Ankh Shield

The Ankh Shield is a Hardmode accessory crafted from an Obsidian Shield and an Ankh Charm at a Tinkerer's Workshop. It provides immunity to knockback and fire blocks, as well as immunity from the Weak, Broken Armor, Poisoned, Bleeding, Slow, Confused, Silenced, Cursed, and Darkness debuffs. It additionally provides 4 defense.

The Ankh Shield currently entails the most complex crafting tree in Terraria. See Guide:Ankh Shield for a layout.

Trivia

 * Of the accessories, the Ankh Shield and the Celestial Stone gives the second most base defense, being bested only by the Paladin's Shield which has 6 base defense (However, you may take more damage if playing multiplayer, if you have low armor).
 * The Ankh Shield is the combination of 11 different individual accessories: Bezoar, Vitamins, Cobalt Shield, Obsidian Skull, Nazar, Blindfold, Trifold Map, Fast Clock, Megaphone, Armor Polish, and Adhesive Bandage. This makes it the most compact accessory in the game.
 * The Ankh Shield can remove all but two of the punishment debuffs applied to someone wearing a developer item such as Red's Wings.
 * You will need a world with several hardmode enemies, materials, and crafting stations to craft the Ankh Shield. Here is a crafting guide.
 * There are ten debuffs that can occur that this cannot block; Blackout, Ichor, Cursed Inferno, Chilled, Frozen, Frostburn, Potion Sickness, Venom, Tipsy, and On Fire!.
 * Ankh was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that meant "life", this character is depicted in the shield.
 * Ankh also means eye in hindi and urdu.