Shady Dealings

Quickstart

1. Craft a Counterfeit Trade (found in the Tools & Utilities creative tab, or craft it — see recipe below).
2. Hold it in your hand and right-click to consume one copy.
3. A Shady Dealer spawns directly in front of you — if you're lucky, his trade screen opens immediately with 3–5 deals swapping common junk for valuables.
4. Make a trade, but watch out: every completed purchase gives you Bad Omen and has a 35% chance to turn him hostile on the spot.
5. If he goes hostile, back away — he'll chase you with a netherite sword and spit llama projectiles.

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Overview

Shady Dealings adds a single consumable item — the Counterfeit Trade — that summons a mysterious hooded NPC called the Shady Dealer. He offers suspiciously good bargains (dirt for gold, rotten flesh for emeralds, and more), but every interaction carries real risk. He might attack on sight, betray you mid-transaction, or quietly vanish in a cloud of black smoke once you're done with him.

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What It Adds

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How To Use

Using the Counterfeit Trade

Right-click while holding a Counterfeit Trade to consume one from your stack. The Shady Dealer spawns a short distance in front of you facing you. One of two things happens immediately:

• (65% chance) His trade screen opens and you can browse his offers.
• (35% chance) He spawns already hostile — no menu, straight to combat.

Trading with the Dealer

The trade screen shows 3–5 randomly selected deals, each asking for a small amount of common junk in exchange for something valuable. Possible trades include:

Right-clicking the Dealer again reopens his screen and rerolls the offers, so you can fish for better deals — as long as he doesn't turn on you first.

Closing the Screen

If you close the trade screen without triggering his hostility, the Dealer lingers peacefully for two minutes, then disappears in a dramatic puff of black smoke. You can reopen his screen any time during this window.

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Abilities And Mechanics

Bad Omen on Every Purchase

Every completed trade applies Bad Omen to the player. Enter a village while this effect is active and you'll trigger a raid, so plan your shopping trips carefully.

Post-Trade Betrayal (35% Chance)

Each time you complete a purchase, there is a 35% chance the Dealer immediately closes the screen and goes hostile. There is no warning.

Hostile Dealer Behaviour

Once hostile (either from spawn or post-trade betrayal), the Shady Dealer:

• Equips a Netherite Sword and pursues you in melee.
• Periodically spits llama-style projectiles at you from range (up to ~12 blocks).
• Has 24 HP and moves noticeably faster than a standard villager.
• Cannot be traded with while hostile.

Idle Animations

A non-hostile Dealer twitches and leans with subtle swaying animations while he waits, giving him a nervous, untrustworthy character.

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Crafting And Obtaining

The Counterfeit Trade is found in the Tools & Utilities creative tab and is craftable in survival:

The recipe uses Gold Nuggets, Paper, and an Emerald arranged in a cross pattern — fittingly cheap for something so suspicious.

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Progression And Strategy

• Spam carefully. Each Counterfeit Trade has a 35% chance of spawning a hostile dealer instantly, so don't use them in cramped or dangerous locations.
• Bad Omen stacks up fast. Multiple trades in a single session will prolong or intensify your Bad Omen status. Time village visits accordingly.
• Reroll for diamonds. If the initial offers aren't great, close and reopen the screen to get a fresh set — just be aware this resets the trade list and the betrayal risk resets with each completed purchase, not each open.
• Kite the hostile dealer. His spit projectiles have some arc to them and a cooldown; he's dangerous up close with the netherite sword, so create distance and use the spit delay to your advantage.
• Craft in bulk. The item stacks to 16, making it easy to carry a supply for dungeon runs or treasure hunts where the extra valuables (diamonds, ender pearls, blaze rods) are most useful.