| Maximum level |
IV |
|---|---|
| Primary items | |
| Secondary items |
None |
| Enchantment weight |
5 |
| Incompatible with |
Projectile Protection is an armor enchantment that reduces damage from projectiles.
Usage[]
Projectile Protection reduces damage from arrows, thrown tridents, shulker bullets, llama spit, and blaze fireballs. It also reduces direct impact damage from ghast fireballs and wither skulls. Despite being projectiles, damage from splash potions of harming, dragon fireballs, or firework rockets are not reduced.
The formula for damage reduction by projectiles is level × 8%, meaning for every additional level another 8% of the damage is absorbed. The highest level (Projectile Protection IV) absorbs 32% (4 × 8%) of the damage inflicted by any projectiles. Theoretically at level 13 and above no damage by projectiles are possible (because it would transcend 100%), but absorbed damage is capped at 80%, which means that level 10 is the highest that can give any effect.
Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap (see armor enchantments).
Incompatibilities[]
Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. However, if commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects stack.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Projectile Protection | projectile_protection | enchantment.minecraft.projectile_protection |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projectile Protection | projectile_protection | 4 | enchantment.protect.projectile |
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Added Projectile Protection. | |||
| 1.14 | 19w02a | Protection enchantments are no longer mutually exclusive. | |||
| 1.14.3 | Pre-Release 2 | Protection enchantments are mutually exclusive again. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Added Projectile Protection | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added Projectile Protection. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Projectile Protection" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
