Minecraft armor trims: where to find all 18 templates and how to copy them

Armor trims are Minecraft's cosmetic endgame. Each of the 18 trim patterns comes from a smithing template found in one particular structure, and the rarest, Silence, shows up in about one ancient city chest in eighty. Once you have a template you can copy it with diamonds and put it on any armor piece in any of eleven colours.

Quick answers

• How do you apply a trim? At a smithing table: the template, the armor piece, and a trim material such as gold or amethyst.
• Does the template get used up? Yes, one template per trimmed piece, so duplicate it first.
• How do you duplicate one? 7 diamonds + the template + one block of its material (cobblestone, sandstone, prismarine and so on) gives 2 templates.
• Rarest trim? Silence, at about 1.2% per ancient city chest.
• Do trims add protection? No. They are purely cosmetic.

Image: SyntaxMine, made from Minecraft's own textures.

Where every template comes from

Template	Where	Chance
Sentry	Pillager outpost chest	25%
Vex	Woodland mansion chests	50%
Wild	Jungle pyramid chest	33.3%
Coast	Shipwreck chests (any of the three)	16.7% each
Dune	Desert pyramid chest	14.3%
Ward	Ancient city chest	5%
Silence	Ancient city chest	1.2%
Snout	Bastion remnant chests	8.3% each
Rib	Nether fortress chest	6.7%
Eye	Stronghold library chest, altar chest	100% in library, 10% altar
Spire	End city chest	6.7%
Flow	Trial chambers, ominous vault	22.5%
Bolt	Trial chambers, vault and reward chests	6.3%
Wayfinder	Trail ruins, rare suspicious gravel	8.3%
Raiser	Trail ruins, rare suspicious gravel	8.3%
Shaper	Trail ruins, rare suspicious gravel	8.3%
Host	Trail ruins, rare suspicious gravel	8.3%
Tide	Dropped by elder guardians	20%

Duplicating a template

Every template copies with the same pattern: seven diamonds around it, the template in the top middle, and its material block in the centre. You get two templates back, so you keep the original.

Template	Material block
Sentry, Vex, Coast	Cobblestone
Wild	Mossy cobblestone
Dune	Sandstone
Ward, Silence	Cobbled deepslate
Snout	Blackstone
Rib	Netherrack
Eye	End stone
Spire	Purpur block
Tide	Prismarine
Flow	Breeze rod
Bolt	Block of copper (or waxed)
Wayfinder, Raiser, Shaper, Host	Terracotta

Seven diamonds per copy adds up: trimming a full set takes four templates. Each craft turns one template into two, a net gain of one, so three crafts (21 diamonds) turn a single found template into four: exactly a full set. Make a fourth copy first if you want to keep one for later. An efficient diamond trip pays for it.

Trim materials

A trim in the same material as the armor gets a slightly darker shade so it still stands out, so a gold trim on gold armor is not invisible.

Applying a trim

1. Open a smithing table.
2. Put the template in the first slot, the armor piece in the second and the material in the third.
3. Take the result. The template and one material are used up.

Trims work on every armor type, including turtle shells, and on netherite armor. You can re-trim a piece later: applying a new trim replaces the old one.

The netherite upgrade template

The other smithing template upgrades diamond gear to netherite. It is found in bastion remnants: always in the treasure room chest, 10% in the other chests. It duplicates like the trims, with netherrack as the material, and it is worth copying straight away: every netherite piece and tool needs one. More in our netherite guide.

Which trim to chase

Taste decides, but the popular picks are Silence (the bragging-rights one), Ward and Eye for clean lines, Flow for its spiral, and Spire and Rib on netherite. Coast and Sentry are the easiest early on and look good on iron.