Chestplates provide the most protection against hostile mobs. You can make five chestplates from leather, iron ingots, gold ingots, diamonds, and netherite ingots. Chainmail chestplates can also be dropped by mobs, found in treasure chests, and can be purchased from villagers, but they cannot be crafted.
There’s also the option of enchanting your chestplate with a variety of spells. Some are excellent, while others are subpar, and we’ll try to explain how they work and rank them from worst to best. Let’s start!
- Curse of Vanishing
- Curse of Binding
- Thorns
- Projectile Protection
- Blast Protection
- Protection
- Fire Protection
- Unbreaking
- Mending
What Are The Best Chestplate Enchantments In Minecraft
Curse of Vanishing
Curse of Vanishing enchantment causes your chestplate to disappear from your inventory upon dying. You won’t be able to find it where you died and it’s probably one of the worst enchantments to get on your chestplate.
Items with this enchantment are typically found in sunken ships and other treasure locations, and it is strongly discouraged to invest any additional enchantments in such items.
The maximum level of this enchantment is I.
Curse of Binding
Curse of Binding prevents you from removing your chestplate from your inventory unless you die. If you have a lot of useless items with this enchantment on them, it can be annoying because they just take up space in your inventory.
Just like Curse of Vanishing, items with this enchantment are usually found in underwater locations, treasure chests, and other areas.
The maximum level for this enchantment is I.
Thorns
Hostile mobs who attack you will automatically take damage. Putting Thorns enchantment solely on your chestplate won’t do much, but adding it to other pieces of your armor will cause a significant amount of damage. Unique and fun enchantment!
The maximum level for this enchantment is III.
Projectile Protection
Projectile Protection enchantment makes you less vulnerable to projectiles such as arrows, tridents, fire charges, llama spit, and many others. There are plenty of mobs, especially in the Nether that will gladly throw stuff on you so getting this enchantment can prove to be useful.
The maximum level for this enchantment is IV.
Blast Protection
We’ve all had those moments where we were ambushed by a creeper in our house. By applying Blast Protection enchantment to your chestplate and some of your other armor pieces, you will significantly reduce the amount of damage you take from explosive sources, such as TNT charges, fireballs, beds in the Nether…
The maximum level of this enchantment is IV.
Protection
Protection is a defensive enchantment that protects you from all sources of attack, including explosions, projectiles, fire, and normal attacks. This enchantment is useful if you’re fighting multiple types of mobs at once.
The maximum level of this enchantment is IV.
Fire Protection
As the name suggests, Fire Protection enchantment put on your chestplate armor will provide you with some protection against lava and fire. It is possible to completely negate both damage types if you decide to put this enchantment on more than just your chestplate.
This enchantment is one of the best ones if you’re exploring the Nether or caves with lava everywhere. It can save your life if you fell/were knocked back into a lava pool as well.
The maximum level for this enchantment is IV.
Unbreaking
The goal of Unbreaking enchantment is to increase the durability of your chestplate by 100% per level. It’s one of the easiest enchantments to find and one of the best because it doesn’t require constant repairs.
This enchantment can be purchased from villagers, discovered in treasure chests, created in the enchanting table, or fished from the sea.
The maximum level for this enchantment is III.
Mending
Every time you collect experience orbs, your chestplate gains durability points. Mending is also the most difficult enchantment to obtain; you can’t get it from the enchanting table, but only from jungle temples, strongholds, librarian villagers, or by fishing.
Keep in mind that this enchantment will limit the speed at which you level up. The chances of you discovering an enchanted book with Mending are also extremely slim, but not impossible. So far, the best way to obtain this enchantment is to fish relentlessly!
One thing to note:
Projectile/fire/blast/protection enchantments won’t stack. You can only have one of these effects on your chestplate!
