The NEW Villager Update explained (1.20.2 Experimental Villager Snapshot) 

AHH! I knew something was off!! Thank you!

@@PhoenixSC that was a delete comment.

Wait I know you

Replying to the pinned comment will not give you likes. I just tried it

It is completely fine because it encourages you to use anvil and enchant(whatever you call it) table. So it is a good change. No more villager trading halls. They are disgusting 🤢

What exactly has been the problem with anvils?

@@twelved4983the “too expensive” bs that anvils have

@@twelved49832 words, “Too expensive!”

​@twelved4983 Let me remind you it's problem with a single sentence: "T O O E X P E N S I V E"

@@carlosemilio385 I knew that was a thing but I don’t recall the last time I ran into it, so I didn’t really know if it was really that big a deal. Plus I thought Mending was a workaround to that issue anyways

If they just re-added the ability for boats to go up 1-block heights then that would help out a lot

Or! Or. Whar if these hard to get things are meant to be hard to get and stayes that way? What if the *whole entire point* is for Things To Be Hard To Get?

@@youtubeuniversity3638 yesss this justifies the benefit of villager trading system, cus rn its too easy to get stuff from them

@@jirehemanuel i agree op enchantments should stay end game material after you explore the world.

Canals?

Or just don’t add this change to the game at all

@@louisdishington8710 At least it's experimental (Bundles still aren't in the full game, either). Even the reworked combat update changes were experiment for a bit, but haven't made it into the game yet.

Yeah pretty good summary, I'd love if they didn't implement this change but remove "Too expensive" and remove the discount stacking bug

@@CherryAccurate true I wouldn’t mind if they got rid of the bug just as long as the biome thing doesn’t get added

​@@louisdishington8710agreed

Or at least remove the "too expensive" limit. Eventually most people have an enderman xp farm, so even when the price approaches triple digits it is at least feasibly possible to use rather than an arbitrary "you would have enough xp based on the math, but we stopped you"

@@TorvicIsSanta Even then though, forcing people to make enderman farms to afford anvil operations isn't great since it's restrictive

​@@toastr1255end game armour at end game world's don't sound bad tho

@@toastr1255 you're right, but I was taking the phrase "at least" almost literal

@@toastr1255 If I can afford it, why is the game restricting me to use it???

Don't forget large biome worlds - if you play on that, you're pretty much screwed by this change.

by default bedrock and realms are set to large biome worlds, so this change specifically fucks over players who are used to that. Java worlds and private hosted worlds default to 5x5 mixed biomes unless changed by something like a modpack, so this change is still bad but about half as bad in Java as it is in Bedrock. It's almost like Microsoft WANTS Bedrock players to suffer, and yet most of the bedrock players I know still are adamant that Bedrock is better somehow lmao

@@pokerusfreak8194 it’s ironic considering Microsoft seems to favour Bedrock, yet they actively make it harder for us

@@pokerusfreak8194 from a programming/optimization standpoint bedrock simply IS better though, even as someone who still prefers Java due to some visual and gameplay quirks

It also screws over Mogswamp, he has a superflat world that he's been playing on for 11 years now so he would be stuck with the plains librarian

please post that on the feedback page! mojang won't see it otherwise.

Agreed, although introducing completely new enchanting system would split the community even more than it is now. They need to opt for band-aid solutions and make small changes.

@@W00JDAnot really I challenge you to find someone who enjoys the enchanting system. The reason villager trading halls are so popular in the first place is because nobody wants to deal with the enchanting system

Exactly. They should also add max rank books to things like underwater ships and treasure chests etc, instead of nerfing villagers. It seems so obvious, like hello?

I'm a pretty casual player, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think the entire XP system should be reworked and scaled to the difficulty level the player selects. I fully admit that I'm a noob, that's why I play on easy. So why does it take the same amount of time to reach 30 levels as someone playing on hardcore? Am I missing something? Surely, sitting at an XP farm is the most boring part of this game. Brings the gameplay to a dead stop.

best comment down here. Totally agreed on all the line. Also, the enchantments binded to biomes makes absolutely no sense because it would imply the enchantments are useful in these specific biomes. I understand Fire Protection in the desert, or aqua affinity in the snow (to break ice from underwater).... but why Fortune in Taiga where there's absolutely nothing to use it on specifically ? Why respiration in a swamp where you only have water up to the knee ?? Why projectile protection in the jungle where the sheer amount of blocks everywhere already blocks 80% of the arrows you could get shot by ??? WHY THORNS IN THE DESERT !? ITS A DESERT, WHY DO YOU EXPECT PLANTS TO GROW HERE !? I'm sorry I got carried away. My point is, this makes absolutely no sense immesion-wise, and is just pure gameplay tweaking to make up for their past mistakes, slighting the game's consistency.

All yall mad js cause villager slavery was nerfed. Villagers were not supposed to be the main way of getting enchantments, the enchanting table was.

@@oxymore13 did you forget the existence of cactus? one of the main desert features?

this is a good idaea yeah make trading trees

​@@therealgboi3895Nobody would complain if the enchanting table was half-decent.

or just remove enchantment cost limit. You can make new anvils, but you can't bypass that limit.

the durability is fine really, even without an iron farm you can get huge bulks of it from a few mining trips. not even gonna talk about the level cap

At this point only thing destroying the community would be adding a sphere.

The anvils breaking are just RNG whether or not it will go to the next stage of destruction (making it more or less durable). But I agree about the “too expensive” being removed

​@@Spite_Firevillagers have been OP since 1.14, and that's something everyone knows. Being able to get protection 4, unbreaking 3, and mending for just 3 emeralds total is clearly something that wasn't meant to happen, and that completely demolished any sense of difficulty once you got a villager breeder. The reason why so many people like this snapshot was because it was an attempt at solving the issue, and for many it was a step in the right direction. Obviously it's still flawed, that's why it's on a snapshot and the Devs want to hear feedback on it, as they want to find a solution that is better balanced whilst still allowing knowledgeable players to take advantage of it.

Well if you want to reduce annoyance you can use chunkbase tho its kinda cheating

These changes (I didn't even realize this was classified as a bug) make me fearful they're going to take away the main way of mitigating the long-distance-travel issue, namely being able to build a transport hub on the *nether roof*

@@summercube339 In my books Mojang is cheating the player in that they are balancing the villager trades while keeping an unbalanced and necessarily difficult to use anvil and rng based enchanting table, so the player now has the right to cheat the game if Mojang is gonna force the player to go to much greater lengths to get simple enchanting books

This doesn't even take into account getting a villager TO a jungle.

Very true, I'm not content creator, i play this game casually prob 2 or 3 times a week. Sometimes it already took so much time to just sort out my storage/inventory after an adventure, and instead of fixing an issue with storage/inventory, they came up with this dumb idea to make things more tedious/grindy. Like dude let me play the game and don't make me waste so much time on unnecessary grindy stuff...

yup

facts. preach

or u can make multiple bases and travel there for enchants and not exploit the systems for once :)

​@@kegleo Creating multiple bases is a time-consuming task. For instance, if you leave your diamonds at base 1, you have to ride your horse there, and if you leave your wood supply at base 3, you have to go there to get it. Consolidating all your resources in one place allows you to focus on more important tasks. Moreover, each base requires its own biome and village, necessitating the setting up of the whole villager system at each biome. If you don't want to do this, you'll have to spend hours searching for enchantments, only to hit the roadblock of it being too expensive to add enchantments to your armor. Also, since it's a single player game, why should anyone care about someone exploiting it?

​@@pigeon5312 idc if anyone exploiting the game im just tired from the discourse about minecraft being boring macrhing with annoyance if anything becomes less comfy for 1%. villagers become harder to minmax? why wont ppl search for new opportunities to solve this problem: u can build a rail system build different bases whatever u want to do about it, one more reason to explore ur map and engage with a mechanic in more steps also if the mechanic is just exploited and never used as intended then its a bad mechanic and it should be changed at least thats how i see the villagers problem. maybe it has to do with my playstyle and u guys r more of the target audience then me lol, will see how it ends

You can get enchanted crossbow from Fletcher, illagers while enchanted fishing rod from fishing. To make trident enchants easier to get, I would make drowned trident to be enchanted as well.

@@LukiKruki So what, it takes away one of the established ways to obtain one. What this does is it's only more grind. This is a really bad move and a bad argument too.

@@pavelcerny9803 ​ Want some ores? Go mine in caves. Want some specific planks? Go to specific biome. Want automated brewing stand? Prepare redstone components to create it. There's nothing free. Everything requires work, sacrifice. Everything in Minecraft is designed to move your lazy ass to get it. If not you, somebody else will pay for it. The change is done so enchanting table is still used besides villagers because the villagers were too good, too easy. Just like fishing farming they constantly aim to destroy. It was the game design flaw existing since 1.14 they fixed in 1.20.2. You don't like that? Well, too bad.

@@LukiKruki But you don't get the point, people use villager trading because it's straightforward and less of a hassle than dealing with the old and weird enchanting system. I wouldn't have a problem with that if you could somehow get an enchant you need, somebody for example somewhere mentioned using blaze rod for fire aspect, fire resistence, etc. I wouldn't even mind if these direct enchants were more expensive, say like 5-6 levels. Also, I like to build a lot and need tools with mending for that, I am not gonna loose my netherite pickaxe just because I have to find a zombie villager in swamp biome, cure him, transport him and then trade with him to experience him. This is some mobile phone microtransaction grinding shit. Isn't Minecraft supposed to be played how you see fit? No one forces you to trade with villagers if you don't want to, you can use your enchanting table. But why am I *forced* not to use a system that's in the game for a while when the game is about freedom? If it is not intentional, why it took literally years to fix then? Besides, not everyone can afford to play the game 6 hours a day and getting mending for them might be much harder than for the Minecraft veterans. And now they want to do it biome specific and the most desireable enchant to literally not naturally spawnable?

@@pavelcerny9803 Soul Speed - only from bartering with Piglins or looting Ruined Bastion Swift Sneak - only from looting Ancient City Mending - only always has been from looting dungeons, villager trading (now only swamp), fishing. Frost Walker - only from looting dungeons, village trading (now only snow), fishing The crossbow, fishing rod, trident exclusive enchantments only from fishing, enchanting table, looting dungeons. Any other enchantment from enchating table, fishing, trading, looting dungeons. Ancient City has higher chance of Mending Mineshaft has higher chance of Efficiency Pillager Output has higher chance of Quick Charge Desert Temple and Jungle Temple have higher chance of Unbreaking. Any other The game gives you a choice: easier way with random chance, harder way with renewable reward. It always has been like that. You are either working for yourself and you are the king of the world or lazy ass spoiled child that wants to have everything on table you don't deserve in the first place. Do or do not, there's no try.

peenix*

Finnes*

*peenix

*Ferb

It's the best thing in the game.

@@Spite_Fire or perhaps lower level in biomes the book isn't "native" to?

​@@diepie5144mending 0.5

Howsabout Not transporting villagers? Using the enchantment table maybe, or just Not Expecting Infinite Access To Infinite Copies Of Each Enchantment?

​@@Spite_Firejust use nether roof and its 1250 blocks away

​@@user-tx3pv1xl6g*cries in Bedrock*

@@youtubeuniversity3638 you can’t get mending from enchanting…

@@youtubeuniversity3638 how are you supposed to get mending then? find it in a random chest? or should we just repair our gear in the anvil instead? Oh wait. We can't actually repair gear in anvils. My bad

Goodpoint, maybe add something which reverts them when in those worlds. But in the whole I think it's a good Idea

@@johnwicked1132 or instead of making them outright exclusive to certain biomes, the chances for given enchants are raised or lowered. Example: in a swamp biome, you could be more likely to get mending than let's say, protection.

I doubt these types of worlds (especially superflat) were made for survival specifically in mind Alternatively, you can get mending from fishing

@@SmashCrafter321 I like that idea. Even better, just add some new enchantments that are niche and powerful to the game that are biome specific, but not required as something absolutely necessary.

​@@slicepie410despite this I feel like they should at least consider that a portion of the playerbase does play in superflat worlds. Heck, I have a survival superflat world that I play in occasionally. Not to mention the amount of hoops you currently need to jump through to get biomes in something like skyblock.

Or remove it

@@plexyglass429 I have wondered if maybe they included a limit so as not to put too much MBT data on each enchanted item. But now they seem to be trying to do away with MBT data on enchanted items so 🤷🏻‍♂️

I dont think you get get maxed out gear without using max level books

THIS. They made the biomes too big. If I wanted to play large biomes I would have. It's even an easily accessible game options when you create the world. Why force it on everyone? It makes the game so much more boring. Before I would travel and explore a lot because smaller biomes would make for very interesting (and slightly cursed sometimes) world generation. Nowadays I get very pretty, very uncursed biomes that go on for too long and thus lose all their beauty and just become annoying at some point.

@@SuDaixino we have too much biome diversity

​@chadwilliams3137 I had to travel 3k blocks from my spawn to get to the nearest swamp on my current world. That's excessive. I had plenty of the same 3 forests in repetition otw there, though. I'm glad the changes haven't gone through yet. If they're gonna nerf villagers this hard, and want to make mending more exclusive, there HAS to be a better mid-game way to repair your tools. The Anvil cost system needs to be reworked, it's confusing to combine things in the right order to avoid super high costs, and I fully believe that you shouldn't have to pay exponential XP every time to repair your tool with minerals. You're already spending Diamonds, it isn't at all worth it to spend Anvil Uses and max out the XP cost

@@fizzlock Your acting like it’s impossible to farm xp and get a mending book yourself and villages are being nerfed they’ve been absolutely broken it’s ridiculous that you can get 1 stone to trade for 1 emerald when a emerald is 30 times rarer then a diamond

3k blocks isn’t much… use seed map and nether highways… Minecraft needs to update the generation of biomes so that certain biomes do not spawn next to eachother and I can’t play without large biomes because who likes to see snow in the distance from your dessert village.

At least the change gets rid of the breaking and replacing, since you always know which enchant you're gonna get.

You can always just move the villagers from their biome

@@Dolphin002 You still need to breed them, since they don't change biome-specific trades when you move them. A desert-villager remains a desert-villager when you move him to a swamp. Only his children will be swamp-villagers.

you dont need to build trading halls to trade with villagers, and dont need a "villager breeder" either. those are things people to to minmax villager trading and if they arent the meta anymore thats fine, thats not a complaint to be had. This atleast makes the rng a lot less severe since the pools of books have been drastically reduced and spread out, and other villagers people rarely want to get specific trades that are hard to get so they can stay the way they are

@@friedrichrubinstein2346you can still end up with the wrong villager, parents’ biomes affect them too

Well, would you rather they excise the lower levels from the game entirely?

​@@youtubeuniversity3638"lower levels" it's a sandbox game my guy "early game" lasts as long as you want it to

​@@youtubeuniversity3638No we want to play game normally like we used to without hustle.

​@@youtubeuniversity3638 I mean, I don't really think anyone would really complain if Enchantments were all just one single, effective max level Especially since if you know how to enchant optimally, anything less than the max level is entirely worthless because even though you can combine two enchantments of the same level, the prior work penalty on the anvils will throw things out of whack and you risk getting the "Too expensive" limit, so you're best off making sure all the enchantments you want are already at their max level

Not to mention they made netherite armor stupidly grindy to get now, seeing as not even every type of bastion has the netherite upgrade thingy

What if that is the intention?

@@youtubeuniversity3638 Then it’s a piss poor decision

i am going to hate this if it gets added to bedrock

​@@popycorn3005unfortunately i think it will be considering they had to include that sweeping edge is only available in java

The curing nerf is the only thing that made sense to me.

Anvil repairing definitely needs an overhaul. Why does it take four diamonds to repair my shovel, which cost one diamond? And why does it add to the XP cost?

​@@amogu_because you don't usually fix regular, unenchanted tool. You use the Anvil for tools with lots of enchantments of them So it's like a choice, 4 diamonds and keep the enchantments or 1 diamond and get a new plain one

@@hey7514 or add mending, 0 diamonds, and no need for any future repairs adding even more to the prior work penalty

@@hey7514 but with the cumulative penalty for any work done on an anvil, it gets more and more expensive to repair, especially with a heavily-enchanted item. With something like a full-enchant helmet, there's a good chance you'll only be able to repair it once before it's too expensive.

i completely agree, and if a player is really unlucky, it could take them over 10k blocks to even try finding all of the biomes

leave feedback on the feedback site then

and whilst we're at it, can't I get a creative mode orb after killing the enderdragon. i mean, we completed the game, I can do anything it just takes time, I think I should be able to get time out of my way as it's way more fun.

​@@johnwicked1132I mean, You can Just turn On cheats By opening To Lan, And directly Switch to Creative mode.

​@@johnwicked1132the difference is that the changes proposed fundamentally destroy small multiplayer servers that require world borders for data storage and performance optimization because Minecraft is laggy as hell in multiplayer based on where you connect from. If you don't have a good spawn immediately that has all the biomes in range? Tough luck, fundamental parts of the game are hard locked for no reason.

Use boat

nether portals

@@AK_DJ what about the people on bedrock who cant build on the nether roof?

​@@trollgaming_officialyeah both options are unreliable on bedrock. Boats still allow for fall damage to occur.

​@@trollgaming_officialyeah both options are unreliable on bedrock. Boats still allow for fall damage to occur.

it went from slavery , to now collonisation, forcing people to love in places only to exploit them, so you can get good that can only be found there

its spelled base :)

Correction. They need to find several specific biomes, find and cure a zombie villager in or nearby those biomes, and make that villager a master librarian within that biome. Then they get yelled at with a "too expensive" message that should never have been added to them game due to it punishing players for their hard work and dedication. Edit: You only need to one villager because the enchantments you probably want are the master tier exclusive enchantments, which are always guaranteed. Because of this, there is no reason to reroll a villager for them. If you want the other enchantments specific to the biome, then you need to cure a second zombie villager and start breeding; but after that, rerolling their trades works normally other then being faster because there are less possible trades to cycle through.

And this bullshit is why I use console commands. Never listen to anyone who tells you to "not cheat" at Minecraft. This game isn't fair enough to warrant legitimate tactics.

@@authurstretchygreenthing8464 fr if this gets added i am gonna get a bunch of datapacks to return villagers back to normal or make them less tedious

@@herbnfizz4113 same. This change is horrendous and completely baseless.

@@herbnfizz4113 Same

it would be better it they made it so the number that grows on anvil usage not grow when combining books. Or even better, made another station for combining books. Why do you even use anvil to smash books together?

I proposed the cap to be at 37 levels only if you have mending. And mending will not magically repair your tools but actually allows you to bypass the too expensive cap. You this comment gets too much likes - I will upload this mod I made to fix mending.

​@@megadeth116because if the anvil couldn't do that it would serve zero purpose when was the last time you used an anvil for anything besides that and maybe renaming?

@@ineophobe renaming

i think level inflation in general is too intense, everything costs so many levels but without a farm it's hard to get them

When have mojang really ever listened to their end consumer? 😒 much like SUPERCELL they're gradually just making a game for themselves

​@@gradea1636so true, they are becoming just like Clash of Clans and their constant tweaking of player's gameplay to remove anything they think is "broken".

And just like Supercell, it's all about the money. More money for them, less fun for you.

It's not balanced at all for servers that use world borders and a land claim system like PlayMCG

@@void405 its almost like vanilla can't be balanced around custom rules. are you going to complain that it's not balanced around mods next?

@@elmok ah yes, so that means that vanilla should go out of their way to make every community server in existence insufferable without modyfing the game back to normal. The game exists for the community. And f'ing up most community created servers surely is exactly what developers of any respectable game should do, right?

@@maxnoname7712 my brother in Christ that is a completely different statement. I never said Mojang should aim to make multiplayer worse. Do you have reading comprehension? Also, you’re being disingenuous if you pretend servers that play with very tight world borders (a custom rule) make up most community servers. And the servers that do play that way, having limited access to resources is part of the challenge

@@elmok Yes, I do, you literally just disagreed with a person bringing up a valid point as to why this feature would ruin the survival for some servers. And servers don't need to have tight borders for them to be affected by this change. Players will just claim most of the rare biomes and make monopoly on enchanting books to sell them individually, lol. So in every multiplayer survival world you will have a harder time if you chose the villager route. Though to be fair it's not like you will have a reasonable access to villagers in the first place, they get trapped by players anyways. I'm just salty about the whole change overall, really. Especially after seeing a few one block/skyblock survival series or reading through comments to see people playing flatworld complain about this. Because it limits those players even more than before.

could transport the villager via the nether, still would be annoying though

​@@Spite_Fire IMO it's a fair trade off considering mending basically means infinite tools and armor.

There really needs to be a way of finding biomes other than roaming aimlessly. The locate command is already a thing, so it wouldn't be exactly hard for Mojang it use that and the compass programming to introduce an item that can point the player toward the closest instance on a biome. Maybe an enchantment for the compass that causes it to point toward the closest instance of the biome associated with that enchantment? So a compass enchanted with "Swamp Seeker" would point to the closet swamp,"Jungle Seeker" would point to the closest Jungle, "Gravel Mountain Seeker" points to the closest gravel mountain; just have one for each biome, or at least for each biome that has a unique type of villager. Maybe you could even give the enchantment table a use by making it so that the enchantment never appears on enchanted books (which also stops enchanted books from being clogged with useless enchantments), forcing the player to enchant their compasses directly.

@@twobladedswordsandmauls2120or use the villager cartographer and modify the maps

​@@twobladedswordsandmauls2120or make the cartographer sell maps to these biomes

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No one cares about your opinion, casual player.

XDDDDDDDD

You have no idea how many tries that took

Nice

@@Spite_Fire Orrrr we could find seeds with 7 different biomes withing 100 blocks of each other with a plains village in the middle?

A pain? What are talking about? 2 hour gameplay and you have maxed out villagers with every OP item possible.

@@darkModeYT 2 hours? 2 hours is the amount of time u need to find a single jungle biome early game.

Honestly at least it's not randomized anymore

@@darkModeYTwhile I think villager set ups can be overpowered, I feel like if someone wants to take time out of their day to make them in this game about freedom, they should be allowed to. However, I do think that having a command for making villagers unable to stack curing effects could be helpful for certain servers. This type of update just makes the game more frustrating, not more fun.

I'm guessing you haven't seen the anvil dupe glitch legit only takes dirt drip leave lever anvil and nether

@@xxgrimxreaperxx4483 some people prefer to not use glitches to better their experience

I like this idea. The enchantment would still be random, but always the lowest level. And by trading you would unlock higher levels of that same enchantment. As all enchantments do not have 5 levels, some villagers would have different enchantments. Eg, if the villager has fire aspect and you unlocked fire aspect 2, it could then propose unbreaking which has 3 levels to fill up to the 5 trading levels. the enchantments combinations would be random as long as they add up to 5 total books (max 1 + max 4, or max 2 + max 3, or max 1 + max 1 + max 3... and so on) Alternative take : every book has a "learning difficulty" and would be binded to a specific villager level. So lv1 villager would only propose books with learning difficulty 1, then when they reach level 2 they start proposing difficulty 2 books etc... It would prevent players from rerolling villagers as Mojang intended while also bringing a sense of progression, and a guarantee of getting a good enchantment in the end whatsoever (who enjoys having a lv 5 villager with silk touch as the last trade, honestly). It makes less sense than the first idea because the books still seem pretty much random (they could give you Unbreaking 3 without proposing Unbreaking 2 before), but would be the closest fix to the system we currently have.

@@oxymore13 your alternative take would make it even harder to get good enchantments like protection and mending than they're trying to make it. at least with mojang's new system, you're guaranteed a mending book from swamp villagers. you don't have to trade a villager all the way up to master level, just to not get the book you're looking for. if they put all the good master level enchantments into one biome, you'd only have a 1/7 chance of getting mending after you already spent a bunch of emeralds.

I agree, Minecraft’s enchantment system is messy from years of things being tacked on, and I think it’s silly that villager trading has become so overpowered above… actually enchanting. I think having certain enchants such as soul speed or swift sneak which are not necessities but niceties are fine to be locked under certain conditions such as piglins and the deep dark, but as important as mending is I think it should have a consistent way to obtain other than villagers, although maybe not through straight enchanting as that seems kinda powerful. I like the chiseled bookshelf idea as randomness is one of the worst things about enchanting. My idea would be for tools to have a maximum of three enchants, one special enchant e.g. infinity, flame, swift sneak, depth strider, etc. which add a new ability to your armour, then another two regular enchants for things like sharpness, protection or unbreaking. Then use the smithing table or anvil in some way to be able to upgrade tools later to have more enchantment slots until you can work your way up to insanely overpowered tools. Mending could then be obtainable through regular enchanting, but only when you’ve unlocked the slot for it on your tools, so it feels like an achievement still. This way Minecraft could have stronger progression beyond just going from iron to diamond/netherite and immediately putting a bunch of enchants on it, without locking you out of stuff early on. Like you can still get any enchant you want but you can’t use them all together until lategame. Under this system I’d also make it so enchants are able to be guaranteed and not just random from the table, or like you said use something like chiseled bookshelves to make them more likely so that the further you progress the less random it becomes, as well as abolishing the dreaded ‘Too Expensive’ from the anvil. Take random chance and tedium out of the equation and tie things more to progression. However this idea goes beyond just minor tweaks and is a whole overhaul which I’m sure has plenty of oversites as I’m just writing it out on a whim, so I doubt it’s very realistic to ever happen, but I think an overhaul to make enchantment less about tediously re-enchanting things until you can actually get something good and instead just requiring you to do more to get to endgame stuff would be stellar.

this is a really good idea

Well, you still can mine Sculk (deep dark xp) with Silk Touch, and get xp later; and generate new sculk via sculk catalyst … at the same xp farm (or in other cities, but it's unrenewable)

Rememeber when you had to spend all 30 levels per enchantment? Yeah, I'm fine with just having to get into my mob grinder for 10 seconds for 3 levels

This looks like an interesting idea, although the fact that different enchantments max out at different levels makes things complicated.

@@blerst7066 if you balance it out so that max level is always sold by master librarians it could probably work

​@steelmanmc I could see that. But it wouldn't work for stuff with only one level. Because then you'd never know if it was a book trade or a no book villager. But for those you could make it were level 1 has a super expensive version and mastery has a way cheaper copy

Perhaps this could lead to Mending having tiers, we all know Mending is OP

This is a really good suggestion actually. I wholeheartedly agree.

Don't think you can even bring them home, from what i understand that would change what they have to be the same as your home biome.

Don’t forget about having to anvil most of those books up

How about Not building trade halls?

@@youtubeuniversity3638 How about wanting to have access to each enchantment so I don't have to spend half an hour at an xp farm each time I want to get a new silk touch pickaxe from a table?

​@youtubeuniversity3638 how abt you stop pissing your pants and let people play the game the way they want to

they seem to be taking the route of terraria where to get the most out of npcs you need to have them spread across biomes, but it doesn't quite work the same for minecraft where world generation is literally random and the closest biome you want can absolutely just generate like 30k blocks away

Yeah, I’d rather just cycle through them rather than having to find a swamp a thousand blocks away just to get mending. It also makes it so much harder to make villager trading halls because now you have to transport all the villagers from the biome that is presumably very far away

​​​@@awereliaAlso, terraria added "biome teleporters" aka pylons to facilitate this, which also doesn't work with minecraft because you can have multiple biomes and multiple villages, especially in multiplayer where you may want your villages to be private

@@abrasmageI guess you could argue nether travel is Minecraft’s alternative to pylons, and also villager trading arguably isn’t as vital to gameplay as trading with NPCs in terraria

@@alexsiemers7898 it's far more vital considering how much less focus minecraft has on combat and gear. in terraria, you can go the whole playthrough barely talking to your npcs, maybe you'll buy some bombs or the minishark, you'll talk to the merchant or arms dealer a lot if you're a ranger, but the only one you're definitely gonna interact with is the guide to throw it into lava, and it doesn't need to do anything except exist. in minecraft, if you want maxed out gear, which is a far lower bar than terraria and something every player will do long before stopping playing on a world if they play long-term, you HAVE to interact with villagers, bare minimum to get any mending books because fishing and dungeon loot is going to give you 1 if you're lucky also, pylons are still much better than nether travel being completely instant and easy to setup, especially since minecraft worlds are much larger and you generally travel slower

Maybe they should add more comfortable method to move mobs

@@Spite_Fire That's just 1.250 blocks through the nether. Sure, annoying, but for mending it's worth it. In exchange you have _guaranteed_ mending and don't need to replace the workstation three thousand times.

@@friedrichrubinstein2346mending is fine, but cba to do the same stuff for *unbreaking 2*..

How would you Enforce Difficulty In Acquiring?

I think their plan isn't to force you to move villagers but instead force you to make an outpost in each biome that has a few villagers you need. So one small trade hall in each biome

Raid farms will now become mandatory... Unless they find a way to nerf that too

@@thwartificer If they nerf stacking raid farms, I'm just gonna use a mod to revert the nerf

@@lightninng0 you could do the same for villagers

At this point just give us the pre-1.13 system and keep the biome-locked books.

but brew you can sell potatoes to wandering traders and build an iron farm to spam armorers and toolsmiths and weaponsmiths with iron, so the price is not even a big deal

Hold out an emerald and they'll follow you.

Or maybe they should just fix leads, trying transport any mob with a leash is still an absolute pain because you have to walk rather than run

@@PetBrickProductions ever tried leading a cow 3000 blocks via wheat? there's a reason leads were introduced.

@@StygianIkazuchi Yeah, not for that long though. It''s a pain.

Or they could simply add jungle and swamp villages

Look up MC stacker. You could theoretically make chain commands that "take away" a weapon and gives you back the same type of weapon with multiple enchantments and go beyond the normal level caps(looting 10 is fun) or you could just use the enchant command to enchant whatever is held and if you dont want it too OP you could make it chain and have it take away levels and emeralds. At that point you could just use the give command for each book you want. But again MCstacker is a great command building tool. I made a supercharged creeper riding a bee once... never again because the bee gets the creeper aggro so it follows you. Another thing to look up is nbtexplorer which allows you to "world edit" but theres also universal minecraft editor which has less capability but easy to use

I assure you, we do not love it

You are making a LOT of assumptions about people liking this change.

I’m guessing that’s exactly why they made this change

@@Spite_Fire me too! I hope they never add this in a final update

There’s people out there that like this update?

Issue is, sometimes combining gets wacky. How do you calculate fusing a book with eff 5 unbreaking 2 to an unbreaking 2 pick?

Man, I hate when they also ruined the diamond at y13, it was so fun not having to dig through pseudo bedrock for hours, and they just """balanced""" to ruin our fun

@@johnwicked1132 so? you think I'd want them to keep ores the same while changing the world height? That's a reasonable change considering the circumstances. Nothing was changed/implemented to warrant the trade changes, so it is unreasonable.

​@@johnwicked1132 How is that similar to this case? With the change of the world height obviously the ore generation would be lowered, with this however, it makes you wonder why they even bother doing it

Also hey the caves are at least more intresting now to go through, unless you only strip mined and never mine in the caves themselves i guess

And if you try combining books to max them out, the anvils “too expensive” will surely end your enchanting career

Their "increasing exploration" is terrible. If they really want to incentivize exploration, they should add new biomes and structures that have exclusive items, but instead, they're just making existing features much, much more tedious.

I loved armor trims because they encourage exploration without forcing it. This forces hours of exploration unless you want to deal with not having Mending, which has become a necessity nowadays.

How irrelevant? It makes the trading halls ever more important to have them. It's harder, yeah, but also more important.

@@LukiKruki No. They are harder to make *and* less good even once made.

​@@lightninng0literally they already added the exploration. I have never seen a trail ruin or made a brush yet! And I'm actually excited to come across those things while exploring my world one day

They used to be such good devs now all they care about is restricting our ability to play the game with fun ,every update while making excuses about how they can't add "x" Because it doesn't make sense in a game where gravity doesn't exist for most blocks

This is why I play modded 1.16.5 and then use backport mods for new content. Minecraft pretty much jumped the shark in 1.19.

Yes they destroy they're own game with ugly NERFS!

Yeah, and now since you have to combine books to get max level enchants, the anvil is always gonna say "too expensive"

That is a great idea

But then you run into the issue of trading halls getting too big when a single villager should have been doing double duty, now, if the trade repeats at higher villager level I 100% agree that should be of higher level as you described

I agree, especially because you'll end up with very large trade halls where each villager usually only has 1 good book and a bunch of useless trades. Maybe 2 books if you get very lucky. This way, you'd get 3 or 4. With the horrendous exponential-cost-system for combining books, any book that isn't max level isn't worth having. That's the real thing that needs to go on the chopping block.

I really like this idea

this is genuis

This is geunis

This is genius

I've been sticking with 1.20.0 so that I don't have to wait for all my my mods to update after every release, but this will most definitely be keeping me there until I finish a trading hall with practical villager trade mechanics. First it was the censorship, now it's villagers...

it's like they want to make less money or something

Superflat isn't meant to be played on survival, thus changes to survival don't take superflat into account. This creates a challenge where lots of stuff is locked out on superflat which is why 99% of people play superflat survival. This change will just add to the challenge, so the survival superflat community should just deal with it, and those in said community who can't deal with it should just leave the community.

​@@FusionCyborg No.

@@FusionCyborg no people play on superflat cause of the extra difficulty to get stuff like diamond armour

I think the idea is you have to grind for it now

@@Craeonkie ...Pretty boring.

Maybe they’ll add those villages in 1.21

So you want to keep the advantAges of the old system and add the advantages of the new system ? That's nor very balanced, it should be har to do because it's op

Their goal is exactly to make you do more work for the beloved mending than for simple protection

they probably avoided the jungle due to generation problems, tho I don't see why they didn't make swamp villages

I'm playing on a limited worldborder smp and this will make mending impossible to get

To make players life harder and annoying