Shield Rebroken

Shield Rebroken is a port to Minecraft 1.20.1 of an earlier shield mod by another author. It replaces the vanilla rule in which axes disable shields with a mechanic based on shield durability. A shield absorbs a set amount of damage, and an incoming attack that exceeds that protection breaks it, sending the shield into a cooldown whose length scales with how much damage got through. Weapons that cause shield cooldowns, such as axes and the halberds from Spartan Weaponry, can be configured, and a separate chance based on the Sharpness enchantment adds a larger cooldown on top of that.

A parry is a timed block. A well-timed parry blocks the whole attack regardless of its damage, and the attacker is thrown back further than usual. Shield Rebroken is a single-version mod for 1.20.1, and its environment is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Its behavior is configurable and the server-side settings apply to all players, while the client keeps a copy of the config so tooltips can show how much damage a shield will protect against. The mod depends on no other mod in the catalog and is released under the MIT License, but it is not open source.