Shields are easy to craft in Minecraft, and useful when you need to defend yourself. They can be the difference between dying in a mine or coming home with all your diamonds. To make a shield you will need six planks of any type of wood and an iron ingot.
To create a shield, arrange your materials on a crafting table in the following order:
- Top row - planks, iron ingots, planks
- Middle Row - Planks, Planks, Planks
- Bottom row - empty, boards, empty
When you craft your shield, you can place it in your inventory and use it like any other item. Shields also have durability, but can be repaired by placing two shields that have lost durability next to each other in a crafting table. This will combine the durability of the two shields together, with an additional five percent durability. You can also use an anvil to repair shields, using more planks to do so.
You can create a custom shield by placing the shield in a crafting table next to a banner. The shield will take the color of the banner and the banner will be consumed. If you repair these shields using a crate table the design will be lost, but if you use an anvil it will not.
What do shields do
Shields will protect you from the following attacks:
- Melee attacks
- Normal and inclined arrows
- Flaming arrows
- Tridents
- Guardians lasers
- Pufferfish spines
- Fire balls
- Virginia creeper explosions
- Horrible fireball explosions
Shields will not protect players from their own TNT.
Can shields be enchanted?
Shields can have the following enchantments placed on them using an anvil:
- Unbreakable at level 3
- Repair at level 1
- Curse of Disappearance at 1st level
