AZURE BLUET

Stand a row of Minecraft's flowers side by side and azure bluet is the one people forget the name of. A short white bloom with a faint blue ring around the middle, easy to miss against tall grass, and it does not carry a color anyone builds their whole palette around. That has not stopped the Wandering Trader from stocking it at 1 emerald a flower, the same fixed rate his everyday goods run.

What it makes is light gray dye, and Oxeye Daisy and White Tulip lands on the identical shade, so this is one of the rare pairs on the site where two entirely different plants are, dye-wise, interchangeable. If a build calls for that color and only that color, whichever one shows up on a trader first is the one worth buying.

One seller, no exceptions. The Wandering Trader wants 1 emerald for 1 azure bluet, and he never hands emeralds back for one, so the flower only ever moves in one direction once bought.

Not a single job villager, from Farmer to Cleric, lists it either way. Flowers of this kind belong to the trader's shelf alone, which is the whole reason his listing here has exactly one row.

He asks 1 emerald each, and 25 of the other 75 come cheaper. Price is the easy part: he draws his stock from a shared pool, so catching one that happens to be carrying azure bluet is the real constraint.

The Wandering Trader asks 1 emerald for an azure bluet. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

a compass against 32 sticks for the same 1 emerald, 32 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Shepherd at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.

He is not part of a village, so none of the usual leverage applies. He simply appears near wherever you happen to be, two leashed llamas trailing behind him, sticks around for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and leaves again on his own clock whether or not a single trade went through. There is no workstation to place and no job block to knock loose that would change what he is carrying.

He will not buy azure bluet back under any circumstance. His purchase list is six fixed items and a flower is not one of them, so emeralds only ever travel toward him in this trade.

Whether the trader standing in front of you has azure bluet at all comes down to which slice of his full catalogue got rolled at spawn, since he never shows the whole thing at once. Slapping a name tag on one who does have it stops the despawn timer for good, turning a lucky encounter into a shop you can walk back to.

A full stack runs 64 emeralds across 64 trades, assuming the trader in front of you has that much stock to sell. Given how plain the color is, most players only buy exactly what one build needs rather than stocking up in advance.

The same visit usually carries more than just this flower. Also on the wandering trader's list: red tulip, orange tulip, white tulip, pink tulip, oxeye daisy and cornflower.

One azure bluet on the grid gives one light gray dye. That matters because light gray is otherwise a mixing job: gray plus white, or black plus two whites, depending on which route you take, and both of them spend a dye you could have used directly.

The plant grows in plains and meadows, the two biomes most likely to already be under your village, so this is usually a flower you walk past rather than travel for. Bone meal on grass in the right biome will keep producing them.

If you are dyeing in quantity, it is worth knowing that the white tulip and the oxeye daisy do the same job for light gray. Whichever of the three grows nearest is the right one.