No Mending

Mending is great and all, but too overpowered and generally unhealthy for progression. This mod fixes that, while also tweaking a couple other aspects of gameplay to make the removal of Mending palatable.

Mending

• Mending no longer appears on enchanted books, loot tables, villager trades, or enchanting tables.
• Mending optionally becomes a rare exploration-chest reward (enable-able and configurable in config).
• Existing Mending items in worlds can be cleared with the /nomending strip-world command (op-only). The mod does not strip Mending from inventories, containers, or villager trades automatically.

Anvils and Repairing

• Anvil repairs cost 0 XP and do not raise the prior-work cost.
• Anvil repairs restore items to full durability per craft.
• Sensible repair materials for vanilla items that lack them.
• Items that could take Mending but have no repair material fall back to Bottle O’ Enchanting (disable-able).
• Modpack devs can add or override repair pairs with datapack JSON.
• JEI displays anvil repair recipes for everything we touch.

Modified Repair Recipes

• netherite tools/armor → 2 diamonds or 1 netherite scrap
• tridents → prismarine shard
• bows & fishing rods → string
• brushes → feather
• crossbow → 3 iron nuggets
• shears → 3 iron nuggets

QoL

• Unbreaking gives armor the same durability-save chance as it gives tools.
• At 1 durability, armor unequips (if possible – it’ll stay equipped if there’s no free inventory space) and tools/weapons cannot be used (disable-able).

Mending as a rare exploration reward

When allowMendingInLoot is set true, it becomes a very rare possibility (2% chance, configurable) in the following locations:

• Stronghold
• End city
• Ancient city
• Dungeons
• Buried treasure
• Jungle temple
• Desert pyramid
• Trial chamber ominous vault

Compatibility

Any mod that introduces items that were enchantable with Mending and have no repair recipe will need a data entry, as they will fallback to Bottle O’ Enchanting (unless that option is disabled).

Two Create repair recipes are shipped with this mod currently:
| Mod | Item | Material |
|—|—|—|
| Create | create:copper_backtank | Copper ingot |
| Create | create:potato_cannon | Copper ingot |

Please report bugs in Discord.