NoShields is a lightweight and comprehensive plugin for Paper/Purpur servers designed to completely prevent players from crafting, obtaining, or using shields. It's perfect for servers wanting to create a more fast-paced or classic PvP environment.
🛡️ Features
- Block Crafting: Prevents players from crafting shields in a crafting table or their inventory.
- Block Equipping: Stops players from equipping shields in their off-hand (or main hand) via inventory clicks or the swap key.
- Block Pickup: Prevents players from picking up shield items from the ground.
- Block Villager Trades: Removes shield trades from villagers, preventing them from being acquired.
- Remove on Startup: Scans player inventories when the plugin starts and removes any existing shields.
- Fully Configurable: Every feature can be toggled on or off, and all player-facing messages can be customized in the config.yml.
🔌 Compatibility
- Server: Paper / Purpur
- Version: 1.21.x
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as NoShields-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 18 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.