OPEN EYEBLOSSOM

Every other flower on the trader's list just sits there. Open eyeblossom does not: it is the one plant on this list with two states, open and closed, and it reacts to a player standing near it rather than staying put like a normal decoration. That alone makes it worth grabbing for the way it looks in a build, closed variety included, and not only for any dye it might make.

It also only grows naturally in the Pale Garden, the fog-toned biome that sits beside the Dark Forest, which puts it out of reach for a lot of worlds unless someone travels there first. The Wandering Trader selling it for 1 emerald a stem is, for most players, a shortcut around that trip rather than a nice-to-have. Crushing it produces orange dye.

The Wandering Trader is the only source, selling 1 open eyeblossom for 1 emerald, with no offer to buy it back.

No job villager stocks it. Since it only spawns naturally in one biome, the trader's version is effectively the only trade route into it for anyone not making the trip to a Pale Garden themselves.

He asks 1 emerald each, and 34 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 open eyeblossom is the real constraint.

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

a compass against 24 paper for the same 1 emerald, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Farmer at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.

Nothing about a workstation or a job level affects this offer, since the Wandering Trader is not tied to any village. He turns up near the player on his own, two leashed llamas behind him, stays for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and leaves again on his own clock whether or not the flower got bought.

His inventory is a rolled sample each time he spawns, so open eyeblossom is not guaranteed to be on offer, and his short buying list never includes it, meaning the trade only ever runs from his stock into the player's. A name tag removes his despawn timer, which turns a lucky find into a standing supply.

A full stack costs 64 emeralds across 64 trades, if the trader found is carrying that many. Given how far a Pale Garden can be from spawn, this is usually the faster route to a decorative patch of them compared with searching the biome out.

A trader stocking open eyeblossom often has an odd mix worth checking in the same visit, saplings and coral alike: pale oak sapling, brain coral block, bubble coral block, fire coral block, horn coral block and tube coral block.

Eyeblossoms change with the time of day: closed while the sun is up, open at night. The open version is the one you buy, and it will close again on its own in daylight unless it is kept in the dark.

It belongs to the pale garden, the grey woodland where almost nothing else grows, and it gives orange dye like an orange tulip. Bees will not touch it, which is unusual and worth knowing before planting one beside a hive.

Eyeblossoms belong to the pale garden, and they are one of the flowers a suspicious stew will take. The stew made from the open one carries a different effect from the closed one, which is the only case in the game where the same plant gives two different results.

Bees will not go near them. That makes an eyeblossom garden a decoration rather than a hive supply, which is worth knowing before planting a border of them next to an apiary.

The pale garden itself is worth the trip: the palest wood in the game, grey leaves that keep their colour, and the creaking, which is the only mob that lives there.