Custom Shield Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a custom shield with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
In Minecraft, once you have a shield, you can customize it with solid colors, borders, stripes, gradients and many other patterns just by adding a banner. This decorative shield can still be used to protect a player against attacks.
Let’s explore how to make a custom shield.
Required Materials to make a Custom Shield
In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft a custom shield:
Shield
First, you will need a shield:
How to make a Shield
Banner
Next, you will need any one of these banners:
How to make a White Banner
How to craft a Custom Shield in Survival Mode
1. Open the Crafting Menu
First, open your crafting table so that you have the 3×3 crafting grid that looks like this:
2. Add Items to make a Custom Shield
In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make a custom shield, place 1 shield and 1 banner in the 3×3 crafting grid.
When making a custom shield, it is important that the shield and banner are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. In the second row, there should be 1 banner in the first box and 1 shield in the second box. This is the Minecraft crafting recipe for a custom shield.
Now that you have filled the crafting area with the correct pattern, the custom shield will appear in the box to the right.
3. Move the Custom Shield to Inventory
Once you have crafted a custom shield, you need to move the new item to your inventory.
Congratulations, you have made a custom shield in Minecraft!
Enchantments for Custom Shield
In Minecraft, you can enchant a custom shield with the following enchantments:
| Enchantment | Description |
|---|---|
| Curse of Vanishing | Cursed item will disappear after player dies |
| Mending | Uses xp to mend your tools, weapons and armor |
| Unbreaking | Increases durability of item, in effect, by decreasing the chance of the tool, weapon, or armor taking durability damage when used |
- Enchantment is what the enchantment is called.
- Description is the description of what the enchantment does.
See a complete list of Minecraft Enchantments that is interactive and searchable.
Things to Do with Custom Shields
Here are some activities that you can do with custom shields in Minecraft:
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Command Generators
If you need help, you can use this tool to automatically generate custom shield commands for you:
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