Villager Emerald Trading -> EMC

[Bl4CkGuuN]

Just found this on r/Tekkit

creds to u/davemcdave8888

So emeralds have effectively replaced tungsten ore in classic tekkit, costing 16384. To my knowledge this is the most expensive naturally spawning mineral in the pack, yet you can still trade basic items to villagers to loads of them. Raw pork costs 32 or 64 EMC (can't remember lol), Chef villagers will ask for 16-19 pork for an emerald. So that's 512 to 1216 EMC for 16384. There's also the librarian asking for 20 or so cheap ass pieces of paper for an emerald.

Long story short I got Swiftwolfs flying ring after 2 hours using villager trading. It's very unbalanced, it cannot be hard to exploit this further too. Might be worth adding a mod which alters the villager trades so that they're properly adjusted for the emc costs.

[xJon]

Hmm, it's an interesting point. I wouldn't want to disable villager trading and I'm not familiar with any mod that'd modify it in that way. I do think that gaining EMC through "stuff" is not necessarily an exploit: you need to trade, similarly to building energy collectors.
I could lower the EMC value of emeralds though, they are supposed to be x2 from diamonds but it doesn't necessarily have to be this way. Saying that though, I'd rather leave it as it is. Feel free to refer the Reddit discussion to here as well.
Any thoughts?

[Bl4CkGuuN]

I'm not that familiar with villager trading, but afaik you can easily "refill" the villagers stock to unlimited trading
I can agree to this comment from the reddit post:

It's pretty crazy, but it comes from when Emeralds were first implemented in 1.3 and were WAY harder to get a hold of.

Nowadays they should probably be in line with the RedPower gems to make it more balanced. Still wouldn't be perfect, but despite the alchemical theme "balanced" has never been a word used to describe ProjectE

https://www.reddit.com/r/tekkit/comments/x2b9gl/emeralds_and_emc_in_tekkit_2/

[alia-a]

Tbh there's already even easier way to generate unlimited amount EMC

(spoiler for it)

macerating blaze rods

So with that in, touching villager trades wouldn't really achieve anything.