Iron Leggings

Iron Leggings

Rarity tier	Common
Durability	225
Armor	5 ()
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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Iron leggings is a type of leggings made out of iron ingots.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Iron Leggings	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	12% { "item": "Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12006249999999996, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	25.6% { "item": "Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2564122099176498, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Leggings	Ancient City	Chest	1	23.2% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23238142813184637, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	End City	Chest	1	13.3% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13275806146330638, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Iron Leggings	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.6% { "item": "Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11648616558453506, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	25.6% { "item": "Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2564122099176498, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Leggings	Ancient City	Chest	1	23.2% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23238142813184637, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	End City	Chest	1	13.3% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Leggings", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13275806146330638, "structure": "End City", "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 leggings they're wearing upon death unless they are spawned from an ominous trial spawner. The dropped leggings are usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted with enchantment levels 5-19.

In Bedrock Edition, vindicators and pillagers spawning in raids have a 4.16% chance (5.128% on hard difficulty) to drop a pair of iron leggings. The dropped leggings are usually badly damaged, and have a 50% chance of being enchanted with a random enchantment.

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Novice Armorer	40%	25%	7 × Emerald	Iron Leggings

Usage

When worn, iron leggings provide 5 () armor points.

Repairing

Two damaged pairs of iron leggings can be combined through crafting or using the grindstone. The durability of the used iron leggingss is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. Both the crafting table and grindstone methods do not keep the enchantments of either leggings.

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Damaged Iron Leggings

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	[hide]Description
2x Damaged Iron Leggings

Unit repair

Ingredients	[hide]Anvil recipe
Damaged Iron Leggings + Iron Ingot	Iron Leggings

Iron leggings can also be repaired in an anvil by adding iron ingots, with each ingot restoring 25% the leggings' maximum durability, rounded down. Two pairs of leggings of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods using the anvil preserve the leggings' enchantments.

Enchantments

Leggings 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
Thorns	Deals returning damage to attackers.	III	Anvil	1
Swift Sneak	Increases movement speed when sneaking.	III	Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the leggings when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The leggings vanish on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1
Curse of Binding	Removes the ability to de-equip the leggings.	I	Anvil	1

Armor trimming

It is possible to upgrade armor with trims. This requires a smithing template, a leggings, 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	[hide]Smithing recipe
Any Armor Trim + Iron Leggings + Any Ingot/Crystal

Smelting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Iron armor clanks	Players	When an iron leggings is equipped	item.armor.equip_iron	subtitles.item.armor.equip_iron​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Entity-Dependent	When a leggings's 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 an iron leggings is equipped	armor.equip_iron	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a leggings's durability is exhausted	random.break	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Iron Leggings	iron_leggings	Item	None	item.minecraft.iron_leggings

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Iron Leggings	iron_leggings	344	Item	item.iron_leggings.name

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Iron Man	Wear a full suit of Iron Armor.	—	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Suit Up	Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor	Have any type of iron armor in the inventory.

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091231-2255				Added iron leggings, which were taken from one if notch's games, Legend of the Chambered 2
20100212-1210							Iron leggings can now be crafted.
20100218							Added a model for iron leggings.
							Iron leggings can be worn.
							Leggings now give 6 () and have durability.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				The armor protection behavior has been changed. Previous to this update, the total armor protection is based in this equation: (((total equipped armor damage reduction − 1) × (all equipped armor max damage − total equipped armor damage)) ÷ (total equipped armor max damage + 1)).
			October 3, 2011				The first images of a player wearing enchanted armor, including leggings, are revealed.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Iron leggings can be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Leggings can be enchanted.
1.1			12w01a				Iron leggings can be found in the new blacksmith chests in villages.
1.3.1			12w15a				⇧ Shift+clicking can be used to equip leggings.
			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell iron leggings for 8–9 emeralds.
1.4.2			12w32a				Mob armor has been reintroduced. A partial or full set of any armor is now sometimes worn by zombies, skeletons and zombie pigmen, with the likelihood increasing with difficulty.
1.5			13w04a				Leggings in the player's hand can be equipped by right-clicking.
							Dispensers can now equip nearby players with leggings.
1.8			14w02a				Armorer villagers no longer sell iron leggings.
			14w05a				Iron leggings no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
			14w06a				Leggings are now visible on giants.
1.9			15w31a				Enchanted iron and diamond leggings can be found in end city chests.
							Mobs now wear armor from the bottom to the top, rather than from the top to the bottom. This means that a mob with three armor pieces, for example, spawn with all armor except a helmet.
			15w34b				Leggings' durability now affects armor value.
			15w36a				Armor value and armor enchantment calculations have been changed. For the original values, see here.
			15w36d				Leggings' durability affecting value has been removed.
							Iron leggings now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
			15w50a				Added equip sounds for leggings.
			16w02a				Armor value and armor enchantment calculations have been changed again.
			16w05a				Armor value calculations have been changed, once again.
1.11.1			16w50a				Golden, chain, and iron leggings can be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets. Chain leggings smelt into iron nuggets.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of iron leggings have been changed.
			19w11a				Armorer villagers now sell iron leggings for 7 emeralds.
1.19			22w12a				Added the Swift Sneak enchantment, which can be applied only to leggings.
			22w13a				Enchanted iron and diamond leggings may be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Non-leather leggings 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 Quartz
1.19.4			23w05a				Leggings can now be swapped by using them in the hotbar.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w05a				Leggings can now have trims of the same material it is made out of.
			23w06a				Swapped iron and iron_darker palette, then made iron_darker darker overall.
1.20			23w12a				The pattern textures of dune and sentry armor trims are changed.
							Those previous patterns were left with different names: dune was renamed sentry and sentry was renamed shaper.
1.20.5			24w03a				Leggings can now receive Thorns through an enchanting table, rather than only through an anvil.
			24w12a				Leggings can no longer receive Thorns through an enchanting table.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0							Added the iron leggings.
v0.9.0			build 1				Iron leggings now naturally generates in village chests and a stronghold altar chest.
v0.11.0			build 11				Armor now protects against damage from mobs only.
v0.12.1			build 1				Leggings can be worn by mobs.
v0.15.0			build 1				Leggings can be obtained from strays and husks that naturally spawn with armor.
v0.15.10							Capes no longer clip through armor.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Enchanted iron leggings and enchanted diamond leggings can be found inside chests within end city.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Golden, chain, and iron leggings can be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
[hide]Unknown
?							Leggings no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Iron leggings now can be found in plains village weaponsmith chests.
							The textures of iron leggings have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Iron leggings now can be found in savanna, taiga, desert, snowy taiga, and snowy tundra village weaponsmith chests.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Pillagers and vindicators that spawn in raids can now drop iron leggings.
							Iron leggings and diamond leggings are now sold by armorer villagers.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.25				Added the Swift Sneak enchantment, which is applicable only to leggings.
			Preview 1.19.0.27				Enchanted iron and diamond leggings may be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.21				Leggings can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
[hide]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	Added the iron leggings.
TU5							Added a quick equip for armor to the inventory interface.
TU14		1.05					Item repair can now repair armor.
							Blacksmith villagers now sell iron leggings for 8–9 emeralds.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Iron leggings no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
TU25	CU13						Iron leggings now have the quick equip functionality.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Armorer villagers no longer sell iron leggings.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Enchanted iron and diamond leggings can be found in end city chests.
							Iron leggings now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Golden, chain, and iron armor can be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
			1.90				The texture of iron leggings has been changed.
			1.91				Pillagers and vindicators that spawn in raids can now drop iron leggings.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added iron leggings.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 308.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  Enchanted appearance when worn

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  Enchanted appearance in inventory