Bring Blocking Back

The mod reintroduces the sword blocking animation from an older Minecraft release, showing the held item raised as a player blocks. It is a small mod, and its visual change does not alter combat rules by itself. Which items can block is set through a config file, where entries can name a Minecraft item, a Minecraft tag, or a Skyblock id. Config prefixes separate those entry kinds, so one list can mix them. The author made the mod mainly for Hypixel Skyblock play and kept it current with recent modern releases.

Changes take effect through an in-game command that reloads the config, so a player does not need to restart the game after editing the list. The mod is client-side only, so only the player's game needs it, and servers can run without it. It needs Fabric API and can use Mod Menu for its settings screen. Files are published for Fabric only, covering 1.21.10 – 26.3 across five release versions, with 2.3.0-26.3 for 26.3 as the latest. The code is open source under the MIT License.