Broken Equipment

Broken Equipment makes your gear break without ever disappearing on Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge.

When a tool, weapon or armor piece reaches 0 durability, it is not destroyed: it becomes ruined. Repair it and it comes back exactly as it was, with every enchantment, custom name and piece of mod data still on it.

Features

• Tools, weapons, armor, shields, bows, tridents, elytra... never break for good
• Ruined items keep everything: enchantments, custom names, trims and the data added by other mods (Tiered, Apotheosis, etc.)
• Ruined items are useless until repaired:
  • no attack damage, armor or attribute bonuses
  • enchantments are disabled
  • tools mine at bare-hand speed
  • bows, shields and other usable items cannot be used
  • shields no longer block anything
• Ruined armor cannot be equipped, and ruined armor already worn is no longer shown on the player
• Repair works the usual way: anvil, Mending, or anything else that restores durability
• Ruined textures generated automatically from each item's own texture, for vanilla and modded items, including resource packs
• 3D shields turn into a flat, cracked version of their front face when ruined
• The item name shows as "Ruined ..." in tooltips and above the hotbar, then goes back to the original name once repaired
• The durability bar is hidden while the item is ruined
• /brokenequipment break [mainhand|offhand|both] [targets] command to instantly ruin held items (op level 2)

Compatibility

Works with any mod item that uses durability. Tested with:

• Advanced Netherite
• Epic Knights: Shields Armor and Weapons
• Fantasy Armor (Medieval Series)
• Immersive Armors
• Spartan Shields Unofficial
• Spartan Weaponry Unofficial

Tinkers' Construct tools keep their own broken-tool system.

Items can be excluded (so they break normally) with the item tag brokenequipment:breakable.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.x
• Java 21

Credits

Inspired by the idea of Ruined Equipment, rebuilt from scratch to work with modded gear.