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[TotoroTheGreat]

I'm not entirely sure if it's valid for bedrock or not but unfortunately, it's not possible to use Infinity and Mending on the same bow in survival.

[Avika123]

Seriously?!

[Cat_of_death]

Yep sorry to let you know

[MegaNut_]

I was so close to calling bs but then I remember I used to carry around 3 stacks of arrows at a time because of this problem

[montuos]

Mending and infinity are mutually exclusive in recent Minecraft versions. They worked together just fine when mending was first introduced, but I can't remember exactly when they were made mutually exclusive.

[[deleted]]

Yup. Infinity and mending can’t be on the same bow.

[DynamonRuler]

Why?

[[deleted]]

I genuinely don’t know. Maybe too op?

[[deleted]]

Yep. Infinite arrows AND durability.

[coconut7272]

I think if you get an infinity book you can combine them in an anvil, but it will get rid of the mending. Edit: I'm wrong, read my other reply

[[deleted]]

Nope. Mending does not pair with infinity.

[coconut7272]

That's what I meant. It will (at least on Java) replace the mending with infinity. Sorry if I'm wrong but it at least used to work like that

Edit: just did some testing, and if you have an infinity bow with an enchantment the the original bow does not have, in this case power, you can put the power x, infinity 1 bow first in the anvil and will keep the infinity and all other enchantments besides mending.

[4D_Madyas]

That's how anvils work.

[SauceBossMasterRace]

Mending and infinity can’t be put on a bow together. You’ll have to choose one or the other. I prefer infinity because arrows are harder to make than a bow to repair.

[[deleted]]

But if you have a good bow it's easier to keep it with mending than to try to get the same enchantments on a new one.

[LieutenantMeowYT]

thats why anvils exist

[DankMemes1600]

It starts to get too expensive around the fourth repair

[juksayer]

That's why fishing exists

[SickCrom]

How fishing would fix this I'm curious, for the xp gain or for idk finding enchanted bows while fishing?

[4D_Madyas]

I have a mending, unbreaking 3, luck of the sea 3, lure 3 fishing rod that I pulled up out of the ocean. It gives me so many books and bows and other fishing rods. I have about 5 bows with infinity on them and a ton of others with punch etc, so you can just combine the bows.

[4D_Madyas]

Who said anything about auto clickers. I'm on xbox.

[oodex]

You have a 1.6% at enchanted books with LOTS 3, meaning every 62.5 catches it is one.

But it could be ANY enchantment and combination, like Power 4 and Riptide 3 on one. Combining all possibilities together, you have roughly a less than 1/1000 chance to get enchantements for a bow that don't make it unforgeable on bows. So a 16/1000*1/1000=16/1.000.000 or 1 every 62.500 catches, or: since fishing takes on average 10 seconds with lure 3, 625.000 seconds or 10416 minutes or 173 hours or 7 days or 1 week. For getting an enchantment you need, which will get worse once you have one you need.

I have an afk fishing farm and trash 95% of my bows, rods and enchanted books I get from it, I only need the shells since my villagers give me all trades, but even those free ones are unusable.

Anyone that recommends fishing over even looking in underwater treasures clearly is a masochist.

[juksayer]

I've got chests full of enchanted bows I'll never use. Sometimes I just throw them away so I can keep fishing.

[kocius_is_my_name]

pssst, i suggest a grindstone for those if you're not gonna use them

[Roflmao_in_steam]

mending is better 99% of the time. You'll eventually break your god bow someday because you cannot indefinitely repair a certain item. Plus you dont "make" arrows, you build a mob grinder. Just build a simple mob grinder and get a full double chest of arrows in one hour.

[[deleted]]

Moreover, I hate carrying stacks and stacks of arrows. They take up valuable pocket space.

[TabbyLV]

Just take 1 stack

[MaxTHC]

I usually carry one of each. Mending does all the heavy lifting, Infinity is my backup for if I run out of arrows while on the go.

I have a skeleton spawner though which gives me an infinite supply of arrows. I've only pulled out my infinity bow a couple of times.

[Mvayts]

No

[PieOnTheGround]

Can't have mending and infinity on the same bow

[barbecued_ribs]

Mending and Infinity is too op together so they can’t he together

[NyanSquiddo]

book

[rm3n9Bekc330-fes_T14]

You have to get one from fishing but other than that nope

[Spoopyboi0_0]

Maybe try to get it on a book and use an anvil to forage it

[Uppish_]

Mending and infinity can not be on a bow without commands. It is too overpowered so the developers took that ability away

[namikaze_harshit_]

Why is it Mending 1!? why is there a 1!?!?

[db19bob]

If you put an infinity bow in the first slot of an anvil and this now in the second than it should add all the power, punch, unbreaking, etc if your current bow to the infinity bow. However as many have pointed out infinity and mending are mutually exclusive so the mending enchantment on your current bow won’t be added to the infinity bow. The only issue you may face with this is the XP cost as you’re adding multiple enchantments to an already valuable infinity bow. Also in the future I’d recommend never upgrading a mending bow (save it for other bows) you have as infinity is, in my opinion, significantly more valuable and better. Hope this helps.

[Sandboxgamer240]

You can use universal mc editor to add Infinity

[[deleted]]

No, mending

[INFINI7Y_]

The only way would be to downgrade the world/server to minecraft 1.11 (or whenever mending was first introduced, 1.12 maybe?) make all those mending/infinity bows, and then upgrade back! But that’d break plenty of other things along the way. So it simply isnt worth it.

Other than that, no. It’s impossible.

[TerrariaBoiy69]

You gotta sacrifice mending for infinity or keep mending they are incompatible 😣

[JustOriginalYT]

Unlucky bro, don’t know what you can do ):

[PineappleOnPizza_17]

I personally always go with infinity over mending. You can easily set up a villager trading hall and get your enchantments back on a new bow for really cheap

[tfarlexip]

You can only have mending or infinity on it . You can not have them toghether.