Joel, and Jonny dive into the Dappled Forest in the latest Minecraft snapshot, chat villager capes, and wandering trades in listener email, and share their first impressions of poplar wood.

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FROM: Nico
SUBJECT: Wandering Trader 2 Electric Boogaloo

Hi Jonny, and Joel!

“Explore a new surface biome, and find the wandering trader’s hidden stashes spread throughout the world”

That’s the description of the new Dappled Forest drop on Bedrock, and it made me want to re-explore a previous idea I had last year about introducing trader variants:

• Wandering Botanist (green robes): more likely to trade flowers and saplings.
• Wandering Artist (red robes): more likely to sell dyes (and why not, rarely, an archeology brush).
• Wandering Oceanologist (teal robes): more likely to sell coral and buckets of fishes (and why not very rarely a spyglass).
• Wandering Trader (blue robes): less likely to trade what the other three are selling.

All of them would have equal chances of spawning according to the current Wandering Trader rules, and rarely 2-4 randomly picked among those four, so you could encounter four of the same variant together, forming a Trading Caravan. These Trading Caravans would always spawn with one extra llama with a chest equipped (in which you’d find empty glass bottles, bread and a compass, rarely a invisibility potion), and would serve as a in-game display of both the mounted chest mechanic, and the trailing llama behaviour.

Nico died of frustration while trying to force a Wandering Trader to change robe.

FROM: Archie
SUBJECT: Clothing The Villagers

Hi Pix, and Joel, 

When you were discussing dying villager clothes I came up with the idea of using banners as capes that you can equip on yourself or villagers. This makes the villagers retain their distinctive look by not covering their features with armour, and adds another cool use for banners 

Archie died when his trapped villagers escaped, and turned on him.

First Impressions Of The Dappled Forest