Chainmail armor is currently unobtainable through crafting. However, it can be obtained via trading, as a rare drop from zombies and skeletons (albeit very damaged but can be enchanted), or found in chests.

How do you get chainmail armor in survival?

Chainmail armor is not craftable in survival mode. You can only find it in loot chests in villages or as drop from Skeletons or Zombies who had it equipped. Also if you fish it up which is rare. You can’t make Chainmail armor in Minecraft PE, you can get it in creative, but it’s uncraftable.

Why is chainmail armor not Craftable?

Chain mail armor has gone without a crafting recipe ever since its infamously impossible fire crafting recipe was removed. This just makes sense, since chain mail armor is a thinner, weaker version of iron armor and iron nuggets are smaller versions of iron ingots — the links in the armor!Dec 30, 2018.