Wandering traders selling car insurance

Wandering traders selling car insurance

You know the call. Now it finds you in Minecraft.

When a wandering trader spawns, he no longer wanders in from somewhere off in the trees — he
appears directly behind you, turns to face you, and whispers, just to you, about your car’s
extended warranty.

Everything else about him is completely vanilla: same trades, same llamas, same despawn timer.

What actually happens

• The trader is placed a couple of blocks behind you, facing you. If there is nowhere safe to stand back there, he stays where vanilla put him instead of clipping into a wall.
• A moment later the pitch plays — only for you, and out of the trader himself, so it moves with him as he walks off.
• He keeps his usual villager mumbling to himself while he’s talking.
• Each trader only calls once, and remembers that across reloads. But wait about fifteen seconds and walk back over to him, and he’ll try you one more time.

Requirements

• CodxLib — required, on both sides.
• Install this mod on the client as well as the server: the audio ships in the mod’s own assets, so a vanilla client hears nothing.

Supported

Minecraft 1.20.1 → 26.2 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Config

config/codxlib.carsextendedwarranty.json, written on first launch. Turn either half off and
keep the other, or just make him quieter.

| Key | Default | Meaning |
|—|—|—|
| enabled | true | Master switch. Off = vanilla wandering traders. |
| spawnBehindPlayer | true | Relocate the trader behind the nearest player. |
| playSound | true | Play the whisper. |
| distanceBehind | 2.0 | Blocks behind the player to aim for. |
| maxPlayerDistance | 96.0 | Players further away than this are not targeted. |
| soundVolume | 1.0 | Vanilla attenuation range is 16 × volume blocks. |
| soundPitch | 1.0 | |
| cooldownSeconds | 30 | Minimum gap between two calls at the same player. |
| silenceTraderWhilePlaying | true | Stop his villager noises while the clip plays. |
| soundLengthSeconds | 4.5 | Length of the clip; only used to time the above. |
| followUpEnabled | true | Call again when the player comes back over. |
| followUpDelaySeconds | 15.0 | Wait this long before the follow-up can fire. |
| followUpDistance | 3.0 | How close the player has to get for it. |
| followUpWindowSeconds | 300.0 | Give up waiting after this long. |
| debug | false | Log what it decides to the server console. |