Mending doesn't always consume Experience if a player wears a full set of repaired mending armor whilst repairing an item with mending

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Also any fully repaired armor and tools with mending still consume XP. Which makes no sense. Talk about XP being wasted.

@unknown: I think you're probably talking about the behavior in which the game attempts to use XP points to repair a randomly selected equipped item, but after it discovers that the item doesn't need repair it instead adds the points to your XP bar. This is how it was originally intended to work, in both Java and Bedrock. It makes perfectly good sense: You can fully control where the XP points go by equipping and unequipping Mending gear. And no XP is ever "wasted": It goes exactly where it's supposed to based on how you've equipped yourself. So it was never actually a bug, even in Java. However, when it was reported as a bug in Java, the developers decided that the behavior that the reporter was expecting made better sense than the original design, so they treated it as a feature request and changed the behavior. Similarly, this ticket is being treated as a feature request to maintain parity, rather than an actual bug.

The feature change is fairly subtle: Instead of selecting an item to be repaired from a list of all equipped Mending gear, the list includes only Mending gear that's equipped and isn't already at full durability, so it's guaranteed that whichever item gets selected will, in fact, need repair. However, it's still your responsibility to equip the item or items you want repaired and unequip any other Mending items before absorbing the XP, and if you equip multiple such items the game will still randomly select which one it repairs. So if you've been having problems controlling how Mending uses XP in the past, you might continue having very similar problems after this feature change is implemented. You might want to read up on how it works on the wiki, or discuss it with other community members on the Discord.

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 fixed in beta 1.16.100.51

Damaged armor is supposed to prevent other items from being repaired, because the damaged armor also needs to be repaired. What you recently added to the description is intended.

Could you please provide a video of the issue still occurring in 1.16.100.51, and any extra steps to reproduce?

Keep in mind that each XP orb causes the selection of only one piece of Mending gear. If an orb contains more experience than what is necessary to fully repair the item, I believe the leftover experience will go to your XP bar (and a new piece will be selected for the next orb). So you might rarely see the XP bar flash even though Mending is working correctly. This would only happen when the selected piece is very near to being fully repaired, obviously.

It's probably not worth the effort to fix it so that this tiny amount of XP that slips through is directed to a different piece of gear, because the amounts sent to the XP bar under these conditions would always be tiny, but the code would have to be reorganized to allow selecting an item multiple times for a single XP orb. That's probably too much effort for too little value.

Edit: (thcrafter06 commented while I was composing) Are you saying what you mean? It's confusing that you say the XP only goes to repairing armor when your armor is fully repaired already.

I'm not sure if I understand correctly what your issue is, but this seems completely fixed, even when using multiple repairable gear.

If you're able to provide reproduction steps, sure.

@unknown: In the future, we would prefer that you not delete information or comments simply because the issues they address have been resolved in some way. It leaves the remaining comments with no context, often making it difficult to interpret the ticket or comment stream. (However, this is not meant to discourage you from deleting for privacy reasons.)

Oh, okay.

Is the ongoing issue only occurring on Realms or multiplayer? So far I haven't been able to see any XP going to the player, if they are wearing/holding damaged mending items. Any extra information would be useful, including repro steps and a video.

Cannot reproduce after system reboot in 1.16.100.

This bug is fixed in the latest beta version, and the fix will be included in a future update when that is ready for full release (no specific date can be given). We will leave this ticket open as a point of reference until the fix has been fully released.

Sorry for the confusion. It happened randomly and couldn't reproduce it after a reboot. Sorry for the waste of time.

It's fine! We're all excited to see this fixed and confirmation from the original reporter is essential! 😃

This issue has been fixed in the 1.16.100.51 Beta. We will keep this ticket open until it has been merged into the release version. No specific date for that can be given.

isn't this how mending is suppose to work? Remember this being a thing since mending was first added to java way back when

@unknown How mending worked on java before 1.16 has always been a bug. Mending was never supposed to work like this. See MC-92889, it was a bug on java.

@unknown: Please do not delete information unless it's something you added by mistake and you're deleting it immediately.

Even if it's information you added yourself, but it was a while ago, you don't know whether somebody else came here intending to report that same information, and when they saw that it was already here they decided they didn't need to. If you delete it, you're deleting not only your experience but theirs as well.

It's also a problem when you delete information we've already passed to the developers, because you're only deleting our copy, not theirs. If it's actually bad information that might confuse the developers, we need you to tell us about it so we can tell them about it.

It's really just better if you leave any deleting to us. If there's actual misinformation present, you can comment about it and tell us why you think it's false.

I didn’t though?

I was already told not to a long time ago. So I stopped.

Wait... was it because I removed 1.16.21 (Nintendo switch only) off the affected version? If so I already was on discord talking about it and was going to re-add 1.16.21.

Yes, it was because you deleted 1.16.21 as an affected version. If you mean the Mojira Discord, I don't normally look at it so I don't know what went on there. It doesn't matter though, everything's fine now.

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What? I was adding 1.16.40?

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