[Top 10] Best Minecraft Armor Enchantments

Updated:

14 Sep 2022

How do enchantments make the game better?

As every Minecraft player should know, enchantments have a very important role in the game, the right enchantment on the right tools can make your Minecraft experience a lot easier and fun; but also, your armour is very important for your adventure and a great way to get the best out of your armour is by using enchantments, some enchantments can make your armour last longer or provide new abilities to the player like fire resistant, that's why we decided to make a list of the top 10 best enchantments for your armour!

10. Mending:

How to add mending to your armour

This enchantment works by repairing the piece of armour that has the enchantment when collecting experience orbs; these orbs will go to those pieces to repair them without having to merge them with an anvil, this will also increase the durability of your armour.

What makes it great

Don't have to repair your armour
Your armour will last longer

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: I

9. Respiration:

add respiration to your helmet

With this enchantment, the player will increase the amount of time the player can breathe underwater, this enchantment is perfect for long underwater explorations like exploring ocean monuments or underwater caves.

What makes it great

Increases underwater respiration

Details:

Works on: Helmet
Levels: III

8. Aqua Affinity:

How to add aqua affinity using an anvil

Now, this enchantment combined with respiration is perfect for underwater adventures, since it gives the player the ability to mine a lot faster underwater, and every veteran knows how frustrating it is when mining underwater since it will take much longer for any block to break, and let's be honest when you are underwater anything that can save you time is a must!

What makes it great

Faster underwater mining

Details:

Works on: Helmet
Levels: I

7. Depth Strider:

Depth strider leverl III

This enchantment will give you faster-moving speed when you are underwater, now combined with the last two enchantments you are now ready for your underwater expedition and even if you run out of breath you can rest assured that if you can swim faster then you will safely make it to the surface without losing your breath in the process!

What makes it great

Faster moving speed underwater

Details:

Works on: Boots
Levels: III

6. Thorns:

Thorns level IV

This enchantment is what we like to call the pufferfish, or something like that since it gives you the ability to automatically deal damage to the mobs that hit you, this is perfect for rapidly killing your opponent even if they hit you.

What makes it great

Deal damage to the mobs that hit you

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: III

5. Feather Falling:

Feather falling reduces fall damage when jumping from high places

This enchantment is for those players who love to spend their time flying or climbing mountains, nobody likes to be on a long tedious hike when all of a sudden you slip and fall down to your death… Well, that's where feather falling comes in; With this enchantment, you will significantly reduce the amount of fall damage you take when falling from a high altitude, of course, it depends on the enchantment’s level; although it does not reduce fall speed.

What makes it great

Reduces fall damage

Details:

Works on: Boots
Levels: IV

4. Projectile protection

Projectile protection level IV

As the name suggests, this enchantment reduces the amount of damage that the player receives from projectiles, this includes arrows, thrown tridents and other types of projectiles. although splash potions, dragon fireballs, and firework rockets are considered projectiles; this enchantment has no effect on these items.

What makes it great
reduces damage from projectiles

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: IV

3. Blast protection:

Blast protection level IV

This enchantment reduces the damage received from explosions, such as Tnt, creepers and firework rockets, with this enchantment you can make sure to keep yourself safe when one of those creepers sneaks from behind and explodes without a warning.

What makes it great

Reduce damage from explosions

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: IV

2. Fire protection:

Fire protection IV

This enchantment helps the player by reducing the damage received from fire, this means that when standing in lava the burn time will take longer to initiate, this is perfect for explorations, where mining the wrong block will expose lava or will make the player fall into a lake of lava and will keep you from losing all those precious diamonds you’ve been mining.

What makes it great

Reduce damage from fire

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: IV

1. Protection:

Protection reduces damage taken by the player in general

This enchantment will reduce the damage the player receives in general, it works on all kinds of attacks like projectiles or melee and it also includes explosions and blasts in general, it's like a combination of all the enchantments above.

What makes it great

Reduces the damage that the player receives

Details:

Works on: Chest, Helmet, Leggings, Boots
Levels: IV

Now that you know the top 10 armour enchantments, it's your turn to combine them to create the strongest combo for your armour to help you on your adventure and taking on the Ender Dragon!