Decide Whether to Kill Villagers or Keep Them for Trading

Weighing the Trade-Off

This mod creates a choice: use villagers for their normal trade interface, or kill them for random drops. Understanding the value of each approach helps you decide.

Comparison

Keep villagers alive for:

• Guaranteed, repeatable trades with predictable outputs
• Renewable access to enchanted books, rare items, and bulk goods
• Long-term resource generation through restocking

Kill villagers for:

• One-time loot opportunities with random rewards
• Quick item acquisition without needing emeralds
• Faster farming if you don't need consistent supplies

Hybrid Approach

Consider maintaining a small trading hall for essential villagers (Librarians for mending books, Clerics for redstone) while farming expendable villagers for supplementary items. This balances the mod's loot mechanic with practical survival needs.

If a villager's drops seem more valuable than their trades, prioritize farming. If their trades are irreplaceable, keep them alive.