NEW EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES IN 23W31A

REBALANCING RURAL TRADE

This picture shows a new experimental feature switch that updates the deals of a traveling merchant and a librarian. You should enable this feature switch in the Experiments menu when creating a new world if you want to test new trades. 

Since this is an experiment, we would really appreciate your feedback as the work continues and helps us determine the future direction for deals with residents. 

LIBRARIAN CHANGES

Prior to these changes, players could obtain any village charms from any librarian. A novice Librarian can sell the best charms in the game! To some players, this seemed too random and made trading unbearable compared to using the enchantment table or searching for enchanted books in buildings.

With the new rules, Librarians from different biomes sell different enchantments, and each village biome has enchantments that are only sold by master librarians.

Players will have to work on getting the best deals, rather than relying on randomness. We hope that this will make the Librarians' trade more interesting and skillful, as well as reveal some clues about their history of each type of village through the charms that are sold there.

• Librarians from different biomes now sell different enchanted books.
• Each village biome has one special enchantment that is only available from master librarians with full experience.
• This means that players must visit all seven village biomes to get the full set of village charms.
• There are two secret village biomes in which villages are not generated.The player must build these villages to gain access to their deals!
  
• Some enchantments have been removed from the village trade and must be found by other means.

TRAVELING MERCHANT CHANGES

Some players felt that the traveling merchant had unfair prices and didn't sell many useful items. We have reduced their prices, added more deals and increased the available amounts. A traveling merchant will also now buy useful items from players, so you can help them on their journey by giving them supplies, even if you don't feel like buying anything.

• Itinerant merchants now have lower prices and a larger quantity of each item in stock.
• Traveling merchants now sell logs.
• Traveling merchants can now buy many items, not just sell

CHANGES

• Diamond ore is now generated more frequently in Deepslate Overworld layers.
• Treating a zombie resident now gives a big discount only for the first time.There is no longer a bonus discount for re-infection and treatment of the same resident several times.
  
• Barrier blocks can now be flooded with water by players in creative mode.Water cannot be placed in them or removed by indirect interactions, such as dispensers.
  
• Players will no longer be able to squat while riding on transport.
• Chorus Flower no longer supports hanging or standing blocks.

DIAMOND ORE DISTRIBUTION

In this picture, we have increased the amount of diamond ore found in the deepest parts of the world. Our goal is to make diamond mining on Deepslate layers more profitable. 

TECHNICAL CHANGES

• The resource package version is now 16.
• The data package version is now 16
• The history of the commands used is now saved and available in different worlds.
• The method of sending fragments to clients has been optimized so that players with low internet connection bandwidth can play on multiplayer servers.
• Added support for packages with multiple versions.
• The network protocol has been changed so that more data-driven content can be used in the future.
• Added a new log-ips parameter to server.properties.
• Added checking of symbolic links in data packages and resource packages.
• When displaying hitboxes via F3+B, entities that have a passenger will display the point where the passenger joins.

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