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Disabling shield shouldn’t trigger invincibility

When you disable someone’s shield with an axe, they get ‘invincible’ for a brief period just like if you had damaged them, but as you might know, disabling shields does not damage the other player. They don’t even turn red, which makes it so confusing and nonsense. Because of that, I suggest you remove the mechanic that gives invincibility frames for players that got their shield disabled; those should only be given when the players gets actually hit (damaged). Additionally, something unrelated to the vanilla game made the vast majority of the PvP community used to shield disables NOT giving invincibility, leading to the creation of a technique called ‘stun’ that’s used by almost everybody in PvP servers. The vast majority of servers manually add the ‘stun’ mechanic (remove invincibility after shield disables), and the vast majority of PvPers agree that it makes PvP way more fun. You have no idea how important ‘shield stunning’ has become to PvP and, since the way it currently works in vanilla doesn’t make sense and is confusing (since there’s nothing visual that indicates that the player who got their shield disabled gets invincibility frames), I think ‘stuns’ should be added to the game. Just make it so MOBS CANNOT instantly hit players after disabling their shield, but PLAYERS CAN! ;)

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• May 04, 2026 23:37
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  • June 01, 2026 06:57
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  Upvote MC-308543 instead of making this a feedback post, this is a bug not an intended change.

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  • August 08, 2026 17:23
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  I couldn't find a way to reply but this is for the person that said to upvote a bug report:
  That bug report implies that 'shield stunning' was a vanilla feature that randomly got removed in 1.21.11 and, although many people believe that, it's not true. I really don't see 'stuns' not working as a bug, since they never worked without certain plugins that enable it (also, it was a bug from a plugin in the first place).
  I see shields giving invincibility frames as something that was not given proper thought when they made changes to the shield in (iirc) 1.11, making it a poorly planned mechanic, but surely not a bug. In versions 1.9 and 1.10, shields didn't block 100% of damage and knockback, which made the invincibility frames necessary. In my opinion, it turned into a bad mechanic (that should've been removed) when the shield started blocking 100% of damage and knockback (in most cases), and that's why I posted it as feedback.