ShieldStunFix

Complete rewrite

ShieldStunFix 2.0.0 is rebuilt from scratch: smaller, faster and correct on every affected version.

What it does

- Restores shield stunning: disable a shield with an axe, then land your follow-up hit instantly - Only affects the hit that disables the shield, normal blocked hits keep vanilla invulnerability - Safer than Paper's unsupported skip-vanilla-damage-tick-when-shield-blocked option, which changes every blocked hit

Compatibility

- One jar for Paper 1.20.6, 1.21 to 1.21.11 and 26.1 to 26.3 - Folia supported - Works on Java 21 and Java 25 servers

Performance

- Zero background work: no tasks, no timers, no tick listeners - Only runs when a shield is actually disabled - No config, no commands, no dependencies

Fixes

- Respects modern item components (1.21.5+): disable duration and which items can disable shields now come from the game, not hardcoded values - Corrected project description: Paper never removed axe shield-disabling, it removed the old stun behavior

Install

Drop the jar in plugins/ and restart. Not needed on 1.20.4 or older, stunning still works there natively. ( I lowk lost the old version )