Grindstone

A grindstone is a weaponsmith's job site block, used to repair items and tools, or remove enchantments from them.

Natural generation
Grindstones naturally generate at village weaponsmiths.

Obtaining
A grindstone must be mined by a pickaxe or else it drops nothing.

Requirements
Recipe becomes available after crafting stone slabs from stone, which can be acquired from cobblestone using smelting.

Usage


When, a GUI is displayed with two input slots and one output slot.

Putting two damaged items of the same type as inputs combines their durabilities to form a new item in the output slot and 5% of the tool's maximum durability is added as a bonus, rounded down, just like the crafting grid does (whether the 2x2 from the player's inventory or the 3x3 from the crafting table), but unlike it, any non-curse enchantments on the top item are removed upon performing the action, returning an amount of experience for each. This can range from just a few points for low-level enchantments such as Efficiency I or Protection I, to a large amount of experience for higher ones. The bottom input item is sacrificed in this operation.

A single enchanted (book and weapon) item can also be placed in either input slot, which removes its non-curse enchantments, returning an amount of experience for each, without repairing it or sacrificing another item.

Using a grindstone removes any prior work penalty the item has. However, if the resulting item has curses, the prior work penalty is set to 1 with one curse, or 3 with both curses. Grindstones do not remove items' custom names.

If the action is not applicable (e.g. the two inputs are different items), the arrow displays a red cross, like that of the anvil.

The following tables show the durability bonuses of various items:

Experience
When removing enchantments from items, you gain experience equal to the minimum modified enchantment level of that enchantment. The final amount is a uniformly-distributed random amount between half the resulting sum (rounded up) and the sum itself.

Changing profession
If a village has a grindstone that has not been claimed by a villager, any villager who didn't already pick a job site block has a chance to change their profession into weaponsmith.

Gallery
Brusný kámen Schleifstein Meule Grindstone 숫돌 Kamień szlifierski Pedra de amolar Точило หินลับมีด 砂轮