When i am holding my mending shovel in my offhand, and using a mending fortune 3 pickaxe on ores like coal, redstone and lapis lazuli, the experience will go into my exp bar instead of repairing my tools
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it isn't damaged at all, but when i mine, it gets a little damaged, gets repaired, and the shovel gets a teeny bit repaired as well, but the rest gets goes into my experience bar
(my tools both have mending)
This is how mending works.
Each experience orb that you pick up is distributed randomly to a tool or armor piece that you're wearing or holding that has mending on it (including items that are already fully repaired). In case the tool is damaged, the tool is repaired, in case it isn't the experience is added to your xp bar instead.
For instance: You have a fully repaired mending pickaxe in your hand and a severely damaged mending shovel in your offhand, and no armor on you. When you pick up an xp orb, it has a 50% chance of choosing your pickaxe, which is already fully repaired. Thus, the xp is instead added to your experience bar.
This is a duplicate of MC-92889 which has been fixed in 1.16.
Are you wearing any armour with mending?