Your villagers traded at fair prices with zero fees. We identified this as an inefficiency
Emerald OS turns villager trading into a tech company, and puts you in charge of it. You implant a Villager Chip in a villager, they become an employee with a number, and a craftable phone, the Trade Tablet, lets you browse and buy from every chipped villager in range without walking anywhere. The tablet has a boot screen, an app grid, ads, paid upgrades and a convenience fee, all written in flawless corporate deadpan. Later there is a stock market, and the market has a button labelled FINANCIAL ADVICE that says "No."
The first chip feels like a shortcut: no more running to the librarian. Then the tablet boots with a loading bar that says "Downloading more RAM (village-sourced)", an ad slides in for hot single pillagers in your area, and you notice that trades under three emeralds now carry a one-emerald convenience fee, which you can remove by buying Premium, from the people who invented the fee. By the time you have crafted a Stonks Terminal, watched an iron golem die and seen GOLM dip because of it, and read a headline about Employee #4821 filing a dream about a slightly larger hut, you have stopped playing Minecraft and started running a company. Nobody in the village agreed to any of this. The paperwork says otherwise.
Set your network public and strangers can trade your staff while you take a commission
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
Use a Villager Chip on any villager and they join your employee directory with a permanent employee number, greeted by a line about their orientation packet and a welcome to the Program. A small badge renders beside a chipped villager's head. Chips stamp the chipper's UUID, so your staff are yours. There is no chip removal tool.
The tablet boots with a logo, a loading bar and a rotating joke, then opens onto a phone-style app grid: TradeLink, Store, Investments, AutoSell, Village News, My Network and Portfolios. Locked tiles do not hide themselves; they upsell you to the Store. TradeLink lists every chipped villager in coverage with their rank (Intern through C-Suite) and lets you close their trades from where you stand, with server-side checks on range, stock and funds. Boot time gets faster the more upgrades you own.
Emerald payments below three emeralds incur a one-emerald convenience fee. In-tablet upgrades are Search Bar (16 em), Premium (32 em, which removes the ads and the fees), Pro (64 em, which unlocks investments, AutoSell and network controls) and Haggle (128 em, which requires Pro). Selling to villagers is never taxed; the fee applies to purchases only. The store's fine print notes that all sales are final and licenses are valid on this specific device only.
The Haggle upgrade takes twenty-five percent off emerald costs by having employees volunteer discounts. It also carries an undisclosed twelve-percent chance per discounted trade that a non-obedient villager reads Section 4.2 and starts fighting the chip, which locks their trades until you install an Obedience Chip. Already-obedient staff are immune, and a resisting villager gets a pulsing red marker on their badge. Section 4.2 is never printed anywhere; the terms note only that it applies, and has always applied.
An Obedience Chip installs on any already-chipped villager and permanently ends the discussion ("the conversation, but concluded") and comes with an exclusive contract, so only the installer can trade with that villager. You cannot install one on somebody else's compliant staff; pacifying an actual rebel is allowed. The Remote Control toggles an uplink: while it is on, your obedience-chipped villagers within 48 blocks follow you, and right-clicking a block dispatches them to it.
A Villager Antenna is a coverage tower with a 48-block radius. Your tablet reaches towers within 48 blocks of you, towers relay to other towers within 96 blocks, and any chipped villager within 48 blocks of a connected tower is tradeable. Antennas keep their own chunks loaded, because business continuity does not stop when you look away. Every one of those distances is configurable.
The terminal is a block with a candlestick chart, a marquee news ticker and buy buttons in 8 and 16 emerald sizes. There are five tickers plus an index fund: EMC the blue chip, LAPIS which is "definitely not just a rock", VBN whose price scales with how many antennas exist in the world, GOLM which crashes whenever an iron golem dies anywhere loaded, NITWIT which pays a dividend of one poisonous potato per day held, and DIRT, described only as "A fund. It holds things. Diversified, allegedly." Prices are a deterministic function of game time plus a ledger of shocks that world events append.
You get five trades per Minecraft day; past that, each further trade rolls a chance, six percent per excess trade and capped at fifty, to crash the ticker you touched by fifteen percent, told to you privately. Sell out of a position entirely and your chart pumps up to plus forty percent over about seven minutes, returning to normal the instant you buy back in. DIRT alone is immune to shocks, whale bias and day-trade crashes, and nothing in the interface says so. The Founder's Key ends the game the other way: hold at least half the outstanding LAPIS supply when you use it and you cash out your whole position at the full pre-pull price with no fees, LAPIS is pinned to the floor forever, everyone on the server is told, and further buys are refused pending "investigation".
The shared component in every Emerald OS product. Nothing in the mod is craftable without it.
Where: Shapeless: two copper ingots, redstone and a gold nugget, for two.
Onboards a villager into your employee directory and gives them an employee number and a badge.
Where: Shapeless: a Chip Base and an emerald, for two.
Resolves resistance permanently and binds that employee to an exclusive contract with whoever installed it. Also required for Remote Control.
Where: Shapeless: a Chip Base, a diamond, a ghast tear and a blaze rod.
The phone. Boot screen, app grid, employee directory, store, ads, market tab and your upgrade licenses, all stored on the item itself.
Where: Craft glass, iron ingots, an emerald and a Chip Base in a shaped recipe.
A coverage tower with a 48-block radius that relays to other towers up to 96 blocks away. Keeps its chunks loaded.
Where: Craft iron bars, a Chip Base, iron ingots and an emerald.
The Emerald Exchange as a placeable block: chart, tickers, portfolio, news ticker, and a FINANCIAL ADVICE button that answers "No."
Where: Craft an Antenna, a Trade Tablet, a Chip Base and gold ingots.
Toggles an uplink that makes your obedience-chipped villagers within 48 blocks follow you, or dispatch to a block you point at.
Where: Craft a stick, a Chip Base, iron and gold.
Rug-pulls LAPIS if you hold at least half the supply: full price for you, permanent floor for everyone else, one server-wide announcement.
Where: Craft three lapis lazuli, a gold ingot and a diamond in a key shape.
Every texture this mod ships, at its real in-game size, scaled up so you can see each pixel. Most are 16×16, the same size as a vanilla dirt block.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
Every antenna you place is infrastructure belonging to Village Bell Networks LLC, whose slogan is "Signal by Village Bell Networks LLC" and whose stock, VBN, rises with the number of towers in the world. It is the only ticker in the game with real fundamentals, and the fundamentals are you. Villagers accept the Terms of Service by existing within range of the infrastructure.
Section 4.2 is referenced in the store's terms, in the Haggle purchase confirmation, and in the message you get when an employee stops trading with you. It is never printed. What is known is that an employee who reads it stops cooperating, and that the Obedience Chip is described as clearing "resistance, provocation, and 'having a point'" instantly.
The Portfolios app shows what your chipped villagers have done with their trade earnings, complete with live profit and loss and a morale note. One employee is down forty percent; the note reads "Morale unaffected. He does not know." Another "has requested to be addressed as 'an investor'." The app's subtitle is "Their earnings, professionally reallocated."
Villagers accept the Terms of Service by existing within range of the infrastructure. Some of them do fight the chip, which locks their trades until you install an Obedience Chip.
No. There is no removal tool. An "exit interview" shears variant is on the roadmap and has never been built.
No. Prices are a deterministic function of world time plus a ledger of shocks caused by real events: a golem dying, a wandering trader arriving, a raid starting, or you making a large trade.
Consolidated Dirt Holdings. The tablet describes it as "A fund. It holds things. Diversified, allegedly." It is worth watching over several in-game days.
There is a day-trade limit of five trades per Minecraft day specifically to stop the exchange becoming an emerald farm, and holding a large position biases your own prices downward.
Forge, NeoForge and Fabric on 1.21.1, and Forge, NeoForge and Fabric on 1.20.1. Forge 1.21.1 is the original the others are ported from.
Status: The jar compiles and the author has tested it himself, but it has not had a real playtest yet.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
not host them. Builds live in the project's own repository under
mc-emerald-os/build/libs/.
Mod by Bulletpies. MIT, the one clause the lawyers couldn't monetize.