Chainmail Leggings

Chainmail leggings are a type of leggings made out of chainmail.

Chainmail Leggings

Rarity tier	Uncommon
Durability	225
Armor	4 ()
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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Obtaining

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 is 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%	3 × Emerald	Chainmail Leggings

Villager gifts

Armorer villagers may give the players with the Hero of the Village effect a chainmail leggings.‌

Usage

When worn, chainmail leggings provide 4 () armor points.

Repairing

Two damaged chainmail leggings can be combined through crafting or using the grindstone. The durability of the used chainmail leggingss are 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 Chainmail Leggings

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

Unit repair

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

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

Enchantments

A 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 + Chainmail Leggings + Any Ingot/Crystal

Smelting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Chain armor jingles	Players	When a chainmail leggings is equipped	item.armor.equip_chain	subtitles.item.armor.equip_chain​	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 a chain leggings is equipped	armor.equip_chain	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
Chainmail Leggings	chainmail_leggings	Item	None	item.minecraft.chainmail_leggings

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Chainmail Leggings	chainmail_leggings	340	Item	item.chainmail_leggings.name

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091231-2255				Added chain leggings. They were taken directly from one of Notch's games Legend of the Chambered 2.
20100212-1210							Chain leggings can be crafted using the item form of fire.
20100218							Added models for chain leggings.
							Chain leggings can now 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 4				Leggings can be enchanted.
1.3.1			12w15a				⇧ Shift+clicking can be used to equip leggings.
			12w21a				Chain leggings can be obtained legitimately in survival mode through trading.
							Blacksmith villagers now sell chain leggings for 9–10 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.
			12w36a				Wither skeletons can now spawn wearing leggings.
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 now sell chain leggings for 9–11 emeralds.
			14w05a				Chain leggings no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
			14w06a				Leggings are now visible on giants.
			14w25a				Chain leggings can no longer be crafted anymore due to the item form of fire being removed.
1.9			15w31a				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.
							Chain 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.
1.13			18w20a				Chain leggings have been renamed to "chainmail leggings".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of chainmail leggings have been changed.
			19w11a				Armorer villagers now sell chainmail leggings for 3 emeralds.
			19w13a				Armorer villagers now give chainmail leggings to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.19			22w12a				Added the Swift Sneak enchantment, which can be applied only to leggings.
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.
			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.
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of chainmail leggings has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0							Added the chain leggings.
v0.11.0			build 11				Armor now protects against damage from mobs only.
v0.12.1			build 1				Leggings can be worn by mobs.
							Chainmail leggings can be obtained in survival mode from a mob wearing it.
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
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Chainmail leggings are now sold by armorer smith villagers via trading.
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
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Chainmail leggings now generate in buried treasure chests.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of chainmail leggings have been changed.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.25				Added the Swift Sneak enchantment, which is applicable only to leggings.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.21				Leggings can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Chain Leggings" to "Chainmail Leggings" to match Java Edition.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5							Added chainmail leggingss.
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Blacksmith villagers now sell chain leggings for 9–10 emeralds.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Chain leggings no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Chain leggings now have the quick equip functionality.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Armorer villagers now sell chain leggings for 9–11 emeralds.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Chain leggings now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Chainmail armor can now be smelted down into one iron nugget.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Chainmail leggings now generate in buried treasure chests.
			1.90				The textures of all types of leggings items have been changed
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added leggingss.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 304.

Issues

Issues relating to "Chainmail leggings" or "Chain 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