🛡️ Instant-Shield-Break

When the attacked player is actively raising a shield, the mod checks the target and switches the held item to an axe, so the hit disables the shield. The swap is reverted in the same call-stack frame, so the original item is back in hand without any extra ticks. A 150ms cooldown guards against repeated swapping during spam attacks, and the mod only intercepts player targets, so attacks on mobs pass through unchanged.

The mod targets PvP situations such as nethpot fights, where the shield check catches the intent before the usual five-tick raise delay. Axe lookup scans the hotbar first and then the main inventory, and it remembers the last axe slot used for quick repeat attacks. Modded axes that extend AxeItem are also recognized. The swap is sent to the server with the vanilla slot-update packet, so the server stays in sync.

Installation needs Fabric and Prism Mod Menu. Only the player's game needs it, and servers run without it. The code is under the MIT License and is not open source, and builds exist for 1.19 – 1.21.11 across 24 release versions.