Minecraft Villages Could Use RPG-Style Quests to Help Players Learn and Grow

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One of the biggest factors behind the success of Mojang's sandbox title Minecraft is its player-driven incentive structure. Though every new update adds content to interact with, there is no singular «goal» every user has to complete. There are achievements to unlock with suggested activities, as well as a credits sequence after defeating one of Minecraft's few major bosses, the Ender Dragon, but players can ignore these facets of the game if they want to pour their time into building or other intrinsic motivations.

Villages are among the many areas Mojang has developed for fans to sink their teeth into. Players were originally alone in a natural world with peaceful animals as well as aggressive mobs. Then the Adventure Update (Beta version 1.8) in 2011 introduced Villages full of active NPC characters that have expanded over time. Subsequent updates have introduced professions that turn Villages into malleable trading hubs, as well as antagonistic groups like Illagers. However, more could be done to encourage player interactivity with these systems, such as traditional RPG-styled quests that point out interesting content.

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Minecraft updates like 2019's Village & Pillage have turned basic Villages strewn about biomes like plains, savannahs, and deserts into locales with interlocking mechanics that can greatly improve players' experiences. Emeralds were a mineral type added in 2012 that served as the basis for trading, with resources like coal or rotten flesh being exchanged for emeralds and vice versa. Trading has become more sophisticated thanks to updates like Village & Pillage, which added new utility blocks including stonecutters and grindstones that