Blast Protection

This article is about the enchantment. For the property of blocks, see Blast Resistance.

For other uses, see Protection (disambiguation).

Blast Protection

Maximum level	IV
Primary items
Secondary items	None
Enchantment weight	2
Incompatible with	Fire Protection Projectile Protection Protection
Overleveling behavior	Capped at combined level of 10 on all armor pieces

Blast Protection is an enchantment applied to armor that reduces damage taken from explosions and fireworks and increases explosion knockback resistance.

Obtaining

Blast Protection can be obtained from enchanting tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} books obtained by fishing, librarian villagers, and non-village structure loot.

Usage

Blast Protection reduces the damage the user takes from all explosions by 8% per level, and increases explosion knockback resistance by 15% per level. Blast Protection applies against the following sources:

• Fireballs shot by ghasts
• Creepers/charged creepers
• TNT
• Beds/respawn anchors
• End crystals
• Wither and wither skulls
• Firework rockets
• Wind charges and the Wind Burst enchantment
• Any damage type in the minecraft/tags/damage_type/is_explosion damage tag

The formula for damage reduction by explosions is (8 × level)%, meaning that for every additional level another 8% of the damage is negated. The highest level (Blast Protection IV) absorbs 32% of the damage inflicted by any explosion. In Java Edition, Blast Protection has the side effect of reducing knockback created from explosions by (15 × level)%, stacking with multiple armor pieces.

The specific armor piece that Blast Protection is applied to does not influence its strength. For example, applying it to leggings does not cause the player's legs to be more protected against explosions than the rest of their body.

Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap of 80% (see armor enchantments). Any further damage reduction that would normally be applied is instead ignored. This cap can be reached with 10 combined levels of Blast Protection on the player's armor, or by combining 12 levels of Protection with 4 levels of Blast Protection.

Incompatibilities

Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. Attempting to combine these enchantments with an anvil deletes the enchantment in the upgrade slot and replaces it with the enchantment in the sacrifice slot. However, if commands are used to force two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects stack. But when the total of the EPF provided by the protection enchantments surpasses 20, the rest of these enchantments will no longer directly reduce the damage.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Enchantment definition

{
  "anvil_cost": 4,
  "description": {
    "translate": "enchantment.minecraft.blast_protection"
  },
  "effects": {
    "minecraft:attributes": [
      {
        "amount": {
          "type": "minecraft:linear",
          "base": 0.15,
          "per_level_above_first": 0.15
        },
        "attribute": "minecraft:explosion_knockback_resistance",
        "id": "minecraft:enchantment.blast_protection",
        "operation": "add_value"
      }
    ],
    "minecraft:damage_protection": [
      {
        "effect": {
          "type": "minecraft:add",
          "value": {
            "type": "minecraft:linear",
            "base": 2.0,
            "per_level_above_first": 2.0
          }
        },
        "requirements": {
          "type": "minecraft:damage_source_properties",
          "predicate": {
            "tags": [
              {
                "expected": true,
                "id": "#minecraft:is_explosion"
              },
              {
                "expected": false,
                "id": "#minecraft:bypasses_invulnerability"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "exclusive_set": "#minecraft:exclusive_set/armor",
  "max_cost": {
    "base": 13,
    "per_level_above_first": 8
  },
  "max_level": 4,
  "min_cost": {
    "base": 5,
    "per_level_above_first": 8
  },
  "slots": [
    "armor"
  ],
  "supported_items": "#minecraft:enchantable/armor",
  "weight": 2
}

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History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

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References