I am creating a projectile that can bypass a certain amount of the target's armor by taking the effective "armor value", reducing it by a coefficient, and then applying the damage. I know getArmorInventoryList() returns armor the entity is wearing, but can't access the protection values of each individual piece as it only returns an ItemStack. Thanks in advance for any help.

you can use ItemStack#getItem to get the Item, then check if the Item an instance of ArmorItem.
then use ArmorItem#getDefense to get the Armor value

Your suggestions worked, thanks again.

Edited December 7, 20213 yr by CrackedScreen