Java Edition:Shield with Under 50% Durability
In 25w04a (1.21.5 snapshot), a bug caused shields to take no damage. This makes it impossible to get a shield durability below 50%, the minimum durability they can be found at in structure loot.
Obtaining
In 25w04a (1.21.5 snapshot), a bug causes shields to take no damage.[1] This bug makes it impossible to decrease the durability on a shield. This bug also makes it impossible to obtain the shield broken statistic. Damaged shields can be found in reward chests and vaults in trial chambers but at minimum the shield has 168 durability, half its full durability of 336. Any shields with 167 or less durability becomes discontinued in 25w04a. Shields could take damage and have any durability from their introduction in 15w33c to 25w03a. The shields not taking damage bug was fixed in the next version 25w05a, recontinuing shields with under 50% durability.