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I didn't really know which forum to post this under sooooo yeah.
I think It's cool that you can use specific items to repair a certain rare/special item, such as phantom membranes to repair an elytra. If we could use a nautilus shell or something to repair a trident (In a very similar way to repairing an elytra), that COULD be useful. It COULD be useful if the cost wasn't so high for the repairing of elytras. If you weren't aware, when using a phantom membrane to repair an elytra, it starts out at 2 levels to repair, then 4, then 8, 16 and so on. That is soo expensive. I think that if there was a solution to this over priced repairing cost, (leave your ideas because I don't have any) this would be a really useful addition to the game.
Umm, Mending? Who ever repairs stuff, except maybe Infinity bows?
In particular, these days Mending is ludicrously easy to get. Find a village, pop down a lectern to convert an unemployed to librarian, check trades. Break and replace lectern until you get Mending. Can take a few tries, but it will turn up eventually.
There has been no reason to ever repair anything with anvils since 1.8 and especially 1.9; Mojang decided to make the prior work penalty double with every working instead of increasing by 2 levels and removed the ability to keep it down by renaming an item (which IMO was more balanced than Mending since the cost depends on the quality of an item, not just a flat rate, and you need resources to repair items, not just XP. If they thought that spending a few levels (well, a lot since you always had to pay the full enchantment cost) to rename an item was too easy they could have just made Mending do the same thing with the original repair scheme. Also, I think the exclusion of Mending and Infinity was a cheap hack to nerf using Punch bows to boost elytra, much as they removed Silk Touch from shears because you could exploit the fact they only lost durability when mining certain blocks, while Silk Touch works on any block that drops something when mined by hand).
In my opinion, Mending was a hacky solution for the work penalty making elytra repairs useless; as a result, it's simply not viable to use an elytra without Mending, and the enchantment is quite powerful on other pieces of gear. Elytra repairs on the anvil should have simply ignored the prior work penalty, making phantom membranes actually worthwhile to get.
Umm, Mending? Who ever repairs stuff, except maybe Infinity bows?
In particular, these days Mending is ludicrously easy to get. Find a village, pop down a lectern to convert an unemployed to librarian, check trades. Break and replace lectern until you get Mending. Can take a few tries, but it will turn up eventually. "a few tries" You are correct, but sometimes it can take like 45 minutes until you get something like 50 emeralds for a mending book. (emphasis on 'sometimes')
Also repairing stuff with anvils is now useless, unless you don't have a mending book, which to be fair is fairly hard to get sometimes.
I didn't really know which forum to post this under sooooo yeah.
I think It's cool that you can use specific items to repair a certain rare/special item, such as phantom membranes to repair an elytra. If we could use a nautilus shell or something to repair a trident (In a very similar way to repairing an elytra), that COULD be useful. It COULD be useful if the cost wasn't so high for the repairing of elytras. If you weren't aware, when using a phantom membrane to repair an elytra, it starts out at 2 levels to repair, then 4, then 8, 16 and so on. That is soo expensive. I think that if there was a solution to this over priced repairing cost, (leave your ideas because I don't have any) this would be a really useful addition to the game.
Umm, Mending? Who ever repairs stuff, except maybe Infinity bows?
In particular, these days Mending is ludicrously easy to get. Find a village, pop down a lectern to convert an unemployed to librarian, check trades. Break and replace lectern until you get Mending. Can take a few tries, but it will turn up eventually.
Maybe a way to repair such items, without having to cheese game mechanics, would be useful.
There has been no reason to ever repair anything with anvils since 1.8 and especially 1.9; Mojang decided to make the prior work penalty double with every working instead of increasing by 2 levels and removed the ability to keep it down by renaming an item (which IMO was more balanced than Mending since the cost depends on the quality of an item, not just a flat rate, and you need resources to repair items, not just XP. If they thought that spending a few levels (well, a lot since you always had to pay the full enchantment cost) to rename an item was too easy they could have just made Mending do the same thing with the original repair scheme. Also, I think the exclusion of Mending and Infinity was a cheap hack to nerf using Punch bows to boost elytra, much as they removed Silk Touch from shears because you could exploit the fact they only lost durability when mining certain blocks, while Silk Touch works on any block that drops something when mined by hand).
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In my opinion, Mending was a hacky solution for the work penalty making elytra repairs useless; as a result, it's simply not viable to use an elytra without Mending, and the enchantment is quite powerful on other pieces of gear. Elytra repairs on the anvil should have simply ignored the prior work penalty, making phantom membranes actually worthwhile to get.
Also repairing stuff with anvils is now useless, unless you don't have a mending book, which to be fair is fairly hard to get sometimes.
(again, emphasis on 'sometimes')
edit: sorry that sounded really stupid
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