Mending Enchantment Concerns?

AmusedStew, that's not how economies work. There is an idea in economics called creative destruction. Once a better item or process becomes popular, it can cause hardship in specific industries — for example, many people lost VHS-related jobs when DVDs and STBs took over their market, however the people benefitted as a whole because of access to new, better technology. You would agree that it was a good thing that the government didn't try to hobble the DVD industry, right?

Similarly, in EMC, the Enchantment industry may suffer but people mining items won't have to repair their pickaxes, and thus the cost of all mined items will be reduced; more people will be able to use elytra because people won't have to always buy new ones; new industries to feed the demand for XP (I'd wager most people don't make enough to mend all the damage to a full set of armor and tools) will grow up; and the added source of income from these treasure enchantments will make caving and exploring more lucrative.

Mods — please please please don't let special interest groups cause you to mess with vanilla.

I see nothing OP about the enchantment. Repairing a diamond tool from zero durability to its max durability would take awhile (without access to a good source of XP), considering that one XP repairs only two uses.

I know it won't cause enchanted book customers to disappear because tools will always break if you're not careful.

I personally think the new Mending enchantment is really cool. I am hoping to be able to sell Mending-enchanted books in my shop right when Empire Minecraft updates to 1.9. Since it is a level one enchantment, I will be able to sell it for 105 rupees each.

This enchantment can't be made from table I thought? Only found in dungeons, etc.?

Really? Can't they only be found in dungeons and the like?

EDIT: Looks like I Kloned ThaKloned.

EDIT 2: Completely unrelated but do you still have that sand business AmusedStew, I just found a voucher for it that's like a year or two old...

Indeed, and on villagers plus with fishing.
The enchanted market is already destroyed and cheap, may as well keep the thing going because who uses deep strider? (looked so useful at first) frost steps thing is useless unless wanting to imitate jesus and walk on water for some reason. and mending.... welp maybe a good side is that I can see people thinking they are OP by having undestroyable gear (nubs) and die off thinking killing one monster could instantly regen full armor. 2 durability per XP gained is still op but yeah we will need it for the end cities.
Oh Yes! the end will kill so much players I might start getting clients again
The enderdragon will kill so much players too if you can summon him.

Anyway, let it be like that at my opinion, a lot of death factors as been added to balance this.

I believe the main purpose will be that it works even when you're on a horse, so you can cross oceans with a fast horse pretty quickly.

Oh my with this game's logic it could happen lol

All this talk about ruining the enchantment market is triggering me. Now all I can think about is back when the max enchant level was 50, and it required more xp to get there than 50 does now IIRC.

I would make sense to me to adjust the mending enchant. It clearly was not intended to be implemented in an economy setting. If I were in charge of changing it, I would adjust it so that certain tiered tools would get less benefit from it. Having unbreaking on the tool? The xp repairs roughly 1/x the normal amount, with x being the average durability modifier (ie unbreaking III effectively makes a tool last four times longer, and thus it takes four times as much xp to repair). Other enchants could have similar effects proportional to their value and effect.

It could also adjust based off of the tools vanilla "enchant" level. A loaded tool would take much more xp to repair than an enchanted tool.

*kinda vanishes*

Personally I support the "leave it be" crowd. I'd rather see afk xp farms completely nerfed than removing something that has an active component. With one exception, I think people have figured fishing with mending is a little OP, perhaps preventing the enchant on fishing rods is a good idea.

I have a song to share with y'all that I think succinctly explains what I believe about this issue:

Does the repair cost go up when an item is repaired through Mending?

2 durability per xp

Basically prevents you from getting xp unless all of your tools and armor are full of durability.

What I am referring to is the amount of XP per point of durability increasing over time. If I Repair using an Anvil, the XP cost increases each time I use it. In vanilla, it eventually becomes too expensive. Here we have it capped at 39.

If Mending works in this way, it is basically an auto-Anvil, except without the material cost(Diamonds or whatever for the repair and iron for the Anvil.). I would say don't mess with it in that case. If not, well, I would still prefer it still be left unchanged.

If anything has messed up enchanting as a way to earn Rupees, it is Villagers, but I don't see anyone asking for them to be crippled in order to save "the market". Things change. Let it be.

Well, the answer is no.
2 durability per xp is the constant rate.

Now that we're talking about 1.9 enchantments, there's two things I wanted to know:
First, will frost walker work inside protected areas and people's residences? Will there be a flag for it?
Secondly, will special attributes on items (like the extra health given by Momentus' Helmet) work when the item is on the off hand?

Edit:

Why exactly is that? I don't get it

Did some testing, and I hate to say it, it does need nerfing.

• 20 zombies (19 normal, 1 baby) - No mending
  • 7 3/4 exp
• 20 zombies (19 normal, 1 baby) - Mending
  • 6 3/4 exp
  • Fully repaired sword

Basically, there is no downside other than a few missed xp. Maybe...

• Not paired with Unbreaking
• 2 xp > 1 durability
• Or Aikar could add a questionable spin on this and make it on a per-kill basis

Well, I just did test it.
It renders unbreaking completely useless unless you really need that extra bit of exp. Only place I see where mending isn't useful is when you are facing something with very high health.