Protection in Minecraft- How to Get, Uses & Incompatibilities × Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects Create Edit Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Minecraft Wiki Protection Minecraft Minecraft Wiki 833 pages • Updated: Oct 07 Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects In: Gameplay, Enchantments Protection Minecraft Edit Improve this page There are many different enchantments available in Minecraft, and one that you might find yourself using frequently is the Protection enchantment. This is an all-around enchantment that is beneficial in many situations. Essentially, it will reduce the amount of damage you take up to 80% with high Protection levels. While it may be tempting to put this on every piece of armor you wear, it is important to know the details behind how it can protect you. This guide will show you the details of protection, how to get it for yourself, the uses of protection, as well as what enchantments protection is incompatible within Minecraft. Details of Protection Protection will reduce the amount of damage you take by a percentage. The percentage that is reduced is equivalent to (Level * 4) on the Java edition of Minecraft. For the Bedrock edition it is (Level * 5). The maximum level you can get in the Protection enchantment is level 4. Protection EnchantmentLevelPercent of Damage ReductionIncompatibilitiesProtection I4% (Java) 5% (Bedrock)Fire, Blast, and Projectile ProtectionProtection II8% (Java) 10% (Bedrock)Fire, Blast, and Projectile ProtectionProtection III12% (Java) 15% (Bedrock)Fire, Blast, and Projectile ProtectionProtection IV16% (Java) 20% (Bedrock)Fire, Blast, and Projectile Protection Certain protection enchantments will provide a more percent reduction of different types of damage. While regular protection will provide a percent reduction of most types of damage. Try to consider what your weaknesses are and what you would like to take less damage from before choosing your armor enchantments. How to Get Protection in Minecraft There are 3 ways you can get protection enchantment. You can find it in an enchanting table, fish it up as treasure loot, or find a librarian trader who is selling a protection enchanted book. Method 1- Enchantment Table Like most enchantments, you can get protection on an enchantment table. While this is not the most consistent method, you can at least reroll the enchantments offered in an enchantment table until you see that protection will be guaranteed in your options. It will cost you levels, but just about any method of enchanting will require you to spend levels one way or another. As you can see, the enchantment table is offering Projectile Protection IV. However, if you wanted to get the regular Protection enchantment, you can use a similar type of item (armor, tool, weapon) to change the offered enchantments. You do not have to use a level 30 enchantment to reroll your enchantments. You can just spend 1 level. Enchanting a leather helmet allows me to reroll the offered enchantments for the diamond helmet. Now the table is offering Respiration III. You can reroll as often as you want until you are guaranteed an enchantment that you want. In my case, it took 3 tries. It may take more or less depending on how lucky you are. While each reroll will cost levels and lapis lazuli, this is a good way to get a specific enchantment onto your armor without too much hassle. Method 2- Fishing it up as Treasure Loot The next option is to fish for your enchantments. This is incredibly unreliable, but if you are short on fish, need other fishable items, or you need more experience, fishing can provide you with an opportunity to roll the dice by getting the specific enchantment you need. You will want to use a Luck of the Sea III enchanted fishing rod to increase your chances of getting an enchanted book. The next step is just to fish until you find an enchanted book. The odds are pretty low at only a 1.9% chance of every successful catch with a Luck of the Sea III fishing rod. It is made worse by the fact that the enchantments you get are entirely random. Here is every catch I received before getting an enchanted book. While it is Fire Protection III, it is entirely random. You could get a book with 4 lines of enchantments and still not find what you are looking for. This is to give you an idea about how many catches it takes to get an enchanted book. I would say I was lucky to get it this quickly as well. Needless to say, this is not a very consistent method. Method 3- Trading Finally, we come to the most consistent method of getting as many books as you want of one enchantment. If you find a villager and give him the librarian profession by assigning him to a lectern, you can see an inventory of enchanted books at his level 1 profession. This librarian has no enchanted books in his inventory, luckily you can reroll his inventory for free. Just break the lectern he is assigned to and quickly replace the lectern. You should see him lose his librarian profession and as you place the lectern, he will return to be a librarian. Check his inventory for enchanted books. You can repeat this as often as you want. Do this until you find the enchanted book you are looking for. As you can see, his inventory will change as you continue to replace the lectern. Unfortunately, a librarian can offer any enchantment on any book. Do not trade with him until you are satisfied with the enchanted book he offers. Once you trade with him you cannot reroll his inventory again. This can take quite a number of rerolls. The good news is, once you find the book you are looking for you have an indefinite amount of enchanted books of that enchantment you can always get. Remember that even if you do not get the exact level of enchantment you are looking for, you can combine two books to upgrade that specific enchantment. If this book were Protection III, you could combine two Protection III books to get a Protection IV enchantment. You can do the same with a book plus armor as well. Uses of Protection in Minecraft The Protection enchantment does exactly that. It protects you. With Protection IV on one piece of armor, you are wearing, any source of damage will deal 16% less damage to you. Doing some damage tests, wearing a regular and unenchanted diamond helmet causes a skeleton to deal a full heart of damage. Whereas wearing a diamond helmet with Protection IV causes a skeleton to deal half a heart of damage or even no damage at all. This is likely due to the fact that the values are not integers but rather decimal-based. The second arrow the skeleton shot at me dealt 1 full heart of damage. As you can see, the Protection enchantment will protect you from just about any kind of damage. Unfortunately for Bedrock edition players, this does not include status effect damage like wither or poison. You may be wondering, why would you ever enchant armor with a specific effect if Protection provides damage reduction to most types of damage? We will look at Protection vs. Fire Protection in this case. In the below test, I am wearing a full diamond set of armor with Protection IV on every piece. When I jumped into a pool of lava, it took 8 ticks of damage before I saw any damage on my health bar. A fully enchanted set of Protection IV provided me with plenty of time to jump out of the lava. Next, testing a full set of Fire Protection IV diamond armor. It only took 6 ticks of lava damage for me to take damage in my health bar. However, I was never set on fire for the entire duration. It is difficult to showcase, but it seems that Fire Protection is comparable to regular Protection in terms of damage mitigation from fire. The true difference lies in the amount of durability damage as Fire Protection will ensure your armor does not have to lose points to fire damage. While Protection does seem to be as efficient as Fire Protection, it will wear out sooner. It is also important to keep in mind that with fully enchanted end-game armor, it will be difficult for anything to deal damage to you. When you are in a deep pool of lava, it will be better to have Fire Protection, anywhere else and the Fire Protection does not seem to do much for you. Remember that you can also mix and match different enchantments if you want to have an all-around damage reduction for most types of damage in Minecraft. Incompatibilities Protection is incompatible with any other type of Protection enchantment. This goes for Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection. You cannot have every type, or even two different types, of enchantments on the same piece of armor. In the above example, this Protection IV helmet cannot be fused with the Projectile Protection IV enchantment. Consider what you normally find dangerous and try to enchant your armor accordingly. Video Guide FAQs Q What is the Best Protection in Minecraft For all intents and purposes, the regular Protection enchantment is probably the best damage reduction overall. While it can be wise to keep some Fire Protection enchanted armor, as the only thing that will really kill you is swimming in lava, regular Protection seems to do the job just fine. The maximum level of Protection is Protection IV. Q Is it Better to have Protection or Fire Protection In the tests I conducted, it seems that they are comparable in protecting you from fire and lava damage. The only difference was with enough Fire Protection (7 total points of Fire Protection) your player will never catch on fire. Of course, Fire Protection will only protect you from fire and lava damage, so regular Protection will win in different environments. It is better to have the regular Protection enchantment. Q Can you put All Protections on Armor All protection enchantments are incompatible with each other. You cannot have Protection with Fire Protection on the same armor. That goes for every type of Protection enchantment in the game. You can place them on the same piece of armor with commands. It seems that they will stack together in this case, but it is difficult to confirm as even a leather helmet with Protection IV alone will mitigate a lot of damage. Conclusion Congratulations, you now know the ins and outs of one of the best armor enchantments in the game. While specializing your damage reduction with other Protection enchantments can be helpful, it seems that regular Protection does the job just fine. Having specific damage mitigation will be beneficial in specific situations, but regular Protection will protect you from most sources of damage anyways. Just be sure to keep an eye on your durability bars for your armor and you can tank any amount of damage in the game. Thanks! Help us improve this page Edit Rate this Content! Thanks! 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