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How to Craft Leather Tunic in Minecraft

Leather Tunic in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Basic chest protection providing 3 armor points.

The recipe wants 8 Leather, and a Crafting Table to run it on. Read it row by row: two Leather down either side, then three Leather, then three Leather. Each attempt hands back 1 Leather Tunic. Durability is 80, and that is how many uses one gets you.

Leather Tunic Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Leather Tunic is minecraft:leather_chestplate. In commands the namespace may be left off, so leather_chestplate works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p leather_chestplate
Give several at once
/give @p leather_chestplate 5
Give it to a named player
/give Steve leather_chestplate 1

Cheats have to be on for Leather Tunic to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Repairing Leather Tunic

Those 80 uses are not the end of the road. Feed Leather Tunic back onto an anvil with Leather and it comes back up with its enchantments intact.

There is a cheaper way, and a catch. A grindstone merges two worn Leather Tunic items without costing levels, but it removes every enchantment while it does so.

The cheapest fix of all is Mending, which Leather Tunic accepts. Experience you collect goes into the tool rather than your level bar, and it keeps itself topped up.

Overview

The Leather Tunic provides 3 armor points and has 80 durability. It can be dyed using any dye color. Leather Tunic uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

The leather tunic was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with leather (kill cows or horses).

What A Stack Yields

Work a stack down, 64 leather, and you land on 8 leather tunics. Down to the last leather, nothing spare.

Which Material Lasts Longest

Durability of every material this item comes in, weakest first.
Leather TunicLeather TunicLeather80
Golden ChestplateGolden ChestplateGold112
Chainmail ChestplateChainmail ChestplateChainmail240
Iron ChestplateIron ChestplateIron240
Diamond ChestplateDiamond ChestplateDiamond528
Netherite ChestplateNetherite ChestplateNetherite592

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
LeatherLeatherLeather8xKill cows or horses

To make Leather Tunic you will gather 8x Leather (kill cows or horses), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    LeatherLeather8x Leather

  2. 2

    Leather Tunic

Minecraft crafting recipe for Leather Tunic: 8 x Leather in a crafting table, making 1 Leather Tunic.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 8x Leather. Start with the Leather: kill cows or horses.

Uses for Leather Tunic

  • Basic chest protection providing 3 armor points
  • Can be dyed any color

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Leather Tunic on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Leather Tunic in Minecraft?
8 Leather at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Leather Tunic. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Leather Tunic.
Can you craft a Leather Tunic without a crafting table?
The inventory grid is too small for a Leather Tunic, so you need a table. It is laid out as eight Leather, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Leather Tunic?
The parts of a Leather Tunic do not all come from one place. Leather: kill cows or horses.
Is a Leather Tunic any good compared to the other materials?
A Leather Tunic sits at 1 of 6 on durability, at 80 against 592 for the Netherite version, which lasts 7.4 times as long.
How many Leather Tunics do you get from one craft?
The Leather Tunic recipe makes one Leather Tunic per craft.
What is the item ID for Leather Tunic in Minecraft?
The Leather Tunic item ID is minecraft:leather_chestplate, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write leather_chestplate on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Leather Tunic?
Use /give @p leather_chestplate to put a Leather Tunic in your own inventory. Add a number on the end for more than one, and note that cheats have to be on.
Is the Leather Tunic recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Leather Tunic recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Leather Tunic from 8 Leather at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Leather Tunic?
The leather tunic was already listed in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release Mojang publishes with an English language file, so this one is older than the files can prove and there is nothing earlier to check against. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Leather in, 1 Leather Tunic out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, durability, enchantments
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Leather Tunic per craft against the stack size.

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