Monitoring Mending Activity on Damaged Armor

Watching Active Armor Repairs

When using armor enchanted with Mending, experience points normally restore item durability quietly in the background. Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed makes this process visible by displaying an active mending indicator directly on your armor HUD whenever your gear absorbs experience to repair itself.

To observe and verify that your armor is actively mending:

1. Equip damaged armor pieces that possess the Mending enchantment.

2. Ensure your armor bar is visible on the HUD above your health display.

3. Defeat mobs, mine ores that drop experience (such as coal or quartz), or collect experience orbs from a furnace.

4. Watch the armor icons as you collect the orbs to spot the visual mending activity indicator appearing on the interface.

Prioritizing Armor Restoration

Monitoring the on-screen mending activity allows you to confirm that collected experience is actively routing into your armor pieces rather than being absorbed solely into your level counter or handheld tools. Once the mending indicator stops triggering and low-durability warnings clear, your equipped set is fully restored.