How to armor in minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to put on and use armor with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, you need to wear armor to protect you from taking damage in the game when fighting mobs. Let's explore how to use armor.

Background

Once you have played Minecraft for a while, you will start battling mobs. Now is a good take to craft and wear armor to protect you in the game.

There are different types of armor that you can craft - diamond, iron, golden, stone, and leather. Each of these types provides a different level of protection. For example, diamond armor provides the greatest protection but is the hardest to craft because of the difficult items that you need to gather in the game to make the diamond armor.

Armor Items to Wear

In Minecraft, these are the types of items that you can wear as armor to protect you from attacks:

Steps to Put on Armor

1. Open your Inventory

In this example, we are going to show you show to put on a set of diamond armor - diamond helmet, diamond chestplate, diamond leggings, and diamond boots.

If you don't have any armor in your inventory, you can quickly make some with these crafting recipes for armor.

To put on armor, you first need to open your inventory. The game control to open your inventory depends on the version of Minecraft:

• For Java Edition (PC/Mac), press the E key to open the inventory menu.
• For Pocket Edition (PE), tap on the button with 3 dots to open your inventory and then tap on the button with the picture of an iron chestplate.
• For Xbox 360 and Xbox One, press the Y button to open your inventory.
• For PS3 and PS4, press the
  
  Triangle button to open your inventory.
• For Wii U, press the X button to open your inventory.
• For Nintendo Switch, press the X button to open your inventory.
• For Windows 10 Edition, press the E key to open the inventory menu.
• For Education Edition, press the E key to open your inventory.

The instructions for how to put on armor varies slightly based on your game mode - Survival versus Creative.

2. Put on Armor

The instructions are different to put in armor in different game modes - Survival vs Creative mode.

How to put on Armor in Survival Mode

If you are playing in Survival mode and have your inventory open, you will see a picture of your character with four boxes that allow you to change the armor that you are wearing.

Move the armor that you want to wear from your inventory to the boxes to the left of your character.

The diamond helmet goes in the helmet box. The diamond chestplate goes in the chestplate box. The diamond leggings go in the leggings box. The diamond boots go in the boots box.

As you move each armor item to your character's clothing boxes, you will see your character's appearance change as the armor is worn.

Now when you return to the game, you should see your character wearing the new armor.

Congratulations, you just learned how to put on armor in Survival mode.

How to Put on Armor in Creative Mode

If you are playing in Creative mode, armor is really not necessary to wear since you won't take any damage. But it is still fun to put on.

If you have your inventory open in Creative mode, it is a bit tougher to find your armor menu.

To display the armor that you are wearing, select the Survival Inventory option in the bottom right of the inventory menu (see circled option below).

You will see a picture of your character with four boxes that allow you to change the armor that you are wearing.

Move the armor that you want to wear from your inventory to the boxes on either side of your character.

The diamond helmet and diamond chestplate go in the helmet and chestplate boxes on the left-side of your character. The diamond leggings and diamond boots go in the leggings and boots boxes on the right-side of your character.

As you move each armor item to your character's clothing boxes, you will see your character's appearance change as the armor is worn.

Now when you return to the game, you should see your character wearing the new armor.

Congratulations, you just learned how to put on armor in Creative mode.

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Last Updated: September 15, 2021

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This wikiHow teaches you how to make armor on the computer version of Minecraft, Minecraft Pocket Edition on mobile, or on Minecraft for Xbox and PlayStation consoles. You cannot craft chainmail armor.

Steps

Part 1 Part 1 of 2:Gathering Armor Materials

1. 
   

   1

   Decide on a type of armor. You can create the following types of armor in Minecraft:[1]

   • Leather armor - Reduces all damage by 28 percent. It's the weakest armor in Minecraft, but it requires no smelting and no special tools (e.g., pickaxes) to obtain.
   • Iron armor - Reduces all damage by 60 percent.
   • Gold armor - Reduces all damage by 44 percent. Since iron is infinitely more plentiful than gold, gold armor is a comparative waste of time and resources.
   • Diamond armor - Reduces all damage by 80 percent. Requires no smelting. Objectively the best armor in Minecraft, but extremely difficult to create due to diamonds' rareness.

2. 
   

   2

   Gather your armor's resources. You will need 24 pieces of your chosen material to create a full set of armor:

   • Leather - Kill cows to pick up their leather. You may need to kill more or fewer than 24 cows depending on how much leather each drops.
   • Iron - Mine iron blocks, which resemble grey stone with orange speckles, with a stone pickaxe or better. You will need to mine 24 iron blocks to get 24 iron ore.
   • Gold - Mine gold blocks, which resemble grey stone with yellow speckles, with an iron pickaxe or better. You will need to mine 24 gold blocks to get 24 gold ore. Gold blocks are typically found deep underground.
   • Diamond - Mine diamond blocks, which resemble grey stone with light-blue speckles, with an iron or diamond pickaxe. You will need 24 diamond ore. Diamond is very deep underground, and very rare.

3. 
   

   3

   Gather the resources to smelt materials. If you're creating iron or gold armor, you will need the following items:

   • Cobblestone - Mine 8 grey cobblestone. You'll use this for a furnace.
   • Fuel - Either chop 6 wooden blocks down to create 24 planks, or mine at least 10 coal blocks. Coal is represented by grey blocks with black spots.
   • If you're crafting leather or diamond armor, skip ahead to crafting your armor.

4. 
   

   4

   Open your crafting table. Right-click the crafting table (computer), tap the crafting table (PE), or face the table and press the left trigger (console edition). The crafting table window will open to display a 3 by 3 grid of squares.

   • If you don't have a crafting table, chop an extra block of wood, use your inventory's crafting space to create four planks, and then create a crafting table with those four planks arranged in a square.

5. 
   

   5

   Create a furnace. Place cobblestone in the top three, bottom three, far-left, and far-right squares in the crafting table's grid, then hold ⇧ Shift and click the furnace icon on the right side of the grid to transfer the furnace to your inventory.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the furnace icon, which resembles a block of stone with a black hole in it, then tap 1 x.
   • On the console edition, scroll over to select the crafting table icon, scroll down one, and press A or X.

6. 
   

   6

   Place the furnace on the ground. Select the furnace in your equip bar, then right-click the ground. You may first have to move your furnace from your inventory to your equip bar.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the space on the ground in which you want to place your furnace.
   • On the console edition, face the space on the ground and press the left trigger.

7. 
   

   7

   Open the furnace. The furnace window has three boxes in it: a top box for ore, a bottom box for fuel, and a far-right box for the final product.

8. 
   

   8

   Smelt your iron or gold materials. Click a stack of your crafting material and click the top box, then click a stack of your fuel material and click the bottom box. Wait for all 24 materials to finish smelting, then transfer them to your inventory.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the crafting material (e.g., iron ore), then tap the "Fuel" box and tap the fuel stack. Tap the bar in the "Result" box to transfer it to your inventory.
   • On the console edition, select the crafting material and press Y or triangle, select the fuel and press Y or triangle, then select the smelted product and press Y or triangle.

9. 
   

   9

   Exit the furnace. You're now ready to begin crafting your armor.

Part 2 Part 2 of 2:Crafting Armor

1. 
   

   1

   Open your crafting table. You can create all of the armor you need to create right inside of the crafting table.

2. 
   

   2

   Craft a helmet. Place three armor materials in the top row of the crafting grid, one in the left-middle box of the grid, and one on the right-middle box, then hold ⇧ Shift and click the helmet to transfer it to your inventory:

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the helmet icon, then tap 1 x on the far-right side of the screen.
   • On the console edition, press RB or R1 three times to get to the "Armor" page, scroll up or down to select your helmet type, and press A or X to craft it.

3. 
   

   3

   Craft a chestplate. Place armor materials in all but the top-middle box of the crafting grid, then transfer the chestplate to your inventory.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the chestplate icon, then tap 1 x.
   • On the console edition, scroll right to select the chestplate tab, scroll up or down to select your chestplate type, and press A or X to craft it.

4. 
   

   4

   Craft leg pieces. Place armor materials in the far-left and far-right columns of the crafting grid, then place an armor material in the top-middle box of the crafting grid. Transfer the leggings to your inventory.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the leggings icon, then tap 1 x.
   • On the console edition, scroll right to select the leggings tab, scroll up or down to select your leggings type, and press A or X to craft them.

5. 
   

   5

   Craft boots. Place armor materials in the top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right boxes in the crafting grid, then transfer the boots to your inventory.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap the boots icon, then tap 1 x.
   • On the console edition, scroll right to select the boots tab, scroll up or down to select your boots type, and press A or X to craft them.

6. 
   

   6

   Exit the crafting menu. Press Esc (computer), tap X (PE), or press B or circle (console).

7. 
   

   7

   Equip your armor. Press E to open the inventory, then hold ⇧ Shift and click each armor piece.

   • In Minecraft PE, tap ⋯, tap the chestplate tab on the left side of the screen, and tap each piece of armor on the left side of the screen to equip it.
   • On the console edition, press Y or triangle to open the inventory, select an armor piece, press Y or triangle, and repeat for all armor pieces.

Community Q&A

• Question

  What do I need to make iron in Minecraft?

  

  Community Answer

  Mine iron ore and put it in a furnace in the top slot. In the bottom slot, put your fuel, such as coal, wood, wooden tools, blaze rods, sticks, note blocks, etc.

• Question

  How do I dye leather armor?

  

  Banana Head

  Top Answerer

  Put leather armor and a dye on a crafting table together to make dyed armor.

• Question

  Which animals give leather?

  

  Community Answer

  Cows and horses produce leather, rabbits produce hide, and placing four hide in a crafting table will produce 1 leather.

Tips

• You can't mix and match material in each armor piece, but mixing and matching armor pieces works fine.

• Each armor has a different max level it can be enchanted to, with gold being the highest at 25 and iron being the lowest at 9.

• Diamond, while the rarest material, is the most efficient when comparing number of materials used to amount of armor obtained.

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Warnings

• Armor will eventually break. Maintain your armor by combining breaking pieces with brand-new pieces in a crafting table.

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References

1. ↑ https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Armor#Defense_points

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1. Decide on armor material.
2. Collect materials for that type of armor.
3. Gather smelt materials for gold, diamond, or iron armor.
4. Create a furnace on the crafting table.
5. Smelt iron, gold, or diamond materials in a furnace.
6. Craft a helmet, chestplate, leg pieces, and boots.

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