumium, enderium. A shield appears as soon as some mod adds its ingots (c:ingots/<metal>).
• Mekanism, Ender IO and Botania shields (on 1.21.1); powered shields run on energy instead of durability, on Fabric on Team Reborn Energy.
• Tower shields: bigger and tougher (+25 % durability), drawn in 3D, and take banners like the vanilla shield.
• Shield Bash: hold your shield up and press attack for a little damage and a big knockback; tower shields hit everything around the target. Works with the vanilla shield too.
• Enchantments: Spikes hurts whoever hits your raised shield, Firebrand sets bashed foes on fire, Payback charges your next bash with the damage you blocked.
• Special metals: silver hurts the undead, signalum weakens, lumium makes foes glow, enderium slows them, obsidian is heavy but nearly unmovable.
• Configurable: durability of every material, bash cooldowns, energy use; turn off any modded material or all of them. Shields of missing mods leave the creative tab and JEI.
• 6 languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil).

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Versions

• 1.21.11 — NeoForge 21.11.48+ or Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Java 21
• 1.21.1 — NeoForge 21.1.197+ or Fabric Loader 0.16.14+, Java 21

NeoForge: no other mods needed. Fabric: Fabric API and Forge Config API Port (21.1.6+ on 1.21.1, 21.11.1+ on 1.21.11). On Fabric the powered shields store Team Reborn Energy, included in the jar.

Mekanism and Ender IO shields are on NeoForge 1.21.1 only, Botania shields on 1.21.1: none of the three mods has a 1.21.11 version, and Mekanism and Ender IO none for Fabric.

Installation

• Put the jar for your loader and Minecraft version into mods/ on the server and on every client.

What was fixed

• Out-of-memory crash on launch in big packs (#10): the shield atlas no longer takes every entity texture.
• vanilla_only works (#1); uncraftable shields no longer clutter JEI (#6); the bash tooltip names its key (#4).
• Powered shields use the configured energy per point of blocked damage, as their tooltip said.
• The server checks the reach of a Shield Bash.

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Credits

Spartan Shields by ObliviousSpartan (name by Evinsta): all content, art and ideas are theirs; this port only updates it to 1.21.1 and 1.21.11. Port by Vladeezyy. Please don't report problems of this port to the original author.

Source, changelog and bug reports: github.com/Vladeezyy/spartan-shields-1.21.

License: LGPL-3.0-only. The original's Apache 2.0 license is kept for its code and art.