I personally think mending is the way to go just because fletcher villagers trade them for a cheap price and I have a good trading system and I don’t need infinity. I use my bow a lot and if you keep repairing it it will get too expensive and break after that durability. And it goes in levels every time you want to repair it. In my old world I had a really good bow with infinity and when it got to expensive it broke and I had to get a new one. So in my opinion I think mending is the choice to make not infinity.
I always use infinity. Not only are they very easy to get by fishing, Infinity is also a not-uncommon spellbook from librarians.
I don't ilke mending on a bow, as I go on extended caving and mineshaft trips and don't want to waste the space in inventory for all the arrows.
Additionally, if the bow is equipped in the shield slot (off-hand) it's always available even when using a sword or pick or axe. Doesn't waste an inventory slot there. AND...When the sword with Looting III on it is selected in the right hand, the effect carries over to mobs killed by the bow. I just spent a short while standing down the steps from a blaze spawner and collected a stack and a half of rods in less than 30 minutes.
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Mending lets you keep the bow and its other set of enchantments endlessly
Infinity lets you shoot an infinite amount of arrows, as long as the bows durability allows it
I use infinity on "cheap" bows, but mending on bows with more better enchantments.
Having tons of arrows, or a skeleton dungeon farm solves the need for the infinity enchantment
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My main world is old enough that I don't have to choose - and I have a number of fully-enchanted backups with both mending and infinity just in case anything happens to my current bow.
But I recently started a new (hardcore!) world, and so far I'm leaning towards Mending (now that I have a reasonable supply of arrows); back in my old world, it seems like I pick up more than enough replacement arrows along the way to sustain a long 'splore or a caving run, but I may end up going with one of each, switching to the infinity when my arrow supply runs low...
You can put another bow on your good infinity bow in an anvil and it will fully repair just costs levels and at one point will get "too expensive" to repair
I personally think mending is the way to go just because fletcher villagers trade them for a cheap price and I have a good trading system and I don’t need infinity. I use my bow a lot and if you keep repairing it it will get too expensive and break after that durability. And it goes in levels every time you want to repair it. In my old world I had a really good bow with infinity and when it got to expensive it broke and I had to get a new one. So in my opinion I think mending is the choice to make not infinity.
I go with Infinity.
I don't really use a bow enough that I need either but since I get a lot of enchanted bows from fishing I might as well use it.
I get all the arrows I need from killing skeletons while caving but I'm not sure they would accumulate if I wasn't using Infinity.
Maybe I'd have to start farming chickens otherwise.
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I always use infinity. Not only are they very easy to get by fishing, Infinity is also a not-uncommon spellbook from librarians.
I don't ilke mending on a bow, as I go on extended caving and mineshaft trips and don't want to waste the space in inventory for all the arrows.
Additionally, if the bow is equipped in the shield slot (off-hand) it's always available even when using a sword or pick or axe. Doesn't waste an inventory slot there. AND...When the sword with Looting III on it is selected in the right hand, the effect carries over to mobs killed by the bow. I just spent a short while standing down the steps from a blaze spawner and collected a stack and a half of rods in less than 30 minutes.
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I use infinity on "cheap" bows, but mending on bows with more better enchantments.
Having tons of arrows, or a skeleton dungeon farm solves the need for the infinity enchantment
I don't like giving too much info about the seeds i share. I feel like its better to let others explore and find out the chest contents,dungeon places and biomes. If someone is giving me a gift i would rather not know what it is until i open it for my self.
My main world is old enough that I don't have to choose - and I have a number of fully-enchanted backups with both mending and infinity just in case anything happens to my current bow.
But I recently started a new (hardcore!) world, and so far I'm leaning towards Mending (now that I have a reasonable supply of arrows); back in my old world, it seems like I pick up more than enough replacement arrows along the way to sustain a long 'splore or a caving run, but I may end up going with one of each, switching to the infinity when my arrow supply runs low...
You can put another bow on your good infinity bow in an anvil and it will fully repair just costs levels and at one point will get "too expensive" to repair