I'm digging into the Minecraft enchantment system, and looking at the wiki, I see the same type of protection can't be on the same armor type – but what about different armors? More importantly to me, can I wear several of the same kind of protection (fire, projectile, blasting) on different pieces and stack the protection effects? Does it follow that wearing 4 pieces of high valued fire protection will make me almost immune to fire damage? Or will I just get the effects of the best one with the rest going to waste?
Minecraft – Will wearing multiple fire protection armor pieces stack their effects
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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:
If you want to maximize the minimum protection value:
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.
- Protection EPF: 20
- Fire EPF: 20
- Blast EPF: 20
- Projectile EPF: 20
- Feather Falling EPF: 38 (capped to 25)
If you want to maximize the average of protection values:
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.
- Protection EPF: 20
- Fire EPF: 20
- Blast EPF: 20
- Projectile EPF: 20
- Feather Falling EPF: 38 (capped to 25)
If you want to prioritize a particular protection type:
Plain old Protection:
Put Protection IV on all 4 pieces of armor.
- Protection EPF: 20
- Fire EPF: 20
- Blast EPF: 20
- Projectile EPF: 20
- Feather Falling EPF: 38 (capped to 25)
Projectile Protection then Blast Protection:
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.
- Protection EPF: 5
- Fire EPF: 5
- Blast EPF: 16
- Projectile EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Feather Falling: 23
Projectile Protection, then Fire Protection:
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.
- Protection EPF: 5
- Fire EPF: 14
- Blast EPF: 5
- Projectile EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Feather Falling: 23
Blast Protection then Projectile Protection:
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.
- Protection EPF: 5
- Fire EPF: 5
- Blast EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Projectile EPF: 16
- Feather Falling: 23
Blast Protection then Fire Protection:
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.
- Protection EPF: 5
- Fire EPF: 14
- Blast EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Projectile EPF: 5
- Feather Falling: 23
Fire Protection, then the other two
Put Fire Protection IV on 2 pieces of armor and Protection IV on two pieces of armor.
- Protection EPF: 10
- Fire EPF: 28 (capped to 25)
- Blast EPF: 10
- Projectile EPF: 10
- Feather Falling: 28 (capped to 25)
Fire Protection then Projectile Protection:
Put Fire Protection IV on 3 pieces of armor and Projectile Protection IV on one piece of armor.
- Protection EPF: 10
- Fire EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Blast EPF: 0
- Projectile EPF: 11
- Feather Falling: 18
Fire Protection then Blast Protection:
Put Fire Protection IV on 3 pieces of armor and Blast Protection IV on one piece of armor.
- Protection EPF: 0
- Fire EPF: 27 (capped to 25)
- Blast EPF: 11
- Projectile EPF: 0
- Feather Falling: 18
No, Projectile Protection does not reduce knock-back from projectiles.
Yes, Fire Protection's burn time reduction scales with the level. And there isn't a cap.
Explanation:
Protection: Reduces damage from most sources, nothing else.
Fire Protection: Reduces damage from fire AND reduces burn duration.
Blast Protection: Reduces damage from explosion AND reduces knock-back from explosions.
Projectile Protection: Reduces damage from projectiles(ex. fireballs), nothing else
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Best Answer
Yes, fire protection stacks. To test this, I put on a diamond helmet with Fire Protection I and stood in fire. Then, I put on an entire suit of diamond armor with Fire Protection I and went to stand in the fire again. I took no damage, though my armor took extensive damage.
This is the video I made in the process (I'm not sure I've properly annotated it, but hopefully you can tell what I'm doing. :P):