I play 1.13.2 singleplayer world. I have several mending items that I have got as loot in the end cities.
I would like to get a mending book so I can have mending elytra. Many hours of AFK fishing or villager breeding in singleplayer seem a little lame to me.
What is the best way to get a mending a book in some more adventuring way?
Locate multiple strongholds and loot libraries? Or travel from village to village and find out what librarians are selling?
I play 1.13.2 singleplayer world. I have several mending items that I have got as loot in the end cities.
I would like to get a mending book so I can have mending elytra. Many hours of AFK fishing or villager breeding in singleplayer seem a little lame to me.
What is the best way to get a mending a book in some more adventuring way?
Locate multiple strongholds and loot libraries? Or travel from village to village and find out what librarians are selling?
Auto-fishing (or manual for the confirmed masochist) and/or villager breeding remain the best [define as least number of player hours] ways of obtaining treasure enchantments through 1.13.2.
breeding can be accomplished without player involvement, but sorting and checking the trades cannot.]
If committed to avoiding these, the loot chests in mineshafts are likely the best best; the rate at which enchanted books are found is lower than in strongholds, but the frequency of occurence is much higher than strongholds or villages. [The countervailing consideration is that: once you do locate a mending billager, you have a long term supply.]
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With rocket-powered elytra, spending a few hours leisurely flying from village to village netted me two Mending vendors as a first-tier trade.As a bonus, I finished up a few fully-zoomed-out maps as I flew around.
I also have one bred, which took a few real-time days. Since one of the villages with Mending is only a five-minute flight away, if that, I just go to him and save a couple dozen emeralds.
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If committed to avoiding these, the loot chests in mineshafts are likely the best best; the rate at which enchanted books are found is lower than in strongholds, but the frequency of occurence is much higher than strongholds or villages. [The countervailing consideration is that: once you do locate a mending billager, you have a long term supply.]
I'd consider looting mineshafts/dungeons to be wildly impractical given the rarity of enchanted books (about one every 7 chests) and the rarity of Mending itself (due to the number of enchantments); even with the extreme amount of caving that I did in my last modded world (I found 202 dungeons and 60 mineshafts over 466 hours of continuous caving, which also involved mining 380,000 ore and placing 118,000 torches) I only found several Mending books, not even close enough for all of my gear, same for many other enchantments (never mind that I don't even go caving until I make all of my gear). This is not exactly representative of current vanilla versions since the chance of enchanted books was not the same (I actually played in modded 1.6.4 with my own version of Mending added) but it isn't that far off - and very few players will ever do that much caving, even in their entire time playing, much less in a single world (many players seem to consider dungeons and mineshafts to be very rare, as in "I found a dungeon within 1000 blocks of spawn", but I consider them an everyday find).
By contrast, it took me a few hours (based on the additional time it took me to "complete" the game compared to a previous world where I did not have to get Mending) of trading to get a Mending trade, and this was with the old trading system, where you had to trade multiple times to unlock a single book trade per villager (1.75% chance per final offer traded, as opposed to a trade unlocked from the start, plus 2 more that can be unlocked. It might be more difficult to get librarians now but you can still easily make a breeder and choose the villagers that you want).
The best way would be to simply go into creative and give them to you, or at least set up a command block contraption that enforces what you think is a fair price...that way, when you want the book for a specific application you gather the resources, turn them in, and press the button.
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In 1.12.2 recently for me it was equally as easy to find a villager in a far out village with mending as it was to breed one, took about the same amount of time. Although the one I bred is slightly cheaper which is a nice bonus!
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I play 1.13.2 singleplayer world. I have several mending items that I have got as loot in the end cities.
I would like to get a mending book so I can have mending elytra. Many hours of AFK fishing or villager breeding in singleplayer seem a little lame to me.
What is the best way to get a mending a book in some more adventuring way?
Locate multiple strongholds and loot libraries? Or travel from village to village and find out what librarians are selling?
Exploring ship wreaks and underwater ruins is probably more efficient than traveling long distances to loot strongholds and woodland mansions.Scratch that!
I could have sworn I'd got enchanted books from underwater chests but the Wiki suggests otherwise.
I can't actually find the underwater ruins in the list of treasure chests but ships apparently only have plain books.
Just testing.
As far as I know wrecks and underwater ruins can not contain treasure enchantments.
Auto-fishing (or manual for the confirmed masochist) and/or villager breeding remain the best [define as least number of player hours] ways of obtaining treasure enchantments through 1.13.2.
breeding can be accomplished without player involvement, but sorting and checking the trades cannot.]
If committed to avoiding these, the loot chests in mineshafts are likely the best best; the rate at which enchanted books are found is lower than in strongholds, but the frequency of occurence is much higher than strongholds or villages. [The countervailing consideration is that: once you do locate a mending billager, you have a long term supply.]
With rocket-powered elytra, spending a few hours leisurely flying from village to village netted me two Mending vendors as a first-tier trade.As a bonus, I finished up a few fully-zoomed-out maps as I flew around.
I also have one bred, which took a few real-time days. Since one of the villages with Mending is only a five-minute flight away, if that, I just go to him and save a couple dozen emeralds.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
I'd consider looting mineshafts/dungeons to be wildly impractical given the rarity of enchanted books (about one every 7 chests) and the rarity of Mending itself (due to the number of enchantments); even with the extreme amount of caving that I did in my last modded world (I found 202 dungeons and 60 mineshafts over 466 hours of continuous caving, which also involved mining 380,000 ore and placing 118,000 torches) I only found several Mending books, not even close enough for all of my gear, same for many other enchantments (never mind that I don't even go caving until I make all of my gear). This is not exactly representative of current vanilla versions since the chance of enchanted books was not the same (I actually played in modded 1.6.4 with my own version of Mending added) but it isn't that far off - and very few players will ever do that much caving, even in their entire time playing, much less in a single world (many players seem to consider dungeons and mineshafts to be very rare, as in "I found a dungeon within 1000 blocks of spawn", but I consider them an everyday find).
By contrast, it took me a few hours (based on the additional time it took me to "complete" the game compared to a previous world where I did not have to get Mending) of trading to get a Mending trade, and this was with the old trading system, where you had to trade multiple times to unlock a single book trade per villager (1.75% chance per final offer traded, as opposed to a trade unlocked from the start, plus 2 more that can be unlocked. It might be more difficult to get librarians now but you can still easily make a breeder and choose the villagers that you want).
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As do I, but the OP seems set on neither fishing nor trading :shrug:
The best way would be to simply go into creative and give them to you, or at least set up a command block contraption that enforces what you think is a fair price...that way, when you want the book for a specific application you gather the resources, turn them in, and press the button.
In 1.12.2 recently for me it was equally as easy to find a villager in a far out village with mending as it was to breed one, took about the same amount of time. Although the one I bred is slightly cheaper which is a nice bonus!
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