Sign in
Skip to main content

Discuss Minecraft's villagers, illagers, NPCs, and other humanoid characters. Share feedback on their behavior, professions, interactions, and role in the game, as well as ideas for new humanoid characters.

← Villagers and NPCs
1
Follow

About villager trade Rebalance

Early design flaws allowed players to repeatedly “reroll trade options” to obtain top-tier items or enchanted books. Rare enchantments such as Mending were made too easy for players to obtain.

However, Mojang believed that merely increasing the cost of obtaining them, or even making players travel to other biomes to get villagers, could solve the problem. This is clearly wrong and will trigger strong backlash from players.

Here is my view:

1. First, more trade options should be added and trade options should be locked, more decisively rendering this distorted playstyle meaningless.

2. The acquisition of rare enchanted books should be adjusted to reduce players’ reliance on villager trading—for example, by selling them among the Wandering Trader’s trade options. I suggest a one-in-three chance, so that every player has a chance to obtain them while making it impossible to obtain large numbers of copies by rerolling trades and thereby break game balance.

3. Strengthen and expand the functions of the enchanting table to provide players with more ways to obtain enchanted books, rather than relying excessively on villager trading. In addition, there are now many types of enchanted books, so the anvil penalty for upgrading tools should be reduced. I propose that once a player’s enchantment level exceeds 30, upgrading should no longer require additional experience.

Avatar
Registered User shared this idea

1 Comments

Post a new comment:

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Date Votes
Sorted by oldest
  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    I want to change the current distorted gameplay where players can reset trade options by repeatedly breaking and placing workstations—I don't think that counts as "playing the game." However, Mojang's proposed fix is to have players obtain specific enchanted books from different biomes. My suggestion is that librarians could separately sell fixed enchanted books for tools, weapons, and armor, but each containing multiple enchantments, while also lowering the acquisition threshold to make player upgrades smoother and reduce the cumulative anvil penalty. For example, a "Tool Enchantment Book" (Efficiency III, Fortune II, Unbreaking II), etc. In short, the balance of villager trading should compensate for the shortcomings of using the enchanting table, and must never completely replace the enchanting table; otherwise, other gameplay will become meaningless.