The bug
I was in the process of enchanting my iron boots, when I noticed that the result that gave me the enchanting table on my boots was a fire protection with a very short protection. I then combined it with another pair of boot with another enchantment and I got a pair of boots with two enchantment with the word protection accumulated.
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MC-142030
Anvils can apply several protection enchantments on same armor item in survival
Resolved
MC-142050
Double protection enchants
Resolved
MC-142093
Skeleton trap dropped impossible boots
Resolved
MC-142166
On diamond pants, got conflicting protection enchantments
Resolved
MC-142168
All protection enchantments
Resolved
MC-142189
Enchanting table created helmet with 2 types of protection
Resolved
MC-143147
Protection enchantment stacks
Resolved
MC-143346
Mutually Exclusive Enchantments go onto same Armor Piece
Resolved
MC-143680
I enchanted a helmet in survival mode and it came with protection 4 and fire protection 3, pretty sure this is not supposed to happen, I looked through all the snapshot updates and saw nothing about enchantment changes.
Resolved
MC-143705
Protection and Projectile Protection Naturally Stacking
Resolved
MC-143833
Enchanted Armor with mutually exclusive enchantments
Resolved
MC-143988
More then one protection on armor
Resolved
MC-144468
Protection and Projectile Protection being applied mutually
Resolved
MC-145207
Enchanting table can grant un-combineable enchantments
Resolved
MC-146239
Enchanting bug
Resolved
MC-146412
Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection can enchanting on the same armor.
Resolved
MC-146486
Conflicting enchantments on armor from Enchanting Table
Resolved
MC-146533
Crafting and enchantment Glitch
Resolved
MC-147132
Protection enchantments can be found in one armor
Resolved
MC-148374
Double Protection enchantments in the same armour piece.
Resolved
MC-151220
Can combine protection with projectile protection
Resolved
MC-151492
Villager can sell tools/weapons/armor with uncompatible Enchantments
Resolved
MC-151612
Enchanting bug since 1.14
Resolved
MC-152376
Double protection enchantments on armor
Resolved
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Confirmed for 19w04a
Loot chests will also generate items with multiple protections. I got one piece with three different ones on it.
Legit thought it was a feature...lol
Confirmed for 19w06a: found chests with multiple protection enchantments on items in new generated End cities.
Confirmed for 19w07a
confirmed for 19w08a
forgot to show what the original enchantments were, but they were projectile protection 4 and unbreaking 3 on book, the rest on helmet.
Confirmed for 19w09a
I dislike this change. Now I only need to make one pair of armor for everything. No more specific armor sets for things like the wither boss, playing with TNT, etc, thus making preparing for the wither less fun. Additionally, since every individual armor piece is now more valuable (and you no longer have an extra set from the wither), so losing your maxed out armor to lava or whatever will now be much less fun than it already is.
Overall, this change appears to reduce the overall fun levels in the game for no reason, and I recommend that the "works as intended" resolution is reconsidered.
The pre-1.14 armor enchanting system was also pretty unbalanced to be fair (see my next paragraphs to skip the data and see why I believe this). Each level of protection protects against 4% of (basically) all damage, as other protection type enchantments only protect 8% for each level from one form of damage (don't forget that protection against damage for enchantments won't go over 80%). Fire protection protects against 15% of damage for every level on a single piece of armor, and blast protection reduces explosion knockback (or at least it's supposed to) with the same enchantment amplifier bonus as fire protection. Lastly, feather falling protects against 12% of fall damage for every level (but I won't mention or refer to it in my rebuttal unless nessesary. Assume that feather falling is not included when I say "other protection enchantments" unless I state otherwise).
First let's start with normal protection verses other protection enchantments. If a player is wearing a full set of armor with protection 4, it will protect against 64% of almost all damage forms. If you wear protection 4 on one piece of armor and use different protection enchantments on three pieces of armor with two of them having the exact same type of protection enchantment, you will get 16% protection against almost all damage forms, and 48% and 80% protection against blasts, fire, or projectiles. Fire protection also decreases fire by up to 60% when maxed out, giving the player up to 92% protection against fire itself if you already have 80% protection against burning. This bonus of being protected against at least 80% of one type of damage source may be better than what you could get with full protection 4 armor, with at least (roughly) 44% more resistance to that damage source, but you will also suffer a little or a lot (depending on what protection enchantments you select) when it comes to other types of damage (especially magic) compared to just wearing full protection 4 armor, making this bonus almost negligible unless you're only hunting shulkers or have a habit of falling into lava (explosions don't count since they could still be lethal with max blast protection). See the imbalance?
The new protection combination system completely removes this mentioned problem, since you could add all the protection enchantments to a single piece of armor. If you have an elytra and maxed out armor, you will only lose 8 armor points and a 16% resistance to all damage that cannot be resisted by other protection enchantments and feather falling. Also extra protection type enchantments will become decreasingly helpful as your armor becomes more powerful, which may get to the point that you could wear only two valid pieces of armor to get most protection benefits. This also means that you would only lose 11 armor points and a 32% resistance against all damage (that cannot be resisted by other protection enchantments and feather falling) when wearing only two pieces of maxed armor, an elytra, and a mob head. This makes mob heads more useful because there is little loss in wearing one. This also makes getting back items less stressful because putting on just one of your maxed armor pieces that dropped on the ground will protect you a ton. The most miscellaneous positive aspect is that it made thorns way rarer; good riddance since it's more useless and annoying than bane of arthropods (might as well be changed to a curse and called "shattering" since the sharp pieces of the armor break off and hurt mobs apparently).
I understand that the change may stir up gameplay a little bit by changing the decisions players make when enchanting armor, but it was seriously broken that more "valuable" protection enchantments do no good (except maybe fire protection) since they only protect against one form of damage that is generally uncommon and probably won't protect you to the extent of normal protection. Now having maxed out armor is more balanced because the protection cap will make the enchantments less beneficial as more enchantments are added to armor. Because more enchantments could be added to armor, end cities will be more valuable to explore. Also, you can choose to not have maxed out armor to lose less when losing your items.
(I got the information from the minecraft wiki and did mathematics based on what it says)
TL;DR: The protection enchantments were unbalanced thanks to the pre-1.14 armor enchantment system, and they were correctly fixed even though the execution may have taken small aspects of the game away.
I disagree that the protection enchantment fix/change was bad, but if you want to make suggestions for minecraft you should post it on https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/ because there is no chance that a developer would change this otherwise, because it's intentional.
Please don't remove this, it fixes pvp by a lot since endercrystals are 1 hit kills and we need blastprotection merged with protection IV, since the enchanting cap still makes it hard to obtain a perfect armor, it will not be in any way broken. This should be a feature!
Even Feather Falling can be applied on other pieces of armor. All protection enchantments do not mutually exclusive anymore.
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I like this "BUG", please don't remove it.👍
This ticket has been resolved as working as intended.
This bug still exists as of release 1.14. How is it "RESOLVED" ???
Because this is not a bug, but intentional behaviour.
stupid behavior. please fix it. feather falling on a helmet? really? just no. developer got lazy on the details.
Feather falling should not be able to be put onto helmets. If that's possible, please create a new ticket.
This still is bugged, but not in the sense that you'd all expect
From what I've experienced, having all of the protection types reduces the overall damage that you are protected from. It appears that when struck by an iron golem, that no damage is reduced when I adorn armor that has Fire protection 4, protection 4, projectile protection 4, and blast protection 4.
That's because of how armor works. The damage reduction is capped at a certain point, and that's why it does not make sense to have all four protection enchantments on an armor piece at once.
Mojang has decided that it should however be possible to have multiple protection enchantments on the same item, hence this ticket remains closed.
This behavior is not on Bedrock Edition. Also, does this mean other items can receive previously mutually-exclusive enchantments, like Fortune and Silk Touch on a Pickaxe???
No, this bug only allows you do get different types of Protection. You still can't get other mutually-exclusive enchantments like Fortune + Silk Touch, or Infinity + Mending.
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confirmed for 19w03c