Talk:Item repair

The Formula For Repairing
I did not want to make an edit just yet, but there has already been tweets from Notch about how repairing works.

You take the Item Durability that remains on both items, then add the bonus uses. The bonus uses is 20% of the combined remaining uses.

Here is the tweet in question: If item 1 has 10 uses left, and item 2 has 10 uses left, you'll end up with something like 25 uses in the final product.

http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/118727507011837953

His math was off, as 20% of 10+10 is 4.

I have done two tests in 1.9b2, one test used two wooden axes both at 10 remaining uses. The result was 24 combined+bonus uses. The other test was on two Stone axes each with 32 uses remaining. The result of that was a Stone Axe with 76 use remaining.

There didn't seem to be any per-material bonuses as the current Wiki article suggests Macharborguy 02:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, Notch said "Something like" - A statement like that is obviously an estimation and cannot be used in a mathematical formula --HexZyle 03:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)