About Passive Shield
From Modrinth🛡 The shield is hidden and provides protection passively when held idle in the offhand.
Passive Shield is a configurable mod which makes some changes to the shield mechanics. When a shield is held in the offhand and not in use, it will not be rendered. Whenever the player right-clicks to raise the shield, it will be shown again. When the shield is not raised, it will still negate some damage. By default 33% extra negation, but this can be changed in the config file.
The shield provides the same passive protection when held idle in the main hand.
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All available config options:
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hideShieldWhenNotInUse default true
When enabled, the shield will be hidden unless a player presses right-click.
passiveShieldPercentageDamageNegated default 0.3333, min 0.0, max 1.0
The percentage of damage that will be negated when a player is hit while holding a shield that's not held high.
The shield is hidden when held in the offhand until raised:
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The default damage without a shield:
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The shield passively negating damage when not raised in the offhand:
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The shield passively negating damage when not raised in the mainhand:
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You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.
Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.
For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 29 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Passive Shield on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 26.1.2-4.0-fabric+forge+neo, released 2026-10-28
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions) | 26.3 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions) | 26.3 |
| NeoForge | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions) | 26.3 |
| Quilt | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions) | 26.3 |
From 10 recorded builds of Passive Shield.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.1.2-4.0-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-10-28 | 26.1.2 | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 26.3.0-4.0-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-10-02 | 26.3 | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 26.2.0-4.0-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-10-02 | 26.2 | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 1.21.1-4.0-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-10-02 | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 1.20.1-4.0-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-10-02 | 1.20.1 | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 26.3.0-3.9-fabric+forge+neo | 2026-09-19 | 26.3 | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project e0M1UDsY (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Passive Shield on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Works on a server
From source side supportModrinth lists server-side support for Passive Shield as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 28 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-29Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree












