
How Do You Make Wolf Armor in Minecraft
Wolf Armor in Minecraft is one of the coolest additions to the game in some time. Wolves have long been plain and impossible to customize other than dying their collar a different color. The 1.20 update, which has since been supplanted as the recent version by the 1.21 update, changed that. Wolves come in several different breeds, some of which are quite rare. They were also given armor, something that could protect them on their travels with you and make them look cool. Here’s how to make it.

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Wolf Armor Minecraft Guide
Minecraft Wolf Armor is crafted with Armadillo Scutes. Using six of this item, you can craft one set of armor. To obtain Armadillo Scutes, you must have or find armadillos. This passive mob spawns in groups of two to three in the savanna, savanna plateau, and windswept savanna biomes. They spawn in groups of one to two in the badlands, eroded badlands, and wooded badlands as well. They’re not an uncommon spawn, but you will either need to find multiple or get one on a lead and bring it back to your base.
From there, you can do one of two things: wait for scutes to drop organically or brush them off. Armadillos drop a scute every five to ten minutes, but brushing them speeds that process up. A brush can be crafted with one feather, one copper ingot, and a stick. This item does not have great durability, so you can get roughly four scutes from each brush before it breaks. Once you have six, you can craft Wolf Armor for your Minecraft dog.
Making Wolf Armor
Wolf Armor looks like an Armadillo normally. It’s the same pinkish color. However, you can dye it. In Bedrock Edition, you have to place the armor in a cauldron with whatever color water you’d like and then place it on the wolf of choice. If you try to dye it while it’s on the wolf, you will only dye its collar. However, in Java Edition, you can use the dye on the item. To remove it, you have to use shears on the dog.
Wolf Armor can only be used on tamed, adult wolves. It protects all damage until the durability runs out except for:
- Drowning
- Freezing
- Suffocating
- Magic
- Thorns
- The Wither effect
- The void
- Being outside the world border
- Entity cramming
- /kill command
- Warden’s shriek
It has 64 durability, so your wolf can be protected for a very long time.