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When it was announced that Minecraft would be undergoing an experimental balancing of villager trading, many players were quite upset with the notion. Fans explained that it made the trading process too difficult and tedious, resultingly slowing down Survival Mode progress. However, one could argue that villager trading was quite overpowered in survival and needed to be adjusted.
While villager trading in Minecraft can be moderately beneficial when used sparsely, there's no secret that knowing how to game the trading system can result in players getting incredibly powerful items and enchantments very early on in the game.
Since Survival Mode is often focused on players progressing from the Overworld to the End, trading can result in players bypassing plenty of work.
Note: Some aspects of this article are subjective and reflect the opinions of the writer
What parts of villager trading in Minecraft are considered overpowered?
When it comes to the overpowered aspects of Minecraft's villager trading, players can look to the fact that they can trade for top-notch enchantments and game the system to collect a near-infinite amount of emeralds. These emeralds can then be used to trade for high-level items and equipment with very little effort. There are limits to trading, but getting such quality gear and enchantments early on can be seen as overpowered.
Depending on how early players find a village in a Minecraft seed and how well they know the trading system, they can ostensibly skip entire early-game progressions in Survival Mode and gain access to powerful gear and enchantments without working particularly hard for them. While one can't blame them for taking advantage of this, Mojang may see things differently.
Minecraft is undoubtedly a game predicated on the freedom to do as one pleases, but Mojang may have certain expectations for progressing through the core pathway of Survival Mode.
While accessing powerful enchantments and equipment early on is often done by veterans, Mojang may not want beginners to lean on the same process; instead, it would want them to learn the game as they go.
While players may certainly disagree with it, the experimental trade rebalance requires players to move among (or even create) villages in different biomes, leveling up villagers to obtain certain trades that they can't get from other villages. This may mean more work on the player's part, but Mojang may believe that the additional work to acquire powerful enchantments and gear balances things out.
Without the trade rebalancing, players can ostensibly stay in one village and play the trading system until they have a kit of gear and enchantments that can rival that seen near the endgame. Mojang likely stepped in with its rework to ensure that players don't simply use villager trades to acquire the vast majority of their gear, which is an understandable reaction.
Players can agree or disagree with Mojang's rebalancing, but the fact of the matter is that a developer seldom knows how its player base will use its features. If the studio sees a feature being exploited to skip core parts of a game's gameplay, it isn't unheard of it to address the issue. Fans haven't liked the rebalance so far, but there's still time to tweak it as it remains in development.
