Blast Protection
| Maximum level |
IV |
|---|---|
| Primary items | |
| Secondary items |
None |
| Enchantment weight |
2 |
| Identifier |
|
| Incompatible with |
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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:
- Fireballs shot by ghasts
- Creepers/charged creepers
- TNT
- Beds/respawn anchors
- End crystals
- Wither and wither skulls
- Firework rockets
- Any damage type in the
minecraft/tags/damage_type/is_explosiondamage 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.
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
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Blast Protection | blast_protection | enchantment |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blast Protection | blast_protection | 3 | enchantment |
Video
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Added Blast Protection. | |||||
| 1.14 | 19w02a | Protection enchantments are no longer mutually exclusive. | |||||
| 1.14 | 19w08a | Blast Protection enchantment is now functional for horses when added to horse armor in creative mode. | |||||
| 1.14.3 | Pre-Release 2 | Protection enchantments are again mutually exclusive. | |||||
| 1.19.4 | 23w04a | Fixed knockback reduction from explosions only applying at high levels of the enchantment when at a very close distance.[1] | |||||
| 1.21 | 24w21a | Blast knockback reduction effect now stacks on multiple armor pieces. | |||||
| Pre-Release 4 | Reduced knockback reduction to 3.75% per level, but now stacks with multiple Blast enchantments. | ||||||
| 1.21 Release Candidate 1 | Reverted the change from Pre-Release 4 | ||||||
| June 10th 2024 | Mojang Studios confirmed both Fire Protection and Blast Protection are to be rebalanced in the future. | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Added Blast Protection. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added Blast Protection. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Blast Protection" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
References
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