You found a really nice location for it.

I would be building a kelp farm there before even digging to bedrock.

Btw are you doing this in survival or creative?

100% survival and 100% vanilla, no mods, shaders, data packs or resource packs. Just lots of coffee, lol.

A kelp farm is a good idea thanks! I am not sure if I have need of one but it would help in the future I am sure. I prefer to use lava as a fuel source.

Thanks! Found the seed on chunk base and got really lucky with it.

I simply hid the HUD and stood on a pillar of blocks to take the screenshot if you are wondering how I did that with no HUD. Simply press F1 on Java Edition.

Kelp farms provide free XP.

I just get XP from trading iron with villagers or using my zombie spawner

Until I get mending I always need multiple sources if XP. Kelp farm, smelting, mob farms etc. Anything that can get me to 30 ASAP. On my current world the nearest swamp was over a thousand kilometers away and absolutely tiny. It took forever to find it so I could get that mending.

I'm not bothered about enchanting that fast. I take things slow. Though if I want to then I will just build a mob farm in the sky unless I found a spawner at my base. They are not hard to make. Why would you need a swamp though? For redstone I assume? I never use redstone very much. I am more of a builder.

Mending spellbooks in the overworld can only be acquired thru trading with villagers in swamp biomes.

The only swamp biome was too small to even hope of having a village. I had to cure a few zombie villagers and make a one hut village.

That's an optional update. So thankfully I don't have to worry about that. Why do you choose to play with that version? Just out of curiosity. Nothing against using the overhaul.

Also you can occasionally get mending from fishing and dungeons!

Extremely rare and not available in bulk. It takes 8 books to fully equip a person.

I play whatever the current java version is when I play.

I play the current one and it is optional. Go to Experimental Updates in the settings and you can turn it off or on.

You can get mending from the end dimension assuming you already beat the dragon. Only thing that does not spawn there is axes.

I'm doing a big project and saving The End for after it is done.

Interesting, I don't know how you would have gotten the experimental villager trading rebalance turned on by accident, that's never happened to me.

But I thought there were still no naturally generated Swamp or Jungle villages, so you have to bring in villagers and make your own village there and breed them to get the swamp or jungle villagers. Did they add them later? Have you ever found any already existing villages in the swamp or jungle? That would be cool. And how do you like the new trading system compared to the old/normal way?

I just play with whatever the defaults are. No changes to settings, no mods, nothing but current vanilla java.

I cured zombie villagers that spawned there.

No problems so far.

Light houses belong on the headlands. Yes?

I never heard of the term headlands before. I think most lighthouses are on the coast to stop ships from crashing into rocks. Though they can be inside sheltered bays like in my world. YouTubers have even built light houses at rivers before. So you can really just do whatever you want in MC. But typically they would be on the coast or in a bay.

Oh yeah, good idea. Catching zombie villagers is probably easier than transporting villagers from elsewhere. And you get better prices.

Of course you can. I'm just nitpicking.
Headlands are the points along the coast that jut out into the sea. Following point to point means you can travel with confidence.