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Wandering Traders Should Travel

Right now, wandering traders don't wander, they just spawn wherever you are. The traders should walk from a village to another, making them actually wandering traders. That means they're more rare, and should offer better deals, such as name tags, enchanting books, bottles o' enhanting, potions, music discs and saddles. They could also be useful when looking for villages, because as I said, they wander from villages to another.

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• July 26, 2019 07:24
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  Nova "inkycatz" Barlow commented

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  • July 26, 2019 20:45
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  https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043303451-Improving-Wandering-Trader-Sales

  Since that's not really your point here, I've modified your title to make it waaaaaay easier for people to find.

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  • December 11, 2019 18:28
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  I've never thought about this issue more specifically until you brought it up. It's odd because the mob's data contains behavior to "travel" to specific coordinates (Wandering Trader - Data Values). However, the problem may obviously be that the wandering trader's destination is never "far enough" from where it spawned. This might be an intentional game design, given that only one wandering trader can spawn and exist at a time in a world, and the spawning and despawning in different locations adds to the illusion of one wandering trader traveling and reencountering the player.

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  • December 11, 2019 18:32
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  (dividing my long comment into two):

  I can agree with you how strange it looks though. It would look more interesting if the trader had a more straight path somewhere in the distance, rather than just pacing around its spawnpoint. Going off in the distance could also add to the urgency of trading with the mob before it despawns, and it could improve the illusion by distancing the trader from the player, making look like it's not about to despawn, but leaving the player for a time before "respawning" from its journey.