Repairing of pickaxes

Is it better to repair diamond pickaxes using diamond pickaxes or diamonds if you do not have mending?

if you have mending you use XP to repair it

what if you dont?

I personally use picks but only if I use them so I use damaged+damaged

you make a new one and then damaged one with another damaged one

it's very easy to get mending, find yourself a village or cure a zombie villager. Get a lectern, and give an unemployed villager the lectern. Keep breaking the lectern and putting it back until the villager is offering mending

Yes, "easy" very easy. 10 thousand years later

stone iz da best because we can take irons 

use a new pic cuz it takes 4 diamond to repair a pic but a pic only needs 3

Thanks =)

I basically use stone the most unless ores which is then iron and obsidian and ancient dribes diamond

which then gives me an idea

I just have a stone pick and for ores I use diamond. (to lazy to get 3 iron for iron pick lol)

enchant diamond pick

I would fuse other enchanted picks together when they are almost broken on an anvil to add up the enchantments

I use stone for everything other than ores which I use iron and then diamonds for obsidian, diamonds, and ancient debris. also I never used a diamond pick other than to mine obsidian and ancient debris to be honest and only twice until I got netherite which is used same as a diamond pick

well depends I'll admit. But in the end it's always worth it, you have an unlimited supply of mending and whatever other enchants you need. I have a sharp 5 villager, eff 5 villager, unbreaking 3 villager, feather falling 4 villager, prot 4 villager, looting 3 villager, sweeping 3 village, depth strider 3 village, and a fortune 3 village. I always have the books I need because I spent some time breaking and placing lecterns

can you also just enchant the books?

you cant get mending in enchanting table, you get it by fishing, loot or villagers

mending is a treasure enchant, meaning you can't get it from enchantment tables. The only consistent way to get mending is by getting a librarian villager