Iron Chestplate

Iron Chestplate

Adult model

Baby model

Rarity tier	Common
Armor	6 ()
Armor toughness	0 ()
Durability	JE: 240 BE: 241
Enchantability	9
Knockback resistance	0
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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An iron chestplate is a variant of chestplate that is crafted from iron ingots. It is the third-highest tier of chestplate, having higher armor points than golden and chainmail chestplates.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

Natural generation

Two armor stands are found in each taiga village outdoor armory, one of them equipped with an iron chestplate.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Iron Chestplate	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.9% { "item": "Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1189215578748346, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1	7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06956521739130439, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Iron Chestplate	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.5% { "item": "Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11541180293889097, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Enchanted Iron Chestplate	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1	1.7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Chestplate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.017391304347826098, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward 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 an iron chestplate. 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 chestplate they're wearing upon death unless they are spawned from an ominous trial spawner. The dropped chestplate is 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 an iron chestplate. The dropped chestplate is usually badly damaged, and has a 50% chance of being enchanted with a random enchantment.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Armorer	Novice	40%	25%	9 × Emerald	Iron Chestplate	12	1	0.2

Usage

When worn, an iron chestplate provides 6 () armor points.

Repairing

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

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Damaged Iron Chestplate		The durability of the two chestplates is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Notes
2x Damaged Iron Chestplate		The durability of the two chestplates is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Iron Chestplate + Iron Ingot	Iron Chestplate

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

Enchantments

An iron chestplate 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	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the chestplate when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The chestplate vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1
Curse of Binding	Removes the ability to de-equip the chestplate.	I	Anvil	1

Armor trimming

It is possible to upgrade armor with trims. This requires a smithing template, a chestplate, 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 + Iron Chestplate + Any Ingot/Crystal

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget	Iron Chestplate + Any fuel	0.1

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Iron armor clanks	Players	When an iron chestplate is equipped	item.armor.equip_iron	subtitles.item.armor.equip_iron​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Entity-Dependent	When a chestplate'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
	​Iron armor clanks	Players	When an iron chestplate is equipped	armor.equip_iron	​ ?	1.0	1.0
	​Item breaks	Players	When a chestplate's durability is exhausted	random.break	​ ?	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Iron Chestplate	iron_chestplate	Item	chest_armor	item.minecraft.iron_chestplate

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Iron Chestplate	iron_chestplate	344	Item	item.iron_chestplate.name

Achievements

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

Before Minecraft

Legend of the Chambered 2008 v2							The plate shirt 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 Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Added plate armor, which included chestplates.
							Plate armor had no effect at gameplay.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Removed the textures of plate chestplates.
			20091231-2147				Added the iron chestplate.
20100212-1210							Iron chestplates can now be crafted.
20100218							Added a model for iron chestplates.
							Iron chestplates can now be worn.
							Chestplates now give 8 () and have durability.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Iron chestplates can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1			12w01a				Iron chestplates can now be found in the new blacksmith chests in villages.
1.3.1			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–13 emeralds.
1.8			14w02a				Armorer villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–14 emeralds.
			14w05a				Iron chestplates no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
1.9			15w31a				Enchanted iron chestplates can now be found in end city chests.
			15w36d				Iron chestplates now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
1.11.1			16w50a				Iron chestplates can now be smelted into iron nuggets.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of all types of armor have been changed.
			18w50a				Iron chestplates can now be found on armor stands in taiga villages.
			19w11a				Armorer villagers now sell iron chestplates for 9 emeralds.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Non-leather chestplates 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.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w05a				Chestplates can now have trims of the same material it is made out of.
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 chestplates.
v0.9.0			build 1				Iron armor now naturally generates in village chests and a stronghold altar chest.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Enchanted iron armor can now be found inside chests within end city.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Iron chestplates are now sold by armorer smith villagers.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Iron armor can now be smelted down into one iron nugget.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of all types of chestplates have been changed.
							Iron armor now can be found in plains village weaponsmith chests.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Iron armor 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 chestplates.
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 chestplates.
TU14		1.04					Blacksmith villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–13 emeralds.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Iron chestplates no longer turn red when mobs and players are hurt.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Iron chestplates now have the quick equip functionality.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Armorer villagers now sell iron chestplates for 10–14 emeralds.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Enchanted iron chestplates can now be found in end city chests.
							Iron chestplates now have an attribute controlling the defense points.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron armor can now be smelted down into one iron nugget.
			1.90				The texture of iron chestplates has been changed
			1.91				Pillagers and vindicators that spawn in raids can now drop iron chestplates.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added iron chestplates.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 307.

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron Chestplate" 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