How do you get Golden Helmet in Minecraft?

Golden Helmet is crafted from Gold Ingot at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, not just the recipe above.

How much protection does Golden Helmet give?

Golden Helmet adds 2 armor points of the 11 a full set of gold armor is worth, which is 8% off a light hit and 44% with the rest of the set. Against a hard hit some of that comes back off Golden Helmet, and gold gives Golden Helmet no armor toughness, so Golden Helmet loses more of its value the harder you are hit.

When was Golden Helmet added to Minecraft?

Golden Helmet was added in the 1.0 full release.

Can Golden Helmet be enchanted?

Yes, and Golden Helmet has a set of 2 that nothing else can wear: Respiration and Aqua Affinity. The other 9 on Golden Helmet are the usual armour ones, Protection, Fire Protection, and Blast Protection, all on Golden Helmet, plus Projectile Protection, Thorns, and Unbreaking, and on Golden Helmet also Mending, Curse of Vanishing, and Curse of Binding. The material rates 25 for enchantability, which is what decides how much you get out of a level of experience on Golden Helmet.

How much durability does Golden Helmet have?

77 points. That is how many uses Golden Helmet has before breaking. Within golden that puts Golden Helmet at 77, against the 112 of Golden Chestplate, which is the highest of the 9. Unbreaking and Mending both fit Golden Helmet, and between them the bar stops being a hard limit: one slows the wear, the other undoes it.

How many Golden Helmet can you stack?

One Golden Helmet per slot, since Golden Helmet does not stack, and every one then costs 5 Gold Ingot. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

What is Golden Helmet used for?

Golden Helmet is worn for protection, so it takes the hit instead of you. Head armor providing 2 armor points. Wearing any piece of gold armor stops piglins from attacking.

Where do you find Golden Helmet in chests?

Golden Helmet is chest loot in ruined portal chests (about 21%), bastion bridge chests (about 11%), bastion chests (roughly 1 in 10), and small underwater ruin chests (roughly 1 in 12). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

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Golden Helmet

Head armor providing 2 armor points. Wearing any piece of gold armor stops piglins from attacking.

Stack Size

Durability

Golden Helmet at a glance

Golden Helmet, a piece of armor out of crafting and chest loot, sits under Armor. It claims a slot each, so nine hotbar slots hold nine and a double chest of 54 slots takes 54. Durability on Golden Helmet is 77, so 77 swings, blocks or shots are the run of one; it takes enchantments too.

11 enchantments apply to Golden Helmet, starting with Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection. Worn, Golden Helmet is worth 2 armor points of the 11 a full set of gold armor is worth. With 77 durability, Golden Helmet lasts 77 light hits, or about 26 blows of twelve damage, because a piece loses one point of durability for every four damage in a single hit. At the enchanting table Golden Helmet takes an enchantability of 25: leather at 15 is the next one down. Of the 5 kinds of generated chest that can hold Golden Helmet, ruined portal chests are the best bet at about 21% per chest. It sits between Golden Chestplate and Golden Horse Armor in Armor, number 21 of 43 there.

Crafting recipe

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Gold Ingot
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Golden Helmet
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Golden Helmet has the grid for Golden Helmet

How to obtain

Crafting
Chest loot

Enchantments

Protection Fire Protection Blast Protection Projectile Protection Respiration Aqua Affinity Thorns Unbreaking Mending Curse of Vanishing Curse of Binding

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

Gold armor has the highest enchantability of any armor material but low durability. Can also be worn by skeletons and zombies to prevent burning in daylight when found as a mob drop.

Frequently asked questions about Golden Helmet

How do you get Golden Helmet in Minecraft?
Golden Helmet is crafted from Gold Ingot at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, not just the recipe above.
How much protection does Golden Helmet give?
Golden Helmet adds 2 armor points of the 11 a full set of gold armor is worth, which is 8% off a light hit and 44% with the rest of the set. Against a hard hit some of that comes back off Golden Helmet, and gold gives Golden Helmet no armor toughness, so Golden Helmet loses more of its value the harder you are hit.
When was Golden Helmet added to Minecraft?
Golden Helmet was added in the 1.0 full release.
Can Golden Helmet be enchanted?
Yes, and Golden Helmet has a set of 2 that nothing else can wear: Respiration and Aqua Affinity. The other 9 on Golden Helmet are the usual armour ones, Protection, Fire Protection, and Blast Protection, all on Golden Helmet, plus Projectile Protection, Thorns, and Unbreaking, and on Golden Helmet also Mending, Curse of Vanishing, and Curse of Binding. The material rates 25 for enchantability, which is what decides how much you get out of a level of experience on Golden Helmet.
How much durability does Golden Helmet have?
77 points. That is how many uses Golden Helmet has before breaking. Within golden that puts Golden Helmet at 77, against the 112 of Golden Chestplate, which is the highest of the 9. Unbreaking and Mending both fit Golden Helmet, and between them the bar stops being a hard limit: one slows the wear, the other undoes it.
How many Golden Helmet can you stack?
One Golden Helmet per slot, since Golden Helmet does not stack, and every one then costs 5 Gold Ingot. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.
What is Golden Helmet used for?
Golden Helmet is worn for protection, so it takes the hit instead of you. Head armor providing 2 armor points. Wearing any piece of gold armor stops piglins from attacking.
Where do you find Golden Helmet in chests?
Golden Helmet is chest loot in ruined portal chests (about 21%), bastion bridge chests (about 11%), bastion chests (roughly 1 in 10), and small underwater ruin chests (roughly 1 in 12). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Building with it

Five gold ingots give two armour points and 77 uses, which is why nobody wears gold for protection. What it does do is let you walk past piglins without being attacked, and a single gold helmet is the cheapest way to buy that safety.

In practice

Piglins check whether you are wearing any gold at all, not how much, so a single golden helmet is the whole diplomatic requirement for a bastion trip. Keeping one in an ender chest near the portal is the standard arrangement, since the helmet is otherwise too fragile to wear anywhere.

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