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I'm playing a custom map right now, and I just got a piece of armor that has a modifier of "+25% Attack Damage". Obviously this increases my melee damage, but does it have any effect on bow damage? It stands to reason that it should, but I know bow damage in Minecraft is a little weird, so I'm not sure if it does or not. It's really hard to tell.
Will this modifier increase the amount of damage I can deal with a bow? Or will it only have an effect on sword damage?
First note that the Enchanting page on the wiki says that Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection are all mutually exclusive, but it looks like you can have Feather Falling on boots with one of the other enchantments.
The Armor page linked in the question has a table of "Enchantment Protection Factors" provided by each enchantment. I have duplicated the relevant parts of the table below:
Since increasing the level of the enchantment only increases the EPF, when trying to find the "best" protection it is only worth looking at the highest level enchantment. The article also says that in order to maximize protection from a particular kind of damage, you would need 25 points of protection for that damage type.
Since there are 3 different types of damage, one would need 75 effective points of protection, but since each armor can add either up to 11 points to one type of protection or 5 points to each type (which is like adding 15 total), the max is 60 effective points of protection. So, you can't max out everything. And plain Protection can't be maxed out at all. Therefore, the best armor depends on what you are looking for:
Put Protection IV on each piece of armor. This will give you 20 points in every type of protection. As a side bonus, if you put any level of Feather Falling on the boots, you will max out fall damage protection.
Again, put Protection IV on each piece of armor. Adding Protection IV to a piece of armor adds 5 to each protection type, so it adds 5 to the average. Adding any other protection enchantment adds at most 11/3<5 EPF on average.
Put Protection IV on all 4 pieces of armor.
Put Projectile Protection IV on two pieces of armor, Blast Protection IV on one piece of armor, and Protection IV on the last piece of armor.
Put Projectile Protection IV on two pieces of armor, Fire Protection IV on one piece of armor, and Protection IV on the last piece of armor.
Put Blast Protection IV on two pieces of armor, Projectile Protection IV on one piece of armor, and Protection IV on the last piece of armor.
Put Blast Protection IV on two pieces of armor, Fire Protection IV on one piece of armor, and Protection IV on the last piece of armor.
Put Fire Protection IV on 2 pieces of armor and Protection IV on two pieces of armor.
Put Fire Protection IV on 3 pieces of armor and Projectile Protection IV on one piece of armor.
Put Fire Protection IV on 3 pieces of armor and Blast Protection IV on one piece of armor.
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The
Attack Damageattribute only affects melee damage, even it is applied directly to the bow rather than onto armor. It does affect left click hitting with a bow, but not shooting.I tested this by giving myself items with high
+ Attack Damageattributes, and counting how many attacks it took to kill a mob:This piece, for example, was an instakill with a sword on everything, but the normal amount of shots with a bow. (I also tested items with lower
+ Attack Damagein case some kind of max value was stopping the bow from applying the insanely high extra damage.)