I am playing on my realms survival world, and I have made an afk fish farm. I used it to make a mending fishing rod first, and then a mending bow. The fishing rod works perfectly, and has Mending, LOTS3, Lure 3 and Unbreaking 3. The bow doesn't work at all though. I noticed that the experience from fishing wasn't repairing it, so i tried fishing with a rod that didn't have mending, and it still didn't work. I tried gaining experience in other ways with the bow in my hand being the only thing I was carrying and it still didn't work. The bow has Mending, Power 5, Unbreaking 3, Punch 2 and Flame, and it was made using bows obtained in the fish farm. Can anyone tell me what the problem is here? Does the bow have too many enchantments or something? Is it just buggy and I have to build a new one?
PS: My fish farm hasn't produced any mending books at all. I have gotten 4 Frost Walker, which according to the wiki is more rare, but no mending. I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Please help. Thanks.
I've been able to repair various bows up to a Power4/Unbreaking3/Punch2/Flame/Mending bow via fishing and via killing chickens and/or pigs in 1.12.2 [Nearest I've gotten as I don't use mending bows (much) since Infiity became incompatible, although I do repair them as a cheap source of dispenser bows.]
When you say "The bow doesn't work at all though.", are you looking at the durability directly (i.e. by using f3+H)? [The durability bar can often appear unmoving for some time even as mending is taking place.]
Have you been able to successfully repair any Mending bow? [I'm relatively unfamiliar with Realms, but (if you did not set up the server) it seems possible that the particular Realm could have been modified to turn off a particular enchantment for bows.]
RE: PS
Random sometimes works that way (early stages of a Drunkard's Walk), several of something in a short span then none for a time. I'm unsurprised at this behavior.
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Yes, I have enabled the exact durability and it's stuck at 201. I made another mending bow with the same enchantments and it works perfectly. I also made two diamond pickaxes with Mending, Silk Touch, Efficiency 5 and Unbreaking 3 and they don't work at all. With those two pickaxes or the bow in my inventory my xp just goes straight to the level bar. I did set up the realm, but I didn't see anything related to mending, and it just seems completely random at this point. Has anyone else had this problem?
My fish farm did produce 3 mending books in a session overnight though, so that's good.
I tried downloading the realms world and loading it on singleplayer and the problem persisted. I tried making a creative world and making the same tools there and none of them worked even when I switched back to survival to test them. I tried loading both worlds in earlier versions and mending still didn't work. Should I just reinstall minecraft at this point?
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Did you place the bow or pick axe in your main hand or off hand? AFAIK items gotta be worn or held for it to pick up the xp orbs to repair. Sometimes it helps if you are fishing in a safe area to take off any armor with mending on it and just keep the damaged item and the fishing rod to reduce the items xp orbs go to.
Thanks. As usual it was just user error. I misunderstood the wiki and didn't think i needed to have the items in my hand. Thanks for all the help though!
I am playing on my realms survival world, and I have made an afk fish farm. I used it to make a mending fishing rod first, and then a mending bow. The fishing rod works perfectly, and has Mending, LOTS3, Lure 3 and Unbreaking 3. The bow doesn't work at all though. I noticed that the experience from fishing wasn't repairing it, so i tried fishing with a rod that didn't have mending, and it still didn't work. I tried gaining experience in other ways with the bow in my hand being the only thing I was carrying and it still didn't work. The bow has Mending, Power 5, Unbreaking 3, Punch 2 and Flame, and it was made using bows obtained in the fish farm. Can anyone tell me what the problem is here? Does the bow have too many enchantments or something? Is it just buggy and I have to build a new one?
PS: My fish farm hasn't produced any mending books at all. I have gotten 4 Frost Walker, which according to the wiki is more rare, but no mending. I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Please help. Thanks.
I've been able to repair various bows up to a Power4/Unbreaking3/Punch2/Flame/Mending bow via fishing and via killing chickens and/or pigs in 1.12.2 [Nearest I've gotten as I don't use mending bows (much) since Infiity became incompatible, although I do repair them as a cheap source of dispenser bows.]
When you say "The bow doesn't work at all though.", are you looking at the durability directly (i.e. by using f3+H)? [The durability bar can often appear unmoving for some time even as mending is taking place.]
Have you been able to successfully repair any Mending bow? [I'm relatively unfamiliar with Realms, but (if you did not set up the server) it seems possible that the particular Realm could have been modified to turn off a particular enchantment for bows.]
RE: PS
Random sometimes works that way (early stages of a Drunkard's Walk), several of something in a short span then none for a time. I'm unsurprised at this behavior.
Yes, I have enabled the exact durability and it's stuck at 201. I made another mending bow with the same enchantments and it works perfectly. I also made two diamond pickaxes with Mending, Silk Touch, Efficiency 5 and Unbreaking 3 and they don't work at all. With those two pickaxes or the bow in my inventory my xp just goes straight to the level bar. I did set up the realm, but I didn't see anything related to mending, and it just seems completely random at this point. Has anyone else had this problem?
My fish farm did produce 3 mending books in a session overnight though, so that's good.
I tried downloading the realms world and loading it on singleplayer and the problem persisted. I tried making a creative world and making the same tools there and none of them worked even when I switched back to survival to test them. I tried loading both worlds in earlier versions and mending still didn't work. Should I just reinstall minecraft at this point?
Did you place the bow or pick axe in your main hand or off hand? AFAIK items gotta be worn or held for it to pick up the xp orbs to repair. Sometimes it helps if you are fishing in a safe area to take off any armor with mending on it and just keep the damaged item and the fishing rod to reduce the items xp orbs go to.
Thanks. As usual it was just user error. I misunderstood the wiki and didn't think i needed to have the items in my hand. Thanks for all the help though!