Passive Mending
by CTPELOK
Passive Mending repairs items that carry the Mending enchantment by spending the player's experience points directly from the experience bar, with no orbs to collect.
What it does
Items with Mending are repaired automatically while the player holds or wears them, and the cost is taken from the experience bar. The conversion follows the standard vanilla ratio of one experience point for two points of durability, so a player gets the same repair value they would get from orbs. Because repair happens in the background, nothing has to be held or set up by hand.
Passive Mending is server-side only. A server owner installs it and vanilla clients join without installing anything, so players on the server gain the repair behavior with no mod on their side. The mod is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, with a single release, 1.0.0 for 1.21.1, dated 2026-01-25. The code is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Among the catalog's NeoForge utility mods, the same idea appears in ExpOrbRecall, which requires both client and server, and in BreakP, which is client-side only. Passive Mending differs by working on the server alone, so players need nothing installed.
Key features
Automatic repair
Items enchanted with Mending are repaired over time without the player doing anything extra.
Experience bar payment
Repairs draw from the experience bar directly, so XP orbs do not need to be gathered first.
Vanilla conversion ratio
Each experience point restores two points of durability, matching the standard vanilla rate.
Armor and held items
Armor worn and items held by the player are both repaired, without a separate action for each piece.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Survival servers
Server owners who want Mending to work without carrying orbs can add the mod to a survival world and leave players unchanged.
Who it’s for: Server owners running NeoForge 1.21.1 who want the Mending enchantment to repair items from the experience bar. Players on that server need no installation.
How it compares
ExpOrbRecall is a NeoForge and Forge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, under All rights reserved and not open source, and it requires client and server. BreakP is NeoForge only for 1.21.1, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0, and it is client-side only, so it works on each player's game instead of the server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passive Mending | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-01-25 |
| ExpOrbRecall | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-26 |
| BreakP | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-09-03 |
Questions
Does Passive Mending have to be installed on the client?
Which game version and loader does Passive Mending support?
Does the mod change the repair rate?
In the catalog
Passive Mending is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,477 Utility mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
Similar mods
What the author says
Forget about holding items to mend them!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/passive-mending
- Owner
- CTPELOK
- Published
- 2026-01-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15