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Fixing Villager Trades & Ending Villager Exploitation for real this time

The Village and Pillage update was meant to stop players from exploiting villagers. However, this only led to players exploiting them more by continually resetting their trades, and turning them into zombies before curing them for cheaper prices.

To solve this, consider the following:

Treasure enchants are meant to be rare, so it doesn't make sense for librarians to sell them. Instead, give them to the wandering trader. He has very limited stock, only appears occasionally and lingers shortly, and cannot be cured for cheaper prices. This way treasure enchants would not be as easily obtainable, but still renewable. This would make him far more valuable in gameplay.

Villagers would do better to change their trades from day to day. People's needs change in the real world, and they do not produce the same things each day, so it doesn't make a lot of sense for villagers to act like modern day corporate markets which have a consistent stock. A blacksmith wouldn't recreate the same blade constantly; he would smith as an art.

Villages could require specific jobs to develop. Society does not immediately progress to highly educated men, but begins with those that produce food and shelter. Then they are able to work with metal and the like, then knowledge (librarians). There could be a ratio that decided what jobs a villager could take. While villagers established in their professions could still be moved elsewhere, this would make villages interesting (and rewarding) for players to manage.

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• April 09, 2021 10:10
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  • April 09, 2021 15:59
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  I like the 2nd idea about villagers changing their trades regularly, maybe I would be wrong but perhaps that would discourage players from trapping villagers in trade halls and instead treat them more humanely and check their trades regularly in hopes that they're selling something good, instead of locking a villager in a good trade and repeatedly zombify+cure them in a cage to get the good trades en masse.

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  • April 13, 2021 02:53
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  Sometimes I post stuff and don't worry about it not getting a lot of traction, but when it's posts like this one (about remedying certain busted features), I'm disappointed that they seem to go ignored.

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  • June 30, 2021 17:44
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  Villagers having random trades each day would make players to trap them more, not less. Going round the village and checking what trades each villager has every day would quickly become a chore, so players would trap them in a small area to make it easier. Whereas when a villager keeps the same trade forever, you can let them roam freely in the village and just seek them out when you need them.

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  • March 23, 2022 06:07
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  This area of the game desperately needs to be addressed. Having to essentially break the game to farm the enchanted books you want from villagers is really frustrating, it really needs to be reworked to feel more rewarding.
  The fact that on a server someone always has to be the one that makes a villager trading hall to sell items to everyone else so they don't have to go through the experience themselves says a lot about how fun this part of the game is. When I play on a singleplayer world I dread having to mess with villagers to get the books I want to get a proper "end game" loadout.
  
  There are so many ways for this problem to be fixed. Your idea of villagers changing trades daily seems great. I'm not sure what the broader community would think but basically anything is better than the current state of villager trading and getting the enchantments you want in the game right now.
  
  I could give so many ideas but I don't think I'd even have the room in this comment to list them all. I think the most important thing here is for Mojang to recognize how badly this area of the game needs to be fixed and get the community's ideas through something similar to the combat snapshots.

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  • April 01, 2023 16:52
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  I'm relatively new to minecraft but to have the option of villager exploit as a feature is definitely very alluring I hope they don't take it out anytime soon it's not like you have to kill the poor villagers or anything you could just give them a Lil room or something idk..