Operation Porkchop

Operation Porkchop was a failed operation created by ShatteredWish14, Beetrolled, and PenguinOliver. It was one of many ideas made by the Livers in order to gain massive amounts of wealth in order to buy crazy enchantment books more easily.

Strategy

The strategy of Operation Porkchop was in theory able to exponentially gain large amounts of money the more it was perfected. You would have a large amount of villagers, with a small portion of them being turned into stick for emerald trading fletchers, while the other portion of villagers being turned into butchers. The butchers would sell cooked porkchops for a small price of emeralds, and you would sell the porkchops on the serber economy. For some reason, porkchops were a very high price being sold, so the Livers decided to choose that after going through the sellable items list. The more porkchop traders there were, it would snowball into high earnings. The main manual labor about the strategy was mining wood for sticks, which took a good amount of time to do.

Setbacks and Eventual Failure

The difficulty was realizing that this would take too long to see a return on investment, as it required a lot of time poured into villagers, as the porkchop trade took a couple levels in the villager trading. PenguinOliver and Beetrolled struggled with getting villagers to breed, as they got a couple zombie villagers from a nearby cave and cured them. They tried multiple things to fix them, but they didn't breed. It was finally figured out that a server setting was changed so they wouldn't breed. This wasn't the largest setback though, as the villagers bred fast after it. The next difficulty was that them choosing trades when there are so many villagers, was hard. In the end, many of the villagers didn't even get traded with once. The grinding for sticks was also difficult, to the point where Beetrolled tried to make an auto-crafting machine to make sticks while they were mining wood. All these reasons eventually made the Livers realize that there was no way that it was possible to get enough profit to make this worth it, or have enough time. The operation was scrapped, and the team began to try and find another way to make lots of money.