Minecraft:Breach

Template:Distinguish Template:Infobox enchantment Breach is an enchantment applied to Minecraft:maces that causes melee attacks to partially ignore Minecraft:armor, increasing damage against armored targets. It also affects the Minecraft:natural armor points that certain Minecraft:mobs have innately.

Obtaining

Breach can be obtained through an Minecraft:enchanting table by enchanting a mace or a Minecraft:book, or by Minecraft:trading with a librarian of any levelTemplate:Until, or from Minecraft:fishing. Its enchanted book form can also be found from Minecraft:ominous vaults, as well as any other structures that generate enchanted books.

Usage

Template:See also Breach reduces the effectiveness of the target's armor points and armor toughness by 15% per level. Specifically, Breach deals damage as though the enemy's damage reduction from armor was 15 percentage points lower per level. For example, if the enemy's armor reduces damage by 50%, and they are hit with a mace with Breach I, their armor reduces the damage by 50% - 15% = 35%. However, this reduces the effectiveness of only the armor itself, which does not include damage reduction from enchantments such as Minecraft:Protection or the Minecraft:Resistance effect.

Breach works according to this formula:

<math>\mathsf{damage\ taken}=\mathsf{weapon\ damage}\times\left(1-\max\left(0%, \mathsf{armor\ effectiveness}-\mathsf{level}\times 15%\right)\right)</math>

Breach extra damage
Type	Armor type	Unenchanted	Breach I	Breach II	Breach III	Breach IV
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Leather Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Copper Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Golden Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Chainmail Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite(critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Iron Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Diamond Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Netherite Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

Breach effective attack damage
Type	Armor type	Unenchanted	Breach I	Breach II	Breach III	Breach IV
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Leather Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Copper Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Golden Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Chainmail Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite(critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Iron Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Diamond Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite Netherite Armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

The strength of -60% armor effectiveness at level 4 Breach is significant enough to make full Minecraft:Protection IV Minecraft:netherite armor and full Protection IV Minecraft:leather armor protect nearly the same amount. Without a smash attack, it takes the same amount of critical hits with a Breach IV mace and Minecraft:Strength II to defeat a player wearing either armor set (4), while without Strength II it takes 7 critical hits to defeat a player wearing the leather set and 8 to defeat a player wearing the netherite set.

In Bedrock Edition, a Breach IV Minecraft:mace has higher DPS than a Minecraft:Sharpness V netherite Minecraft:sword against targets wearing Minecraft:diamond armor or better. This is due to the absence of the Minecraft:attack cooldown, and it leads to maces outclassing netherite swords in damage for Minecraft:PvP in Bedrock Edition that features diamond or netherite Minecraft:armor.

Damage comparisons

The amount of hits needed to defeat a player wearing full Minecraft:Protection IV Minecraft:netherite armor from full health are the following:

• Breach I mace with Minecraft:Strength 2: 7 critical hits.
• Minecraft:Sharpness V netherite Minecraft:sword with Strength 2: 6 critical hits.
• Sharpness V netherite Minecraft:axe with Strength 2: 5 critical hits.
• Breach II mace with Strength 2: 5 critical hits.
• Breach III mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.
• Breach IV mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.

The amount of hits needed to defeat a player wearing full Protection IV Minecraft:iron armor from full health are the following:

• Breach I mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.
• Breach II mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.
• Breach III mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.
• Breach IV mace with Strength 2: 4 critical hits.
• Sharpness V netherite sword with Strength 2: 3 critical hits.
• Sharpness V netherite axe with Strength 2: 3 critical hits.

Usecases in singleplayer

The Breach enchantment is far more suited for a Minecraft:PvP environment than it is for singleplayer Minecraft:Survival. This is because the only mobs other than Minecraft:piglins that can naturally wear armor are Minecraft:undead mobs like Minecraft:zombies and Minecraft:skeletons, causing a Minecraft:Smite or Minecraft:Density mace to largely outclass a Breach mace for singleplayer Survival. Additionally, because Breach has no effect against the Minecraft:Protection enchantment, it also increases damage less than Smite would against the mobs in Minecraft:ominous events within Minecraft:trial chambers that wear enchanted armor. In terms of effect against natural mob armor points, Minecraft:shulkers that have their shells closed are the most noticeably impacted by the Breach enchantment.

Incompatibilities

Breach is incompatible with Minecraft:Density, Minecraft:Smite, and Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods. It is also incompatible with Minecraft:Sharpness and Minecraft:Impaling, however in Survival these incompatibilities cannot be encountered, as no weapon types have access to both Breach and Sharpness/Impaling. If Minecraft:commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, their effects stack.Template:Only

Data values

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