Armor Guard (Fabric & Neoforge & Forge)

🛡️ Armor Guard

A lightweight, essential multi loader mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge that protects your armor pieces and Elytra from shattering during combat.

Losing full Netherite armor or an Elytra mid air due to sudden durability loss is one of the most frustrating experiences in Minecraft. Armor Guard saves your worn equipment from breaking into particles while enforcing a fair play penalty to eliminate immortality exploits.

⚔️ Current Features

1. Armor & Elytra Preservation 🛡️

• Deathblow Prevention: When your helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots, or Elytra take lethal durability damage, the mod catches the damage and locks the item safely at 1 durability.
• Save Precious Gear: Keeps all rare trims, high tier enchantments (Protection IV, Unbreaking III, Mending), and Netherite upgrades completely safe from vanishing.

2. Fair Play Anti Exploit Mechanics ⚖️

• Zero Armor & Toughness Penalty: Once an equipped armor piece drops to 1 durability, it grants 0 Defense and 0 Armor Toughness until repaired. You cannot exploit 1 HP armor to become permanently invincible!
• Dynamic HUD Reflection: The in game armor bar (chestplate icons) dynamically updates to reflect the loss of defense, clearly indicating that the piece is broken.
• Elytra Flight Halt: Elytra locked at 1 durability stops gliding immediately, safely saving the item from breaking without allowing infinite flight on broken wings.

3. Clear Actionbar Feedback 💬

• Instant Combat Warning: The moment an armor piece is saved from destruction, an alert appears on your Actionbar: [Armor Guard] <Item Name> was saved from breaking (Durability: 1)! It will provide no defense until repaired.

4. Seamless Repairing 🔨

• Mending & Anvil Friendly: As soon as you gain XP with Mending or repair the item at an anvil, its armor points and normal behavior are fully restored.

🚀 Planned Features

• Visual "Cracked" Armor Overlay: Broken armor pieces showing a subtle damaged visual effect in GUI or on your player model.
• Auto Unequip Option: Configurable toggle to automatically swap broken armor pieces into your inventory if empty slots are available.
• Broken Elytra Parachute: Optional slow fall glide upon Elytra breaking to prevent fatal fall damage.

🧪 Multi Loader & Multi Version Support

Official releases are natively compiled and tested for:

• Minecraft 1.19.4 – 1.20.1 (Fabric & Forge)
• Minecraft 1.20.5 – 1.21.1 (Fabric & NeoForge)
• Minecraft 26.1 – 26.3 (Fabric & NeoForge)

⚙️ Requirements:

• Fabric: Fabric Loader 0.15.0+ and Fabric API
• NeoForge: NeoForge 21.1+ (1.21.1) / NeoForge 26.1+ (26.x)
• Forge: Forge 47.2.0+ (1.20.1)

💬 Feedback & Suggestions

Have suggestions for new mechanics or adjustments? Let us know in the comments below!