ENCHANTED DIAMOND LEGGINGS

Leggings are the one armor piece with an enchantment nothing else on the body can carry: Swift Sneak, which speeds up crawling while sneaking and matters most in the tight spaces of a deep dark. It is a long shot on any given pair, drawn from the same broad pool as every other roll on this trade, but it is a shot leggings get and a helmet or a chestplate never will.

The Armorer asks 19 to 33 emeralds for them, arriving a tier earlier than the chestplate and helmet on the same shelf despite costing not far off what either does. That puts leggings within reach sooner in the climb than the two pricier pieces, if reach is the word for something still priced in double digits.

Whatever it rolls, it arrives finished. No table, no bookshelves, no combining two mediocre rolls on an anvil hoping for something better.

The Armorer sells them from expert onward, one tier below where the chestplate and helmet unlock, for 19 to 33 emeralds depending on the roll. No other job in the game touches diamond armor, so his shelf is the only place this trade exists at all.

Enchanted Diamond Leggings sells for anywhere between 19 and 33 emeralds, from the Armorer at the Expert tier, and 11 of the other 13 cost less. That is a rolled price rather than a fixed one, so the Armorer you happen to find matters more than the tier does.

The Armorer at its expert tier asks 19 emeralds for enchanted diamond leggings, on its cheapest roll. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

19 diamonds against 456 flint for the same 19 emeralds, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 11.9 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

A blast furnace next to any unemployed villager claims the Armorer job for him. Leggings unlock at expert, one rung under the top of his ladder, so he needs fewer tiers cleared with real trades before this one appears than the chestplate or helmet ever will.

The enchantment and price are set the instant he restocks, not the instant you buy, so hunting a better roll means checking other villagers rather than reopening the same trade window twice. Break his blast furnace before your first purchase and he rerolls everything; do it after, and that villager's leggings are locked at whatever he already gave you. How re-rolling works.

Buying it pays him 15 experience toward the chestplate and helmet tier above, 7 uses of this exact offer are enough to clear that climb on their own.

3 pairs and his slot is done, and the wait before it fills again is 2 real minutes at the blast furnace. A Minecraft day only runs 20 real minutes, which covers two of those refills and no more, so two full slots is the hard limit for one Armorer in a day.

Empty both and you have paid somewhere between 114 and 198 emeralds for 6 pairs, the spread reflecting nothing but the enchantment on each one. If Swift Sneak is what you are actually after, that spread is the whole reason to check more than one villager instead of buying the first pair you see.

Fund the trade the easy way: the same Armorer pays an emerald for a single lava bucket, which is a shorter shopping list than farming goods for a different villager entirely.

Since leggings unlock a tier before the chestplate and helmet do, a villager you are levelling toward those two will show leggings first. Worth checking his sheet for enchanted diamond boots at the same tier, then enchanted diamond helmet and enchanted diamond chestplate once he climbs further, plus his coal, iron leggings and iron boots along the way.

Leggings sit just under the chestplate for protection, so an enchanted diamond pair is the second biggest jump a villager can sell you. Protection is again the roll that matters, since it covers almost every kind of damage rather than one.

Diamond armour also takes a netherite upgrade later, and the enchantment survives that change, so a good roll bought now is not wasted when the set is upgraded. Unbreaking and Mending are what keep it out of the repair bench.

Swift Sneak exists on leggings and nowhere else, and no enchanting table will ever produce it. It comes out of ancient city chests, and it makes crouching almost as fast as walking.

That matters exactly where you find it. The deep dark is a biome you cross crouched or not at all, and without the book a warden fight is the alternative.

A traded diamond pair is the right thing to put that book on, since netherite upgrades from diamond and carries every enchantment across, so nothing spent here is spent twice.