By adding enchantments to your Minecraft items, you’re free to use powerful new effects.

Appropriately enough, its also one of the most difficult enchantments to get.

What Is Mending?

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How Do You Get Mending?

Of those, villager trades are the most reliable.

Where Do You Get Mending?

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These placesare generally dungeon-likeand include mineshafts, bastion remnants, and end cities.

Because of how loot is generated, this isnt a reliable way to get the Mending enchantment.

Ancient Citiesand Strongholds have a high chance of having enchanted books.

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In particular, youre looking to trade with Librarians villagers.

This includes treasure enchantments and most importantly, Mending.

Left to right: A Railcar Chest, a Librarian Villager with a Wandering Trader Behind, a brown button in a cobblestone floor near some sticky pistons.

Villagers can offer a wide range of useful items through trading.

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This includes treasure enchantments and most importantly, Mending.

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If youre trying to do it with more than two at a time, then its nearly impossible.

Move existing Lecterns to that place as well.

If theyre nearby, you walk at them and nudge them in the right direction.

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Once theyre there, double-check they cant leave.

Build and place sticky pistons

Build as many sticky pistons as there are Lecterns.

Place the sticky pistons on the ground facing upwards.

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Place a button adjacent to all the sticky pistons.

Ideally, you want three sticky pistons in this setup.

Any more and the button gets more difficult to press.

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Press the button and if all the pistons extend, then you did it right.

This process isnt limited to Mending or even Librarians.

Substitute Lecterns with the job block of your desired artisan to get desirable trades from any employed villager.

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The trading menu with a Librarian in Minecraft.

A Librarian villager at the town square with a Wandering Trader behind it in Minecraft.

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