Golden Helmet

Golden Helmet is an item in Minecraft. It is crafted from 5 Gold Ingot.

A Golden Helmet is a piece of head armor crafted from gold ingots, providing the same protection as a iron helmet but with significantly lower durability. Despite its weakness, it has the highest enchantability of all helmets, making it useful for obtaining powerful enchantments.

Golden helmets are commonly found in bastion remnants, looted from ruined portals, or obtained by killing mobs such as zombies and skeletons wearing them. They can be enchanted with Protection, Unbreaking, and Respiration to improve their effectiveness.

A Golden Helmet is particularly useful in the Nether, as wearing any piece of gold armor prevents piglins from attacking the player on sight. While not ideal for long-term protection, it is often used as temporary armor when exploring piglin-infested areas.

Where to find

Generate a /give command for this item →

Renewable

Unbreaking

Armor

Rarity Tier

Stack Size

Yes

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Common

Current for Java 26.2 and Bedrock 1.26.30

How do you craft Golden Helmet?

Crafting recipe for Golden Helmet

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What enchantments can you put on Golden Helmet?

Enchantments for Golden Helmet


Aqua Affinity	I	2
Blast Protection	IV	2
Curse of Binding	I	1
Curse of Vanishing	I	1
Fire Protection	IV	5
Mending	I	2
Projectile Protection	IV	5
Protection	IV	10
Respiration	III	2
Thorns	III	1
Unbreaking	III	5

Golden Helmet: Enchantment Tool

Enchantment Order Tool

Select enchantments and their desired levels, then calculate the optimal anvil combining order to minimize XP cost.

Ignore incompatibilities

Enchantment	Level	Weight
Blast Protection		2
Fire Protection		1
Projectile Protection		1
Protection		1
Aqua Affinity		2
Curse of Binding		4
Mending		2
Respiration		2
Thorns		4
Unbreaking		1
Curse of Vanishing		4

Which structures contain Golden Helmet?

Golden Helmet can be found in the following structures


Ruined Portal	20.5%	0.23	4.9
Bastion Remnant Bridge Chests	11.2%	0.12	8.9
Bastion Remnant Generic Chests	10.2%	0.10	9.8
Ocean Ruin	6.3%	0.06	15.9