[MC-271869] Mending repairs a random armor piece instead of the lowest durability armor piece

When mending multiple armor pieces simultaniously (by wearing all four pieces), mending fails to correctly prioritize the lowest durability piece, and instead selects which item is repaired randomly for each experience orb collected.

This causes armor mending in PvP (using bottle o' enchanting) to be luck-based if the user does not intentionally take off the pieces of armor that have less durability damage.

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Comments 5

tryashtar 2024-05-10T23:52:41Z

Was this ever the case?

SeaOfPixels 2024-05-11T00:08:10Z

This has been present for a while but was never reported, it is not new to 1.20.6.

Ellivers 2024-05-11T09:47:32Z

This seems to be working as intended. I looked into this a while ago, and the process on the Minecraft wiki describing the current behavior seems to line up perfectly with what appears to be intended looking at the code.

SeaOfPixels 2024-05-16T03:21:05Z

Reverted title change, as the new one is incorrect as this issue only affects worn armor.

[Mojang] Triage Team 2024-05-29T07:13:38Z

Thank you for your report!
After consideration, the issue is being closed as Working as Intended.

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