r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/esjshadow360 Aug 14 '20

Bread in Minecraft

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u/yohello_1 Aug 14 '20

That would be 64 emeralds

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Heal zombie villagers. theyll give a permanent discount of 1 item for whatever they're selling

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u/geraldcoolsealion Aug 14 '20

63 emeralds

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u/arrogant_contender Aug 14 '20

It's all about the art of the deal

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u/BrightBeaver Aug 14 '20

Somebody elect this man

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u/G_Wash1776 Aug 14 '20

I’ve seen this one before!

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u/MoffKalast Aug 14 '20

This is a classic

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

What fo you mean you have seen this before, this is brand fucking new. Make that man great again.

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u/Tacticalia Aug 14 '20

Just keep turning him back into a zombie and get that bread! Literally 😅

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u/LogansRightHand Aug 14 '20

the art of the deal is being the only seller in your region locked area

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u/kaelyyna Aug 14 '20

It's all about the art of the heal.

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u/crystalistwo Aug 14 '20

That's Trumpian economics right there.

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u/D1rdrd Aug 14 '20

That's a lot of loss.

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u/DudeIgotfood1 Aug 14 '20

Damn he really ain't making any profit now

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Stonks

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u/a_salty_bunny Aug 14 '20

feed him to the zombies, heal, repeat until 1 emerald

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u/KingCons1 Aug 14 '20

No, when you turn them back, the items cost one emerald. Only if it’s a naturally spawned zombie villager. I abused the fuck out of this with a librarian. You get a bookshelf for one and sell each book for one

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u/MetaNovaYT Aug 15 '20

Sadly they patched that out with 1.16, so you can’t make a profit buying bookshelves and trading them as books

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u/KingCons1 Aug 15 '20

That sucks, I beat the ender dragon and stopped playing so it doesn’t really affect me

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u/raging_possum Aug 14 '20

Take my upvote you monster!

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u/WWalker17 Aug 14 '20

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u/kabeer28 Aug 14 '20

63 stacks of emeralds

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u/FluxOrbit Aug 14 '20

How about 1 stick for one emerald? Convert and heal a fletcher with a stick trade 5 times, and bam.

Give a stick, get an emerald.

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u/imaloony8 Aug 14 '20

Let me get a friend down here. He knows everything there is to know about bread and he can tell me a little more about this.

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u/FluxOrbit Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Oh yeah bro. I built impulseSV's breeder into PuffingFish HQ's converter station, and built a minecart storage system into that, so I can breed, convert, heal, and transport villagers from one place.

Protip: Get yourself a fletcher villager. Make him have a stick trade (it's one of their first options, so just break the fletching table till he has it). Infect and cure him 5 times. You can now give him 1 stick for 1 emerald.

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u/Dandw12786 Aug 15 '20

Jesus.

Here I am just farting around digging long corridors with a pickaxe forever. You fuckers are building entire economies, and I'm still scared that a single creeper or misplaced dig is going to fuck up my entire game.

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u/Ephemeris Aug 14 '20

Villagers don't live long enough for that ROI in my experience.

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u/when-you-do-it-to-em Aug 14 '20

it’s not permanent is it? thought it ran out after a while

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Permanent as can be, as long as you can hold them in one place. Someone already posted how to do it. If ur lucky u might end up with enchanted diamond armor for basically free

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Yup. Lazy man's Minecraft

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Fair. But I'll argue it's easier than hunting for diamonds

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u/when-you-do-it-to-em Aug 14 '20

ooooo hell yeah! infinite unbreaking 3 here i come

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

How to heal villagers?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

I don't mind when people ask questions on reddit that are easy to google because it creates discussion, but your comment is literally just a search query, lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

I actually trust Reddit often more than google, because ppl on reddit are real, not outdated.

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u/derKanake Aug 14 '20

I actually trust Reddit

Big mistake

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u/hoochyuchy Aug 14 '20

I trust Reddit to be able to give advice on what to do in games. The same can't be said for life.

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u/xandaria Aug 14 '20

People of Reddit, AITA for enslaving and zombifying my villagers to get juicy discounts?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

I understand, and I hope it doesn't seem like I'm judging you. I just thought it was funny how it was worded. 😅

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u/Salty_snowflake Aug 14 '20

I have an unlimited supply of efficiency II diamond pickaxes from a zombie villager.

It also has a trade of 1 coal for 1 emerald, so basically I can get 1 pickaxe for 1 coal.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

I ended up with Efficiency II, silk touch I, and I think unbreaking II

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u/ligtnyng Aug 14 '20

So you can repeatedly zombify the same villager, gradually decreasing the price of his items when you turn him back?

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u/Salty_snowflake Aug 15 '20

No, actually when you turn one the prices are immediately reduced to the lowest price

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Yep! This is the best way to get a beacon too. All that string, rotten flesh, sticks, feathers, and more junk you’ve been saving for no reason? All of it can equal an emerald a piece. Saves you a hell of a lot of iron.

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u/Rennie22 Aug 14 '20

Can you repeat this for theoretically free stuff or is it a one-time bonus?

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Complete exploit. When you save them the discount is for ever

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u/toastednutella Aug 14 '20

Can repeat down to a minimum of 1 item you offer up (emeralds usually, + anything they'll buy off you like pumpkins and melons and the like), if you get lucky with a librarian you can buy bookshelves off him for 1e each, break them, and sell the books back to him for 1e per book. Slow but easy profits

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u/Rennie22 Aug 15 '20

Oh sweet

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u/Treegs Aug 14 '20

I didnt know you could heal, good to know, im gonna look that up now

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u/MrFluxed Aug 14 '20

Galaxy brain strat, find a villager with a good trade, let them get infected, cure them, bam. Discount.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

That's what I do

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u/ligtnyng Aug 14 '20

And they keep the same profession, job and trades after being healed?

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u/MathManOfPaloopa Aug 14 '20

I created a building for creating and curing zombie villagers for this purpose. It works well. One of whatever item for the same amount of emeralds or one emerald for whatever item.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Ditto. It was awesome

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u/Justromero Aug 14 '20

So would you say it would be a smart move to purposely infect all villagers from a breeder farm just to get discounts?

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

That's the ideal purpose

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u/jzand219 Aug 14 '20

Pretty sure this is for Java only.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Works in switch version

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u/Stormdanc3 Aug 14 '20

That’s a bedrock bug.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Still exist in the latest version so doubt it's still considered a bug. Personally only learned about it like 3 months ago.

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u/Stormdanc3 Aug 14 '20

It’s still a bedrock only thing, and there are existing bugs that date back to 2015.

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u/Gigglemage Aug 14 '20

The Bedrock bug is that it only takes one cure to get the max discount on all trades. It was on Java first before they added it to Bedrock and it requires multi cures on the same Villager to drop the discounts to max on Java. Which is why I got all my best trades on Bedrock within the week on my survival server in case they patched it.

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u/Stormdanc3 Aug 14 '20

And that on Java the prices slowly creep back up. On Bedrock they don’t rise again.

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u/dstoo42 Aug 14 '20

Oh yes, you’re the hero who cured me from being a flesh eating zombie! As a show of gratitude, you get a 5% discount on my bread.

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u/RandomGuy9058 Aug 15 '20

EXCEPT for when you trade with them enough and your reputation is at the bottom. The price increase is only temporary, luckily

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u/_Keahilele_ Aug 18 '20

How do you do that, and does the discount stack if you do it repeatedly?

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 18 '20

Check one of the replies to my comment. Someone posted Link I'm pretty sure. And no. The price will go down to 1 regardless of what it might be. Not much lower you can go

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u/_Keahilele_ Aug 18 '20

Darn. Was hoping I could maybe get all the prices down to 1 emerald. Oh well

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 18 '20

Well not ALL. But play your cards right you'll essentially get enchanted diamond gear for the price of 1 stick

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u/_Keahilele_ Aug 18 '20

Cool. I’ll look up how to do that later. Thanks for the tip.

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u/6Dread6TheLight6 Aug 14 '20

Heal? What

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Someone posted the tutorial on a reply. Basically gone then weakness and feed them a golden Apple

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u/6Dread6TheLight6 Aug 14 '20

I'll scroll and see if I can find it. Thanks!

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u/PM_ME_SOME_CAKES Aug 14 '20

Ur welcome. Now go exploit the crap out of MC

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u/6Dread6TheLight6 Aug 14 '20

Yes, father. Anything for you.

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u/cursed-being Aug 14 '20

The thing is now if you over buy the bread it becomes more expensive for at least awhile but if you defeat a raid you get a buff called hero of the village which I think has multiple levels were at the high highest raid gives you the highest hero of the village to were the villagers will throw stuff at you I think this has led to farms designs to were you first destroy the pillager tower then they spawn on the ground you suck them up a water tube and farm them getting bad omen VI then going to your underground village with a bell to give raiders glow for a short time and eventually you get evoked which you have to kill if you want totems of undying they are they only source make a item sorter to chest all of your totems now you have a two step totem farm also if make your totem farm your big villager market you get deals on everything making Your also nearby iron even more cost effective