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How to get Mending books in Minecraft 1.21
The Mending is the best enchantment in Minecraft and when put on Armor, weapons, or tools it can restore two durability with each XP orb.
It allows your gear to not have to be repaired or be destroyed from using it. In this article, I'll go through every way to get The Mending book.
How to get Mending book
The Mending enchantment is a treasure enchantment. This means you can only find it through chest loot, fishing, raids (in Bedrock), and villager trading. You cannot get it through the enchantment table.
One thing I want to explain is there are two types of enchanted books that appear in the game:
1. The first one is a level 30 enchanted book. This is an enchanted book that has enchantments equivalent to enchanting a book at enchantment level 30 in the enchanting table but can include Mending, Frost Walker, Curse of Binding, and Curse of Vanishing. The enchantments can be for different items, like it can have crossbow and Trident enchantments on a single book.
2. The other is a random enchantment book. This will pick one enchantment that is available from the possible enchantments and it picks a random level. These books will only have one enchantment on it. The only enchantments unavailable are the Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst.
There are 39 possible enchantments, so you have a 1 in 39 chance to get Mending.
Chest loot (Mending Books)
The level 30 enchanted book that can have Mending can be found in the following chests with the given chances:
- Jungle Pyramid chest at a 4.5% chance
- Stronghold Storeroom chest at 4% chance
- Alter chest at 2.5% chance
- Stronghold Library chest at 67.8% chance
The random enchantment level book can be found in:
- Monster Room chest at 14.7%
- Mineshaft chest at 14.1%
- Ancient City chest at 35.9%
- Desert Pyramid chest at 23.5%
- Pillager Outpost chest at 11%
- Big ruins chest in the Ocean Ruins at 21.7%
- Woodland Mansion chest at 14.9%
Raids in Bedrock (Mending Books)
Also in the Bedrock Edition, during raids depending on the difficulty, pillagers and vindicators have a chance to drop an enchanted book:
- At normal difficulty, there is a 65% chance
- At hard difficulty, there is an 80% chance of dropping loot
There is a 2 in 39 chance that they will drop an enchanted book from that percentage. This will also be a level 30 enchanted book that can have Mending on it.
Fishing (Mending Books)
Another way to get the level 30 enchanted book is through fishing. With an unenchanted fishing rod, there's a 0.8% chance of getting an enchanted book.
You can increase your chance by getting the Luck of the Sea enchantment on your fishing rod. This enchantment increases the chances of getting treasure catches, which enchanted books are in.
Treasure catches are different from treasure enchantments. Luck of the Sea reduces your chance of getting fish or junk catches. The maximum level is three.
At level three, it increases your chances of getting an enchanted book from 0.8% to 1.9%.
To be able to catch treasure items, the bobber will have to be in open water and will need to be resting on the water surface.
Villager Trading (Mending Books)
The last way to get Mending is through a librarian villager. The job site block for the librarian villager is a lectern.
With villagers, they have five different levels and as you trade with them, they will level up, unlocking two trades at each level.
The enchanted book trade can appear at the first four levels of librarian trades. The enchanted book trade that appears will be the random enchantment book.
- At the novice level, there's a 67% chance in Java and in Bedrock there's a 50% chance of this trade appearing.This is important as the villagers will not lock their trades in until you have traded with them.
This will allow you to keep breaking the lectern to reset their trades until you get The Mending trade.
This has an equal chance of being any enchantment available, so it may take some time to get the Mending book.
The trade will also be between 5 to 64 emeralds and a book for the enchanted book. Also, with treasure enchantments on an enchanted book, the cost will double.
You can decrease the cost of enchanted book trades by curing the villagers of being a zombie.
