The Story of Minecraft’s FIRST Wandering Trader…

This is the origin story of the Minecraft  wandering trader. Imagine you are a wandering   trader. You were once a despised nitwit in the  village. Nitwits can’t do much in Minecraft.   Villagers make fun of you and tease you. The  nitwits couldn’t make anything of value for  

The village so they are alienated. It’s not  your fault you were born a nitwit, right?   The nitwits got bullied. You decide to stand up  for yourself. You’ve had enough, you don’t want to   be the outcasts of villager society anymore. There  has recently been drama in the village of a group  

Of villagers who call themselves the illagers.  They were expelled from the village due to working   on their nefarious magical experiments. Some known  as witches left too. The villagers wanted to live   simple lives and not deal with magic. You, the nitwit, realize that this could  

Finally be your chance to create a better future  for yourself. You decide to do something drastic.   You decide that you will live the life of  a nomad, an adventurer. You pack your bags.   You sneak out of the village at night. Luckily,  nobody noticed you leaving. You’re all alone now,  

By yourself. You’re not sure what to do now.  The illagers ask you to join their clan but   you don’t want to join those violent, cult-like  illagers. You quickly run away without hesitation.   You’re wondering what you will want to trade, you  don’t really have any crafting or smithing skills.  

Anyways, you meet with a witch in the swamp. Both  the wandering trader and witch live in isolation   and have knowledge of potions, meaning that  they probably worked together temporarily.   In the witch huts, the nitwit collected slimeballs  that he might be able to trade later. You,  

A wandering trader, learn all kinds of magic from  the witch. You learn about how to make potions.   You also get your hands on glowstone, another item  you could trade with for later. (The witch is kind  

Of like the sensei of this story.) You eventually  leave the witch’s hut and thank her for the help.   You figure out what you want to trade, you  decide that you will trade exotic materials   from far and wide. Since you were a nitwit, you  had no skills to craft anything, the best you  

Could do is collect raw goods that are “somewhat”  rare. You need a disguise though. You don’t want   to be known as a nitwit anymore. You’re a lone  wanderer, a wandering trader. You dye a robe   blue and decorate your llamas with blue. You don’t  want to be green anymore- a color associated with  

Nitwits. You can still see the wandering  traders’ green shirt if you look closely.   You had gone everywhere to collect exotic things  to trade with. You somehow manage to collect   blocks like coral blocks and sea pickles.  You try to sell your goods. Fingers crossed,  

Business goes well… But business is not booming,  who would want to buy an oak sapling for five   emeralds?! You decide to test your luck by trading  with the new people- the player. You humbly offer   your trades to the player. “…” He thanks you for  the two leads. After leaving the village to pursue  

A better life, learning from the witch, wearing  a new outfit, traveling far and wide for months,   you were just murdered to obtain… two  leads. All of that for two leads…   Let’s go into further analysis of the unknown  origin story of the wandering trader in Minecraft.  

Let’s come up with a Minecraft theory. The first  question is: why do they wear a blue hoodie that   covers their face? It seems like the wandering  trader is trying to hide something from us.   First, we need to clarify who the wandering  traders are. Are they villagers, illagers,  

Or maybe even an entirely different species  or something? We can quickly rule out the idea   that wandering traders are illagers. Illagers will  attack wandering traders without hesitation- just   like how they would attack a normal villager.  It’s also unlikely that the wandering traders  

Are working together with the illagers.  The wandering traders seem to not have any   connection with the illagers. The wandering trader  is probably not a different species since it looks   so similar to the villager. The wandering trader  has green eyes, a definitive trait of a villager.  

Illagers don’t have green eyes. If the wandering  trader is in fact a villager, why did they desert   the villagers to live by themselves? Leaving  the village opens the wandering traders to   being vulnerable to attacks. There are no iron  golems to protect them, meaning that they have  

To fend for themselves against the zombies of  the night. My theory is that the wandering trader   made a conscious choice to live alone by himself. There is one clue in Minecraft that reveals a lot  

About the wandering trader- and it is the fountain  of my theory. If we look at the wandering trader’s   texture file, we can see what is behind the blue  robes. He wears a green shirt. It’s a tiny detail-  

But it’s very important later. You can also see  his green shirt here if you look carefully. His   green shirt is barely visible because of the blue  robe covering it. If our assumption is correct   that wandering traders are villagers, I believe  then that the wandering traders are nitwits.  

Does the green shirt really mean that the  wandering trader is a nitwit? Is it really   an important detail? Well, if you look at all  Minecraft villager variations of the nitwits,   the defining feature of nitwits is their green  shirt. I get that this theory is only supported  

By the fact that they wear green shirts, but  the origin story of the wandering trader really   makes sense with this Minecraft nitwit theory as  the foundation. With that out of the way, let’s   continue. The nitwits are like the neglected waifs  of the village. They can’t trade, they have no  

Skills, they are basically the homeless people of  a village, the neglected. If we could understand   villager talk, I bet villagers make rude jokes  about the nitwits. They were probably bullied too.   It’s unfair to the poor nitwits, they have always  been nitwits since birth. If mobs had emotions,  

Nitwits would probably be depressed, lonely,  and unfulfilled. What if the nitwits could do   more with lives- and find their calling or  something. Well luckily for them, there’s   a golden opportunity. And in our short little  story at the beginning of the video- you, the  

Soon-to-be wandering trader, answered the call. So when did some of the nitwits leave the village?   There was most likely a point when the illagers  and witch broke off from the village to do their   own thing. This was probably due to the fact that  they worked on nefarious experiments that were  

Banned in the village. The illagers and witches  experimented with magic and potions. The illagers   and witches were probably once villagers; and when  they left, they became what they look like today.   The nitwits of the villages saw these other  villagers leave to go their own separate ways.  

What if they could do the same? A few nitwits  feel that this is their calling- a chance to   prove themselves. Some nitwits left to live alone.  The trades that the wandering traders have gives   us clues on what they did. They traveled through  many biomes and swam in the oceans to obtain  

Coral. One thing to notice about their trades  is that they trade only raw materials and items.   These items don’t require any skills to make  or obtain. Nitwits are villagers with no   skills or talents so these trades make sense.  Wandering traders only trade raw materials,  

They don’t have the skills to craft anything.  We can assume the wandering traders went all   around the world to collect items he hoped would  sell. By the way, somewhere along his journeys,   the wandering trader brought two llamas with  him to carry items. In my opinion, the two  

Llamas that the wandering trader brings with him  aren’t too important in the story. The llamas the   wandering traders bring don’t carry a chest so  they are basically useless. Maybe the wandering   trader keeps llamas around to give himself  company. People often go insane when living  

By themselves for too long. Can you relate? There are still some more mysterious   characteristics about the wandering trader. For  one, they can turn themselves invisible when in   danger. And two, why do they wear a blue robe?  Is it because they are cold or something? Here  

Is my theory for both of these questions. When the  nitwits left the village, they probably learned a   lot from the witches. Both mobs are remarkably  similar, they both are villager variants that   live by themselves. They both can do some level  of magic. The wandering traders probably learned  

Their magical abilities from the witch. This could  also be where the glowstone trade comes from.   This is why they wear a blue robe. No villagers  would take the nitwit seriously when they saw   his green shirt, they knew he was a nitwit. The  wandering traders hid their green shirts with a  

Blue robe to hide their true identity. They don’t  want people to know their original identity. At   this point in time, they didn’t feel like part of  a village anymore, they were independent nomads.   But let’s be honest though, their trades are  pretty trash. Who in their right mind would buy  

An oak sapling for five emeralds?! I guess that’s  why nitwits never could trade items- they never   understood how to give good trades. If you have  ever wondered why wandering villager’s trades are   so bad, now you know. The wandering traders wander  the world, looking for players or villagers to  

Trade with. But be honest, when was the last time  you traded with these guys? The wandering traders   didn’t end up being too successful after all, but  they’re doing the best they can. If you want a   more happy ending, maybe the wandering traders  ended up very wealthy from trading with the  

Villagers. It’s hard to say whether the wandering  trader has been successful or not. Perhaps   we treat the wandering traders too harshly.  #WanderingTraderLivesMatter or something- but now   that you know the wandering traders’ backstory,  please think twice before killing them for those  

Two leads. Even though they have pretty useless  trades, at least give them some pity; and don’t   just kill them to get two leads. Jokes aside,  if you enjoyed this story, make sure to share   it with others; check out this video as well.  Thanks for watching and consider subscribing.