Minecraft Shield PNG

The Shield exactly as it looks in the Minecraft 26.3 inventory, as a transparent PNG. It is the render of the item itself, not a loose texture: what you see in your hand and in chests. In the creative inventory it sits in the “Combat” tab.

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Sizes and quality

The Shield render is 128 × 128 pixels, the size the game draws the item at in the inventory. It scales up by whole numbers to 1024 px with no interpolation, so the edges stay sharp.

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In the full tool you can add a shadow or shine, animate it as a video or use it for a tiled background, alongside the game’s 1,700+ items.

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How the shield works in Minecraft

The shield blocks melee hits, arrows and almost every explosion coming at you from the front. It is crafted from six planks with an iron ingot at the top center, has 336 durability and only loses it to hits of 3 damage or more.

You raise it by holding the use button in Java or by sneaking in Bedrock, and it starts blocking after a quarter of a second. It covers a half circle in the direction you face, regardless of whether you look up or down. Tipped and flaming arrows do not affect you, and most arrows bounce off toward other targets.

Its weak spot is axes: one hit from a player or mob holding an axe, or from the warden, disables all your shields for 5 seconds. While it is raised you move at sneaking speed.

You can decorate it with a banner to carry your emblem. Once applied it cannot be changed or washed off, and the pattern shows at half the resolution of the banner.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Shield