Tiered Shields

Each new shield blocks a set amount of damage and has a block percentage and total durability that rise with the tier. Golden shields block 1 damage at 40 percent with 112 durability, copper shields block 1 damage at 40 percent with 176 durability, iron shields block 2 damage at 60 percent with 240 durability, diamond shields block 3 damage at 80 percent with 528 durability, and netherite shields block 4 damage at 90 percent with 592 durability. The mod also tweaks the default iron shield, and unless another shield is in use, shields block damage with no delay instead of the vanilla 0.25 second delay.

The shields are repaired with their matching ingots: gold, copper, iron, diamond or netherite. Netherite ingots are not destroyed by lava. A netherite shield is crafted at a crafting table by upgrading a diamond shield in a smithing table, because the datapack limitations with custom items prevent a direct recipe. The mod runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 26.3 and is released under the MIT License. It is not open source. Its required dependency is KSPACK, and the mod ships as a data pack, so a resource pack is needed to show the new shields.