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Mending In Ancient City's

As it currently stands in 1.18 (and has since 1.14) mending is too good and obtainable too quickly. For what used to be a treasure enchantment can now be obtained so quickly it has a speed run category. 

I have ran multiple SMPs and have tried to balance this but nothing felt minecrafty, but with the addition of the deep dark and ancient city's in 1.19 a new place to put them was added. 

Mending books spawning in loot chest in the Ancient City makes a lot of sense, mending and Skulck do the same thing, they absorb XP from dead mobs to grow larger or repair themselves. If mending and the Skulck are so similar, it makes sense that they could be in the same place. Maybe the inhabitants of the Ancient City's learned how to turn XP into matter from the Skulck and used it to make their tools, so they wouldn't have to ever leave the city. 

If you wanted to push mending even further late game, you could replace it with an item used to upgrade netherite gear into a version with the mending functionality. Maybe a bulb found growing in the Skulk. 

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    I don't think that mending is that OP. While having it is pretty OP, obtaining it is usually super difficult unless you are stupid lucky. There are literal montages of people constantly trying to obtain mending from villagers.

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    I totally agree, I was wanting to post this same idea.

    Removing the mending trade from villagers and making it exclusive to Ancient Cities not only gives players a reason to visit these structures, but also makes the enchantment more of an endgame item which it should have been to begin with.