Updated: 9/10/2024
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to get mending villager in Minecraft and Minecraft: Java Edition. This article will include how to find a mending villager when starting a game from scratch and how to find one in an existing world.
- What is a mending villager?
- What does the mending enchantment do?
- Can I acquire the mending enchantment from an enchantment table?
- What is the fastest way to get a mending villager?
- How To Enable The Villager Trade Rebalance Experiment
- How to find a mending villager
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What is a mending villager?
A mending villager is actually a swamp librarian villager offering mending books for trade. The mending villager is one of the only ways to get a mending book in survival mode.
What does the mending enchantment do?
The mending enchantment uses experience orbs to repair items you hold in either hand and any armor you wear. The conversion rate is two points of durability per point of experience. Experience orbs are worth varying amounts based on how you acquire them.
You can acquire orbs by defeating enemies, crafting items, and mining specific blocks, among other ways. Mending will randomly choose which piece of gear to repair.
The mending enchantment is especially useful if you have rare gear that’s expensive to repair using an Anvil, as you can circumvent the repair process via mending.
Note: You cannot apply the mending enchantment to an item with the infinity enchantment or vice versa.
Can I acquire the mending enchantment from an enchantment table?
You cannot acquire the mending enchantment from an enchantment table. The only way to get a mending book is from a swamp librarian villager (mending villager) or from finding one randomly while fishing, during a raid, or via naturally generated chests within a jungle temple, a stronghold, or an ancient city.
The mending villager is the only way to acquire mending books reliably.
What is the fastest way to get a mending villager?
Getting a mending villager at random is almost impossible, as natural swamp villages are scarce. You may have to start multiple new worlds before you find any natural swamp villages. Even so, discovering natural swamp villages does not mean you’ll find a mending villager.
This blog post details the fastest way to get a mending villager.
However, note that before you start this process, your world must have the Villager Trade Rebalance experiment toggled on.
How To Enable The Villager Trade Rebalance Experiment
The Villager Trade Rebalance experiment balances the items that a Librarian offers, instead making it so each Master level Librarian offers one high-level enchantment per biome. This is instead of Librarians offering multiple high-level enchantments, leading to their presence feeling overpowered.
Note: If you don’t enable this experiment, the Swamp Librarian may not offer the Mending enchantment.
Follow these steps to enable the experiment:
1. Create a New World
Create a New World using the button at the bottom of the world list.
2. Click on the More Tab
Click on the More tab.
3. Select Experiments
Select the Experiments option.
4. Turn the Tab to On
Hover over the Villager Trade Rebalance and click the tab to turn it On. Then click Done.
Once this is complete, you can create your world.
How to find a mending villager
While you can always leave finding a mending villager up to chance, there are ways to vastly improve your chances. This article will cover creating one from scratch.
1. Find a swamp biome
Whether you’re starting a fresh world or playing in an existing one, the first step toward acquiring a mending villager is finding a swamp biome. Either a normal swamp biome or a Mangrove swamp biome will work.
2. Build a crafting table
Once you’re in the swamp biome, build a crafting table.
3. Create a house
Unless you find a swamp village (which is very rare), you’ll need to create one from scratch. To start, build a shelter with a door and a few beds.
It doesn’t have to be complex. You can go all out and create a whole village of houses, but only one is needed for a mending villager.
4. Find a nearby village
Now that you’ve built a place for villagers to live, you must create a swamp villager. You can create swamp villagers by having normal villagers spawn them while living in a swamp or by curing zombie villagers in a swamp biome.
We’re going to focus on the former process.
Upon finding a village, you must bring a few villagers back to your swamp biome house. While the two villagers you bring back won’t magically become swamp villagers, they’ll create children who will. Creating a child villager is crucial as we need a swamp villager to acquire a swamp librarian villager. In turn, the swamp librarian villager can become a mending villager.
5. Create a child swamp villager
Once you’ve brought the villagers to your swamp, you must get them to breed. While villagers will eventually breed by themselves if they’re happy, you can speed up the process by giving them food.
Hearts will appear over a villager’s head when they’re ready to breed. From there, a child swamp villager will appear. However, we must wait for them to become an adult, which can take about a half hour.
You can build up your village during that time to gather even more swamp villagers.
Note: Villagers will only breed if there are enough beds. If your villagers aren’t breeding, make sure you have an extra bed or two.
6. Craft a Lectern
Gather the materials to craft a Lectern. You’ll need four wooden slabs and a bookshelf.
7. Place the Lectern
Once the child swamp villager is an adult, place the Lectern inside the villager’s house. The swamp villager should interact with it and will become a swamp librarian villager.
You can double-check their profession by right-clicking on them, but swamp librarian villagers are easily recognizable by their looks.
8. Level up the swamp librarian villager
While there’s a chance your swamp librarian villagers will sell a mending enchantment book immediately, it’s pretty unlikely. To increase your chances of getting mending books from a swamp librarian villager, level them up through trading.
If you level the librarian villager to level 5 and there’s still no mending book, you’ll have to break the Lectern, place it back down, and try again.
Eventually, you’ll get a swamp librarian villager that trades mending books. Trade with them to get the mending book in your inventory.
9. Build an Anvil
Unfortunately, you can’t use mending books without an Anvil. To build an Anvil, you’ll need to use four iron ingots and three blocks of iron at a crafting table.
10. Create an item of mending
Now that you’ve built an Anvil, use it to combine a piece of armor with one of your mending books. This will result in an item enchanted with mending. From now on, as long as you’re wearing that enchanted item, your experience orbs will mend any damaged items you’re wearing.
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Medo says
I play on java 1.21 and I found it with a snow villager 3 times on level 1