Trade Tweaks

Trade Tweaks

Take control of villager professions and trades with powerful utilities!

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Screenshots

Apotheosis's enchantments
Quark's Ancient Tome
Compatible with PneumaticCraft
Compatible with AE2

About this Mod

Trade Tweaks

A Minecraft Forge mod that provides versatile utility staffs, useful items, and in-game options to enhance the player experience when trading with villagers.

Currently in early preview - many features are still under development.

Key Features

Emerald Wand

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Usage:

Method 1:

  • Sneak + Mouse Wheel: Cycle through modes
  • Sneak + Right Click: Activate current mode

Method 2:

  • Press the keybind (Alt by default) to open the quick mode selection wheel

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Mode Target Effect
Profession Clear Any employed villager Resets villager to unemployed
Workblock Tracker Any villager Highlights linked or potential workblock
Villager Tracker Workstation blocks Highlights villager using it
AI Refresh Unemployed villagers Forces job search behavior
Upgrade Any employed villager Increase villager's profession level
Trade Select Any employed villager Freely select available trades

1. Profession Clear

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  • Removes profession from any villager
  • Works even on leveled/traded villagers
  • Resets their trade progression completely

2. Workblock(JobSite) Tracker

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  • Visually highlights the villager's linked workstation in red
  • When used on an unemployed villager, highlights the villager's current potential workstation in green (not shown in the image)
  • Effective range: 64 blocks

3. Villager Tracker

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  • Applies glowing effect to villager using the targeted workstation

4. Villager AI Refresh

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  • Forces unemployed villagers to stop current activities
  • Makes them (try to) immediately search for nearest valid workstation

5. Villager Instant Upgrade

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  • Increases villager's profession level immediately
  • Consumes 1 Emerald Block or 9 Emerald by default. Block will be consumed first.
  • Items and counts costs can be modified in serverconfig/tradetweaks-server.toml freely. it's convenient for some modpacks, to modify it to other mods' or custom items.

6. Trade Selection

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This sounds rule-breaking, but I believe that repeatedly refreshing villager trades to get desired offers is a complete waste of the player's time – requiring no real cost except hours of grinding.

Therefore, I don't consider this feature to break Minecraft's balance or gameplay integrity. As players, we should value our limited playtime and spend it on actually fun experiences.

  • Allows players to manually select available trades from villager's potential offer pool
  • Any trade with the same profession and profession level required, will be considered as an available trade.
  • Allow duplicated trades
  • Compatible with multiplayers
  • A Nether Star is required to upgrade your wand to use this mode.
  • Specially for librarian, if you select a trade of enchanted book, you will be allowed to choose all the max-level enchantments, with a higher chance of lower trade prices. This feature can be disabled in the server config.

Consumable Items

Adds several consumable utility items.

Book of Enlightenment

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Turns a nitwit villager into an unemployed villager.

Reversion Bottle

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Immediately turns a villager into a zombie villager.

Restoration Bottle

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Immediately cures a zombie villager back into a villager, equivalent to curing it manually with the vanilla method.

Totem of Village Hero

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Grants 5:00 of Hero of the Village. If the player already has Hero of the Village, increases the effect level by 1 (up to level 5) and adds 5:00 duration. After winning a raid, the player receives a number of this item based on the raid level.

Restock Writ

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Forces a villager to restock immediately. Using it multiple times on the same villager on the same day increases the cost per use.

Trade Broadcast System

Displays nearby villagers' trade lists (with item icons) in chat, with click-to-highlight functionality. Won't repeat broadcasts for unchanged trades.

off by default

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Commands

/tradecast mode [option]

(Client-side) Filters which villagers get broadcast:

Option Effect
all All villagers
librarian Only librarians
off Disables broadcast system
/tradecast radius [blocks]

(Server-side) Sets broadcast range (1-32 blocks). Requires permissions.

/tradecast refresh

(Client-side) Clears cached villager/trade data.

/tradecast render [bool]

(Client-side) Toggles item icon rendering (if true, text-only mode will be available for compatibility).

/tradecast time [seconds]

(Server-side) Adjusts trade check interval. Requires permissions.

/tradetweaks enchant_books_select [bool]

(Server-side) Determines whether the wand's Trade Selection feature can be used to select librarians' enchanted books. Requires permissions.

Compatibility

  • Compatible with all mod-added villager professions
  • Compatible with all mod-added enchantments (as long as it is 'tradeable')
  • Compatible with Easy Villager, but you can't interact with villagers inside its functional blocks using Emerald Wand
  • Compatible with the Ancient Tome added by Quark
  • Potential rendering conflicts when used with Showcase Item/Quark's inventory icon features (disable client rendering if overlap occurs)

Take Selection mode for example:

Quark's Ancient Tome:

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Apotheosis:

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PneumaticCraft:

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Applied Energistics 2:

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Credits and Licensing

This mod incorporates resources from the following third-party projects, and we gratefully acknowledge their contributions:

Code Attribution

The item rendering functionality in this mod is derived from [ShowcaseItem], which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Assets Attribution

The texture textures/emerald_wand.png is a modified version of an asset from [ConstructionWand], licensed under the MIT License.

Available Versions

Trade Tweaks 1.21.1-2.0.0release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
June 1, 2026
Trade Tweaks 1.20.1-2.0.0release
MC 1.20.1forge
June 1, 2026
Trade Tweaks 1.20.1-1.1.0release
MC 1.20.1forge
April 30, 2026
Trade Tweaks 1.21.1-1.1.0release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
April 30, 2026
Trade Tweaks 1.21.1-1.0.0release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
March 17, 2026

How to Install Trade Tweaks on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Trade Tweaks". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forgeneoforge

Minecraft Versions

1.21.1, 1.20.1

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Trade Tweaks server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Trade Tweaks compatible with forge and neoforge?

Trade Tweaks officially supports forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Trade Tweaks – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Trade Tweaks consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International
Server-side
Required

Supported Versions

1.21.11.20.1