System Shields

🛡️ System Shields V2.0 - Custom Shields With Unique Abilities

⚔️ 10 Shields • Perfect Guard • Unique Counter Abilities

✅ Realms • Multiplayer • Addon Friendly

🏆 Achievements Friendly • 🚫 No Experimental Toggles • 🚫 No player.json

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🛡️ System Shields

System Shields expands Minecraft Bedrock combat with 10 craftable custom shields, each with its own defensive ability.

Burn enemies with the Magma Shield, throw attackers into the air with the Ender Shield, create light with Glowstone, poison enemies, earn XP while defending yourself, blast attackers with TNT and much more.

V2.0 also introduces a completely redesigned blocking system with:

⚔️ Perfect Guard

Raise your shield just before an attack lands to trigger stronger defensive effects.

⭐ Main Features

• 🛡️ 10 Custom Shields
• ⚔️ Unique ability for every shield
• ✨ New Perfect Guard mechanic
• 🧭 Directional blocking
• 🏹 Blocks incoming projectiles
• 💥 Custom counterattack mechanics
• ↩️ All blocked melee attacks push enemies back
• 🤚 Supports Main Hand & Offhand
• 🔨 Individual durability and repair materials
• ✨ Compatible with Shield enchantments
• 🔧 Unbreaking support
• 📖 Complete Shield Config book
• 👤 Personal Settings
• 🌍 Operator-controlled World Settings
• ⚙️ Enable or disable each shield ability separately
• 🔊 Optional sounds
• ✨ Optional particles
• 💬 Optional Perfect Guard feedback
• 👥 Multiplayer & Realms friendly
• 🌐 English, Spanish & Portuguese
• 🧩 Addon Friendly
• 🚫 Does not use player.json
• 🧪 No experimental gameplay toggles required
• 🏆 Achievements Friendly

🆕 What's New in V2.0?

V2.0 is a major combat and configuration rework for System Shields.

⚔️ New Blocking System

Custom shields now use a more controlled directional blocking system.

To block:

Hold a System Shield + Sneak

Attacks coming from the front are blocked.

Attacks from behind or environmental damage are not blocked.

This makes shield positioning and timing much more important.

✨ Perfect Guard

One of the biggest additions in V2.0 is:

Perfect Guard

Instead of simply holding your shield forever, you can raise it immediately before an enemy attack lands.

A successful Perfect Guard can:

• ⚔️ Strengthen shield counterattacks
• 💥 Increase counter damage
• 🔥 Improve status effects
• ↩️ Increase knockback
• ⚡ Trigger abilities immediately
• ⏱️ Bypass or reduce some shield cooldowns

A visual and sound cue can notify you when a Perfect Guard is successful.

Perfect Guard can also be disabled globally from World Settings if you prefer normal blocking only.

🧭 Directional Blocking

System Shields no longer treats every incoming damage source as a successful block.

Your shield protects you from attacks coming from the front.

This includes:

• ⚔️ Melee attacks
• 🏹 Projectiles

Damage from behind still reaches the player.

Environmental damage is not treated as a shield attack.

This makes shields behave more like actual directional defensive equipment.

🏹 Projectile Blocking

Projectiles that successfully hit your raised shield are stopped.

This includes incoming projectile attacks approaching from the protected direction.

Projectiles are NOT reflected.

Projectile reflection was removed because relaunching already-impacted Bedrock projectiles is inconsistent between different projectile types.

V2.0 instead uses a much more reliable system:

Block the projectile → Stop the projectile

This avoids unreliable reflection behavior while still protecting the player.

🔥 Improved Fire Protection While Blocking

V2.0 also fixes a frustrating combat problem involving burning enemies.

Previously, an enemy that was on fire could hit your shield and still transfer delayed burning damage to you even though the attack itself was blocked.

The new blocking system prevents that delayed fire damage from leaking through a successful shield block.

If you were already burning before blocking, your existing fire damage is not treated as shield protection.

↩️ Universal Shield Knockback

Successful melee blocks now push the attacker away from you.

This happens with every System Shield.

A Perfect Guard produces a stronger response.

The Slime Shield remains the specialist for knockback and launches enemies considerably farther than normal shields.

💥 TNT Shield Rework

The TNT Shield has been rebuilt to make its ability more reliable.

When an enemy hits your raised TNT Shield:

• 💥 A blast effect appears on the attacker
• ❤️ The attacker receives 4 damage
• ↩️ Normal shield knockback still applies
• 🧱 The explosion does not destroy blocks
• 🎯 The special explosion damage targets the attacker

This avoids the previous problem where the explosion effect could appear without reliably damaging the enemy that triggered it.

📖 Shield Config

System Shields includes an in-game Shield Config book.

Every player can receive the book when joining the world for the first time.

The V2.0 interface has been reorganized into clear sections:

• 👤 Personal Settings
• 🛡️ Shield Abilities
• 🌍 World Settings
• 📖 How to Block

Each setting now has its own page explaining exactly what it does before you enable or disable it.

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👤 Personal Settings

Personal Settings only affect the player changing them.

This means different players in the same multiplayer world can choose their own visual and audio preferences.

🔊 Sounds

Enable or disable:

• Shield sounds
• Impact sounds
• Perfect Guard audio feedback

✨ Particles

Enable or disable visual effects created by shield abilities and combat feedback.

💬 Guard Feedback

Controls the Actionbar feedback shown when you successfully perform a Perfect Guard.

🔄 Reset Personal Settings

Restores your own personal options without affecting anyone else.

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🌍 World Settings

World Settings affect the entire world.

Only players with operator permission can change them.

⚔️ All Abilities

Master switch for every special shield ability.

If disabled, System Shields can still block attacks, but their unique powers will not activate.

🛡️ Blocking Durability

Controls whether blocking attacks consumes shield durability.

✨ Perfect Guard

Enables or disables the Perfect Guard mechanic globally.

🔄 Reset World Settings

Restores the global combat configuration to its default values.

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🛡️ Individual Shield Controls

Every shield ability can be configured separately.

The Shield Abilities menu includes all 10 shields:

• Magma Shield
• Dripstone Shield
• Lapis Shield
• Slime Shield
• TNT Shield
• Mushroom Shield
• Glowstone Shield
• Wither Shield
• Ender Shield
• Shulker Shield

Selecting a shield opens its own information page.

That page explains:

• What the ability does
• How its normal block works
• How Perfect Guard improves it
• Whether the ability is currently ON or OFF

Normal players can read the information.

Operators can also enable or disable the ability.

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🛡️ All 10 System Shields

🔥 Magma Shield

Durability: 510

Repair: Magma Blocks

Enemies that hit your raised shield are set on fire.

Normal Guard:

• Burns the attacker for approximately 3 seconds.

Perfect Guard:

• Burns the attacker longer.
• Deals additional counter damage.

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🪨 Dripstone Shield

Durability: 480

Repair: Dripstone Blocks

A defensive shield focused on direct counter damage.

Normal Guard:

• Deals 3 damage to the attacker.

Perfect Guard:

• Deals 5 damage instead.

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💎 Lapis Shield

Durability: 380

Repair: Lapis Blocks

The Lapis Shield rewards defensive play with Experience.

Normal Guard:

• Builds guard charge.
• After several successful blocks, the shield rewards XP.

Perfect Guard:

• Immediately completes the guard charge.
• Rewards more XP.

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🟢 Slime Shield

Durability: 380

Repair: Slime Blocks

The strongest knockback shield.

Normal Guard:

• Launches blocked attackers farther away than other shields.

Perfect Guard:

• Produces an even stronger launch.

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💥 TNT Shield

Durability: 380

Repair: TNT Blocks

Creates a target-only blast when an enemy hits your shield.

• Deals 4 damage to the attacker.
• Creates an explosion visual effect.
• Does not destroy nearby blocks.
• Does not rely on a normal world explosion to damage the target.

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🍄 Mushroom Shield

Durability: 350

Repair: Red Mushroom Blocks

Enemies that hit your shield receive Poison.

Normal Guard:

• Applies Poison.

Perfect Guard:

• Applies stronger Poison for longer.

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💡 Glowstone Shield

Durability: 400

Repair: Glowstone

The Glowstone Shield creates portable dynamic light while held.

It produces approximately Light Level 13 around the player and automatically moves the light as you move.

Perfect Guard:

• Applies Weakness to the attacker.

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☠️ Wither Shield

Durability: 540

Repair: Bone Blocks

Enemies that hit your shield receive the Wither effect.

Normal Guard:

• Applies Wither to the attacker.

Perfect Guard:

• Applies a stronger Wither effect for longer.

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🟣 Ender Shield

Durability: 580

Repair: End Stone

The Ender Shield teleports blocked attackers away from you.

Normal Guard:

• Teleports the attacker approximately 8 blocks upward.
• Pushes the destination approximately 5 blocks forward.
• Uses a short cooldown between successful teleports.

Perfect Guard:

• Can bypass the normal teleport cooldown.
• Uses a shorter cooldown after the Perfect Guard teleport.

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🟪 Shulker Shield

Durability: 450

Repair: Shulker Shells

The Shulker Shield builds defensive charge and launches enemies using Levitation.

Normal Guard:

• Successful blocks build charge.
• After enough blocks, the attacker receives Levitation.

Perfect Guard:

• Triggers the ability immediately.
• Applies stronger Levitation for longer.

🔨 Shield Durability & Repair

Every System Shield has its own durability value and repair material.

Blocking normally consumes durability when Blocking Durability is enabled.

Creative and Spectator players do not consume shield durability from blocking.

✨ Unbreaking Support

System Shields can use compatible Shield enchantments.

The durability system also respects Unbreaking.

Higher Unbreaking levels reduce how often blocked attacks consume durability, following Minecraft-style durability probability.

📕 Lost the Config Book?

If you lose the Shield Config, you can craft another one.

The recipe uses:

• 📕 1 Book
• 🛡️ 1 Shield

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🔨 Crafting the Shields

Every System Shield is Survival craftable.

The recipes combine a normal Minecraft Shield with materials related to the special ability.

🔎 Show Shield Recipes

Ender Shield

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Dripstone Shield

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Glowstone Shield

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Magma Shield

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Mushroom Shield

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Shulker Shield

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Slime Shield

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Wither Shield

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Lapis Shield

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TNT Shield

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🌐 Languages

System Shields V2.0 currently includes:

• 🇺🇸 English
• 🇪🇸 Spanish
• 🇧🇷 Portuguese

Shield names, descriptions and configuration interfaces are translated.

🧩 Compatibility

🚫 No player.json

System Shields does not use player.json.

This helps reduce conflicts with addons that modify:

• Player animations
• Player models
• Player textures
• Player behavior

🧩 Other Addons

The addon uses the Minecraft Script API and custom shield items without replacing player.json.

This makes it easier to use System Shields together with other addons.

👥 Realms & Multiplayer

System Shields is designed for multiplayer worlds and Realms.

Personal options are stored independently for each player.

Global combat settings are controlled by operators.

🧪 No Experimental Gameplay

System Shields uses the stable Script API.

No Experimental Gameplay toggles are required.

🏆 Achievements

System Shields includes the Add-on product metadata used by modern Bedrock Add-ons and is designed to work without disabling achievements.

📦 Installation Guide

System Shields requires two packs:

• 📘 System Shields BP - shields, scripts, recipes and combat mechanics
• 🎨 System Shields RP - textures, models, animations and translations

Both packs are required.

Installation

1. Import System Shields BP
2. Import System Shields RP
3. Activate both packs in your world
4. Enter the world
5. Receive or craft the Shield Config
6. Craft the shields you want to use

No experimental gameplay toggles are required.

📜 Previous Updates

V1.7.6 - Shield Configuration

Introduced the Shield Configuration Book and controls for shield abilities and general addon behavior.

V2.0 completely reorganizes this configuration system into Personal Settings, Shield Abilities and operator-controlled World Settings.

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V1.7.5 - TNT Shield

Added the TNT Shield with an explosive counterattack ability.

V2.0 rebuilds the ability so the attacker reliably receives 4 points of target-only explosion damage.

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V1.6.8

• Added Unbreaking compatibility.
• Improved shield blocking animations.
• Fixed projectile-related problems.
• Added a dedicated category for System Shields.

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V1.2

• Removed the requirement for experimental gameplay.
• Improved compatibility with other addons.
• Fixed invisible item issues.
• Improved addon scripts.

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⚔️ Block at the Right Moment

System Shields isn't only about holding a shield.

Choose the shield that matches your playstyle.

Burn attackers.

Poison enemies.

Launch them away.

Earn XP.

Teleport them into the air.

Light dark caves.

Or time a Perfect Guard and turn defense into a counterattack.

10 Shields. 10 Abilities. One New Defensive Combat System.

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🚀 Join the Community

Want to report a bug, suggest another shield, follow development or request a custom Minecraft Bedrock addon?

🚀 Join my Discord Server

On the Discord you can:

• Report bugs
• Suggest new shields and mechanics
• Follow addon development
• Get VIP access
• See exclusive addon progress
• Request custom commissions

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🎁 Support the Project

If you enjoy System Shields and want to support future updates and new addon development, donations are appreciated.

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Every contribution helps support future updates and new projects.

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⚠️ Reupload Policy

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Do not redistribute the addon through your own direct download links.

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