Blast Protection

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

IV

Primary items

Secondary items

None

Enchantment weight

2

Identifier

blast_protection

Incompatible with

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

Obtaining

Blast Protection can be obtained from enchantment tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid‌, books obtained by fishing, librarian villagers, and in the following structure loot chests: desert pyramids, strongholds, ocean ruins, ancient cities, woodland mansions, pillager outposts, mineshafts, monster rooms, jungle pyramids, and from vaults in trial chambers.

Usage

Blast Protection reduces the damage the user takes from all explosions, including, but not limited to:

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.

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:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Blast Protectionblast_protectionenchantment.minecraft.blast_protection

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Blast Protectionblast_protection3enchantment.protect.explosion

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History

Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Added Blast Protection.
1.1419w02aProtection enchantments are no longer mutually exclusive.
1.1419w08aBlast Protection enchantment is now functional for horses when added to horse armor in creative mode.
1.14.3Pre-Release 2Protection enchantments are again mutually exclusive.
1.19.423w04aFixed knockback reduction from explosions only applying at high levels of the enchantment when at a very close distance.[1]
1.2124w21aBlast knockback reduction effect now stacks on multiple armor pieces.
Pre-Release 4Reduced knockback reduction to 3.75% per level, but now stacks with multiple Blast enchantments.
1.21 Release Candidate 1Reverted the change from Pre-Release 4
June 10th 2024Mojang Studios confirmed both Fire Protection and Blast Protection are to be rebalanced in the future.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1Added Blast Protection.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU7CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1Added Blast Protection.

Issues

Issues relating to "Blast Protection" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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