Best Posts in Thread: Would this save or kill the economy? Opinions please.

Diamonds are used for tools, sure, but majority of players don't need that much diamonds because most are used for armor and sword, which are available for much cheaper from supplydrops. As long as supplydrops supply diamond armor and sword, demand for diamonds won't increase, and as there are new diamonds mined every day, it increases the supply, therefore dropping the price of diamonds suddenly.

I suggest that we remove diamond armor and sword from supplydrops and replace them with fix/fly/heal/feed/fill notes, gold, naturally generated chest items, and/or elytra. Also, please remove cactus from supplydrops they are useless af.

The emerald price is dropping now as well. It has decreased about 25% in the past month, from 100 each to 75 each. This is due to the widespread availability of emeralds from villager trading, and almost no demand. The once flourished emerald trading market will become obsolete very soon, and the only market that still somewhat thrives from the emerald market is the ebooks market, which are also facing serious issues with selling.

This may not sound like a bad thing, but it is. Since players get emerald from farming, grinding, etc. it will discourage those activities, and that will create a bad economic cycle of people keeping their money and businesses failing.

With the increase of the population with advanced facilities, it is beginning to be too easy for people to gain what once a valuable item, and it is causing the economy to drop way down than it's supposed to.

I hope that the new jobs will stimulate the economy a little bit, but who knows.