they don’t follow emeralds bc that’s an easily misconstrued caricature and mojang doesn’t want to deal with the possible (& somewhat justified) shit they’d get for it. seriously. big noses? an aptitude for trading and banking? speaking an incomprehensible language? it’s already a little “questionable” how the villagers are portrayed now, making them straight up follow emeralds to the point of their own potential deaths would 101% push it over the edge for a lot of people. i’m not trying to say mojang is necessarily designing the villagers to be antisemitic, in fact i think it’s quite the opposite and mojang is actively, and might i say diligently, working against what bigotry and antisemitism did make it’s way into minecraft’s game design in the early days. but still. i would appreciate if villagers didn’t also follow emeralds to the point of them plummeting to their doom, the neonazis in minecraft are already too many, and unwelcome, and shit like this is just going to embolden their communities