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FROM: Noam – Landscape Artist

Hey Pix and Joel! [It’s Noam, from your patreon discord.]

I started playing minecraft very recently. My first moments in Minecraft were in 1.14.

My problem with the game is how easy it is, once you know how to exploit villagers. 

For example, in my world, I spawned in a plains biome and found a village not long after. I built a house near the village, and right away started to zombify and heal villagers after I got a name tag and a potion brewer. 

Then i just used the bookshelf/book trades to duplicate emeralds and I did this for a few reasons – to get any book I wanted basically for free, and to farm XP. I even used it to mend my tools a few times, although it does take a while.

What I’m trying to say is that the game becomes really easy when you play like this. You don’t even need to mine because you can buy enchanted diamond gear from the villagers, and you don’t need to farm food because you can buy food from them too. I still did the mining, because that’s how I learned to play the game (and I prefer it this way).

I’m even considering playing without villager trades in my next world, since at this point I’m in the end game and it doesn’t matter as much.

In my opinion, if they just fix the broken trades, the game would be much more fun and challenging. 

What do you guys think about this?

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