Projectile Protection

Projectile Protection is an uncommon armor enchantment in Minecraft 1.21. Projectile Protection blunts ranged attacks, reducing damage from arrows, fireballs, tridents, shulker bullets and similar flying threats.

Its opening level already delivers a noticeable boost — 8% projectile damage reduction — and it climbs from there to a maximum of level 4 (IV) on your leggings.

Projectile Protection tops out at level 4, shown as IV on the leggings, and the gap between the levels is where the enchantment's character really lives.

Four levels at 8% reduction each, reaching 32% on a single piece. Stacked across a full set it makes ranged encounters — skeleton hordes, blaze barrages, pillager volleys, end-city shulkers — noticeably safer.

Projectile Protection can be placed on helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots, giving you a handful of choices for where it does the most good depending on how you play.

Projectile Protection cannot share an item with Protection, Fire Protection and Blast Protection. All of these sit in the same mutually-exclusive group as Projectile Protection, so an item can wear only one of them at once and you choose which playstyle to commit to.

Projectile Protection can be rolled directly at an enchanting table, where reaching its top level of IV on a leggings generally wants a fully bookshelf-powered table at roughly level 8. When the enchanting table refuses to offer Projectile Protection, the same enchantment is available as a book from loot chest and villager trading for anvil application.

Its selection weight of 5 makes Projectile Protection an uncommon roll: it appears with middling frequency when enchanting a leggings — common enough to plan around, but not guaranteed on any given roll.