I always wondered; why do all villager trades contain emeralds? This way, it only benefits people who wants to gain emeralds for other items and people who has a surplus of emeralds willing to give it away for other useless junk. I do not understand why trades such as 18 coal for 16 wheat do not exist.
Because Emeralds are their currency of choice. Just like nowadays in the US or other countries with standardized currency you don't see people bartering by trading an Xbox game for two chickens. It's just basic economics with a standard currency.
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I always wondered; why do all villager trades contain emeralds?
Because Emeralds are the currency in Minecraft?
This way, it only benefits people who wants to gain emeralds for other items and people who has a surplus of emeralds willing to give it away for other useless junk.
Wow. Someone might come across a decent Villager trade. You're making bold concrete statements based on your opinion.
I do not understand why trades such as 18 coal for 16 wheat do not exist.
Because that would be stupid? Because coal is so damn easy to find and would be a trivial effort trade? I hate to dig further here, but your ancient meme avatar might chip away at your suggestions.
Because Emeralds are their currency of choice. Just like nowadays in the US or other countries with standardized currency you don't see people bartering by trading an Xbox game for two chickens. It's just basic economics with a standard currency.
Emeralds are the main currency because if they had trades for say, 18 coal for 16 wheat, coal is much easier to find than emeralds thus making it easy to acquire more wheat earlier in the game. That being said, that's why they used a tougher to get currency so you couldn't easily acquire rarer items earlier in the game.
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Because Emeralds are the currency in Minecraft?
Wow. Someone might come across a decent Villager trade. You're making bold concrete statements based on your opinion.
Because that would be stupid? Because coal is so damn easy to find and would be a trivial effort trade? I hate to dig further here, but your ancient meme avatar might chip away at your suggestions.
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