I'm trying to set up a shop system in a vanilla minecraft realm and villagers seem like the most streamlined method of doing so, however I'd also like to make it so that other players on the server can program their own villager, or have me program it for them as an operator so that other players can trade with each other through the villager. I figure that since villagers now have a secret inventory, they can collect items, but I was wondering if there's any way to access the items traded to them or if they just disappear.
Currently my thoughts are that a player would initiate a trade, the villagers sells would be linked to individual slots in a chest and the villager buys could be linked to another chest, allowing the player to fill a chest and thus 'program' their villager, and that finally a third chest would be filled with the item the villager receives, while the chest containing the trades would decrement the specific number of the item in the relevant slot.
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Unless you're running Bukkit with the VillagerShops plugin, there is no way to use command blocks to convert a villager into a chest and vice versa due to the complexity and number of variables... Unless you want a kajillion command blocks.
And trust me, it won't be able to support custom items due to the technical limitations of Minecraft.
The only method sadly, is by using the
/summoncommand.As you know, summoning custom entities involves the usage of custom NBT tags to custom-define a mob or entity, and villages are no different:
Step 1: Start with a basic villager...
Step 2: Add in the basic information of the villager...
When I say 'basic' information, I meant the profession (look), the career (random trade pool) and any other information.
Let's take a closer look at what this means:
Profession: 0is the profession of the villager. This will determine what he'll look like.0- Default Brown Robes1- Pink Robes2- White Robes3- Pink Robes4- Black Apron5- White Apron6- Green RobesCustomName: "Villager Number 1"is the name of the villager. You can leave this NBT tag out or add a value to it. This name will appear above the villager.Just remember to keep the quotes as you're defining a string.
CustomNameVisible: 1is the visibility of the custom name. It can either be 1 or 0.*If you do not have a
CustomNameNBT tag, please leave this tag out.0- Villager's Custom name will only appear when the cursor is pointing on him.1- Villager's custom name will be visible at all times, like players.Career: 1is the villager's career. It is essentially the trade offer pool that new offers will be generated out of, which depends on the career number and the profession number.CareerLevel: 42is the villager's career level. As of current - It does nothing, but it is essentially the number of times that it has generated new trades.CanPickupLoot: 0is a global modifier on all mobs. It can either be 1 or 0.0- Villager cannot pick-up anything other than wheat/seeds/whatever while farming.1- Villager can pick-up anything, like zombies and players..PersistanceRequired: 1is the entity's persistence, it can be used on all entities. It can be set to 1 or 0.0- Villager will despawn when the player unloads the chunks it is in.1- Villager will never despawn until killed. (Naming the villager achieves the same effect).Invulnerable: 1is a self-explanatory tag. It does what it says on the tin and can be used on any entity.0- Villager can die, be attacked or be damaged.1- Villager cannot die unless/killis used.Step 3: Add in the trade information of the villager...
This step is really easy, if you don't get your compound tags mixed up.
Note: The above command is incorrect. You'll need to fill the gaps, remove compounds or add them as needed. It is only an example to illustrate our work-in-progress command.
Our shop is going to be (obviously) simply a series of offers for one item, in exchange for another. Simple enough. Our offer (the replacement of the ` above), should look something like this:
buy,buyBandsellare the slots where the items are going to go.Basically,
buyandbuyBare the inputs whilesellis the resulting product.Inside these values are a compound tag, which is where you can put your item data.
Countandidare self-explanatory to the avid Redstoner;Countis the number of items you receive whileidis the item name, without theminecraft:bit.rewardExpis the amount of experience you'll be given for each successful trade. It can either be a value orfalse.<Any number>- This amount of EXP will be given to the player on a successful trade.false- No EXP will be given to the player.maxUsesis the number of times this trade can be used until the villager needs to be refreshed.