How To Make a Shield Minecraft | Step By Step Guide

A shield is a defensive tool that you can make to protect yourself from attacks. In Minecraft, the materials used to make the shield are very basic. Therefore, it’s easy to craft. The shield protects you from attacks. This article will teach you how to make a shield in Minecraft.

How To Make a Shield Minecraft

Knowing how to make your shield on Minecraft is great and beneficial in the long run while playing Minecraft.

There are different items you need to acquire to make a shield in Minecraft. Such items include a crafting table, 6 wooden planks, 1 iron ingot, and iron ore.

Follow the steps below to make a shield Minecraft:

1. Gather woods.

You need to find a tree and bring it down. Your survival mode depends on how skillful you are with cutting down trees. 

In Minecraft, you can make use of anything, even your fists to cut down trees except your sword. It is also possible to use wood of different types, not necessarily woods of the same type.

2. Get iron ore.

Next is to gather the iron ore. When crafting your iron ingot, you will need to get iron ore. It is one of the requirements needed to make iron ingots. 

Iron ores are a little yellow and tan flake. They’re located at sea level or slightly lower. Furthermore, you will need a pickaxe to mine the iron ore.

3. Make wood planks.

After gathering wood, then create wood planks with it. It is also a requirement to make a shield in Minecraft. To create a wood plank, there are procedures to go through. 

First of all, open the crafting table. Then place one wood block into any square in the crafting grid. From the crafting grid, you will get wood planks that you have to drag to your inventory. 

You can repeat the procedures another four times. Then you have the required amount of wood planks for your shield.

4. Get iron ingots.

To get an iron ingot, you need to put the iron ore in a furnace. To start the process, you must open the furnace, then add fuel to the bottom square. This fuel can be in the form of wood, coal, charcoal, or whatever is available in your inventory that can burn.

Next, you place the iron ore into the top square. You will get iron ingots, then drag the result to the inventory.

5. Make a shield.

It is at this point that you now start creating a shield for protection. So, start by opening your crafting table. Then put six wood blocks into the crafting grid. This grid comprises two squares in the first column, the bottom two squares in the second column, and two more squares in the third column.

After that, place an iron ingot in the remaining top box in the second column. The result of this process is a new shield which will now be dragged into the inventory. 

How To Decorate a Shield Minecraft

This is one of the things you can do after creating a shield. It involves adding a banner to your shield but it can only be done on the Java edition. Here’s how to do it:

• The first step is to open the crafting table.

• Keep your shield at the center square on the crafting grid.

• Then place one banner into the square to the shield’s left.

• After some time, the process will be completed. And all you have to do is drag the decorated shield into the inventory.

How To Make a Banner In Minecraft

If you do not have a custom banner you need to make a banner before customizing your shield. You need a stick and six wool to make a banner. Then to customize the banner, you need a loom, a banner, and some dye.

Here is how to make a banner:

• Open the crafting table menu.

• Place the six wool and one stick in a pattern. The six wool must be of the same color.

• Take the banner from the top right box into your inventory.

• Open your loom.

• In the loom, position your banner and dye then choose a pattern of your choice.

• If you are satisfied with the pattern, move the custom banner into your inventory.

How To Use a Shield In Minecraft

To use a shield, you need to equip yourself and use it actively. You can hold in the major hand you use to fight, but it is better on the off-hand. This is because it makes it easy for you to defend yourself from incoming attacks. 

When the shield is in your off-hand, you have to press the secondary action key or right-click to use it. You will notice that when you’re using the shield, you will move slowly; this is to defend yourself better. 

Using the shield does not mean it protects all of your body, the part that is left unprotected is still open to danger. Meanwhile, every attack lessens the shield’s durability. And if you don’t fix it with an anvil, it will break. This in turn keeps you unsafe. You can also add enchantments—mending & unbreaking to your shield to make it last longer.

What a Shield Can Block And Cannot Block In Minecraft

A shield blocks incoming attacks but not all attacks. Here are the attacks that a shield blocks in Minecraft:

• Melee attacks

• Arrows

• Tridents, snowballs, and eggs

• Projectile attacks

• Bee stings

• Explosion damages

• Beam attacks

Here are the attacks that a shield cannot block:

• Arrows shot from a crossbow with piercing enchantment.

• Status effect of tipped arrows and shulker bullet on bedrock edition.

• TNT is lit by players or Redstone on the java edition.

• Teleportation and fall damage.

• Attacks from mobs with an axe.

• Magic attacks like a sonic shriek of a warden.

• A direct hit from a warden.

Bottom Line

At the end of this great read, you should have learned how to make a shield in Minecraft, customize it, and even make a banner. With the knowledge you’ve gained, all you have to do now is start the game and protect yourself better.

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References

• digitaltrends.com – how to make a shield in Minecraft

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