Chestplate

Chestplate
Rarity	Common
Durability	Leather: 80 Chainmail: 240 Iron: 240 Golden: 112 Diamond: 528 Netherite: 592
Renewable	Netherite: No All Other: Yes
Stackable	No

Chestplates are a type of armor that covers the upper body of the player. There are six types of chestplates: leather, chainmail, iron, diamond, gold and netherite.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Leather or Gold Ingot or Iron Ingot or Diamond
Damaged Matching Chestplate		The durability of the two chestplates is added together, making a fully healed chestplate. You can get 5% more durability while using a grindstone to fix.

Upgrading

Netherite Upgrade +
Diamond Chestplate +
Netherite Ingot

Upgrade Gear

Repairing

Grinding

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
Damaged Matching Chestplates		The durability of the two chestplates are added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Chestplates can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the armor material's repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the chestplate's maximum durability, rounded down.

Mob loot

Zombies and skeletons have a small chance to spawn wearing any armor. There is an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) for the mob to drop a chestplate upon death. The chestplate the mob drops is usually badly damaged, and rarely enchanted.

Vindicators and Pillagers spawning in raids have a 4.1% chance (5.12% on hard difficulty) to drop iron chestplate, which is almost always badly damaged and rarely enchanted.

Natural generation

Two armor stands are found in each taiga village outdoor armory, one of them equipped with an iron chestplate.

Chest loot

In Bedrock Edition, a sealed room in woodland mansions can appear that has a chest sometimes containing an Efficiency I leather tunic.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Leather Tunic	Buried treasure	Chest	1	25%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
		Small ruins chest	1	8.3%
	Village	Tanner's chest	1	31.8%
Enchanted Leather Tunic	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1	20.8%
Chainmail Chestplate	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	14.9%
Iron Chestplate	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	12%
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	25.6%
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
Golden Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	9.8%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	19%
Enchanted Golden Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Bridge chest	1	11.2%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
Diamond Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	7.7%
Enchanted Diamond Chestplate	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Treasure chest	1	18.7%
Bedrock Edition
Leather Tunic	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
		Small ruins chest	1	8.3%
	Village	Tanner's chest	1	31.8%
Enchanted Leather Tunic	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1	20.8%
Chainmail Chestplate	Buried treasure	Chest	1	57.2%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	14.7%
Iron Chestplate	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.6%
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	25.6%
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
Golden Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	9.8%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	19%
Enchanted Golden Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Bridge chest	1	11.2%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
Diamond Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	7.6%
Enchanted Diamond Chestplate	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Chestplate	Bastion remnant	Treasure chest	1	18.7%

Trading

In Java Edition, novice-level armorer villagers have a 40% chance to sell an iron chestplate for 9 emeralds. Journeyman-level armorers have a 40% chance to sell a chainmail chestplate for 4 emeralds. Master-level armorers always sell an enchanted diamond chestplate for 18-35 emeralds. Novice-level leatherworker villagers have a ²⁄₃ chance to sell a leather tunic for 7 emeralds. Journeyman-level Leatherworker villagers always offer the same trade.

Armorer villagers may give the players with the Hero of the Village effect a chainmail chestplate.

In Bedrock Edition, novice-level armorer villagers have a 25% chance to sell an iron chestplate for 9 emeralds. Journeyman-level armorers have a ¹⁄₃ chance to sell a chainmail chestplate for 4 emeralds. Master-level armorers have a 50% chance to sell an enchanted diamond chestplate for 16 emeralds. Novice-level leatherworker villagers have a 50% chance to sell leather tunic for 7 emeralds. Master-level leatherworkers always sell an enchanted leather tunic for 7 emeralds.

Usage

Chestplates can be placed in the 2nd armor slot of a player's inventory for activation.

Defense points

Defense points are each signified by chestplates in the armor bar above the health bar. 1 defense point is half of a chestplate in the armor bar. Each defense point reduces any damage dealt to the player, which is absorbed by armor by 4%, increasing additively with the number of defense points. Different materials and combinations of armor provide different levels of defense.

The following table shows the amount of defense points added by chestplates.

Material	Defense points
Leather	3 ()
Golden	5 ()
Chainmail
Iron	6 ()
Diamond	8 ()
Netherite

Knockback Resistance

A netherite chestplate provides 10% knockback resistance.

Durability

The following table shows the amount of damage each piece of armor can absorb before being destroyed.

Any "hit" from a damage source that can be blocked by armor removes one point of durability from each piece of armor worn for every 4 of incoming damage (rounded down, but never below 1). Damage taken that unenchanted armor does not protect against (such as falling or drowning) does not damage the armor, even if it is enchanted to protect against that type of damage. The following chart displays how many hits chest plates can endure.

Netherite armor is not damaged by lava or fire when worn.

Material	Durability
Leather	80
Golden	112
Chainmail	240
Iron
Diamond	528
Netherite	592

Repair

Chestplates may be repaired by using them along with some of their crafting material (leather, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds, or netherite ingots) in an anvil. Chainmail chestplates may be repaired in this way with iron ingots. They may also be repaired by crafting them together with another chestplate of the same material.

Enchantments

A chestplate can receive the following enchantments:

Enchantment	Max Level	Notes
Fire Protection	IV
Projectile Protection	IV
Blast Protection	IV
Protection	IV
Unbreaking	III
Thorns	III
Mending	I
Curse of Binding	I
Curse of Vanishing	I

Smelting usage

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget	Iron Chestplate or Chainmail Chestplate or Golden Chestplate + Any fuel	0.1

Piglins

Piglins are attracted to golden chestplates and pick them up, examining them for 6 to 8 seconds. Piglins can wear other chestplates but are not attracted to them. They prefer stronger chestplates over weaker chestplates, with one exception: They always prefer golden chestplates over all other chestplates, throwing out stronger chestplates to equip them. Enchanted chestplates are preferred over unenchanted chestplates.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Leather armor rustles	Players	When a leather chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_leather	subtitles.item.armor.equip_leather	1.0	1.0	16
	Chain armor jingles	Players	When a chainmail chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_chain	subtitles.item.armor.equip_chain	1.0	1.0	16
	Iron armor clanks	Players	When an iron chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_iron	subtitles.item.armor.equip_iron	1.0	1.0	16
	Gold armor clinks	Players	When a gold chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_gold	subtitles.item.armor.equip_gold	1.0	1.0	16
	Diamond armor clangs	Players	When a diamond chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_diamond	subtitles.item.armor.equip_diamond	1.0	1.0	16
	Netherite armor clanks	Players	When a netherite chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_netherite	subtitles.item.armor.equip_netherite	0.8	1.0/0.9	16
	Item breaks	Entity-Dependent	When a chestplate's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break	0.8	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Leather Tunic	leather_chestplate	Item	freeze_immune_wearables	item.minecraft.leather_chestplate
Chainmail Chestplate	chainmail_chestplate	Item	None	item.minecraft.chainmail_chestplate
Iron Chestplate	iron_chestplate	Item	None	item.minecraft.iron_chestplate
Diamond Chestplate	diamond_chestplate	Item	None	item.minecraft.diamond_chestplate
Golden Chestplate	golden_chestplate	Item	None	item.minecraft.golden_chestplate
Netherite Chestplate	netherite_chestplate	Item	None	item.minecraft.netherite_chestplate

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Leather Tunic	leather_chestplate	336	Item	item.leather_chestplate.name
Chainmail Chestplate	chainmail_chestplate	340	Item	item.chainmail_chestplate.name
Iron Chestplate	iron_chestplate	344	Item	item.iron_chestplate.name
Diamond Chestplate	diamond_chestplate	348	Item	item.diamond_chestplate.name
Golden Chestplate	golden_chestplate	352	Item	item.golden_chestplate.name
Netherite Chestplate	netherite_chestplate	610	Item	item.netherite_chestplate.name

Item data

When leather tunics are dyed, it has the following NBT:

•  tag: Parent tag.
  •  display: Display properties.
    •  color: The color of the leather armor. The tooltip displays "Dyed" if advanced tooltips are disabled, otherwise it displays the hexadecimal color value. Color codes are calculated from the Red, Green and Blue components using this formula:
      Red<<16 + Green<<8 + Blue

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Iron Man	Wear a full suit of Iron Armor.	—	15G	Bronze
		Tie Dye Outfit	Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor.	—	15G	Bronze
		Cover me in debris	Wear a full set of Netherite armor	Have a full set of Netherite armor in your inventory.	50G	Gold
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Suit Up	Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor	Acquire Hardware	Have any type of iron armor in your inventory.	story/obtain_armor
	Cover Me with Diamonds	Diamond armor saves lives	Diamonds!	Have any type of diamond armor in your inventory.	story/shiny_gear
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	nether/distract_piglin
	Cover Me in Debris	Get a full suit of Netherite armor	Hidden in the Depths	Have a full set of netherite armor in your inventory.	nether/netherite_armor

History

Java Edition Classic
June 14, 2009					Notch discussed how armor would work in Survival mode: "Two types of swords, two types of armor, two types of helmets. The basic versions require iron. The advanced versions require steel, which you make by combining iron and coal. Carrying swords, armor or helmets take up inventory slots, but otherwise have no penalty and work pretty much as you expect (prevent some damage, or cause more damage)".
August 13, 2009					Notch tested chestplates on the human. They were merely aesthetic at the time and had no effect on gameplay.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added the plate chestplate.
					Added the model and the texture for the unused chain chestplate.
					The plate chestplate has been tested on zombies and skeletons. It had no effect on gameplay.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-1			Plate and chain armor chestplates are no longer used.
		20091231-2			Added the single item form of relation to leather, studded, chainmail, and plate (iron) chestplates.
					The textures of the cloth chestplate are taken from one of Notch's previous games, Legend of the Chambered. The rest are from Legend of the Chambered 2.
20100206					Added the item form of golden and diamond chestplates.
					Removed the leather-chain chestplate.
February 9, 2010					Notch revealed new models for armor - including chestplates.
20100212-1					Added armor models.
					Armor models are now displayed on the player in the inventory.
20100218					Added models of cloth, chainmail, iron, gold, and diamond chestplates.
					Chestplates can now be crafted and worn.
					Chestplates now functions. All chestplates give 8 (). Chestplates have limited durability, with lower tier chestplates less durable than higher tier chestplates.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8					With the introduction of leather, "Cloth Chestplate" has been renamed to "Leather Tunic".
					Leather tunics is now crafted with leather instead of cloth.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			The armor protection behavior has been changed. Previous to this update, the total armor protection is based in this equation: ((total equipped armor damage reduction − 1) × (all equipped armor max damage − total equipped armor damage)) ÷ (total equipped armor max damage + 1)). Armor no longer reduces certain damage types to be covered by enchantments.
		October 3, 2011			The first images of a player wearing enchanted chestplates are revealed.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Iron chestplates can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4			Chestplates can now be enchanted.
1.1		12w01a			Iron chestplates can now be found in the new blacksmith chests in villages.
1.3.1		12w15a			⇧ Shift+clicking can now be used to wear chestplates.
		12w21a			Chainmail chestplates can now be obtained legitimately in survival mode through trading.
					Blacksmith villagers now sell chainmail chestplates for 11–14 emeralds.
					Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond chestplates for 16–18 emeralds.
					Blacksmith villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–13 emeralds.
					Butchers now sell leather tunics for 4 emeralds.
1.4.2		12w32a			Mob armor has been reintroduced. A partial or full set of any armor is now sometimes worn by zombies, skeletons and zombie pigmen, with the likelihood increasing with difficulty.
		August 17, 2012			Jeb and Dinnerbone tweeted pictures of dyeable leather chestplates.
		12w34a			Leather tunics can now be dyed by crafting a leather tunic piece with dyes. Dyes can be removed by using dyed leather tunics on a cauldron with water.
					Default leather tunic textures are now slightly darker and have buttons.
		12w34b			The texture of leather and diamond chestplates has been changed. Leather tunics now have longer sleeves. Diamond chestplates now have notches under the shoulders.
		12w36a			Dyed leather tunics are now more saturated and have a slight tint of tan in respect to the default armor color.
		12w37a			Leather armor now have non-dyed parts on cap, pants and boots. This has been implemented so that players can distinguish between other types of armor and similarly colored leather armor.
1.4.6		12w50a			The Thorns enchantment can now be enchanted on chestplates.
1.5		13w04a			Armor in the player's hand can now be equipped by right-clicking.
					Dispensers can now equip nearby players with armor.
1.6.1		13w18a			Golden chestplates are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
1.7.2		13w36a			Leather boots can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items by fishing.
1.8		14w02a			Trades changed: armorer villagers now sell chain boots for 5–7 emeralds, chain leggings for 9–11 emeralds, chain chestplates for 11–15 emeralds and chain helmets for 5–7 emeralds.
					Armorer villagers now sell enchanted diamond chestplates for 16–19 emeralds, and no longer sell other diamond armor.
					Armorer villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–14 emeralds and iron helmets for 4–6 emeralds, and no longer sell other iron armor.
					Leatherworkers now sell enchanted leather tunics for 7–12 emeralds, and no longer sell other leather armor.
		14w05a			Armor no longer turns red when mobs and players are hurt.
		14w06a			Armor is now visible on giants.
		14w25a			Chain armor cannot be crafted anymore due to the item form of fire being removed.
1.9		15w31a			Enchanted iron and diamond armor can now be found in end city ship chests.
					Mobs now wear armor from the bottom to the top, rather than from the top to the bottom. This means that a mob with three armor pieces, for example, spawn with all armor except a helmet.
		15w34b			Armor durability now affects armor value.
		15w36a			Armor and armor enchantment calculations have been changed. For the original values, see here.
		15w36d			Armor durability affecting value has been removed.
					Armor now has an attribute controlling the defense points.
		15w43a			The average yield of gold chestplates in nether fortress chests has been decreased.
		15w50a			Added equip sounds for all types of armor.
		16w02a			Armor and armor enchantment calculations have been changed again.
		16w05a			Armor calculations have been changed, once again.
1.11		16w39a			Diamond and chainmail chestplates are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.11.1		16w50a			Golden, chain and iron armor can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 298 through 317.
		18w09a			Leather tunics now have a chance of generating in underwater ruins.
		18w10a			Leather tunics can now generate in buried treasure chests.
		18w11a			Enchanted leather tunics can now generate in the chests of shipwrecks.
		18w20a			Chain armor pieces have been renamed to "chainmail".
1.14		18w43a			The textures of all types of armor have been changed.
		18w48a			Leather tunics can now be found in chests in village tanneries.
		18w50a			Iron chestplates can now be found on armor stands in taiga villages.
		19w08a			The textures of gold chestplate item have been changed.
		19w11a			Leatherworker villagers now sell randomly dyed leather tunics, instead of enchanted leather tunics.
		19w13a			Armorer villagers now give chainmail chestplates to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.16		20w06a			Added netherite chestplate.
		20w10a			The texture of netherite chestplate have been changed.
					Netherite chestplate can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite chestplate is now obtained by combining one diamond armor piece and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
		20w16a			All parts of golden and netherite chestplates now generate randomly enchanted, and sometimes damaged, in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests.
		20w17a			Diamonds chestplates now generates in place of netherite armor in bastion remnant chests.
1.17		20w48a			Wearing any piece of leather armor now prevents freezing entirely.
1.18.2		22w03a			Netherite chestplate knockback resistance is no longer random.
1.20 (Experimental)		23w04a			Non-leather chestplates can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
					There are 10 types of material that determine the color of the trim: Iron Copper Gold Lapis Emerald Diamond Netherite Redstone Amethyst Quartz
					Upgrading diamond chestplate to netherite chestplate now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.
		23w05a			Leather tunics can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
					Chestplates can now have trims of the same material it is made out of.
					The texture of the dune armor trim has been tweaked, so that the symbol on the chestplate is moved up a few pixels.
		23w06a			Swapped iron and iron_darker palette, then made iron_darker darker overall.
					Added a darkest pixel to chestplate_trim trim item texture.
1.19.4		23w05a			Chestplates can now be swapped by using them/elytra in the hotbar.
?					Chestplates can now be swapped in armor stands by using them/elytra in the armor stand's slot.
1.20		23w12a			The pattern textures of dune and sentry armor trims are changed.
					Those previous patterns were left with different names: dune was renamed sentry and sentry was renamed shaper.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0					Added chestplates.
v0.8.0		build 2			The leather armor sprites have been changed to that of Java Edition, but its armor model remains that of older versions.
v0.9.0		build 1			Iron armor now naturally generates in village chests and a stronghold altar chest.
v0.11.0		build 11			Armor now protects against damage from mobs only.
v0.12.1		build 1			Armor can now be worn by mobs.
					Golden chestplates can now be found in nether fortress chests.
					Chainmail armor can now be obtained in survival mode from a mob wearing it.
?					Armor no longer turns red when mobs and players are hurt.
v0.14.0		build 1			The textures of leather chestplate have been changed.
					Leather armor can now be dyed.
v0.15.0		build 1			Armor can now be obtained from strays and husks that naturally spawn with armor.
v0.15.10					Capes no longer clip through armor.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Enchanted iron armor and enchanted diamond armor can now be found inside chests within end city.
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Iron helmets, iron chestplates, enchanted diamond chestplates and chainmail armor are now sold by armorer smith villagers via trading.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Golden, chain and iron armor can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
					Diamond chestplates and chainmail chestplates can now be found inside woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Chainmail chestplates now generate in buried treasure chests.
					Enchanted leather armor can now be found inside shipwreck supply room chests.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Leather chestplates can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of all types of chestplates have been changed.
					Iron armor now can be found in plains village weaponsmith chests.
					Leather armor can now be found inside plains village tannery chests.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Iron armor now can be found in savanna, taiga, desert, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village weaponsmith chests.
					Leather armor can now be found inside savanna, taiga, desert, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village tannery chests.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Pillagers and vindicators that spawn in raids can now drop iron armor.
		beta 1.11.0.5			The textures of gold chestplate item have been changed.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			Leather armor no longer show as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Leather armor now appears dyed properly when worn by armor stands.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added netherite chestplate.
					Armor can now be obtained from piglins that naturally spawn with golden armor.
		beta 1.16.0.57			All parts of golden and netherite armor now generate randomly enchanted, and sometimes damaged, in bastion remnant chests.
					Netherite armor can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite armor is now obtained by combining one diamond armor piece and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
		beta 1.16.0.63			Diamonds armor now generates in place of netherite armor in bastion remnant chests.
		beta 1.16.200.53			Netherite Armor now gives a 90% reduction in Knockback.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.53			Wearing any piece of leather armor now prevents freezing entirely.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added chestplates.
					Added a quick equip for armor to the inventory interface.
TU12		1.03			The textures for leather chestplate have been changed.
TU14		1.05			Leather armor can now be dyed.
					Item repair can now repair armor.
TU25	CU13	1.16			Armor now have the quick equip functionality.
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Golden, chain and iron armor can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of all types of chestplate items have been changed (except for the leather one).
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added chestplates.

Armor durability from Indev until late Beta

Material	Helmet	Chestplate	Leggings	Boots
Leather	33	48	45	39
Golden	66	96	90	78
Chainmail	66	96	90	78
Iron	132	192	180	156
Diamond	264	384	360	312

Issues

Issues relating to "Chestplate" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Chestplates do not render on the player's arm in first person view.

Gallery

Enchanted Chestplates

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External Links

• Taking Inventory: Chestplate – Minecraft.net on August 4, 2021

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