i set up an afk fish farm and have gotten 1 and a half double chests of books, i have gotten every enchantment many times excpet for mending. I only have 1 mending book. Online people are saying they got 3 or 4 mending books out of 30 and i have only gotten one out of many. why is this happening?
You got one, didn't you? You had ought to be able to get more. I don't recall anything like that in the changelogs, so I think you're okay, just kinda unlucky :/
Like I mentioned in another thread, I'm having trouble with my farm but so far I've got 4 books of enchantment and 1 had mending and smite II on it.
More than that though I've got 2 bows with mending and 2 rods with mending, LotS II, Lure II, and Unbreaking III all 4 enchantments on them as well as some other enchanted bows and rods.
Wonder why I never made one of these before this LOL
Personally I prefer to get my mending books from villagers, I've gotten so many mending-selling librarians in my current setup that I've had to toss most of them into lava for having too high a price. Current best price is 10 emeralds and a blank book per mending book, and what with my autofarm setup to provide crops to sell for emeralds, I have a nigh-infinite source of mending books whenever needed. I play on a very vanilla server, so I would consider it rude to make any system designed for long periods of AFK as that prevents other players from sleeping to skip night.
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Mending books are very rare to get from fishing, same thing happens to me as I only got one from fishing. Fishing for mending books is a bad source, try getting or finding villagers instead if you can.
I only ever seem to get mending on bows and fishing rods. Current world has nary a villager with mending. No luck fishing it up in a book. Would really like to have mending on my swords so I can name them. :/
I have received 3 total, I have a double chest full of what ever the green fish is. So the drop rate is pretty garbage. I spent the time to upgrade poles so my current is mending, lure and luck of the sea which made a huge difference from 2 to 3.
Sometimes it just comes down to odds and luck. My friend and I built an AFK fishing farm early on in our current server and the mending books were few and far between...but we did get a few eventually. I'd say stick with it.
I once killed 118 wither skeletons in a row with a Looting III sword without getting a skull. Then I got 2 skulls out of the next 4 skeletons I killed.
If you give up, you might not get those 2 mending books out of the next couple books...
Just FYI, you do not want to use lure if you're just going for mending books, that's probably why you have a double chest of green fish.
Lure will only increase your chance of pulling up fish, while luck of the sea is what reduces "junk" and increases treasure catches (like books). If you're using both lure and luck of the sea, you lose potential treasure catches because of the lure pushing fish catches.
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Just FYI, you do not want to use lure if you're just going for mending books, that's probably why you have a double chest of green fish.
Lure will only increase your chance of pulling up fish, while luck of the sea is what reduces "junk" and increases treasure catches (like books). If you're using both lure and luck of the sea, you lose potential treasure catches because of the lure pushing fish catches.
I afk overnight at my fish farm and for each 6 hours I found average of 3 mending books as well as countless other enchant books. Silk touch is a bit more rare but I found 2 of those last night as well.
My fish farm also activates instantaneously after a catch so mine may be a little bit faster than average.
i set up an afk fish farm and have gotten 1 and a half double chests of books, i have gotten every enchantment many times excpet for mending. I only have 1 mending book. Online people are saying they got 3 or 4 mending books out of 30 and i have only gotten one out of many. why is this happening?
I guess it's just the ratios. Probably just dumb luck.
so just keep going? im not doing anything wrong? i thought maybe there was an update that made it impossible to fish mending books
You got one, didn't you? You had ought to be able to get more. I don't recall anything like that in the changelogs, so I think you're okay, just kinda unlucky :/
Did you recently install any custom loot tables? They can alter fish loot.
If not, you're probably just unlucky. Keep going, and use an AFK fishing machine if you aren't.
Like I mentioned in another thread, I'm having trouble with my farm but so far I've got 4 books of enchantment and 1 had mending and smite II on it.
More than that though I've got 2 bows with mending and 2 rods with mending, LotS II, Lure II, and Unbreaking III all 4 enchantments on them as well as some other enchanted bows and rods.
Wonder why I never made one of these before this LOL
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Personally I prefer to get my mending books from villagers, I've gotten so many mending-selling librarians in my current setup that I've had to toss most of them into lava for having too high a price. Current best price is 10 emeralds and a blank book per mending book, and what with my autofarm setup to provide crops to sell for emeralds, I have a nigh-infinite source of mending books whenever needed. I play on a very vanilla server, so I would consider it rude to make any system designed for long periods of AFK as that prevents other players from sleeping to skip night.
Mending books are very rare to get from fishing, same thing happens to me as I only got one from fishing. Fishing for mending books is a bad source, try getting or finding villagers instead if you can.
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Got one today playing the latest snapshot. Does take awhile.
I only ever seem to get mending on bows and fishing rods. Current world has nary a villager with mending. No luck fishing it up in a book. Would really like to have mending on my swords so I can name them. :/
I have received 3 total, I have a double chest full of what ever the green fish is. So the drop rate is pretty garbage. I spent the time to upgrade poles so my current is mending, lure and luck of the sea which made a huge difference from 2 to 3.
Sometimes it just comes down to odds and luck. My friend and I built an AFK fishing farm early on in our current server and the mending books were few and far between...but we did get a few eventually. I'd say stick with it.
I once killed 118 wither skeletons in a row with a Looting III sword without getting a skull. Then I got 2 skulls out of the next 4 skeletons I killed.
If you give up, you might not get those 2 mending books out of the next couple books...
Just FYI, you do not want to use lure if you're just going for mending books, that's probably why you have a double chest of green fish.
Lure will only increase your chance of pulling up fish, while luck of the sea is what reduces "junk" and increases treasure catches (like books). If you're using both lure and luck of the sea, you lose potential treasure catches because of the lure pushing fish catches.
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They changed that at one point. Lure only effects the speed now.
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/15w43c#Changes
I've got my own "God Rod" maxed out
If you can, fish whenever it rains, so you get every speed boost you can.
No it's "possible"
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This was about what I received also. Two large chests, produced by my fish farm...only 3 uncursed mending books. Yes: not just you.. its so rare.
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I afk overnight at my fish farm and for each 6 hours I found average of 3 mending books as well as countless other enchant books. Silk touch is a bit more rare but I found 2 of those last night as well.
My fish farm also activates instantaneously after a catch so mine may be a little bit faster than average.
I've also fill up around 5 large chests in that time.