How to Get Mending Enchantment in Minecraft

Unlike most video games, Minecraft has a slightly frustrating way of utilizing its tools and weapons. Irrespective of how strong they are, all the weapons in Minecraft wear out with use. When a weapon runs out of durability, you have to collect ingredients and craft it all over again. Sounds tiring, doesn’t it? If you had to find Netherite in Minecraft to re-craft your gear, then limited durability seems cruel. Fortunately, we have you covered with the mending enchantment in Minecraft, and your tools can practically last forever. With that said, let’s not waste time and learn how to get and use the mending enchantment in Minecraft.

What Does Mending Do in Minecraft

In Minecraft, mending is a unique enchantment that requires players to put in some work for its activation. As the name reveals, mending repairs your items and restores their durability. They will still lose durability when used again, but with this enchantment applied, you can restore the durability easily. It is one of the most common Minecraft enchantments in the game that you can apply to every item that has durability in Minecraft.

That said, here are the items that you can apply the mending enchantment to in Minecraft:

• Helmet
• Chestplate
• Leggings
• Boots
• Pickaxe
• Shovel
• Axe
• Sword
• Hoe
• Fishing Rod
• Bow
• Shears
• Flint and Steel
• Carrot on a Stick
• Warped Fungus on a Stick
• Shield
• Elytra
• Trident
• Turtle Shell
• Crossbow

Do keep in mind that you can’t apply mending to any item that already has an infinity enchantment on it. Both of them are incompatible due to similar functionality.

How to Get Mending Enchantment in Minecraft

Now that you know how mending works, it’s time to discover how to get this enchantment in-game. Unfortunately, mending is a treasure enchantment. If you didn’t already know, treasure enchantments can’t be applied using an enchanting table. Instead, you have to look for enchantment books with mending enchantment. You can find enchanted books with mending in the following situations:

• Trading with a librarian villager at any level.
• Looting chest loots in the overworld and the Nether. Strongholds have the highest chances of spawning with chests with enchanted books.
• Fishing in water bodies around the overworld. Thunderstorms are the best weather for fishing in Minecraft.
• Pillager raids also have mobs that drop enchanted books when killed. (But this is exclusive to the Bedrock edition)

Among these options, trading with a librarian villager is the most reliable way to get mending in Minecraft. You can use our best Minecraft village seeds to find a suitable village easily. Alternatively, you can also breed villagers to get a librarian manually for better trades.

How to Get Mending Enchanted Books Using Commands

You can also use the following command to obtain an enchanted book with the mending enchantment:

/give @p enchanted_book{StoredEnchantments:[{id:mending,lvl:1}]} 1

Alternatively, you can use this command to directly obtain an item enchanted with the mending enchantment.

/give @p diamond_sword{Enchantments:[{id:mending,lvl:1}]} 1

You can replace the “diamond_sword” part in the command with any other in-game item. Both of these commands work on the Java edition.

How to Use the Mending Enchanted Book in Minecraft

Once you find an enchanted book with a mending enchantment, you can use it on any eligible item with ease. Follow these steps to do so:

• To begin, craft an anvil by using 3 iron blocks and 4 iron ingots and place it on a solid block.
• Right-click on the Anvil to access its UI. Also, make sure you have at least level 1 in your experience bar to apply the mending enchantment.

• Finally, place the item you want to enchant in the left cell of the anvil and the enchanted book in the middle cell.
• Then, in no time, the book will be consumed, and your enchanted item will be ready for use.

How to Get Mending Enchantment Without Books

If you’re unable to find an enchanted book with mending, you can also look for already enchanted items. Such items can be commonly obtained by:

• Looting end cities in the end dimension
• Killing mobs with enchanted items

The best way to find mobs with enchanted items is to set up a mob farm in Minecraft. You can use one to kill mobs to collect experience, and hopefully, some enchanted items with mending on them.

Combine Enchanted Items

If you find an enchanted item that has the mending enchantment on it, you can combine it with a copy of that same item. So, if you have a diamond sword with mending and a diamond sword with another enchantment, you can use an anvil to combine the two.

The combined item will consume the original two items, and it will have the enchantments from both of those items. But since mending is incompatible with infinity, you can’t combine these enchantments even with an anvil.

How Does Mending Work in Minecraft

Certain activities, like breeding, killing mobs, and breaking specific blocks, drop experience orbs in the game. Mending is directly related to collecting these experience orbs. Each time you collect experience in the game, your gear with the mending enchantment gets its durability restored.

The process of Mending in Minecraft works on the basis of the following principles:

• This enchantment repairs the items when they are in players’ hands (main or offhand) or their armor slots. In other words, mending only repairs equipped items.
• It ignores the items that are already at their maximum durability.
• Each experience orb point repairs two durability points.
• Lastly, if there is no item left to repair, the experience orbs get added to the player’s experience level as usual.

What Happens If You Have Multiple Items with Mending

If you have equipped multiple items with the mending enchantment, then the game selects and targets one randomly. You can’t control its choice, but it follows these rules:

• Irrespective of their level of damage, the selection doesn’t prioritize any item. However, mending ignores items that are at their full durability.
• While experience is being collected, it only goes towards one selected item. So, even if there is experience left over, it won’t go towards repairing another item. Instead, Minecraft adds all leftover points to the player’s experience bar.

With that, you can now give your gear unlimited durability. And once you are done, you can move on to learn about other enchantments in the game. Our Minecraft enchantments guide can help you make the most out of them. So, on which item are you going to use the mending enchantment? Tell us in the comments!