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Wandering Trader needs to buy stuff as well.

I'm currently playing a world where I've yet to come across any emeralds. I've seen the wandering trader three times now, but I can't trade with him for lack of emeralds.

He needs to buy things so that we can get emeralds out of him, or failing that have some barter trades where we can give him stuff commonly found in the biome we are currently in but rare elsewhere to trade for whatever he has.

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• April 08, 2019 16:03
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  • May 14, 2020 02:17
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  I agree, they're not really traders unless they buy things too. Plus the things they normally sell are completely useless. They're basically just really annoying sources of free leads at this point.

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  • June 30, 2021 17:53
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  I think it mostly makes sense that the Wandering Trader's stock is stuff he gathered himself wandering the world, so he wouldn't be willing to buy anything he can find himself, like plants. BUT you can't imagine him mining into deep and dangerous caves, or going to the End or the Nether, so perhaps he could have a chance of being willing to buy these rarer resources from the player. If he was only willing to buy non-renewable resources, that would keep him from becoming an infinite emerald generator you can just sell farmed items, but still allow players who don't like to go to villages or build their base in remote areas to trade with him.

  Example of non-renewable items he could buy with emeralds are sponges or calcite, or the new amethyst shards (they are renewable but not easily farmable). Or he could offer a diamond-to-emerald exchange.