Mending

This article is about the enchantment. For repairing items via grindstones or crafting, see Item Repair. For repair via anvils, see Anvil § Repairing.

Not to be confused with Wending.

Mending

Maximum level	I (1)
Primary items	None
Secondary items
Enchantment weight	2
Incompatible with	Infinity
Overleveling behavior	No change

Mending is an enchantment that restores an item's durability when a player collects experience orbs.

Obtaining

Mending is a treasure enchantment; it can be obtained from non-village structure loot, fishing, raid drops ‌^{[BE only]}, or by trading with a librarian of any level (or if the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experimental datapack is enabled, a master level swamp librarian).

Usage

• Any items with Mending in the player's main hand, offhand, or armor slots that are not at maximum durability are repaired by experience orbs collected from any source. The rate of repair is two durability per point of experience contained in the orb.
  • Experience in the orb is deducted by one point for every two durability points repaired.
  • Experience left in the orb is added to the player's total experience gauge as normal, but prioritizes mending items. Experience won't be added to the gauge if any items with Mending are able to restore durability.
• If multiple equipped items have the enchantment and need to be repaired, one is randomly selected for each experience orb collected. No item or location has priority for repair.
  • Mending does not select items that are already fully repaired. For example, if the player has a fully repaired helmet and a damaged chestplate, leggings, and boots, only the latter 3 are considered in the random chance to be repaired.
  • Durability doesn't affect which item is chosen at random. For example, a sword that is one durability point away from being fully repaired has an equal chance of being chosen as a pickaxe that is almost broken, even if this means less experience would be used to repair the sword.
  • Only one of these items is repaired for each experience orb collected. This means that any experience left on the orb is not used to repair other items and is instead added to the player's total experience gauge as normal.

Incompatibilities

Mending is incompatible with Infinity. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, their effects stack.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Enchantment definition

{
  "anvil_cost": 4,
  "description": {
    "translate": "enchantment.minecraft.mending"
  },
  "effects": {
    "minecraft:repair_with_xp": [
      {
        "effect": {
          "type": "minecraft:multiply",
          "factor": 2.0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "max_cost": {
    "base": 75,
    "per_level_above_first": 25
  },
  "max_level": 1,
  "min_cost": {
    "base": 25,
    "per_level_above_first": 25
  },
  "slots": [
    "any"
  ],
  "supported_items": "#minecraft:enchantable/durability",
  "weight": 2
}

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Minecraft Education

Issues

Issues relating to "Mending" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Mending is tied with Unbreaking for the second-highest number of items it can be applied to, after the Curse of Vanishing.

References