This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft enchanted iron leggings with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
In Minecraft, you can add powers to iron leggings by enchanting them. Enchantments can be added to items using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command.
Let’s explore how to make enchanted iron leggings using an enchanting table.
Required Materials to make Enchanted Iron Leggings
In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft enchanted iron leggings:
3 Lapis Lazuli 1 Iron Leggings
Enchantments for Iron Leggings
In Minecraft, you can enchant iron leggings with the following enchantments:
Enchantment
Description
Blast Protection
Reduces blast and explosion damage
Curse of Binding
Cursed item can not be removed from player
Curse of Vanishing
Cursed item will disappear after player dies
Fire Protection
Reduces damage caused by fire and lava
Mending
Uses xp to mend your tools, weapons and armor
Projectile Protection
Reduces projectile damage (arrows, fireballs, fire charges)
Protection
General protection against attacks, fire, lava, and falling
Swift Sneak
Increases movement speed while sneaking
Thorns
Causes damage to attackers
Unbreaking
Increases durability of item, in effect, by decreasing the chance of the tool, weapon, or armor taking durability damage when used
Enchantment is what the enchantment is called.
Description is the description of what the enchantment does.
See a complete list of Minecraft Enchantments that is interactive and searchable.
Steps to Enchant the Iron Leggings
1. Open the Enchanting Table
First, open your enchanting table so that you have the Enchant menu that looks like this:
2. Enchant the Iron Leggings
In the Enchant menu, place the iron leggings in the first box. Then place 3 lapis lazuli in the second box.
TIP: In Creative mode, you do not need to place the lapis lazuli in the second box.
Once you have placed your iron leggings and lapis lazuli in the two boxes, you will see the enchantment slots display up to 3 enchantment options. Each enchantment will display a number on the right which is the number of experience levels that you must have to unlock and view the enchantment (this is not the cost of applying the enchantment).
In this example, the first enchantment is unlocked if you have 7 experience levels, the second one is unlocked if you have 8 experience levels, and for the third enchantment you need 30 experience levels to unlock it.
The higher the experience points required to unlock the enchantment, the better the enchantment. If you don’t have enough levels, you can always earn more experience points by killing mobs or using the /xp command.
TIP: If you hover over the slot, you will see the name of the enchantment and the cost.
When you hover over the third enchantment, it says Blast Protection IV and the cost of the enchantment is 3 lapis lazuli and 3 enchantment levels (ie: levels on your experience bar). Blast Protection IV is one of the 3 enchantments that you can select from the enchanting table.
Select the enchantment that you wish to apply to the iron leggings.
Once you have selected an enchantment, your lapis lazuli and experience points will be spent and the iron leggings will glow purple. You can hover over the enchanted leggings to see its new powers.
TIP: Quite often the enchanting table will add more than just the one enchantment originally selected. So you might end up with an item that is enchanted with 2 or 3 enchantments (or maybe even 4 enchantments)!
The iron leggings are now enchanted iron leggings and you can move them back into your inventory.
Congratulations, you have made enchanted iron leggings in Minecraft!
Durability
Durability represents how long the item will last. For tools, weapons and transportation, durability is the number of useful actions before the item is destroyed. For armor items, durability is the number of hits (that can be blocked by armor) before the item is destroyed. So the higher the durability number, the longer the item will last.
The following table shows the durability for each pair of leggings/pants in Minecraft:
Item
Name
Durability
Netherite Leggings
555
Diamond Leggings
495
Chain Leggings
225
Iron Leggings
225
Golden Leggings
105
Dyed Leather Pants
75
Leather Pants
75
Things to Do with Enchanted Iron Leggings
Here are some activities that you can do with enchanted iron leggings in Minecraft:
How to Put on Armor How to Use an Armor Stand
Other Enchanted Items
In Minecraft, you can make other enchanted items such as: