Chainmail Boots

Chainmail Boots

Rarity tier	Uncommon
Durability	195
Armor	1 ()
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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Chainmail boots are a type of boots that cannot be crafted. They provide 1 armor point when worn.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Bedrock Edition
Chainmail Boots	Buried Treasure	Chest	1	57.2% { "item": "Chainmail Boots", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5722759899564946, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }

Mob loot

Zombies, husks, skeletons, strays, bogged, piglins, and zombified 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 boots they're wearing upon death unless they are spawned from an ominous trial spawner. The dropped boots are usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted with enchantment levels 5-19.

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Apprentice Armorer	50%	33%	Emerald	Chainmail Boots

Villager gifts

In Java Edition, Armorer villagers may give the players with the Hero of the Village effect chainmail boots.

Usage

When worn, chainmail boots provide 1 () armor point.

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget	Chainmail Boots + Any fuel	0.1

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Damaged Chainmail Boots		The durability of the two boots is added together, plus an extra 8 points of durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	[hide]Description
2x Damaged Chainmail Boots		The durability of the two boots is added together, plus an extra 8 points of durability.

Unit repair

Ingredients	[hide]Anvil recipe
Damaged Chainmail Boots + Iron Ingot	Chainmail Boots

Chainmail boots can be repaired in an anvil by adding iron ingots, with each ingot restoring 25% the boots's maximum durability, rounded down. Two chainmail boots can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the boots' enchantments.

Enchantments

Boots can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max level	Method	Weight
Protection	Increases overall damage reduction.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Projectile Protection	Increases damage reduction against projectiles.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Blast Protection	Increases damage reduction against explosions.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Fire Protection	Increases damage reduction against fire.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Feather Falling	Reduces fall damage.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Thorns	Deals returning damage to attackers.	III	Anvil	1
Depth Strider	Increases underwater movement speed.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Frost Walker	Leaves a trail of ice when walking over water.	II	Anvil	1
Soul Speed	Increases movement speed on soul sand.	III	Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the boots when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The boots vanish on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1
Curse of Binding	Removes the ability to de-equip the boots.	I	Anvil	1

Armor trimming

Ingredients	[hide]Smithing recipe
Any Armor Trim + Chainmail Boots + Any Ingot/Crystal

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Chain armor jingles	Players	When chainmail boots are equipped	item.armor.equip_chain	subtitles.item.armor.equip_chain​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Entity-Dependent	When a pair of boots' durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When chain boots are equipped	armor.equip_chain	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a pair of boots' durability is exhausted	random.break	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Chainmail Boots	chainmail_boots	Item	None	item.minecraft.chainmail_boots

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Chainmail Boots	chainmail_boots	342	Item	item.chainmail_boots.name

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091231-2255				Added chain boots, which were taken from one of Notch's games, Legend of the Chambered 2.
20100212-1210							Chain boots can now be crafted.
20100218							Added models for chain boots.
							Chain boots now give 3 () and has durability.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Chain boots effective protection changes from ? to ? due to changes in the protection equation.
1.3.1			12w21a				Chain boots can now be obtained legitimately in Survival mode through trading.
							Blacksmith villagers now sell chain boots for 5–6 emeralds.
1.4.2			12w32a				Mob armor has been reintroduced, giving another way to obtain chain boots.
1.8			14w02a				Armorer villagers now sell chain boots for 5–7 emeralds.
			14w05a				Chain boots no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
			14w25a				Chain boots can no longer be crafted anymore due to the item form of fire being removed.
1.9			15w36d				Chain boots now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
			15w50a				Added equip sounds for boots.
1.11.1			16w50a				Chain boots can now be smelted into one iron nugget
1.13			18w20a				Chain boots have been renamed to "chainmail".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of chainmail boots have been changed.
			19w11a				Armorer villagers now sell chainmail boots for 1 emerald.
			19w13a				Armorer villagers now give chainmail boots to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Chainmail boots 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
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of chainmail boots has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0							Added boots.
v0.12.1			build 1				Chainmail boots can now be obtained in survival mode from a mob wearing it.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Chainmail boots are now sold by armorer smith villagers via trading.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Chain boots can now be smelted into one iron nugget.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Chainmail boots now generate in buried treasure chests.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Chain Boots" to "Chainmail Boots" to match Java Edition.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5							Added chain boots.
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Blacksmith villagers now sell chain boots for 5–6 emeralds.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Mob armor has been introduced, giving another way to obtain chain boots.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Chain boots no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Chain boots now have the quick equip functionality.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Armorer villagers now sell chain boots for 5–7 emeralds.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Chain boots now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Chain boots can now be smelted down into one iron nugget.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Chainmail boots now generate in buried treasure chests.
			1.90				The textures of chainmail boots have been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added chain boots.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was somewhere between 298 through 317.​

Issues

Issues relating to "Chainmail boots" or "Chain boots" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Renders

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  Enchanted appearance when worn

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  Enchanted appearance in inventory

External links

• Taking Inventory: Boots – Minecraft.net on November 24, 2019