How to Make a Shield in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Shield in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Shield recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 6 matching wood planks and 1 Iron Ingot in a Crafting Table to make 1 Shield.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 7 ingredient items and produces 1 Shield. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 448 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Shield

A shield blocks most melee and projectile damage from the front while raised. An axe hit disables it briefly, and it can be decorated with a banner.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Shield. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.