Combining tools or armor adds to crafting stat

Confirmed, but I think it's WAI, as you are making a new (even if it's damaged) item out of 2 old.

I don't think its WAI, because in map-making it's annoying. Maybe you want to give a crafting quest, but the player repairs the tools instead. I see this as a bug, not a feature, and I would like to see map-makers' opinion here.

Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.

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"Fixed" in 18w48a, now that tools and armor can no longer be repaired using crafting, but now with a grindstone.