Armor materials

This article is about materials of armor. For tiers of tools and weapons, see Tiers. For materials of blocks, see Materials.

Armor materials refer to the material that an armor item uses.

Materials

There are currently nine armor materials in the game: leather, copper, chainmail, iron, gold, diamond, netherite, turtle, and armadillo scute. The armor material of an item determines its durability multiplier, armor values, enchantability, sound events, toughness, knockback resistance, repair items, and equipament asset.

Usage

Armor materials are used to define certain properties of armor items. Which properties are defined by the materials depends of the mobs that use this armor. Only the humanoid armor has a variable slot; all other armors are only defined by the slot body.

Armor	Material properties						Other properties
	Durability	Attributes	Enchantable	Equip Sound	Asset Id	Repair Ingredient	Allowed Entities	Can Be Sheared	Shearing Sound	Damage On Hurt	Equip On Interact
Humanoid Armor	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	All entities	False	None	True	False
Wolf Armor	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	None	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Defined by the material	Wolf	True	item.armor.unequip_wolf	True	False
Horse Armor	None	Defined by the material	None	entity.horse.armor	Defined by the material	None	#can_wear_horse_armor Horse Zombie Horse	True	item.horse_armor.unequip	False	False
Nautilus Armor	None	Defined by the material	None	item.armor.equip_nautilus	Defined by the material	None	#can_wear_nautilus_armor Nautilus Zombie Nautilus	True	item.armor.unequip_nautilus	False	True

Other equipable items do not use armor material.

Items	Equipable properties										Other properties
	Slot	Equip Sound	Asset Id	Allowed Entities	Swappable	Damage On Hurt	Equipe On Interact	Camera Overlay	Can Be Sheared	Shearing Sound	Attributes	Durability	Repair Ingredient	Glider
Carved Pumpkin	Hand	item.armor.equip_generic	None	All entities	False	True	False	misc/pumpkinblur	False	None	Hidden waypoint	None	None	False
Carpets	Body	llama_swag	<color>_carpet	Llama Trader Llama	True	True	False	None	True	llama_carpet_unequip	None	None	None	False
Saddle	Saddle	horsse_saddle	saddle	#can_equip_saddle Camel Camel Husk Donkey Horse Mule Nautilus Pig Skeleton Horse Strider Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus	True	True	True	None	True	saddle_unequip	None	None	None	False
Harnesses	Body	harness_equip	<color>_harness	#can_equip_harness Happy Ghast	True	True	True	None	True	harness_unequip	None	None	None	False
Elytra	Chest	armor_equip_elytra	elytra	All entities	True	False	False	None	False	None	None	432	Phantom Membrane	True
Heads	Head	item.armor.equip_generic	None	All entities	False	True	False	None	False	None	Hidden waypoint	None	None	False
Shield	Offhand[note 1]	item.armor.equip_generic	None	All entities	False	True	False	None	False	None	None	336	#wooden_tool_materials Planks	False

1. ↑ Used so that when pick up by mobs, it can be held in the offhand instead of the mainhand

Pseudo-equipments:

• Chest – When interacting with donkey, mule, lamma, or trader llama, the animal transforms into a chested animal; however, the item is not actually equipped on it. Chests do not have the component equippable, but it has a hardcoded interaction property.

Affected items

Material	Items by slot
	Humanoid slots				Body
	Head	Chest	Legs	Feet
Leather	Leather Cap	Leather Tunic	Leather Pants	Leather Boots	Leather Horse Armor
Copper	Copper Helmet	Copper Chestplate	Copper Leggings	Copper Boots	Copper Horse Armor Copper Nautilus Armor
Chainmail	Chainmail Helmet	Chainmail Chestplate	Chainmail Leggings	Chainmail Boots	None
Iron	Iron Helmet	Iron Chestplate	Iron Leggings	Iron Boots	Iron Horse Armor Iron Nautilus Armor
Turtle	Turtle Shell	None	None	None	None
Gold	Golden Helmet	Golden Chestplate	Golden Leggings	Golden Boots	Golden Horse Armor Golden Nautilus Armor
Diamond	Diamond Helmet	Diamond Chestplate	Diamond Leggings	Diamond Boots	Diamond Horse Armor Diamond Nautilus Armor
Netherite	Netherite Helmet	Netherite Chestplate	Netherite Leggings	Netherite Boots	Netherite Horse Armor Netherite Nautilus Armor
Armadillo Scute	None	None	None	None	Wolf Armor

See also

• Tiers
• Materials