Protection enchantment doesn't provide extra defense against magic attacks
Summary
The Protection enchantment does not apply its defense boost on most magic-based attacks that bypass the normal armor damage reduction.
| Type of Damage | Protected? |
|---|---|
| Instant Damage |  |
| Poison | |
| Wither | |
| Fatal Poison | |
| Dragon's Breath | |
| Evoker Fangs |  |
| Ender Pearls | |
| Suffocation in water | |
| Suffocation in solid blocks | |
Original description
When my inventory have a full diamond armor with protection iv, and i drink a poison potion, it affected me with default damage. but in java edition, if you wearing full armor with protection enchants and you drink a poison potion, it will damage you sometime (i mean heart will affected sometimes)
Linked Issues
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BDS-11615Harming Arrows go through protection IV armorDuplicate
MCPE-51951Some sources of magic damage ignore all protectionDuplicateMCPE-106396Instant Damage 2 arrows opDuplicateMCPE-113553protection does not reduce the magic damage of effect and attack of the evokerDuplicateMCPE-117718Protection enchantment does not reduce the damage of most debuffs.DuplicateMCPE-128635Harming arrows penetrate armor.DuplicateMCPE-132447Protection doesn't work with potionsDuplicateMCPE-132837Broken Effect on MC bedrockDuplicateMCPE-141598Harming effect ignores protection enchantment on armourDuplicateMCPE-144577Arrows of instant damage II ignore armor and shieldsDuplicateMCPE-148776Multi Shot Crossbow with Harming ll arrows will instantly kill any playerDuplicate![[Mod] GoldenHelmet](../../../data/avatars/users/18951.svg){kind=small}
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1.18.10.20 Beta - 1.17.41 Hotfix
1.18.10.20 Beta 1.17.11 Hotfix 1.17.20.21 Beta 1.17.20.20 Beta 1.16.210.59 Beta 1.16.210.53 Beta 1.16.100.60 Beta 1.16.30.52 RTX Beta 1.15.0.11 RTX Beta 1.16.100.53 Beta 1.16.100.51 Beta 1.16.0.67 Beta 1.9.0.3 Beta 1.8.1 1.9.0.5 Beta 1.10.0.3 Beta 1.12.1 1.12.0 1.14.30 Hotfix 1.14.60 Hotfix 1.16.0 1.16.1 1.16.21 1.16.20 1.16.40 Hotfix 1.16.100 1.16.201 Hotfix 1.16.221 Hotfix 1.17.0 1.17.2 Hotfix 1.17.30 1.17.32 1.17.34 1.17.41 Hotfix- 1.18.30.21 Preview 1.18.30.20 Beta 1.18.30
Created Issue:
poison effect will affected when you wearing armor with protection enchants
When my inventory have a full diamond armor with protection iv, and i drink a poison potion, it affected me with default damage. but in java edition, if you wearing full armor with protection enchants and you drink a poison potion, it will damage you sometime (i mean heart will affected sometimes)
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Summary
The Protection enchantment does not apply its defense boost on most magic-based attacks that bypass the normal armor damage reduction.
Type of Damage Protected? Instant Damage Poison Wither Fatal Poison Dragon's Breath Evoker Fangs Original description
When my inventory have a full diamond armor with protection iv, and i drink a poison potion, it affected me with default damage. but in java edition, if you wearing full armor with protection enchants and you drink a poison potion, it will damage you sometime (i mean heart will affected sometimes)
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Summary
The Protection enchantment does not apply its defense boost on most magic-based attacks that bypass the normal armor damage reduction.
Type of Damage Protected? Instant Damage Poison Wither Fatal Poison Dragon's Breath Evoker Fangs Ender Pearls Suffocation Original description
When my inventory have a full diamond armor with protection iv, and i drink a poison potion, it affected me with default damage. but in java edition, if you wearing full armor with protection enchants and you drink a poison potion, it will damage you sometime (i mean heart will affected sometimes)
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Affects 1.17.40.20
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Summary
The Protection enchantment does not apply its defense boost on most magic-based attacks that bypass the normal armor damage reduction.
Type of Damage Protected? Instant Damage Poison Wither Fatal Poison Dragon's Breath Evoker Fangs Ender Pearls Suffocation in water Suffocation in solid blocks Original description
When my inventory have a full diamond armor with protection iv, and i drink a poison potion, it affected me with default damage. but in java edition, if you wearing full armor with protection enchants and you drink a poison potion, it will damage you sometime (i mean heart will affected sometimes)
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Those who are complaining here should understand what they meant first. In Java you can bring down the trading price via repeatedly convert & cure villagers (read this page Trading). As far as I have tested, the new trading works the same way as the video below, which is in Java.
Reference: Easy Villager Trading Hall Tutorial with Zombie Discounts (Java Edition 1.16) Starting from 14:50.
(However, I hope Mojang could spend more time fixing the missing Java features in Bedrock, for example MCPE-40651. Vote for this one!)
BDSAC MCPE-40651 is talking about a bedrock bug (as you can see from its name). My point is that we should keep reminding Mojang of overlooked "bad" disparities, instead of complaining when they randomly remove "good"(OP) ones.
If you read my link about trading, you can see the cure "spreading" in Java indeed only reduces the price by 1 (actually 1.25), presumably tied to the "minor_positive" gossip value. However, I agree that the game does have trouble remembering if a villager has been cured before, for which I have filed a relevant report in MCPE-106839. You need more than "asking it back" to justify a change in the game.
Duplicate of MCPE-40651.
As Dragonairre said, this is intended. Protection is supposed to reduce almost all damage. It does not protect you from status effects; see MCPE-40651.
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Duplicate of MCPE-40651
Might be a duplicate of MCPE-40651
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Confirmed. With the same gear and enchantments (protection III) you lose 6 hearts with 21 seconds poison II in Java Edition. In MCPE you will lose 8,5 hearts with 16 seconds of poison II.
This doesn't just affect poison, but all other sources of magic damage with the exception of Evoker fangs. Here's a list of magic damage sources that do not apply protection reduction correctly:
Affects 1.16.100.51
It looks like the fix for
MCPE-32945in 1.5 only added mele (and perhaps fall & fire?) damage reduction to functionality of the Protection, and before that it only protected against projectile attacks (according to a comment on the report). So maybe when Protection was first ported to Pocket Edition from Java, the code for Projectile Protection was used by mistake?Affects 1.16.100.60
This is intentional though
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MC-97106andMC-10929, this isn't. Protection is intended to protect against all forms of damage except hunger and void damage, and that includes potion/magic effects as well as, surprisingly, drowning and suffocation damage. I believe the latter two work on Bedrock since it's saved me on a few occasions, but I'll have to check again since I could be experiencing the mandela effect.Can confirm in version 1.16.201. According to the wiki, Protection reduces damage from all sources except the void, /kill, and hunger. But in Bedrock Edition, you are also not protected from status effects or suffocation.
Sadly, this bug is still here. I like pvp and somebody on a pvp smp can just get instant harming II and kill me in less than 5 seconds with full netherite protection 4. I have wanted this to be fixed like a year ago because its really op, and this problem makes crossbows op, with multishot it can instantly kill you. A lot of people like to create guns in minecraft in survival, what I mean is crossbows with instant damage can seem like guns in many ways, and the fact that full protection 4 doesn't protect against those arrows is too op, if protection did protect against it I would be happy because it would be more balanced.
Because of this bug even with full protection 4 nethertite Armor you can't kill ender dragon and wither which makes you unable to beat the game. Even a small cave spider or witch can kill you. Really hoping that it will be fixed in 1.17
Sharief, it's seriously not that hard to kill the Ender Dragon. You can it in Iron armor (heck, even no armor) if you know what you're doing. You don't even need to take down all the towers. Protection IV still really helps against both bosses since it protects against explosions, fall damage and melee. That bug, which I even thought was intentional at first, is really not that crucial against bosses. To me it's rather unintuitive that an enchantment put on armor would protect against a status effect. Evoker Fangs? Makes sense. End Acid? Probably. But literal poison? Seriously? It is valid that the issue might be with Java, not Bedrock. This makes Survival in Bedrock harder when it comes to magic and that is NOT a bad thing. Armor in Bedrock is already WAY too overpowered. You're essentially unbeatable if you have Protection IV. At the very least, this shouldn't change until armor behaves like it does on Java (when they add the 1.9 protection and toughness system to Bedrock), which will hopefully happen soon, because I don't like how easy the game makes itself. End Acid was an actual challenge and I liked that. Even the Warden will barely cause damage with the current armor system in Bedrock Edition, which allows for 96% damage reduction (the maximum) against literally everything (except magic) no matter how severe if you just have full Netherite or Diamond and one piece has Protection IV. Once that gets nerfed and rebalanced to match Java, then they should consider changing the way Protection works. Otherwise the game would just be too easy and too imbalanced for late game players. Please consider that.
Assuming I'm on board with the fact that Protection should protect against status effects, it shouldn't happen now. Not with how armor works on Bedrock Edition as opposed to Java. It'd just make it too overpowered. If Protection was to work against magic with the current system, you'll barely take any amount of Wither damage. There would be barely any challenge in the game. Let them change the armor system first before complaining about how "hArD" this bug makes the game, because if they fix it right now you would barely associate Minecraft with "hard" again.
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affects 1.17.20.22
Affects 1.17.40.20
Affects 1.17.30
I just made sure, In the newest update for Bedrock edition, v1.17.32, protection Does NOT apply it’s defense boost for suffocation, taking the same amount of damage with full protection 4 as you would with no armor at all.
Here is proof that protection does reduce suffocation damage Protection from suffocation.mp4
Affects 1.18.0.20
Sorry, when I saw suffocation, I thought of suffocating in a wall, which protection does nothing against. Not sure if that’s a bug or not.
Are there any test cases on the guardian's laser attack? I believe they also deal magic damage, but not sure of the exact number.