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Autocrafting: Crafter Villager

Autocrafting has been proposed in many forms, in one case as a crafting table that takes hopper input. I personally believe that that approach would be too complicated for all but the technical community, and it feels a little out of place.

My proposal is a new type of villager that would work similar to the existing crop farms. You would "teach" the villager a recipe by right clicking them with the desired product. They would then be able to immediately pick up only the items included in the recipe for that selected product. A short time delay would pass, and the villager would then consume the components it picked up and throw the completed product. Right clicking the villager would override any previously selected product. It might be good if they had some way of indicating what recipe they are crafting, maybe with an icon on their robes? They should also have a little animation when they are crafting, like moving their hands together.

These villagers would spawn in villages. It seems natural that this villager would be tied to the crafting table as existing villagers are currently tied to their own blocks, and they would be able to be created this way as well with the standard methods of changing a villager's profession.

This approach feels like it fits Minecraft very well as it uses mostly existing features, and would not be too overpowered. It would allow increased automation of farms and the creation of annoying crafting recipes (ie dispensers). 

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• October 22, 2020 17:11
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  • November 07, 2021 01:43
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  I hadn't thought of something like that. It does indeed make good use of an existing mechanic. It seems like a simple crafting table might be a little easy, and it'd be hard to only collect finished items, but maybe both issues could be squashed by requiring a workshop consisting of multiple stations?
  
  Could also extend this in the future to different kinds of professions for crafting different categories of objects, from a baker (food) to a carpenter (wooden items) to a blacksmith (iron items and machines).

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  • January 14, 2022 18:22
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  I think the basic concept is good, here are my few change ideas:
  - villager become a crafter villager if he can reach a crafting bench like others a workstation.
  - At first he should give you two crafting recipes like a trade for emerald of course, depending on how many emerald you give him he will craft as many of that thing and put it in a chest that is right beside the crafting table (if there is no chest next to the crafting table the villager won't craft).
  - The villager could craft you a less than half a stack when he is a novice and more than a stack when he is a master.

  For example:
  A villager become a craftman then he will offer you 2 thing to craft, some basic stuff because at first he is a novice. for a price of course like 1-6 emeralds, let's say he will craft you (2)trapdoors for the wood the crafting requires and for 2 emeralds. Then you give him 12 wooden planks (same kind ofc) and 4 emeralds and he will do it and put it in the chest next to the crafting table. By more "trade" your villager gets xp just like other villagers and leveling up giving you more advanced recipes and more crafts/trade.