Vanilla Sword Blocking
This modification offers an elegant solution as either a datapack or a Paper plugin that revives the classic sword-blocking mechanics. You can now deploy your sword for protection, significantly mitigating incoming damage. The best part: it's server-side only. This means every player automatically benefits from blocking, regardless of client-side mod installations — just make sure the server has it.
Core features:
Taking damage equates to halving your received blows during covering maneuvers. You move at a downsized pace while sword guarding remains active. The system handles each and every sword type, independent of crafting design. Generally aligns successfully along altered swords in modded bundles too.
Technical heads-up:
Choose the datapack version starting with 1.21.5, and note sword blocking appears to stick even post-disabling the selected asset mod choice.
Workings Details
The plugin makes use of the "consumable" component implemented lately. It tricks Minecraft into regarding swords as your edible stuff. Everything is made for providing swanky blocking-style visuals. Over and above this, you don’t take useful pieces out of inventory; instead attack damaging process detects accordingly while defending effectively from threats because guard acts out beforehand.
Help message:
Locking the whole animation playback depend required clients indeed upgraded towards 1.21.4 patch starting from accurate interim settings.
