#I usually just get my enchanted gear from end cities. Way less of a hassle and I’m there anyways

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neither of those things make them “mandatory”. Useful yes, but they are not as Mandatory as the people making tutorials seem to lead you to believe.

Minecraft is a game about creativity, and just because the tutorial makers and YouTubers found a simple, small scale iron farm or villager breeder design that people copy doesn’t make that something the “mechanics” are encouraging. It’s just something that the players Do because they all learn from each other and the game doesn’t go out of its way to make contraptions like this Impossible just for the sake of it. The game does not Force you to build a tiny villager breeder any more than it Forces you to make sure every villager breeder is the size of an actual village.

Like, I get where you’re coming from but.. they’re not alive. The game does actively incentivize you to interact with them positively via trading with them, growing their villages (only breeding with a surplus of food and bread), defending them from raids and zombification. Yes, more tech-savvy players have found ways to use these mechanics to make compact villager breeders and villager trading halls, but I’m not here to take that away from them.

Idk. In general this whole “isn’t it crazy you’re locking villagers in rooms they can’t leave and forcing them to breed?” Feels like an edgy Minecraft joke I heard like 90 times in 2021 alone. It’s not that fucked up, they’re video game guys, it’s only as fucked up as much as you’re prescribing agency and autonomy to Minecraft Villagers. They’re only prisons if you’re intent on describing them that. The villagers in my worlds mall have little stalls that they work in because it’s their job. And the game doesn’t need to raise every villagers prices because they don’t like that technical Minecraft YouTubers build ‘villager prisons’

Minecraft fans will never have a good answer to villager trading. “What if we added 80 bullshit variables so the player HAS to let villagers wander free in giant medieval-Europe style towns or you won’t get to use villagers. because that’s how the game is Meant to Be Played. Better yet, let’s get rid of trading because it’s Unfunny and not how the game is Meant to Be Played. It’s not like the game gives us any alternative to making giant trading halls and iron farms. None at all!”

what if I wanna build a mall. What if I want them all in little stalls. What if I don’t care about treating these little lines of 1s and 0s “humanely” in my fucking video game art project. Don’t tell people how to play the game the same way the game doesn’t tell you how to play it