All Armor Trim Locations in Minecraft: Where to Find Them?

If you want to wear armor and still look different from other players, armor trims are for you. They are items that allow you to customize your armor by applying cool designs to it. There are over 100 designs and almost limitless combinations for you to choose from. This guide will teach you how to find all the armor trims in Minecraft in no time. So, let’s get started!

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Location of Armor Trims in Minecraft

Finding most armor trims comes down to exploring their dedicated structures and looting the chests in these locations or brushing suspicious gravel in the trail ruins. But some of them are rarer than others and one even requires you to kill a powerful mob. So, let’s go over each armor trim location to figure out how to obtain them properly.

1. Sentry Armor Trim

To find the Sentry armor trim, you have to loot the chest located at the top of pillager outposts in the Overworld dimension. It adds a simple stripe to your helmet.

The chestplate has a pattern almost representing a target or even a flower in the center with four squares and also stripes on the shoulders. The leggings get a similar four square pattern and the boots get a stripe.

2. Dune Armor Trim

The location of the Dune armor trim is the chests of the hidden underground room of Minecraft desert temples. If you are not careful enough, you might have to dodge TNT while collecting them. However, since the temple has 4 chests, you can get multiple templates in one go.

Talking about the design, chestplate with this trim has a square in the center and an outline around it in front, and on the back, there is a circle around a short horizontal line. The rest of the armor has curvy lines as a trim.

3. Coast Armor Trim

Coast armor trims spawn inside the chest of shipwrecks in the Overworld, which are not that hard to find. Unfortunately, the problem with shipwrecks is that you get anywhere between 0 to 3 chests in each of them.

As you might expect, the higher the number of chests, the rarer is shipwreck’s spawning. Moreover, as per our testing, all three chests have similar chances of spawning the armor trim. So, you might have to grind extra hard before encountering the right shipwreck.

Though, looking at the design, this armor trim is worth more than the effort to finding it. You get a sleek strip design throughout the armor with a downward curve in the middle of every other stripe.

4. Wild Armor Trim

Hidden behind boobie traps and darkness, Wild armor trim spawns inside the chests of jungle temples in the Overworld dimension of Minecraft. It adds kind of spikes on the chestplate and straight ones on the leggings.

5. Tide Armor Trim

Tide armor trim is the only smithing template that requires you to kill a mob to get it in Minecraft. You have to find and kill an Elder Guardian mob to make them drop it, which happens half of the time. Moreover, since this mob exclusively spawns inside the ocean monument structure in Minecraft, you have to be prepared while hunting for this armor trim.

As for the pattern, you get an expressive design with a face-like helmet, two lines joining into an emblem in the chest plate, and a joint curve in the leggings. The emblem design also shows up on the back of your helmet.

6. Ward Armor Trim

As the name suggests, the location of the Ward armor trim is the chests at the home of the Warden, the ancient city. This makes it one of the riskiest smithing templates to get. Though, thanks to the huge amount of chests in the structure, you can expect to find them relatively quickly.

7. Vex Armor Trim

Vex armor trim spawns inside the chests of woodland mansion, which are home to various powerful illagers. However, keep in mind that this structure is fairly rare so make sure to check every single chest to find all Vex armor trims in Minecraft. Thankfully, they are pretty common.

As for the design, you get angry vex eyebrows on top of helmets and a long horizontal line on the chest plate, which is identical to the Evoker’s rob.

8. Rib Armor Trim

To get the Rib armor trim, you need to make a Nether portal in Minecraft and travel to the Nether dimension. There, explore the halls of Nether fortress to find the chest with a smithing template.

While relatively calm in most biomes, this structure is home to wither skeletons, which are also the inspiration for this trim. Once used, you get skeleton-like ribs throughout the armor in a wrapped form. This design is unique in comparison to other armor trims.

9. Snout Armor Trim

If the term “snout” reminds you of pigs and their noses, then you can already guess where to find this armor trim. It spawns in the house of piglins – the bastion remnant in various chests across the structure. Staying true to its name, you get a template with two nostrils on top of it.

However, the design of the trim doesn’t reflect a pig head. Instead, you get a clean pattern with a small box in the middle with a straight line on its top and a curved one beneath it.

10. Eye Armor Trim

With an eye of ender shape on the chest plate, eyebrows on the helmet, and cool geometric patterns on the rest of the armor, the Eye armor trim is one of the most well-designed smithing templates.

You can find it within the chests of the stronghold in the Overworld dimension. This turns it into a late-game item, though you might get it earlier by exploring these speedrun seeds of Minecraft.

11. Spire Armor Trim

The true end-game template is the Spire armor trim, which spawns inside the end cities in the Minecraft world. It adds a clean stripe to your helmet while giving your feet and arms a checkered pattern.

Meanwhile, your chest plate gets a curved line, the reflection of which appears in your leggings.

12. Silence Armor Trim

The Silence armor trim looks far more different than any other smithing template. Its appearance is extremely detailed thanks to the size and depth of the lines on the armor and different shades of the colors. Since this armor trim is so stylish it is heavily protected. You can find it only in the chests in the ancient city, though the chance of you finding it is quite low.

13. Wayfinder Armor Trim

You can obtain the Wayfinder armor trims only in the trail ruins structure in Minecraft. It is one of the treasures that have been left by ancient civilizations and can be dug out of the suspicious gravel blocks using the brush.

The player with this trim looks as if they have goggles on to help them find the way in a sand storm perhaps (pun intended). The rest of the armor pieces are covered with zig-zag stripes.

14. Raiser Armor Trim

This particular armor trim is another one from the set found only by brushing suspicious gravel blocks in the trail ruins in Minecraft. While wearing armor with this template you can look really grumpy with those raised eyebrows, but also rather fancy with the one-pixel diagonal lines across the chest piece and boots.

15. Shaper Armor Trim

As the name implies, the Shaper armor trim includes the lines that kind of follow the shape of the armor piece. That is best noticeable on the sleeves of the chestplate, where the lines go against the edges of the armor. You may find this smithing template by excavating the suspicious gravel blocks in the trail ruins structures.

16. Host Armor Trim

The Host armor trim is possibly one of the plainest armor trim designs. However, that doesn’t mean it’s bad or ugly, it only shows that even though it’s fairly simple, perhaps in combination with other armor trims, it can be a perfect match. You can also find this armor trim by brushing the suspicious gravel in the trail ruins.

17. Flow Armor Trim

The Flow armor trim can only be found in trial chambers. It is one of the possible loot items you can get from the vault. So, in order to get it, you first need to get the trial key in one of three methods.

There is a 6.3% chance of the Flow Armor Trim appearing, so you might need to find a few keys and unlock several vaults before getting the Flow Trim. The design it adds is my personal favorite. The pattern is full of spirals and twisting lines that immediately remind you of the Breeze and its wind powers.

18. Bolt Armor Trim

The Bolt armor trim is obtainable the same way as the Flow trim – from vaults in trial chambers. You have the same chances of finding both of them, so hope it’s the one you like more first. It is different from most other trims because some of its design’s parts only include one stand-alone pixel. The rest of the pattern includes straight lines and geometrical shapes.

How to Apply Armor Trims to Armor

Now that you know how to find these armor trims, let’s figure out how to use them. You will need a smithing table, a piece of armor (helmet, chestplate, leggings, or the boots), armor trim, and then a coloring material of your choice. The coloring material changes the color of the patterns that appear on your armor and is consumed in the process. They include:

• Iron (gray color)
• Copper (orange color)
• Gold (yellow color)
• Lapis (blue color)
• Emerald (green color)
• Diamond (cyan color)
• Netherite (black color)
• Redstone (red color)
• Amethyst (purple color)
• Quartz (white color)

You can even use the material the armor is made of, but the result might be a bit different than your expectations. For example, trimming a gold armor with gold as material results in a darker shade of gold in the trimmed areas.

Follow the steps below to customize your armor with armor trims.

• Before you apply an armor trim, keep in mind that they will be consumed. So, if it was difficult to get, like the Silence trim, you should first duplicate it. Our guide on how to make smithing templates will teach you how to duplicate these items, so you don’t have to find them all over again.
• After you duplicate the trim, you can place the smithing table in your world and interact with it to open its interface.
• Then, place the armor trim in the far left slot of the UI.
• Add a piece of armor in the center slot and put the coloring material in the right slot.
• You’ll see a piece of armor with a trim appear in the result slot on the right. Click on it to craft it. This will consume the armor trim and the coloring material.

• Moreover, you cannot remove nor replace the armor trim, so choose wisely before regretting your decision.

If you wish for truly custom armor, you can use the armor trims with leather armor, which can be colored using dyes in Minecraft. Though, that’s it for this guide. Now you know where to find all armor trims and how to use them in Minecraft. So, which of these 18 armor trims is your favorite? Share with us in the comments below!