Responsive Shields

Clunky Shields in Minecraft

Have you ever managed to raise your shield just in time, but still got one-shotted by a Vindicator right through your defense? This familiar situation for many players occurs due to a hidden 5-tick delay that the game adds when raising a shield, although the animation doesn't show this at all.

This mod allows you to configure or completely remove this blocking delay. It works with any items - both standard vanilla ones and those added by other mods that are subject to the base blocking delay.

How It Works

The mod changes only server-side logic, so when installed on the client while playing on a dedicated server, there will be no effect.

Configuration Settings

File responsive-shields.toml

Raise Time (default: 0) - the number of ticks from the moment of right-clicking until the game starts blocking attacks.

Enabled (default: true) - determines whether the mod's effect is active.

Important Information

• Setting raise time to 0 allows blocking attacks instantly
• Value 5 corresponds to standard vanilla game behavior
• The client-side raise animation takes approximately one tick, so setting raise time to 1 or 2 ticks provides a good balance between responsiveness and difficulty of blocking hits