This Mod add's the Banging Skeleton from Skyrim as an Entity that can naturally spawn in the Overworld...
The Animation starts playing on approach and the Skeleton Entity will hold an iron sword and a shield on spawn. The Entity acts similiar to a Zombie/Wither Skeleton (Without wither effect) and they dont burn in the Sun.
There isn't much more that it adds, so if you guys want more similiar mobs or more stuff, you should follow this project!
This project has one bug, that I couldn't fix, it's !sometimes! when you approach the Entity it does the Sound effect, but doesn't do the Animtion
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.4
- 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.
- Ships as shield-banging-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 51 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.