
Aquaila's No Mob Armor Drops
This Datapack stops entities from dropping their armor by setting their Hand drop and Armor Drop chances to 0.0
⬇ Download on ModrinthThis Datapack stops entities from dropping their armor when they die. The best part is that if a zombie picks up your armor or other items, it'll still drop them when it gets killed!
Special Thx to u/GalSergey for showing how to do this in a command on Reddit to some guy 4 years ago. 
Only tested on 1.20.1. It MIGHT work on other versions
It works by automatically setting the entities' "HandDropChances" and "ArmorDropChances" to 0.0. The entities are also given the "NoDrops" tag, so the "command" only gets run once per mob
The command:
SpoilerYou can easily edit the command by extracting the zip file and editing the following code to add exceptions or only make it work on specific mobs
execute as @e[type=!minecraft:player,tag=!NoDrops, type=!minecraft:item, type=!minecraft:experience_orb, type=!minecraft:end_crystal, type=!minecraft:ender_dragon, type=!#minecraft:boat] run data merge entity @s {HandDropChances:[0.0f,0.0f],ArmorDropChances:[0.0f,0.0f,0.0f,0.0f],Tags:["NoDrops"]}
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Aquaila'sNoMobArmorDrop.zip
- Download size: 2 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.