How do you get Chainmail Leggings in Minecraft?

Chainmail Leggings is obtained through mob drops, Chainmail Leggings from trading with villagers, and Chainmail Leggings from chest loot. A crafting table will not help you here: Chainmail Leggings have no recipe of their own.

Can Chainmail Leggings be enchanted?

Yes. Alongside Protection, Fire Protection, and Blast Protection, all on Chainmail Leggings, plus Projectile Protection, Thorns, and Unbreaking, and on Chainmail Leggings also Mending, Curse of Vanishing, and Curse of Binding, Chainmail Leggings reach one that belongs to leggings alone: Swift Sneak. They have an enchantability of 12, so the same experience buys more here than on a material with a lower figure.

How much durability does Chainmail Leggings have?

225 points. That is how many uses Chainmail Leggings have before breaking. Within chainmail that puts Chainmail Leggings at 225, against the 240 of Chainmail Chestplate, which is the highest of the 4. Unbreaking and Mending both fit Chainmail Leggings, and between them the bar stops being a hard limit: one slows the wear, the other undoes it.

How much protection does Chainmail Leggings give?

Chainmail Leggings add 4 armor points of the 12 a full set of chainmail armor is worth, which is 16% off a light hit and 48% with the rest of the set. Against a hard hit some of that comes back off Chainmail Leggings, and chainmail gives Chainmail Leggings no armor toughness, so Chainmail Leggings lose more of their value the harder you are hit.

When was Chainmail Leggings added to Minecraft?

Chainmail Leggings was added in the 1.0 full release.

How many Chainmail Leggings can you stack?

Chainmail Leggings does not stack, since each one carries its own wear, so a spare costs a second slot and gives a second 225 points of use. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

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Chainmail Leggings

Leg armor providing 4 armor points. Chainmail armor cannot be obtained through normal survival crafting and is found as loot or trades.

Stack Size

Durability

225

Chainmail Leggings at a glance

Mob drops, trading with villagers, and chest loot give you Chainmail Leggings, pieces of armor filed under Armor. No stacking for Chainmail Leggings: a slot goes the moment a second one comes in, and a chest row of nine holds nine. They last 225 uses before they break, and an anvil brings them back; they take enchantments too.

When enchanted, Chainmail Leggings can carry 10 different enchantments, among them Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection. Worn, Chainmail Leggings are worth 4 armor points of the 12 a full set of chainmail armor is worth. With 225 durability, Chainmail Leggings last 225 light hits, or about 75 blows of twelve damage, because a piece loses one point of durability for every four damage in a single hit. At the enchanting table Chainmail Leggings take an enchantability of 12: netherite at 15 does better and diamond at 10 worse. They sits between Chainmail Helmet and Diamond Boots in Armor, number 4 of 43 there.

How to obtain

Mob drops
Trading
Chest loot

Enchantments

Protection Fire Protection Blast Protection Projectile Protection Swift Sneak Thorns Unbreaking Mending Curse of Vanishing Curse of Binding

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

Chainmail armor has no survival crafting recipe; it is obtained from zombie and skeleton drops, armorer villager trades, or chest loot.

Frequently asked questions about Chainmail Leggings

How do you get Chainmail Leggings in Minecraft?
Chainmail Leggings is obtained through mob drops, Chainmail Leggings from trading with villagers, and Chainmail Leggings from chest loot. A crafting table will not help you here: Chainmail Leggings have no recipe of their own.
Can Chainmail Leggings be enchanted?
Yes. Alongside Protection, Fire Protection, and Blast Protection, all on Chainmail Leggings, plus Projectile Protection, Thorns, and Unbreaking, and on Chainmail Leggings also Mending, Curse of Vanishing, and Curse of Binding, Chainmail Leggings reach one that belongs to leggings alone: Swift Sneak. They have an enchantability of 12, so the same experience buys more here than on a material with a lower figure.
How much durability does Chainmail Leggings have?
225 points. That is how many uses Chainmail Leggings have before breaking. Within chainmail that puts Chainmail Leggings at 225, against the 240 of Chainmail Chestplate, which is the highest of the 4. Unbreaking and Mending both fit Chainmail Leggings, and between them the bar stops being a hard limit: one slows the wear, the other undoes it.
How much protection does Chainmail Leggings give?
Chainmail Leggings add 4 armor points of the 12 a full set of chainmail armor is worth, which is 16% off a light hit and 48% with the rest of the set. Against a hard hit some of that comes back off Chainmail Leggings, and chainmail gives Chainmail Leggings no armor toughness, so Chainmail Leggings lose more of their value the harder you are hit.
When was Chainmail Leggings added to Minecraft?
Chainmail Leggings was added in the 1.0 full release.
What is Chainmail Leggings used for?
Chainmail Leggings is worn for protection, so it takes the hit instead of you. Leg armor providing 4 armor points. Chainmail armor cannot be obtained through normal survival crafting and is found as loot or trades.
How many Chainmail Leggings can you stack?
Chainmail Leggings does not stack, since each one carries its own wear, so a spare costs a second slot and gives a second 225 points of use. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

Building with it

Chainmail leggings give four armour points over 225 uses. Armourer villagers sell them, which is the only reliable supply, and they repair with iron ingots on an anvil despite having no crafting recipe of their own.

In practice

Since no recipe exists, chainmail leggings are worth enchanting when you get them: there is no cheaper second pair waiting if the first is spoiled. They take enchantments as readily as iron and repair with iron ingots, so an anvil keeps them going indefinitely. There is no second pair waiting if the first is ruined, which changes how chainmail should be enchanted: put Unbreaking on before anything else. It repairs with iron ingots, so an anvil and a small iron supply keep a traded pair going for a very long time.

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