Golden Chestplate

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Armor |
5 () |
| Armor toughness |
0 () |
| Durability |
112‌ |
| Enchantability |
25 |
| Knockback resistance |
0 |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
No |
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A golden chestplate is a variant of chestplate crafted from gold ingots. Like all golden armor, piglins are attracted to golden chestplates, and do not attack any player wearing one.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Gold Ingot |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Generic chest | 1 | 9.8%{ "item": "Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
| ||
| Chest | 1 | 19%{ "item": "Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1903699481480795, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
| Bridge chest | 1 | 11.2%{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }
| ||
| Chest | 1 | 20.5%{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Generic chest | 1 | 9.8%{ "item": "Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
| ||
| Chest | 1 | 19%{ "item": "Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1903699481480795, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
| Bridge chest | 1 | 11.2%{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }
| ||
| Chest | 1 | 20.5%{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
- ↑ a b All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.
Mob loot
Zombies, husks, skeletons, strays, bogged and piglins have a small chance to spawn wearing armor. There is a 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) for the mob to drop the chestplate they're wearing upon death unless they are spawned from an ominous trial spawner. The dropped chestplate is usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted with enchantment levels 5-19.
Usage
When worn, a golden chestplate provides 5 () armor points.
Piglins
As with other pieces of gold armor, piglins do not attack players wearing golden chestplates unless provoked or attacked.
Piglins are also attracted towards golden chestplates on the ground and equip them after inspecting them.
Smelting
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Nugget | + Any fuel |
Repairing
Two damaged golden chestplates can be combined through crafting or using the grindstone. The durability of the used golden chestplates are added together, plus an extra 5% durability. Both the crafting table and grindstone methods do not keep the enchantments of either chestplate.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Damaged | The durability of the two chestplates is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
| Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2x Damaged | The durability of the two chestplates is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Unit repair
| Ingredients | Anvil recipe |
|---|---|
| Damaged + Gold Ingot |
An golden chestplate can also be repaired in an anvil by adding gold ingots, with each ingot restoring 25% the chestplates' maximum durability, rounded down. Two chestplates of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods using the anvil preserves the chestplate's enchantments.
Enchantments
A chestplate can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Description | Max Level | Method | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protection[note 1] | Increases overall damage reduction. | IV | 10 | |
| Projectile Protection[note 1] | Increases damage reduction against projectiles. | IV | 5 | |
| Blast Protection[note 1] | Increases damage reduction against explosions. | IV | 2 | |
| Fire Protection[note 1] | Increases damage reduction against fire. | IV | 5 | |
| Thorns | Deals returning damage to attackers. | III | 1 | |
| Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III | 5 | |
| Mending | Repairs the chestplate when obtaining experience. | I | 2 | |
| Curse of Vanishing | The chestplate vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I | 1 | |
| Curse of Binding | Removes the ability to de-equip the chestplate. | I | 1 |
Armor trimming
It is possible to upgrade armor with trims. This requires a smithing template, a chestplate, and an ingot or crystal (iron ingot, copper ingot, gold ingot, netherite ingot, emerald, redstone dust, lapis lazuli, amethyst shard, nether quartz, diamond, or resin brick).
These trims have no effect on the gameplay or strength of the armor.
| Ingredients | Smithing recipe |
|---|---|
| Any Armor Trim + Golden Chestplate + Any Ingot/Crystal |
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| ​Gold armor clinks | Players | When a gold chestplate is equipped | item | subtitles​ | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| ​Item breaks | Entity-Dependent | When a chestplate's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles​ | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Players | When a gold chestplate is equipped | armor | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Players | When a chestplate's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags |
|---|---|---|---|
golden_chestplate | Item | None |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
golden_chestplate | 348 | Item | item |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Oooh, shiny! | Distract a Piglin using gold | Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. | 30 | Silver | |||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold | While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the
#piglin_loved item tag:
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History
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100206-2034 | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w18a | Golden chestplates are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w05a | Golden chestplates no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w36d | Golden chestplates now have an attribute controlling the defense points. | |||||
| 15w43a | The average yield of gold chestplates in nether fortress chests has been decreased. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 19w08a | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w16a | All parts of golden chestplates now generate randomly enchanted, and sometimes damaged, in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests. | |||||
| 1.19.4 Experiment | 23w04a | Golden chestplates can now be trimmed using a smithing table. | |||||
| There are 10 types of material that determine the color of the trim: Iron, Copper, Gold, Lapis, Emerald, Diamond, Netherite, Redstone, Amethyst, and Quartz | |||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.6.0 | |||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Golden chestplates can now be found in nether fortress chests. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Golden armor can now be smelted down into one gold nugget. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.5 | ||||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Armor can now be obtained from piglins that naturally spawn with golden armor. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | All parts of golden armor now generate randomly enchanted, and sometimes damaged, in bastion remnant chests. | ||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Golden chestplates are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses. | ||
| TU24 | CU12 | 1.16 | 1.16 | 1.16 | Golden chestplates no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt. | ||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | Golden chestplates now have the quick equip functionality. | ||
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | Golden chestplates now have an attribute controlling the defense points. | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Golden armor can now be smelted down into one gold nugget. |
| 1.90 | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was somewhere between 298 through 317.​ | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Golden Chestplate" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
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