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Villager-World Interaction

I’d like to see villagers interact with the world more, like the Farmers do - maybe by fetching water, picking flowers, fishing, maybe a “builder” villager who can slowly repair damaged *villager* houses. Villagers currently have some seeming curiosity and social behavior, but I’d like to see it increased, such as certain villagers developing “affinity,” for, say, their neighbors, other villagers who share their profession, etc.

In general, anything that continues in the spirit of making a living world that feels like it operates without being dependent on or oriented around the player is wonderful.

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    I do love this idea, but I do think it would be extremely difficult to implement this without decreasing performance significantly. It definitely would be awesome though!

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    True, though perhaps in the example of someone more passive interactions such as fishing it wouldn’t be fishing in the same sense as player fishing. More of a “fishing status,” indicated by a fishing animation. Perhaps fishermen can gather fish at the same tick rate as a farmer might gather a single crop, so super lightweight. How that would then impact the game world, tho, I’m not sure. Will have to give it some thought.