Shield Modifiers

[Draycia]

• Apply blindness to people hit by the shield
• Apply weakness to people hit by the shield
• Apply slowness to people when hit by the shield
• Apply nausea to people when hit by the shield
• Optionally allow knockback on shields

I'm not sure if all servers would like having these enabled or how long / strong the effects should be (though both of those things should be configurable), but I don't see any harm in adding them anyway as they can be disabled.

[Flo56958]

Add the compatibility for the shield in off hand (so it can trigger modifier and exp)

[Draycia]

Maybe these effects could optionally be incompatible (just like the protection modifiers) too.

[Flo56958]

I think except for Reinforced (unbreaking) and mending non of the vanilla enchantments work on the shield. (and need to be implemented by us?)

[Draycia]

Knockback works on all items in the game which is why I added it.
And unbreaking/mending work too yeah.

I'm not sure about any others though and I don't plan on testing if any work.

[Flo56958]

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Shield
So the wiki says only the two enchantments. (but for Knockback you need to punch with the shield... not really intuitive. Maybe we could add a feature to push mobs back when a melee attack was countered with the shield. And projectiles could bounce back?[from #81])

[Flo56958]

See #81 for more Modifier ideas for the shield

[Flo56958]

The effects from hitting the shield could be combined with some ideas in the other issue.

[Draycia]

With the ideas in this issue I'm mainly thinking of people swapping with the F key (default for en_US layouts) and hitting things with their shields, then swapping back with F.

You can block with your shield in either hand (and can block with two shields if there's on in each hand) so I don't see it as too unintuitive. We could make descriptions something like "Bashing with shield applies weakness to the target."

[Draycia]

It would be optimal if you could left click while blocking to "Shield Bash" but minecraft doesn't support that and I don't think there's a way to simulate it. Swapping and hitting would likely be the best compromise if there's no better ways to do it.

Alternatively, applies the effect(s) when hit while blocking?