Mending is one of the best enchantments found in Minecraft. It helps to repair your favorite tools, armor, and weapons so you can keep them as long as you like. Since it is a treasure enchantment, you can only find it through fishing, chest loot, raids in bedrock, and villager trading. You can not get it through the enchanting table.
This blog post will help you understand the type of enchanted books and all the methods to find the mending enchantment in detail.
Types of Enchanted Books in Minecraft
As the name suggests, enchanted books contain unique enchantments. You can utilize them to enchant your favorite items. There are two types of enchanted books in Minecraft.
Level 30 Enchanted Books
These books are equivalent to enchanting a book in the enchanting table with 30 levels. They include mending as well as other treasure enchantments.
Random Enchantment Books
These books can have any type of enchantment out of 39 with a random enchantment level. They have only one enchantment available. This means you have 1 out of 39 chance of finding mending enchantment on them.
How a Mending Enchantment Works?
Mending enchantment can be applied to armor, tools, and weapons. Whenever you are holding or wearing a mending item that is not at full durability and you have some XP, you can repair the mending item to two durability with each XP orb. It gives you the freedom to repair your favorite gears without the fear of losing them.
Where to Find Mending Enchantment in Minecraft?
Like other treasure enchantments, there are four ways to get mending enchantment. The most reliable method is the librarian villager trading. Moreover, you can go fishing or find it in some chests as well. Or if you are playing Bedrock Edition, you can find it in raids.
Trading with Librarian Villagers
Librarian villagers are your best chance to find mending enchantments. They have enchanted books that you can trade for anything.
If the village you go to has a lot of librarians then you have to find out the villager who is related to the lectern. This is important because each villager in Minecraft is associated with a workstation and librarian villagers use a lectern. So you have to find a villager that is connected to a lectern.
If you do not find one, then you can still make your own librarian villager. You can place a villager further away from the village and then connect it to a lectern. You have to keep taking it away and place it back until you find the mending.
If you keep doing it, you will see that trades and enchantment for that villager have changed. It is pretty normal to not find mending enchantment in the first go. However, if you keep on repeating the process, you will surely find it sooner than later. Keep in mind to not trade with the villager until the mending appears. If you trade before it, you will no longer be able to change trade with him.
You can trade with the villager for 5-64 emeralds and a book. If you cure a zombie on the way, you can lower the price.
The pro tip here is to block the villager from moving away from the lectern. If he is in a room with a lectern, then place some blocks on the door so that he can’t go out.
This method is certain to work as you will get mending enchantment sooner or later. However, it does take a while to deliver results. You have to trust the process and repeat until you get the mending enchantment.
Chest Loots in Minecraft
You can find the level 30 enchanted book in one of the following places. The probability is different everywhere so we have listed it down for your reference as well.
- Jungle pyramid chest – 4.5% chance
- Stronghold storeroom chest – 4% chance
- Altar chest – 2.5% chance
- Library chest – 67.8% chance
- Monster room chest – 14.7% chance
- Minecart chest in the mineshaft – 14% chance
- Ancient city chest – 35.9% chance
- Desert pyramid chest – 23.5% chance
- Big ruins chest in ocean ruins – 21.7% chance
Raids in Bedrock Edition
In Minecraft Bedrock Edition, there is a chance for a pillager or vindicator to drop a loot depending on the level of difficulty. More the difficulty, more the chances. At normal level chances are 65% while at the hard level it is 80%. This gives you a 2/39 chance to get a level 30 enchanted book.
Fishing in Minecraft
During fishing in Minecraft, you can occasionally get treasure catches which include an enchanted book. This depends on the factor called ‘Luck of the Sea.’ It reduces the chance of catching junk or fish. The maximum level is 3. At level 3, the chances of getting an enchanted book are the highest. To catch it, you must be in open seas and resting on the water’s surface.
Final Thoughts
Getting mending enchantment from chest loots, fishing, and raiding depends on your luck. On your best day, you will go fishing and find a mending enchantment on the first go. However, on your bad days, it may take ages to get one. It is best to try out the villager method over and over again. It takes a while but delivers surely!
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