In the current snapshot, you can sell written books to villagers for a rather lucrative price of one emerald.
But these are librarians, not just book hoarders. Why should that player written book be effectively destroyed when sold? Shouldn't a librarian want to share knowledge and let people read the book collection?
Here's what I suggest: The Villager Lending Library.
Every time a librarian buys a book, a new trade is added to buy that book back for an emerald. So one player can sell a librarian their novel, then other players can borrow it for a one emerald deposit. Or just keep it if they don't want the emerald back. Each trade option would list the title of the book as well as the author.
These trades would be listed after the normal librarian trade options, and wouldn't count toward the maximum limit of trades. So lending books won't stop the librarian from buying/selling their normal items and gaining new trades for items that aren't written books.
Now, perhaps a librarian shouldn't be able to hold an unlimited number of books. Even if there's no hard limit based on programming feasibility, it would just be overly complex to have an unlimited number of trades. So perhaps librarians should be capped at selling 64 different books at a time.
When their book inventory is full, additional written books could still be sold to the librarian but would just be destroyed until someone buys a book and makes an opening.
Could multile copies of a book be sold/lent out at a time? If so this seems like a great way to implement book duplication if the printing press idea doesnt go through.
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Could multile copies of a book be sold/lent out at a time? If so this seems like a great way to implement book duplication if the printing press idea doesnt go through.
Nah, buying a book from the librarian would remove it from their inventory, making room for a new book.
I don't think you should be able to duplicate copies of a book with someone else's signature. Except the hard way of typing it all manually, and then it should bear your own signature, not theirs.
People should be able to copy their own books though. But it shouldn't even require a printing press. I think just crafting an unsigned book &quill with any book you've signed should produce two copies of that signed book.
Uh, instead of a complicated real-world-library-like system, why not just make librarians sell books for emeralds?
I mean, there aren't generally a lot of librarians in a village, are there? So you aren't going to run out of things to buy/sell normally. And books are generally useful anyway with enchanting tables and bookshelves, plus the writing in them. It would bypass the need for cows, which is a good thing; I personally don't have many cows available. So, yeah. I don't see a reason to implement an entire new system when all that could be done is restricting book sales to librarians.
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[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
Uh, instead of a complicated real-world-library-like system, why not just make librarians sell books for emeralds?
I mean, there aren't generally a lot of librarians in a village, are there? So you aren't going to run out of things to buy/sell normally. And books are generally useful anyway with enchanting tables and bookshelves, plus the writing in them. It would bypass the need for cows, which is a good thing; I personally don't have many cows available. So, yeah. I don't see a reason to implement an entire new system when all that could be done is restricting book sales to librarians.
No, he's talking about the written, signed books, not the normal books. This won't affect the normal trading in any way.
This sounds nice in theory. But many players would just write books with nothing in them to sell them. So the library would just be filled with books called "lolololol", or something, that are blank, or have nothing worth reading in them.
Also in the latest snapshots villagers will run out of trades after they have been done 3-15 times. So either selling books would not always be avaliable, so you couldn't return a book, or it would always be avaliable and therefore run the risk of being abused by the author of "lolololol".
And this would only be useful in multiplayer.
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But these are librarians, not just book hoarders. Why should that player written book be effectively destroyed when sold? Shouldn't a librarian want to share knowledge and let people read the book collection?
Here's what I suggest: The Villager Lending Library.
Every time a librarian buys a book, a new trade is added to buy that book back for an emerald. So one player can sell a librarian their novel, then other players can borrow it for a one emerald deposit. Or just keep it if they don't want the emerald back. Each trade option would list the title of the book as well as the author.
These trades would be listed after the normal librarian trade options, and wouldn't count toward the maximum limit of trades. So lending books won't stop the librarian from buying/selling their normal items and gaining new trades for items that aren't written books.
Now, perhaps a librarian shouldn't be able to hold an unlimited number of books. Even if there's no hard limit based on programming feasibility, it would just be overly complex to have an unlimited number of trades. So perhaps librarians should be capped at selling 64 different books at a time.
When their book inventory is full, additional written books could still be sold to the librarian but would just be destroyed until someone buys a book and makes an opening.
Nah, buying a book from the librarian would remove it from their inventory, making room for a new book.
I don't think you should be able to duplicate copies of a book with someone else's signature. Except the hard way of typing it all manually, and then it should bear your own signature, not theirs.
People should be able to copy their own books though. But it shouldn't even require a printing press. I think just crafting an unsigned book &quill with any book you've signed should produce two copies of that signed book.
I mean, there aren't generally a lot of librarians in a village, are there? So you aren't going to run out of things to buy/sell normally. And books are generally useful anyway with enchanting tables and bookshelves, plus the writing in them. It would bypass the need for cows, which is a good thing; I personally don't have many cows available. So, yeah. I don't see a reason to implement an entire new system when all that could be done is restricting book sales to librarians.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
No, he's talking about the written, signed books, not the normal books. This won't affect the normal trading in any way.
I think this idea sounds nice.
Also in the latest snapshots villagers will run out of trades after they have been done 3-15 times. So either selling books would not always be avaliable, so you couldn't return a book, or it would always be avaliable and therefore run the risk of being abused by the author of "lolololol".
And this would only be useful in multiplayer.