Projectile Protection

Projectile Protection

Maximum level	IV
Primary items
Secondary items	None
Enchantment weight	5
Incompatible with	Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Protection

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

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Projectile Protection	projectile_protection	enchantment.minecraft.projectile_protection

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	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.

Trivia

• Projectile Protection is also coded to reduce damage from snowballs and eggs, although they deal 0 damage in vanilla Minecraft.

Enchantments

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