Shells
The author built this one for Minecraft 1.20.1 on Forge. On other versions it may install and then do nothing.
Features
Shells is a mod, which adds two new armor sets - Turtle Armor and Shulker Armor, both based on their Minecraft: Dungeons look and the Turtle Shield. To make them, you have to collect special items added in this mod:
-the Turtle Shell, which can be crafted with 9 scute,
-the Shulker Cube, which sometimes drops from a shulker,
-the Turtle Gear Upgrade, which is used to upgrade shields and iron armor to their turtle versions, and can be found in buried treasures,
-and the Shulker Gear Upgrade, which is used to upgrade turtle armor to shulker armor, and can be found in end cities.
Both armor sets have a special set bonus, which activates when you wear all parts of the set.
Turtle armor gives you positive swimming effects - water breathing, conduit power and dolphins grace, as long as you wear the full set.
Shulker armor allows you to make entities close to you levitate, but every time you do it, your armor loses some durability. This comes with a cooldown.
The Turtle Shield on the other hand isn't much different to its iron variant, but it's a lot more durable.
Some smaller changes:
-turtle shell (the one you can wear on your head) has been renamed to Turtle Helmet, and the recipe for it has been replaced,
-remade loot tables for buried treasures and end cities.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 CurseForge — 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 shells-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 804 KB
- Download link checked 28 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.