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Monitoring Gear Durability to Prevent Breaks
Tracking Durability Warnings
During intensive tasks like mining or combat, items such as diamond pickaxes, netherite chestplates, and bows wear down rapidly. Instead of guessing how close an item is to shattering, keep track of the color indicators inside your inventory:
- Healthy equipment displays numbers in green, indicating that it is safe for continued use.
- Severely worn items update to red text, serving as an active visual warning that durability has reached a critical threshold.
Maintaining Equipment
Whenever you notice an item displaying red durability text in its tooltip, immediately stop using it for heavy-duty tasks. The exact durability numbers reveal how many durability points remain, allowing you to withdraw the item from active use and set it aside for repair before you accidentally break a valuable piece of gear.