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[Ishmael]

Fixing a near broken diamond pick axe with unbreaking III, fortune III and efficiency IV took 3 rounds of about 36 - 38 XP repairs. That is costly...

How exactly did you do that? Even with 60 XP and a full stack of diamonds, the anvil kept telling me that it was "too expensive" (with the exact same enchantment, incidentally).

[TinCow]

How exactly did you do that? Even with 60 XP and a full stack of diamonds, the anvil kept telling me that it was "too expensive" (with the exact same enchantment, incidentally).

Dunno if this applies to your situation, but repairing items gets more expensive in XP the more times you do it. It also costs more if the item has a custom name. In fact, I've concluded that custom names are actively a bad idea on high level items for that very reason. If you can't repair an item due to excessive XP cost, what you can do is simply convert it to a new item. To do that, all you need to do is put an unenchanted version of the item in the first slot and the almost-broken enchanted item in the second slot. Combining them will give you a brand new enchanted item with full durability and with all the enchantments from the old almost-broken version.

[Sigurd]

Dunno if this applies to your situation, but repairing items gets more expensive in XP the more times you do it. It also costs more if the item has a custom name. In fact, I've concluded that custom names are actively a bad idea on high level items for that very reason. If you can't repair an item due to excessive XP cost, what you can do is simply convert it to a new item. To do that, all you need to do is put an unenchanted version of the item in the first slot and the almost-broken enchanted item in the second slot. Combining them will give you a brand new enchanted item with full durability and with all the enchantments from the old almost-broken version.

Nice... Got to try that next time... might be a bit less expensive.

Or you could do as I did, which is quite XP expensive. Put one diamond into the second slot - and your awesome pick axe into the first.
Burn off 36 xp. Put the pick axe into the first slot again with a new diamond and burn off 38 xp... rinse and repeat until you have spent about 4 diamonds and a ton of XP.. and your awesome pick axe is as good as new.

It helps having a XP farm nearby...

[Sigurd]

Would I be rude to ask for a map update?

The dimensions of my castle is getting too complex for mere in game overview. I am wondering if I need to change a few of the structures.

[TinCow]

The map has been updated.

[Sigurd]

The map has been updated.

*cough* My castle looks the same as in the previous update.

Edit: nvm... it was my "fast" chrome browser. My editions are showing in IE.

[TinCow]

Yeah, sometimes you've got to clear the cache to get it to refresh. I'm not sure why that happens on some browsers, but it does. Oddly, I never seem to have to clear my cache with Chrome.