Armor
Armor is a item that grants the player and chainmail zombies protection.
Armor has had an overhaul compared to vanilla Minecraft, making it provide different levels of specific protective values based on the material of the armor.
Protection
Protection is split into four categories, being Combat, Blast, Fall and Fire.
- Combat protects against any source of physical damage. This includes from mobs, players, spikes and arrows.
- Blast protects against explosives. Whether from creepers, TNT or the hand cannon.
- Fall reduces falling damage.
- Fire reduces damage from burning, fire, and lava.
The protection values can be viewed in the inventory screen by pressing the chestplate button in the top right of the player model's area. Once pressed it will bring up a window to the left of the inventory showcasing each value as a bar from 0 to 100. Although bars can be maxed out by wearing certain armor combinations, each value will cap out at 96%, meaning it is impossible to be fully immune to any type of damage.
Damage is calculated using this formula.
<Damage Taken in Hearts> = (<Damage> - (<Damage> x (<Protection value>* ÷ 100))) ÷ 2, rounded to the nearest 0.5
<Protection value> cannot exceed 96.*
Durability
Armor durability works as as it does in Beta 1.7.3, with any form of damage reducing the durability of each piece by 1. However, Fall protection uses more durability based on the amount of height the player fell from.
Armor statistics and properties.
Below is a list of stats for every type of armor and what they specialize in:
Leather
Leather armor specializes in reducing fall damage. Equipping leather boots will also prevent the player from trampling crops.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leather Cap | 3/100 | 3/100 | 18/100 | 3/100 |
| Leather Tunic | 8/100 | 8/100 | 48/100 | 8/100 |
| Leather Pants | 6/100 | 6/100 | 36/100 | 6/100 |
| Leather Boots | 3/100 | 3/100 | 18/100 | 3/100 |
| Full Set | 20/100 | 20/100 | 120/100 | 20/100 |
Iron
Iron armor distributes its stats equally. But has below average stats.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Helmet | 7/100 | 7/100 | 7/100 | 7/100 |
| Iron Chestplate | 18/100 | 18/100 | 18/100 | 18/100 |
| Iron Leggings | 14/100 | 14/100 | 14/100 | 14/100 |
| Iron Boots | 7/100 | 7/100 | 7/100 | 7/100 |
| Full Set | 46/100 | 46/100 | 46/100 | 46/100 |
Gold
Gold armor also distributes its states equally with better than stats than iron, but at the cost of lower durability.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Helmet | 11/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 |
| Golden Chestplate | 28/100 | 28/100 | 28/100 | 28/100 |
| Golden Leggings | 21/100 | 21/100 | 21/100 | 21/100 |
| Golden Boots | 11/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 |
| Full Set | 71/100 | 71/100 | 71/100 | 71/100 |
Chainmail
Chainmail armor excels at reducing melee and projectile damage.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chainmail Helmet | 18/100 | 5/100 | 5/100 | 5/100 |
| Chainmail Chestplate | 48/100 | 14/100 | 14/100 | 14/100 |
| Chainmail Leggings | 36/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 | 11/100 |
| Chainmail Boots | 18/100 | 5/100 | 5/100 | 5/100 |
| Full Set | 120/100 | 35/100 | 35/100 | 35/100 |
Diamond
Diamond armor provides significant damage reduction against fire sources, and provides overall more protection compared to steel armor.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Helmet | 10/100 | 10/100 | 10/100 | 19/100 |
| Diamond Chestplate | 26/100 | 26/100 | 26/100 | 50/100 |
| Diamond Leggings | 20/100 | 20/100 | 20/100 | 37/100 |
| Diamond Boots | 10/100 | 10/100 | 10/100 | 19/100 |
| Full Set | 66/100 | 66/100 | 66/100 | 125/100 |
Steel
Steel Armor gives its user an abundance of blast protection.
| Type | Combat | Blast | Fall | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Helmet | 8/100 | 23/100 | 8/100 | 8/100 |
| Steel Chestplate | 22/100 | 60/100 | 22/100 | 22/100 |
| Steel Leggings | 17/100 | 45/100 | 17/100 | 17/100 |
| Steel Boots | 8/100 | 23/100 | 8/100 | 8/100 |
| Full Set | 55/100 | 151/100 | 55/100 | 55/100 |