Steel Helmet

| Type | Armor |
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | No |
| Intrinsics | Blast Protection II |
| Durability | 1000 |
| Armor | 2 |
| Armor toughness | 1 |
| Knockback resistance | 1 |
| Repaired with | Iron Ingot |
| Tooltip | Repaired with: Iron Ingot |
| Resource location | matcha:steel_helmet |
| Base item | minecraft:iron_helmet |
| Defined in | steel_helmet.json |
A steel helmet is the steel helmet, made by smithing an iron helmet with steel alloy.
Obtaining
Smithing
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Steel Helmet | Iron Helmet + Steel Alloy |
matcha:smithing/steel_helmet |
The upgrade needs no template. Enchantments on the iron item carry over; where both items have the same enchantment, the higher level is kept.[1]
Usage
Armor
It gives 2 armor, 1 armor toughness and 10% knockback resistance, with 1000 durability. The Blast Protection II is an intrinsic: it is stored on the item and applied when the item enters a player's inventory.[2]
Steel armor has 1000 durability per piece, armor toughness 1 and knockback resistance, and each piece carries Blast Protection. The full set gives 16 armor, 4 toughness, 50% knockback resistance and Blast Protection totalling 11 levels. The 1.10 release notes advise against wearing it in the Abbey: "Blast resistance makes the dungeon boring."
Repairing
It can be repaired in an anvil with iron ingots. The pack resets repair costs to zero, so it can be repaired indefinitely; see Repairing.
Smelting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Ingot | Iron Pickaxe or Iron Shovel or Iron Axe or Iron Hoe or Iron Sword or Iron Helmet or Iron Chestplate or Iron Leggings or Iron Boots or Iron Horse Armor or Chainmail Helmet or Chainmail Chestplate or Chainmail Leggings or Chainmail Boots or Raw Iron or Iron Nautilus Armor or Iron Spear | Blast Furnace · 5 s, 0.2 XP matcha:blast/iron_ingot_from_blasting_iron_materials |
| Prayer of Ares | Red Dye + Iron Sword or Iron Spear + Hell-Bound Book + Shield + Iron Helmet |
matcha:blessing/lunge_breach |
It keeps the iron item ID, so a blast furnace melts it back into a single iron ingot and the steel alloy is lost.
Notes
- The hand-written tooltip hides the real attributes and shows knockback resistance 1 (real value 0.1).[3]
History
| 0.4-alpha | Steel armor names are shown in white. |
|---|---|
| 0.6-alpha | Added a recipe unlock. |
| 1.02 | Steel alloy takes less time to blast. |
| 1.03 | Steel alloy is now blasted from carbon-rich iron. |
| 1.12.1-alpha | Smithing no longer takes an ingot in the template slot, and the upgrade keeps the base item's enchantments. Added the "Repaired with" tooltip. |
| 1.12.2 | Moved to the matcha namespace; older copies can be updated with /trigger update_item.
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References
- Pages with broken file links
- Armor