Best Armor & Best Enchantments for Minecraft Java 1.16

Hello and welcome this is eagle-eye 621 and today we are back in my armor testing world now that the full 1.16 at java has been released for a video about the best enchantments and best armor that you can get in Minecraft now if you’ve seen some of my earlier videos

About the diamonds some of this will be a little bit duplicative so I will have some links down below for some timestamps to jump ahead for what’s going on let’s get started with some armor types which will be very quick then we can go for the enchantments and

What those mean as well as the combinations that you’re looking for and the reasons and we’ll also have some bonuses in there are things that can help you out along the way before we get started if I could ask you to just scroll down and hit that subscribe

Button it is free and does help me out and that way you won’t miss these future videos also be sure to hit that Bell so now let’s talk about the armor types and of course this is going to be very quick you have your leather your gold your

Chainmail which you can’t make but you can get from drops followed by your iron diamond and then nether right and this is shown in order of which armor is the best and the strongest note that there is a turtle shell down here which is kind of in-between because it behaves

More like the iron but it does give you some underwater breathing abilities a couple of seconds 10 seconds at that but really not worth doing there are potions that are going to be better for you so you are going to want to stick to the nether right armor but

The question is what kind of protections do you want to put on this nether right armor and that is where all of these colors come into play so let me explain to you what you are looking at there are three different types of protection you have your projectile protection your

Blast protection and your fire protection I’ve just represented those in white for the projectile because of skeletons the green for the creeper meaning your blast protection and the red fire is your fire protection now you can have up to 20 enchantment points before they stop counting so if you look there are

20 slots here that you can fill with your enchantment and this black bar at the top just indicates the maximum you can do things that get you above that black bar but they stop having any real help that we’re going to be talking specifically about protection for fire

Protection for blast protection for and projectile protection for because there’s no reason to do anything less than that if you’re going for the best and the way that those enchanted protections work is as you can see right here if you have a blast protection for that will give you eight slots of

Protection but only covering your blast protection the same holds true for fire and protection you double the number but it’s only for that specific enchantment protection so your projectile protection for gives you eight points of protection but only two projectiles your general protection will give you a slot across

Of each so your protection 4 will give you four slots on the fire four slots on the blast and four slots on the projectile so you can see this is one of each and this right here is just your protection and then to make things a little bit easier I’ve just compressed

It each one of these boxes never presents four so you can see we have five of them and four times five would get you the twenty and now we have some math with eagle-eye 621 and this representation is the same over here for a blast protection for that we’ll give

You two of these slots covering two of the possible five and for a normal protection it will give you one across of all of them so now in terms of what the best possible armor you can have in the game that goes to the god armor that god

Armor was only possible in Java one point excuse me Java one point fourteen point one at one point fourteen point two it did make a video about how to get it if you’re after that but this is the effect of that god armor so you can see that we

Have some nether right god armor and it has the projectile protection blast fire and normal projection all on the same piece and that’s true for all of these so what that does is you have four of the normal protections which you can see across the bottom right here and you

Also have four of each of these specialty protections so you can see we have these two four six and eight some more counting with eagle-eyes 6:21 and you can see this is way above the maximum bar meaning all of this extra protection up here really isn’t adding anything but it’s just something that

You have the reason that this guide armor is particularly overpowered is because even with only one of these pieces you basically max out your potential armor with other normal armor so if you want to do something a little bit more simple it looks like this and

This just has your protection on each of these pieces but you will note that these boots also have fire that these leggings also have blast this one doesn’t have anything but this one has projectile protection for so it’s just one each and you can see again that

We’ve maxed out our protection and we have one of each which gets us to that bar which is again even extra from what you need but now let’s move past god armor and talk about more conventional armor you can get and exactly what kind of enchantments that you would like to

Put on your armor and we can see that in these four groupings so this right here is my first recommendation for the best armor that you can get with enchantments in your typical game without any god armor shenanigans and that’s just to have protection for on each of your pieces of

Armor and that doesn’t max out any of them but it does get you reasonably close to all of them now some people think well let me put fire protection on one let me put blast protection on one and let me put projectile protection on one and another protection and this is the

Result because you have the protection across the bottom you have your fire you have your blast and you have your projectile and you may notice that it is less than if you just did all protection because essentially protection gets you three slots it’s one for each while the specialty gets you two slots

Specifically in that specialty so if you use even two of your specialties right I’m more concerned about blast and fire than I am about protection so I’m going to go with two protections and then one fire and one blast and you can see that you end up with less overall then you’re

Just for protection because you’re missing the projectile which you do have in this so again this is my first recommendation is for all of them to have protection for on them this is specifically for if you are wearing a chest plate I will get to the wings in a

Moment now I do have a second suggestion for a potential best option but this is a lot more specific to your particular gameplay and your location you can see we have three protections on this and then we have one specialty protection in this case we chose fire and what that

Does is it gives you again reasonable protection and then you do actually max out one of the specialties so in this example you are sacrificing one slot of blast and one slot of projectile to make sure you get an extra of fire now why might you want to do something like

If you are playing a lot in the nether having this fifth slot could be potentially very helpful where you’re not as worried about anything exploding because you’re not gonna find too many creepers in the nether and generally speaking projectiles are the least of your concerns in terms of your three

Different types of damage you can also do the same thing with blast protection if instead of this fire protection you replaced it with a blast protection you just end up moving these two slots over here and you would max out on your explosion protection at the sacrifice of

One slot of fire and one slot of projectile but it is important to understand here that you can only do this for one your choice in terms of maxing out your protection is either to go all with your normal protection or to pick one of the specialties and the

Other three become the normal if you try and do two specialties then again you just end up worse than if you had left it all hat protection so this is highly based on your game if you have a mob switch for example and creepers and skeletons aren’t an issue because I

Don’t even spawn then you’re looking for something to max out your fire now this is specifically if you’re using all four pieces of armor meaning you’re wearing a chest plate but what happens if you are going to wear wings so now we’re going to come over to the other side and talk

About what we can do if we’re concerned because we only get three pieces of armor and the situation is very similar to that side my general first choice recommendation is to tell you to again go all with your normal protection so that’s protection on your shoes your pants and your helmet because you’re

Wearing wings there’s no protection on this and that will cover three slots across each of them now if you tried to do something like all of your specialties again one fire one projectile and one blast then this is what you end up with which you can see is worse than just doing all

Three of protection now again there is a second first choice which is a thing because I’m making anything where you can pick one specifically to max out on so in this example we have two of the normal protections and we chose one blast protection and that gets us closer

To the top but not all the way and you can see that we have sacrificed one block of the fire and one block of the projectile in order to get one extra block of the blast protection and the reason that this may be something that you’d want to do again is because of

Creepers and one-shotting and we’ll do some testing over there in a moment will you see exactly what that means but before I go and do some testing let me also just point out that there are some mitigators to all of these things to keep in mind you can find them these

Chests which you’re probably thinking of already you have your potion of fire resistance or your noob juice potions I’m not ashamed to say when I’m playing in my survival world I always keep one of these in my inventory because I don’t want to have to recreate all of my tools

And armor also a shield which you can put unbreaking and mending on and this is primarily for your projectile defense also against creepers but you do need to be able to see them which can be an issue and then generally speaking your totem of undying in case you do get one

Shot and that is the reason why you may consider doing this blast protection instead of the normal protection is to protect against getting one shot at by a creeper so now that we have all of that explanation out of the way actually let me show you one more thing just in case

You’re wondering about all of the best enchantments for your nether right let me just give you some screenshots that you can take in turn of putting the best possible enchantments on your armor this is not the god armor this is what you’re going to want for your helmet you don’t want

Your mending your protection for unbreaking 3 respiration 3 and aqua affinity for your chest plate it’s a little bit simpler it’s tremendous production and unbreaking the pants look identical to the chest plate and your shoes are gonna be a little bit different because you do want to make

Sure you have your amending protection unbreaking feather falling and soul speed you can choose between depth Strider and frost Walker I much much prefer the depths Rider but do be aware that you can make this exact copy but instead of the depth Strider replaced that with frost Walker and these are the

Enchantments that you’re going to want to get if you don’t have any got armor and don’t want to do any got armor shenanigans to get then we also briefly mention some dark horses in here so I did say that your nether right armor is

Going to be the best I know if I don’t mention this we’ll see some in the comments Pig lens will attack you if you don’t have a gold piece of armor that said I still think it’s not really worth it except for maybe very early game if

You open a chest or you try mine some gold they’ll attack you anyways and the pig land brute will attack you whether or not you have gold armor and it is just rather weak your weapons and you’re just generality to run away should be much better than sacrificing one of your

Pieces of armor for the gold but that is your choice and as long as I am mentioning God armor let me also mention that you can get some glitched out Armour from the skeletons that spawn from lightning the trap skeletons sometimes do show up with double protection armor that armor does

Actually stack so depending on the version of your game you’re playing that’s an option typically those don’t have mending on them and typically unless you set up a really crazy farm the odds of you coming across one are very small so that’s also not really something that

You should consider unless you do manage to make one of those crazy farms and really just stick to the nether right so now what am I talking about in terms of these bonus so we have a couple of things in this chest and as you can see

If we want to grab some protection with some legs and feet and we’ll put on some Elektra and then we can also grab some creeper eggs a little bit of steak although I don’t think that’ll be necessary and the problem with the three protections here when you talk about

Your explosions is if you have a creeper that explodes next to you you’re gonna die and it’s hard to mitigate from an instant death so you can sometimes pull out a shield in time although if it falls down on you from above you may not even have that option so sometimes if

You’re going to be flying around in the world you may want to grab your protection some extra protection and then some blast protection and what happens now and I’m not gonna grab any food if we go back into survival mode let me go back into the same place then

We drop a creeper in the same place you don’t die so you’re sacrificing some protection from projectiles and you are sacrificing some fire protection in the name of not getting one shotted by a creeper and in terms of that projectile protection I am still going to wear just

The blast protection with the normal protection on these two pieces now these skeletons have been equipped with power five bows and you can see even with power five bows even with only two bits of protection they really don’t do a whole lot of image to you I don’t have a shield not

Running around you can even see if they hit you in there a long time then one of the arrows might even just bounce off and they can kill you eventually but you have plenty of time to run away plenty of time to take out shield plenty of

Time to do a lot of things which is why I said that you’re generally speaking projectiles are not going to be your issue what is going to be your issue is the fire so now let me switch over into creative mode so I can fly over here and

Grab one of these potions although I don’t know if I’m actually going to use it and now if we go back into survival mode we only have the blast protection with the two normal protections again and let’s see how much time we have in lava

So we’re fully eaten and jump in you can see that the lava does kill you reasonably quickly but that should be enough time to grab a potion and drink it if you were interested in surviving and not demonstrating something on a youtube video so we can do that one more

Time real quick just so you can see with a different fully backed life everything’s in the maxed out the Elektra burned if you did not know nether right will not burn in lava which is a great thing in case you die in lava you can still get your stuff

Sometimes if we jump into survival mode again two protections and the blast you have a decent amount of time to drink a potion and then the lava doesn’t become an issue for you anymore now let’s switch back to creative mode here for a moment and get rid of all this and let

Me also grab some milk to get rid of this fire resistance so you can see in terms of your fire resistance what difference that will make for you so if I grab the normal protection we can do this roughly like so if you’re going for the one extra fire protection how does that

Look and let’s put that on and go back into survival and let’s not cheat the test so let’s make sure we’re properly healed and not hungry and now we can jump back in and you can see that we have a significant the more amount of time even

Just with that one piece of fire protection instead of blasts so that is really a lot of time to be able to grab that potion or ender pearl out of the lava if you’re flying around in the nether but that’s also not the only option because this also was again using

Only the three pieces if we use our mix-and-match for not wearing wings and the location of the enchantments don’t matter so don’t pay attention to what I’m grabbing and where there’s no real rhyme or reason to it fire protection on your boots does the same as on your legs

But you can see if we have the regular protections here and then one fire protection here this is our example of this right here so we’re maxing out on the fire and something very interesting happens when you max out on the fire with your armor and let’s replenish that grab some food

Plena SHhhh these as well and now in survival mode we can just kind of hang out in the lava for a while so we have our protection one fire and one normal and we can actually eat and heal faster than the lava will kill us and also if

You didn’t know nether right doesn’t take any fire damage so if there’s a diamond armor your armor would be getting beat up right now but without that you can actually swim in lava until you run out of food which is pretty nice now do keep in mind that

Is not just the enchantments that matter but the armor itself matters so let me jump out of this pool and grab instead of these protection from the feet let’s grab some fire protection so that it looks like this now what we have here is we have two of the fire protections

Which would be 18 because again it’s double so four and then eight and then you double that for 16 another four is twenty and another four is twenty-four so this is above the maximum you can have for fire doing that specifically for a reason you will notice that we

Don’t take the fire damage in any concerning quantity and we can still eat our way out of it but now what’s going to happen is I’m going to remove one piece of armor and it’s going to be one of the protections and that means we still have the 20 bits of enchantment

Protection but you may notice that the lava is doing a little bit more damage and a little bit faster damage than it was before however if you see they were eating right now we’re eating almost almost to full almost but not quite and even just removing that little bit of

Armor means that even though it’s only your head and this does make a difference on this part consumes Armour six armor eight armor three and armor three that extra armor does matter so it’s not just the enchantments and now you will eventually die from burning in

Lava you will live for a long time you can see that eating is replenishing most of your hearts but everyhting cycle you lose another half or full heart so wearing all of the armor does make a bit of difference in that regard now I didn’t mention on our perfect

Armor that you can make now normally which I showed over here I also may get a couple of comments I didn’t put thorns on it thorns is definitely an option that you can add to your armor just note that the thorns will cause more durability damage to occur to your armor

As when it damages mobs it will also damage your armor isn’t a problem if you have a decent mending setup but some people don’t like it because if you’re trying to lure mobs into places they may accidentally kill you or they can have other effects if the mobs can injured

That you did not want them to have just because it’s fun let me show you what full-on blast protection looks like so again if we just have three of our normal protections and a blast protection that would be three times four which is twelve and then eight

Which is 20 so this maxes out your blast protection and when your blast protection is maxed out you can do fun things like going into survival mode and punching an end crystal although it would help if I wasn’t already damaged so let’s try that again without being damaged and now because we’re fully

Healed you should be able to punch an end crystal and survive I do keep in mind that with all explosives proximity is a major factor so if we grab some of these healing potions even with this maximum armor if you are directly inside the end crystal this

Stories can end a little bit differently but the ability to punch an end crystal at all from any range a little crazy and does require that blast residence you’re not going to come across an end crystal mostly mostly worrying about the creepers which is why

With the wings you may want to do the extra blast protection in the overworld and switch to an extra fire protection in the nether unless you’re just going to go with your bog-standard three protections so now if you’ve ever seen any of my other videos that take place

In my armor testing world you will know that there is only one proper way to end this video and that is by putting on some very chichi god armor of course this wasn’t actually cheated in you can’t get this in vanilla as I mentioned and paying a visit to a aptly named

Charged creeper and seeing what happens to us charged creeper to the face fully survivable with the right kind of armor and enchantments if you found this video helpful I would appreciate a like pendant interesting maybe even share with one of your friends and for more videos like this do be sure to subscribe

I will of course be updating my tools and weapons for 1.16 now with nether right and there is some interesting new advice based on the weapons specifically and some interesting information about the tools that you don’t want to miss thanks for stopping by