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Remove Anvil Repair XP Cost

What it says in the Title.

Remove (or adjust) the XP cost for repairing items in an anvil.

• It would remove Mending as a necessity (and make the Villager Rework more Viable)
• It would make enchantments more viable in early game
• It would give Diamonds more of a use after completing your set of gear

This change would turn Mending into more of a Quality of Life enchantment for late-game, like kingbdogz proposed in some tweets late September 2023. It would be more about saving the material cost of maintaining gear rather than a necessity for keeping a highly enchanted item from inevitably breaking.
In my opinion it would be somewhat balanced since getting enough iron for an anvil is an early-game milestone and it also has a durability and therefore needs to be maintained.
Obviously, there are still some numbers that need to be adjusted.

There is a mod for the Java edition that explores this concept, which is quite intriguing. It is focused on a general Enchanting Overhaul.

I would highly recommend everyone to try it for themselves.

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• October 21, 2023 23:23
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  • October 23, 2023 10:22
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  Here's my take on the anvil:

  I think the "Too Expensive" needs to be replaced with a hard cap of maybe 5 enchantments per item, and the incremental exp cost increase after each repair on the same item needs to be removed.

  Exp costs for repairing enchanted items should be more predictable and not as expensive, but adding new enchantments to items should still have an exp cost just like enchanting itself.

  Maybe the exp cost would always depend on the amount of enchantments on the item.

  Repairing netherite also is currently not viable without Mending, so maybe it should be able to be repaired with diamonds.