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Improving Wandering Trader Sales

Hello there. Wandering Trader is my second most favourite feature in 1.14 but when i first seen his trade list, i was actually disappointed how little he sell.

List here ---> https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Trading#Wandering_trader

I think he have LOT of potential and i hope he will have added more items to sell

I think he should sell various minerals and materials like diamonds, coal, redstone or paper, sugar cane, bamboo etc., Food items, tools

For the rarer items also potions, enchanted tools, enchanting books, saddles, nametags, mob heads, bottles o' enchant, maps etc.

AND for the rarest of rare:
* Treasure Enchantments Books (this would be unique. Not on items)
* Heart of Sea
( These 2 would be very rare and expensive, which would make this fair and they would be renewable)

Just think it this way: Not everyone have village close and they want/need some of things villagers sell. This is what wandering trader Is for. But he dont sell much to compensate. Also, most of his items are not rare and not interesting, not enough for players to seek them out

I am not asking about creating new feature into game, just adding few things into the list. Please make wandering trader much better, thank you, please vote

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    Yeah he sells basically the exact same stuff every time I see him this should fix it

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    Currently, he's starting to be seen as a bit of a nuisance because his trades are very lacklustre and only occasionally useful. I think he should at least have one of his trades be a "rare trade" where he could offer rare loot like you find in loot chests. For example, he might offer things like:

    • Potions
    • Ender pearls
    • Saddles
    • Shulker Shells
    • Music Discs
    • TNT
    • Things that make you say "Where did he even get this? LOL!"

    This would make him much more exciting to encounter and it should be fine considering he is guaranteed to despawn so players can't keep using these amazing trades forever.

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    I up voted this because I think there are some glaring omissions from his list. Namely bamboo and sweet berries.
    I look at the wandering trader as a vehicle to get biome specific items. He carries basically every type of plant except for bamboo and sweet berries. I won't quibble over crop's because they are available in most villages which you need to visit to get the emeralds for trading anyways. I mean the guy has tropical fish in a bucket and blocks of coral for crying out loud but no bamboo?

    I actually disagree with the wandering trader having rare items. I think players should have to work for their diamond armor but I don't think they should have to travel 30 minutes to generate new map to find biome specific items.

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    Far as rare items go, how about nether wart? When I harvested nether wart,  I kept being killed now I can't find anymore.

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    When I met him first time, I was happy to finally see him, but the more and more he appeared, the more and more it is less appealing. After like 8-10th Trader, I ignored him and I do till that. That is why I made this suggestion. Because after few visits, he is less useful that coarse dirt. Also, I think the more items he can sell the better, because then when you see him, you will ask yourself: ,,What will he sell this time?". And he should have rare items, because when those would show up, you would have similar feeling like finding those in loot in chest (unless u wouldn't have enough emeralds to pay, then it would be RIP)

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    I believe the Wandering Trader should also offer Shulker Boxes.

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    At the VERY LEAST the wandering trader should sell all items that are not obtainable if you are playing on peaceful mode.

    Ghast tears, Blaze rods and Spider eyes for potion brewing

    Bones to tame dogs

    Ender pearls to enter the end 

    Rotten flesh for trading

    String for Tripwires

    Phantom membrane for Elytra repairs 

     

    and for other incredibly rare items the price should be incredibly steep and they should sell only one at a time

    Mob heads (for fun)

    A Nether Star for 64 Emeralds + 3 Wither Skeleton heads (which you would need to buy from the trader in the first place)

    Shulker shells for 48 Emeralds

    Tridents for 48 Emeralds

     

    Items that naturally occur but are hard to get should not be sold (Elytra but players should be given the opportunity to get to the end to fine some)

     

    I know that I would buy Ghast tears given the chance while playing on normal difficulty 

     

     

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    One reason the wandering trader is a fantastic source of multiple items (particular ores or Heart of the Sea) is that he makes them renewable, but not farmable. The wandering trader cannot be forced to spawn and limits his trades, making exploitation of his trades impossible (given the trade limit is balanced to the item).

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    I think he should sell items you cant get in standard survival. For example, complete spider webs, mob eggs, monster spawners, end portal frames, etc.

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    The wandering traders do seem to sell nothing but crap and their only use is a source for leads. 

     

    would be nice if they sell stuff you cant normally get in peaceful mode, for example

    blaze dust or blaze rods.. 

    Eye of Ender / Ender perls. 

    Mob heads. 

     

    at the moment its bits of grass and stuff you can easily obtain..  not worth spending your hard earned cash on. 

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    Perhaps just give him access to the the trades of all villagers, with slightly higher prices for sales and slightly lower for buying. After all, he is a wandering TRADER, not SELLER, so he should buy stuff from players as well.

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    i dont know what exact things that he should sell but its definitely sure that his trades need to be changed or adjusted. 

    By seeing his trades in Minecraft wiki , I am 100% sure that no one wants all flowers varients, all seed varients , all sappling varients, and bunch more.

    Only  things that are good in his trades are; 

    1. coral blocks because u cannot craft or get them except the oceans obviously.

    2. nautilus shells because its hard to get them (afk fishing is too overpowered which i hate )

    i was going to add glowstone and sea pickle to this list but u can get glowstone from claric villager and u can farm sea pickle in java edition

     

    I have see the comments saying like he should sell tears or enderpearls or other things

    ONE THING I WILL SAY THAT MOJANG WILL NOT AND NEVER ADD THOSE ITEAMS WHICH HAVE ALREADY THERE OWN WAY OF GETTING IT. 

    AND MOJANG I WILL SAY ONE MORE THINGS THAT  WHAT EVER ITEMS HE IS SELLING, MORE THEN 90% OF THINGS HAVE THERE OWN WAY OF GETTING THINGS

    it lowers down the fun.

    for instance, I don't wanna get flowers, seed, ice, sappling, etc which I know if I explore it will be much much more fun

     

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    Well, for me, wandering trader is used to get a lot of unique plants, when I can't find their biomes, so it would make sense for wandering traders to sell bamboo. However I don't really agree with the rest of this post, although renewable hearts of the sea sound good too.

    AlI wanted to say is described better in a different comment above by someone named A Whimper.

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    The wandering trader is quite useless for late game players after people have setup a slime farm, found a warm ocean, found a jungle biome, etc. Here's some ideas for trades that would be useful. 

    • 1 emerald for 1 iron ingot
    • 64 emeralds for 1 netherite scrap
    • 32 emeralds for 1 diamond. 
    • Possibly enchanted books with treasure enchantments such as frost walker and mending but not soul speed with a super rare chance. 
    • 2 emeralds for 1 wither rose
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    I think the wandering trader should be able to interact with your world stats to unlock rarer items for trade.

    For example, once you've killed 25 blazes, blaze rods could have a chance to be a rare trade.
    same goes for shulker shells at 25 shulkers, and magma cream after 25 magma cubes. These numbers could be tweaked for more or less kills of a particular mob. Spider webs could be a potential rare trade at 100 spiders. Maybe sponges after 9 elder guardians killed.

    Basically a chance to get difficult, rare, or annoyingly grindy items once you've achieved enough, but no way to avoid doing it properly the first time. This would make the trader more sought after in the endgame, rather than just a nuisance.

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    I do think the wandering trader should sell more things, but not useful things because that allows the player to easily beat the game, which is why they don't have diamond trades in the first place. I think the wandering trade should be able to trade animal/ non- hostile spawn eggs, because that would make it easier for the players to get some more pets at their base, like a panda, if their house is on a mountain island. Plus, spawn eggs wouldn't really help the player, so it would be a great way of getting spawn eggs in survival.

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    He should also sell items based on the biome you have you have not visited. He 'wanders' for petesake. He should not offer saplings or flowers in a biome that's full of it. Also, he's a trader. Make him buy stuff from with items that tend to be 'in excess'. My logic is that he'll sell these excess items for a higher mark up as he wanders away.

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    In addition to the being far away from villages thing, I think that the player should be able to sell stuff to him. this could be small things, a bit of supplies for his journey and whatnot. Stuff like

    • Wheat/Carrots/other crops
    • Food
    • Coal
    • A bucket of Water

    I'm just spit balling ideas here, it would make it easier to trade with him. 

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    I think he should frequently have items that are hard to find, like rare biome specific items (cocoa beans, allium, etc.), but he should also sell enchanted books, pottery fragments, music discs, and other items that are findable or craftable but a pain in the butt to obtain.

    The trade slots should be ranked, with the first few being common items from outside of the current biome, the next two being items from uncommon biomes, and the last being a rare item, like a high level enchanted book, pottery fragments, music discs, etc. The latter should be so rare that it doesn’t replace things like archaeology or getting creepers killed by skeletons, just complement them.

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    You guys do know that the wandering trader does not kill mobs for mob heads, or ceratin loot. nor does he goes to the end or ether dimesion. No I think his trades gotta be overworld biomes related, and structer related(that does'nt have them face mobs like pillages and droweds. like heart of the sea, berrys, and bucket of axelot.(although many of your ideas are great.)

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    One of the comments mentioned that the Wandering Trader only sells items from biomes you have not visited and especially not from your current biome. I think alternatively it would be very cool if the Wandering Trader was willing to buy items from biomes you've been to as well as your current biome

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    That's a good idea!

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    The Wandering Trader could also benefit from an item for item trades, like 10 spruce saplings for a Dark oak or Jungle sapling, 10 pufferfish for a potion of water breathing, 64 wheat seeds for 16 chicken eggs. These sorts of trades would make the Trader accessible, help exchange items for potentially more useful things or even Emeralds (20 copper blocks=1 emerald). Mining for emeralds takes a while, and unless you go to villages most players won't have a stack of emeralds around. Logically Traders and Merchants would barter goods for goods as well, so lore-wise it fits nicely.

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    It would be great if he could sell:
    - sweet berries
    - bamboo
    - bucket of axolotl
    - bucket of tadpole
    - maybe also turtle and chicken eggs
    - sculk blocks
    - mycelium

    A rare trade offer with valuable items is also a great idea, but it should not be overpowered. For example random potions or the same loot one can get as a treasure from fishing. Maybe also mob heads (excluding wither skeleton) just for LOL

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    With the new updates to villager (librarian) trading and that they need to be a biome specific librarian in order to get certain enchantments of books, you could have the wandering traders have a chance of selling those books/biome specific trades. This implies that the wandering trader actually travels and picks up stock from the different villages and sells the things that he gets there. There could also be a leveling system for the wandering traders that would increase the likelihood that they trade the rare items like the biome specific books. This could be done like trading with villagers to upgrade their sales. 

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    How about unique trades for different biomes and terrains such as sapplings and food in A dessert or even A pickaxe in caves