mending mission

i can't believe the realm i'm playing on now still doesn't have a single villager who sells mending books. we've been up for almost a week and there are villagers, so i don't understand the delay. oh well, looks like i'm going to do it myself. i hate working with villagers but i can do it if i have to. luckily the infrastructure is mostly in place already, so i'll need one (1) professionless villager, one (1) lectern, and like half a stack of paper. let's do this

i just want to dig, that's all

mending acquired
it was really not hard, there were loads of jobless villagers in the community trading hall.

so now i have mending on my fortune pickaxe, so as long as i don't lose that i'm set and i can dig to my heart's content. it's efficiency IV, not V, but it's good enough for my mining comfort tbh. only issue is that i'm pretty much cutting myself off from my one source of emerald income, which was stone. but like, i do still have those silk touch pickaxes, and besides i never really planned to be doing villager stuff on this realm anyway.