Shield Mechanics

Shield mechanics changes the mechanic of shield blocking to add gear progression to shields allowing better shields to absorb more damage, aswell as adding enchantments on shields.

• Damage Reduction on Block: Shields now reduce damage by a customizable percentage, instead of blocking 100% damage, giving players a reason to upgrade shields.
• Passive Protection: Gain percentage-based damage reduction just by holding a shield in your offhand, even without actively blocking.
• Customizable Shields: Every shields passive and active blocking damage reduction can be set in the config file
• Mod Compatibility: Automatically generates adjustable config entries for shields from other mods, by default the block values depend on the shields durability to gauge its quality.

Also introduces 5 new enchantments exclusively for shields:

• Blocking: Increases block damage reduction by up to 10%.
• Last Resort: Grants a chance to gain absorption hearts when blocking at low health.
• Blindness: Chance to blind attackers on a successful block.
• Knockback: Chance to knock back attackers on block.
• Slowness: Chance to slow attackers on block.The more the merrier, as this mod changes how shields works it is best paired with other mods which add new shields to the game, like Spartan Shields.