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Villager Trade Rebalance Issues

Hello Minecraft! 

First, allow me to say that I do appreciate you listening to community about the villager trades being OP, but I think the approach you've taken won't work well for many players. 

1. The biome-specific librarian trades seems like a good idea on paper, but they would require a lot of time and/or resources (rockets) if you wanted to travel between them often. Making villagers in a certain location and transporting them to your base takes even more time and resources, especially with how notorious villagers are to transport and how easily they could die along the way.

2. I think one of the reasons for this is to get the player to explore more. I find this change to be less of a "I want to see what else is out there" and more of a "I have to set up the same huge project in 7 different spots." It's almost like a reverse quality of life change.

3. There are other ways that un-overpowering villagers could happen. Maybe high value books are only available at the master level. Random idea, but maybe a librarian could "learn" better trades not based on how many trades a player made but by how much the villager has studied (Time based like copper?) Not sure how that would be implemented in code but it's interesting to think about.

Thank you for reading.

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• August 06, 2023 03:22
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  • October 23, 2026 03:59
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  I want to change the current distorted gameplay in which players can reset trade options by repeatedly breaking and placing workstations—I don't think this counts as "playing the game." However, Mojang's proposed change is merely to have players obtain specific enchanted books from other biomes. I propose abolishing the mechanic whereby enchanted books can only be obtained through specific biomes; instead, all librarians should have fixed, separate trades for tool, weapon, and armor enchanted books, each containing multiple enchantments. Lower the acquisition threshold and reduce the cumulative anvil penalty, thereby making players' upgrades smoother. For example, a "Tool Enchantment Book" (Efficiency III, Fortune II, Unbreaking II). Finally, Mending should be specially sold by the wandering trader, with a suggested probability of one-third, so that every player has a fair chance to obtain it, but it cannot be obtained through the distorted gameplay of refreshing trade options. In short, the balance of villager trading should compensate for the shortcomings of using the enchanting table and must never completely replace the enchanting table; otherwise, other gameplay will become meaningless.