Trade School
No reviews yet
A proof-of-concept to demonstrate an idea for an alternative "Villager Trading Rebalance", making villager trading less grindy, and exploration more rewarding
Neoforge is a fork of the Minecraft Forge available for versions 1.20.1+ of Minecraft. Many Forge mods are compatible with Neoforge and vice versa.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
Community voices
Reviews
Click once to include, again to exclude, again to clear
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this project!
Get it on
Available Platforms
CurseForge
Modrinth
Compatibility
Supported Environments
About
Project Details
For authors
Embed Badge
If you're the author of this project, you can embed a live badge anywhere that supports HTML or Markdown. It updates automatically whenever ratings change.
Use HTML for any page that supports it, or Markdown for README files and Markdown-based descriptions.
Identifiers
Platform IDs
Resources
External Links
About
Description
A Modest Proposal for Making Villagers (Marginally) Less Frustrating.
Wouldn't Librarians, Academics, and even Artisans learn new skills and trades through study and practice? Why would a villager forget their trades and suddenly learn new magical ones just because you broke their work site?
This mod removes the default enchantment and weapon/armor/tool trades from Villagers, and adds the ability to sell items to them, which they'll then learn how to make and trade.
To compensate, treasure -- hidden chests, suspicious sand, etc. -- is buffed. So, you're encouraged to go explore, adventure, or craft valuable items, and then trade them with Villagers to preserve them. Finally, suspicious sand becomes useful!
Novice Villagers can only learn level 1 enchantments and wooden tools; Appentices can do Level 2 and stone tools; and so on. Diamond items and Level 5 enchants need Master Villagers. Mending requires Journeyman and above. Villagers can only learn trades commensurate with their experience level, so sell a Novice a Diamond Sword with Unbreaking 3 and they'll learn Wooden Sword with Unbreaking 1.
As it's server-side with no client code it has no special UI so the "sell" mechanism is done with vanilla trading, so it can be a little unclear what's going on. A proper implementation would have a "teaching" UI.
While I have played this mod properly, it's really a proof-of-concept; the loot tables, in particular, haven't been finely balanced (but I'd counter that neither have the vanilla loot tables!)
What about the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experiment?
In my opinion the Villager Trade Rebalance asks the right question, but gives completely the wrong answer.
It makes it more effort to establish a trading hall, but it still doesn't get rid of the nonsensical re-roll mechanic which leads experienced players to a day or so of tedious and break-and-place.
And still, Archaeology remains a relatively dull way to get cosmetic items like sherds and trims, rather than the massive opportunity for Exploration and ADventure that it could've been.
A Modest Proposal for Making Villagers (Marginally) Less Frustrating.
Wouldn't Librarians, Academics, and even Artisans learn new skills and trades through study and practice? Why would a villager forget their trades and suddenly learn new magical ones just because you broke their work site?
This mod removes the default enchantment and weapon/armor/tool trades from Villagers, and adds the ability to sell items to them, which they'll then learn how to make and trade.
To compensate, treasure -- hidden chests, suspicious sand, etc. -- is buffed. So, you're encouraged to go explore, adventure, or craft valuable items, and then trade them with Villagers to preserve them. Finally, suspicious sand becomes useful!
Novice Villagers can only learn level 1 enchantments and wooden tools; Appentices can do Level 2 and stone tools; and so on. Diamond items and Level 5 enchants need Master Villagers. Mending requires Journeyman and above. Villagers can only learn trades commensurate with their experience level, so sell a Novice a Diamond Sword with Unbreaking 3 and they'll learn Wooden Sword with Unbreaking 1.
As it's server-side with no client code it has no special UI so the "sell" mechanism is done with vanilla trading, so it can be a little unclear what's going on. A proper implementation would have a "teaching" UI.
While I have played this mod properly, it's really a proof-of-concept; the loot tables, in particular, haven't been finely balanced (but I'd counter that neither have the vanilla loot tables!)
What about the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experiment?
In my opinion the Villager Trade Rebalance asks the right question, but gives completely the wrong answer.
It makes it more effort to establish a trading hall, but it still doesn't get rid of the nonsensical re-roll mechanic which leads experienced players to a day or so of tedious and break-and-place.
And still, Archaeology remains a relatively dull way to get cosmetic items like sherds and trims, rather than the massive opportunity for Exploration and ADventure that it could've been.
Screenshots
Gallery
-
Offering an item to an unqualified Villager This Villager, an Apprentice, can only learn Level 1 and 2 enchantments, and can only craft Wood and Stone. So, they'll buy your sword, but will only then trade a cut-down version -
Selling an Enchanted Diamond Sword for 32 emeralds As this is selling to a Master Weaponsmith, they'll be able to replicate all the enchantments. A previous trade of an enchanted wooden sword is listed above
-
Offering an item to an unqualified Villager This Villager, an Apprentice, can only learn Level 1 and 2 enchantments, and can only craft Wood and Stone. So, they'll buy your sword, but will only then trade a cut-down version -
Selling an Enchanted Diamond Sword for 32 emeralds As this is selling to a Master Weaponsmith, they'll be able to replicate all the enchantments.
Versions
Files
Relations
Project Relations
More like this
Similar Mods
Suggestions use data such as tags, dependencies, dependents, descriptions, titles, and more to rank how much they overlap with this mod.
On ModDex
Community snapshot
By the numbers
Statistics
Want to reach Minecraft players?
We're looking for a server hosting partner to feature here and other parts of the site. Interested? Send us a message!
Get in touchGet it on
Available Platforms
On ModDex
Community snapshot
By the numbers
Statistics
Resources