Shifting Wares Mod (26.1.2, 1.20.1) – Dynamic Villager Trades

Villagers are a very important part of the survival experience. But they come with a major imbalance. The game allows you to repeatedly place and break a workstation reset the offered trades until the villager offers you a favorable trade. For example, a player can repeatedly break and place a lectern until a mending enchantment book is offered. This allows players to obtain expensive items without much effort. And by setting up a trading hall, players will be able to exploit this feature to gather expensive gear easily. Shifting Wares Mod aims to fix this imbalance by introducing a new mechanic into the game. This new mechanic basically causes a villager to re-roll all his trades once a day. This means your mending villager may end up offering silk touch enchantment the next day.

Features:

• Trade Expiration: All trades eventually expire, making villagers easier to replace if they die. This allows villagers to roam freely without heavily impacting your economy.
• Reroll Triggers:
  • shiftingWares.dailyReroll: Re-rolls all offers once per day, the first time the villager restocks at their workstation.
  • shiftingWares.depleteReroll: Re-rolls fully depleted trades whenever the villager restocks. Prevents offers from refilling if they have remaining uses.
• Exploration Map Trades:
  • Maps are handled differently because Minecraft permanently saves them.
  • By default, map trades are never rerolled.
  • They can be rerolled if shiftingWares.allowMapReroll is enabled and the trade has been used at least once.
• Workstation Protection:
  • Breaking/replacing a villager’s workstation no longer forces trade rerolls.
  • Trades are generated deterministically using the villager’s UUID.
  • Controlled by shiftingWares.workstationProtection.
• Technical Details:
  • Empty trades are used if a villager cannot generate a trade for a slot (mainly cartographers in worlds without structures).
  • Empty trades maintain trade levels and positions, without replacing valid trades.
  • Demand bonus is diminished, as its data is deleted with rerolled offers.
  • Depleted rerolls may produce duplicate trades.
• For Developers:
  • Default setup assumes 2 trades per level, using vanilla trade pools.
  • Mods can override trade pools using the ITradeLayoutProvider interface.
  • Custom map trades or items with permanent data can implement IShiftingTradeFactory to remain persistent.

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