Spartan Shields

Merry Christmas! Spartan Shields 3.0.0 beta is now available for Minecraft 1.18.2!

Key Features

• The mod is now open source under Apache 2.0 license
• Added aluminum shields
• Introduced tower shields for all materials except unsupported Mekanism ones (they already exist in Mekanism Tools)
• Implemented shield bash compatibility for vanilla shield and other modded shields (requires adding to "spartanshields:shields_with_bash" tag)

Getting Started

Right from the beginning, you can craft a basic wooden shield as soon as you chop down some trees! In version 3.0.0, the recipe changed - now requiring only 4 planks instead of 6.

Alternatively, you can make a wooden tower shield that can display banners!

Wood won't last long, so you can upgrade the shield when you obtain new materials. Important: the wooden shield must be undamaged for upgrading!

The same can be done with the wooden tower shield! In version 3.0.0, this requires six units of the appropriate material.

Without additional mods, the following shield types are available:

• Stone braced shield and stone tower shield
• Iron plated shield and iron tower shield
• Gold gilded shield and gold tower shield
• Diamond reinforced shield and diamond tower shield
• Bulky obsidian shield and obsidian tower shield → increased knockback resistance + slower movement speed

Support for Materials from Popular Mods

Depending on installed mods and available materials, additional recipes become accessible.

The following shields require mods with corresponding OreDictionary [1.12.2 and below] or vanilla tags [1.13.2 and above]:

• Copper braced shield and copper tower shield [enabled by default in version 3.x]
• Tin braced shield and tin tower shield
• Bronze plated shield and bronze tower shield
• Steel plated shield and steel tower shield
• Silver gilded shield and silver tower shield → damages undead mobs on contact while blocking
• Lead plated shield and lead tower shield
• Nickel braced shield and nickel tower shield
• Invar plated shield and invar tower shield
• Constantan plated shield and constantan tower shield
• Platinum plated shield and platinum tower shield
• Electrum plated shield and electrum tower shield

Specific Mod Support

Requires Botania:

• Manasteel plated shield
• Terrasteel strengthened shield
• Elementium plated shield

All these shields can be regenerated using Botania mana. They also have Lexica Botania entries!

[Version 1.x and 3.x only] Requires Thermal Foundation:

• Signalum strengthened shield → inflicts weakness on mobs attacking the shield while blocking
• Radiant lumium shield → inflicts glowing on mobs attacking the shield while blocking
• Enderium strengthened shield → inflicts slowness on mobs attacking the shield while blocking

[Version 1.x only] Requires Abyssalcraft:

• Darkstone braced shield
• Abyssalnite plated shield
• Coralium plated shield
• Dreadium reinforced shield
• Ethaxium strengthened shield

[Version 1.x only] Requires Better with Mods:

• Soulforged steel plated shield

[Version 1.x only] Requires Thaumcraft:

• Thaumium plated shield
• Void plated shield

[Version 1.x only. Coming to version 3.x for MC 1.20.x] Requires Ender IO:

• Dark steel riot shield → powered by µI or RF/FE energy

[Version 1.x only] Requires RFTools:

• Infused riot shield → powered by RF/FE energy

[Version 1.x only] Requires Redstone Arsenal:

• Flux-infused shield → powered by RF/FE energy

Tower Shields

Tower shields function similarly to regular shields but can also display banners! In version 3.x, they gained more durability, can shield bash multiple enemies in a small radius, and have an increased cooldown time.

Enchantments

Most shields can be enchanted using an enchanting table, unlike the vanilla shield. The exception are shields powered by RF/FE energy.

Available enchantments:

• Unbreaking [Vanilla]
• Knockback [Vanilla] → enhances knockback power of shield bash
• Spikes - Max level: 3 - Gives a chance to damage any mob attacking the shield while blocking

New in 2.1.0 (for 1.14.4):

• Firebrand - Max level: 2 - Shield bash sets the target on fire. Higher levels increase burn duration
• Payback - Max level: 4 - Blocking absorbs about 50% of damage into the shield. This boosts shield bash damage. Higher levels increase maximum damage the shield can absorb by 2 points per level

Requires Java 8!

Future Version Plans

• IC2 shields
• Dragonbone shield (from Ice and Fire) (coming soon)