How to Use Tool Blocking Animations and Hide Unused Shields

Cookey Mod changes how shields and held tools appear on your screen during combat, clearing up screen space while restoring classic blocking visuals. Because it is a client-side tweak mod, these visual changes work on multiplayer servers without changing actual combat mechanics.

Enabling Tool Blocking With a Shield

In vanilla Minecraft, holding right-click with a shield raises the shield across a large portion of your view while your main-hand tool stays idle. With Cookey Mod's tool blocking feature active, blocking with a shield plays a classic blocking animation directly on the tool in your main hand.

1. Equip any tool or weapon in your main hand and place a shield in your off-hand.

2. Open Cookey Mod's configuration menu from your mod settings screen.

3. Enable the tool blocking animation option.

4. Hold your use-item key in game to block; all tools will now tilt into a defensive blocking pose when your shield activates.

Hiding Unused Shields

Even when you are not actively blocking, an off-hand shield normally takes up space at the bottom corner of your screen.

1. Return to the Cookey Mod settings menu and locate the visual tweaks section.

2. Turn on the option to hide unused shields.

3. Resume your game to confirm that your off-hand shield stays out of view while walking, mining, or swinging weapons, only influencing your animations when you actively block.