I was talking with an aspiring Civcraft drug dealer and he was complaining that no one is interested in "P" anymore. I mentioned that what most people are now addicted to is cheap, botted XP. I've even bought a stack or two myself, though most of mine is gotten through my diamond cauldron.

It occurred to me that if there was a way to track what XP is botted and what is not, a very interesting dynamic might develop in game. It's my understanding that the majority of botted XP comes from wheat bots that feed their wheat into wooden cauldrons on a continuous and grand scale. If wooden cauldrons produced XP with a tag that stuck with them even into transition into emeralds and emerald blocks (not combining with XP from iron and diamond cauldrons), we'd have the opportunity to choose our sources. Some states may even choose to outlaw transactions involving wooden cauldron XP. I foresee laws where private citizens could produce for their own use, but not for sale.

I don't just want to do this to bolster the price of my own diamond produced XP (since I use it almost as fast as I can make it, anyway), but also to develop the opportunity for a more interesting variety of crime, international drug smuggling. We could have outlaw states that actually mean something, rather than just, "Gee, I wish you guys wouldn't bot so much." The conflict that would derive from this would be complicated and interesting, which is of course the best kind.