Projectile Protection

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Projectile Protection is an enchantment applied to armor that reduces damage received from projectiles.

Obtaining

Projectile Protection can be obtained from enchantment tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid,‌ books obtained by fishing, monster room chests, librarian villagers, and non-village structure loot.

Usage

Projectile Protection reduces damage from arrows, thrown tridents, shulker bullets, llama spit, blaze fireballs, and wind charges. It also reduces direct impact damage from ghast fireballs and wither skulls, but not from their explosions. Despite being projectiles, damage from splash potions of harming, dragon fireballs, firework rockets, or sonic booms are not considered to deal projectile damage, and are therefore unaffected by Projectile Protection.

The formula for damage reduction by projectiles is level × 8%, meaning for every additional level another 8% of the damage is absorbed. The highest level (Projectile Protection IV) absorbs 32% (4 × 8%) of the damage inflicted by projectiles.

Unlike the Blast Protection and Fire Protection enchantments, Projectile Protection offers no side effects outside of damage reduction.

Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap of 80%. This upper limit can be reached with a total of 10 levels of Projectile Protection on the users armor, or with 12 levels of Protection combined with 4 levels of Projectile 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 replace 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.

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History

Issues

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

Trivia

• Projectile Protection is also coded to reduce damage from snowballs and eggs, although they deal 0 damage in vanilla Minecraft.

Navigation

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Durability	Mending Unbreaking
Block breaking	Efficiency Fortune Silk Touch
Armor	Blast Protection Fire Protection Protection Thorns Helmet Aqua Affinity Respiration Leggings Swift Sneak Boots Depth Strider Feather Falling Frost Walker Soul Speed
Melee weapons	Bane of Arthropods Smite Sword Fire Aspect Knockback Looting Sharpness Sweeping Edge‌ Axe Cleaving​ Sharpness Mace Breach Density Fire Aspect Wind Burst
Trident	Channeling Impaling Loyalty Riptide
Bow	Flame Infinity Power Punch
Crossbow	Multishot Piercing Quick Charge
Fishing Rod	Luck of the Sea Lure
Curse	Curse of Binding Curse of Vanishing
Joke	Potatofication