Leather Cap

Leather Cap

Adult model

Baby model

Rarity tier	Common
Armor	1 ()
Armor toughness	0 ()
Durability	JE: 55 BE: 56
Enchantability	15
Knockback resistance	0
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A leather cap is a variant of helmet that is crafted from leather. It is the eighth-highest tier of helmet, having the lowest armor points and durability. Like all leather armor, it can be dyed and protects the wearer from freezing.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Leather

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Leather Cap	Village	Tannery chest	1	31.8% { "item": "Leather Cap", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.31807250976562496, "structure": "Village", "container": "Tannery chest" }
Enchanted Leather Cap	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1	20.8% { "item": "Enchanted Leather Cap", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20778331426627006, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }

Mob loot

Zombies, husks, zombie villagers‌^{[Java Edition only]}, skeletons, strays, bogged, and parched have a small chance to spawn wearing armor, which may include a leather cap. 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 cap they're wearing upon death. The dropped cap is usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted with enchantment levels 5-19.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Leatherworker	Apprentice	67%	50%	5 × Emerald	Leather Cap	12	5	0.2
	Master	100%	50%	5 × Emerald	Leather Cap	12	5	0.2

Usage

When worn, a leather cap provides 1 () armor point.

Powder snow

As with all pieces of leather armor, wearing a leather cap protects the player from freezing in powder snow.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Damaged Leather Cap		The durability of the two caps is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Notes
2x Damaged Leather Cap		The durability of the two caps is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Leather Cap + Leather	Leather Cap

A leather cap can be repaired in an anvil by adding leather, with each leather restoring 25% the cap's maximum durability, rounded down. Two helmets of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the cap's enchantments.

Enchantments

A leather cap can receive the following enchantments.

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Protection	Increases overall damage reduction.	IV	Enchanting TableAnvil	10
Projectile Protection	Increases damage reduction against projectiles.	IV	Enchanting TableAnvil	5
Blast Protection	Increases damage reduction against explosions.	IV	Enchanting TableAnvil	2
Fire Protection	Increases damage reduction against fire.	IV	Enchanting TableAnvil	5
Thorns	Deals returning damage to attackers.	III	Enchanting TableAnvil	1
Respiration	Extends breathing time underwater.	III	Enchanting TableAnvil	2
Aqua Affinity	Increases underwater mining speed.	I	Enchanting TableAnvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting TableAnvil	5
Mending	Repairs the helmet when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The helmet vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1
Curse of Binding	Removes the ability to de-equip the helmet.	I	Anvil	1

Armor trimming

It is possible to upgrade armor with trims. This requires a smithing template, a leather cap, 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	Smithing recipe
Any Armor Trim + Leather Cap + Any Ingot/Crystal

Dyeing

Leather caps can be dyed by combining it with dye(s) through crafting in Java Edition, or by using it on a cauldron containing dyed water in Bedrock Edition. Using dyed leather caps on a cauldron containing ordinary water removes any dye from it.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Leather armor rustles	Players	When a leather cap is equipped	item.armor.equip_leather	subtitles.item.armor.equip_leather​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Entity-Dependent	When a helmet's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8–1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Leather armor rustles	Players	When a leather cap is equipped	armor.equip_leather	subtitles.item.armor.equip_leather​	1.0	1.0
	​​Leather armor gets dyed	Blocks	When a leather cap is dyed using a cauldron	cauldron.dyearmor	subtitles.block.cauldron.dye_armor​	0.1	1.0
	​​Leather armor gets cleaned	Blocks	When a leather cap's dye is removed using a cauldron	cauldron.cleanarmor	subtitles.block.cauldron.clean_armor​	0.1	1.0
	​​Item breaks	Players	When a helmet's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Leather Cap	leather_helmet	Item	dyeable freeze_immune_wearables head_armor	item.minecraft.leather_helmet

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Leather Cap	leather_helmet	335	Item	item.leather_helmet.name

Item data

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] components: the item's components tag.
  • [Int] minecraft:dyed_color: The RGB color of the tint applied to a dyed item, typically as a result of combining the item with dyes in a minecraft:crafting_dyed type crafting recipe. More generally, this component is used as the minecraft:dye color provider in item model definitions (so only item models that explicitly use this color provider will be tinted). If present on an item, gray text is added to the tooltip showing either an italic "Dyed" when advanced tooltips is off, or a non-italic "Color: #<hex color code>" instead when advanced tooltips is on. The color is stored as an integer which packs the color's red, green and blue channels using this formula:
    (
 Red << 16) + (
 Green << 8) +
 Blue
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] minecraft:dyed_color: An alternative format. A list of 3 floats, ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 (inclusive), corresponding to the red, green and blue channels of the color. This format is automatically packed into the integer format by multiplying each float by 255, converting them to unsigned bytes (equivalent to taking the floor and then applying modulo 256), then using the formula -16777216 + (
 Red << 16) + (
 Green << 8) +
 Blue due to the alpha channel being implicitly set to 255, resulting in a negative integer..

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Tie Dye Outfit	Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor.	—	15	Bronze

History

Before Minecraft

Legend of the Chambered 2008 v1							The leather helmet appears in Notch's 2008 game Legend of the Chambered, using the same texture as would be later added to Minecraft.

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091231-2147				Added cloth cap.
							The textures of cloth caps are taken from one of Notch's previous games, Legend of the Chambered.
20100212-1210							Cloth caps can now be crafted.
20100218-0011							Added a model of cloth caps.
							Cloth caps can now be worn, give 3 () and have durability.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8							With the addition of leather, "Cloth Helmet" has been renamed to "Leather Cap".[verify]
							Leather cap is now crafted with leather instead of cloth.
Java Edition
1.3.1			12w21a				Butchers now sell leather caps for 2–3 emeralds.
1.4.2			August 17, 2012				Dinnerbone tweeted pictures of dyeable leather armor.
			12w34a				Leather caps can now be dyed by crafting one with dyes. Dyes can be removed by using dyed leather cap on a cauldron with water.
							Default leather caps textures are now slightly darker.
			12w36a				Dyed leather caps are now more saturated and have a slight tint of tan in respect to the default armor color.
			12w37a				Leather caps now has non-dyed parts on the cap. This has been implemented so that players can distinguish between other types of helmets and similarly colored leather caps.
1.8			14w02a				Leatherworkers no longer sell other leather caps.
			14w05a				Leather caps no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
1.9			15w34b				Helmet durability now affects armor value.
			15w36a				Armor and armor enchantment calculations have been changed. For the original values, see here.
			15w36d				Helmet durability affecting value has been removed.
							Leather caps now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
			15w50a				Added equip sounds for leather caps.
			16w02a				Armor and armor enchantment calculations have been changed again.
			16w05a				Armor calculations have been changed, once again.
1.13			18w11a				Enchanted leather caps can now generate in the chests of shipwrecks.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of leather cap has been changed.
			18w48a				Leather caps can now be found in chests in village tanneries.
			19w11a				Leatherworker villagers now sell randomly dyed leather caps.
1.16			20w07a				Added textures and models for leather cap when they are used by piglins.
			pre3				The dedicated piglin helmet model is no longer used.
1.17			20w48a				Wearing leather caps now prevents freezing entirely.
			21w13a				The two unused textures of the leather cap for piglins have been removed.
1.19			22w17a				Changed the leather cap texture from to , to extend the center bar on the back face to the bottom.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w05a				Leather caps can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
							Helmets can now have trims of the same material it is made out of.
							There are 10 types of material that determine the color of the trim: Iron, Copper, Gold, Lapis, Emerald, Diamond, Netherite, Redstone, Amethyst, and Quartz
26.1			snap7				Added a specific texture and model for when the armor piece is worn by a humanoid baby mob.
							If equipped on a "small"-type armor stand, it will appear broken; presumably the game is applying the adult armor texture to the baby mesh.
			snap10				"Small" armor stands now display a scaled-down adult armor model as was done before snapshot 7.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0							Added leather cap.
v0.8.0			build 2				The sprite has been changed to that of Java Edition, but its armor model remains that of older versions.
v0.14.0			build 1				The texture of leather caps has been changed.
							Leather caps can now be dyed.
v0.15.0			build 1				Leather caps can now be obtained from strays and husks that naturally spawn with armor.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Enchanted leather caps can now be found inside shipwreck supply room chests.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of leather cap has been changed.
							Leather caps can now be found inside plains village tannery chests.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Leather caps can now be found inside savanna, taiga, desert, snowy taiga, and snowy tundra village tannery chests.
1.12.0			beta 1.12.0.2				Leather armor no longer shows as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				Leather armor now appears properly dyed when worn by armor stands.
1.16.210			beta 1.16.210.53				Wearing leather caps now prevents freezing entirely.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.21				Leather caps can now be trimmed using a smithing table.
26.10			Preview 26.10.23				Added a specific texture and model for when the armor piece is worn by a humanoid baby mob.

Legacy Console Edition

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 leather cap.
							Added a quick equip for armor to the inventory interface.
TU12							The textures for leather caps have been changed.
TU14		1.04					Leather caps can now be dyed.
							Butchers now sell leather caps for 2–3 emeralds.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Leather caps no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Leather caps now have the quick equip functionality.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Leatherworkers no longer sell other leather caps.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Leather caps now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Enchanted leather caps can now be found inside shipwreck supply room chests.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added leather cap.

• 
  Dinnerbone's first screenshot of dyed armor.

Armor durability from Indev until late Beta

Leather	Golden	Chainmail	Iron	Diamond
33	66	66	132	264

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 298.

Issues

Issues relating to "Leather cap", "Leather hat", or "Leather helmet" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Enchanted appearance when worn
• 
  Enchanted appearance in inventory

External links

• Taking Inventory: Helmet – Minecraft.net on February 20, 2020