PINK TULIP

Every other tulip color shares its dye with at least one other flower. Pink does not. Nothing else in this jar's crafting data turns into pink dye, which makes this the one tulip where the trader's shelf and the wild flower are genuinely the only two doors into that color.

Buying it is still the exception rather than the plan. No job villager touches pink tulip at any tier, so the Wandering Trader's 1-emerald price is not competing with anything, it is simply the only villager-side number that exists for this flower.

Exactly one seller. The Wandering Trader charges 1 emerald for 1 pink tulip, a number written directly into the trade file, so it holds steady no matter which trader you happen to run into.

He is also the only one with an interest in it at all. No profession lists pink tulip as something it wants back, so there is no way to sell one for emeralds once you own it; the flower only ever moves in the direction he hands it to you.

He asks 1 emerald each, and 38 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 pink tulip is the real constraint.

The Wandering Trader asks 1 emerald for a pink tulip. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

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

The trader does not belong to any village, so village tricks do not apply here at all. He shows up on his own near wherever you happen to be, two llamas leashed behind him, stays for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and moves on regardless of whether you bought anything from him. There is no workstation and no job block tied to this offer in any way.

He does not buy pink tulip either, under any circumstance. Only six specific items ever pass from a player back into his inventory, a fixed short list that this flower is not part of, so the trade runs one direction only, your emeralds for his stock and nothing coming back.

What he is carrying on any given day is a partial slice of a much larger list, so the trader you find may simply not have rolled pink tulip this time, no matter how long you wait around. A name tag stops a promising one from despawning for good, which is the only reliable way to lock in a second visit later on.

A full stack costs 64 emeralds across 64 trades, and unlike the other tulip colors there is no dye-mixing shortcut to fall back on here, this is the actual source. If pink shows up on a trader's list and you know you will want the dye eventually, it is worth buying more than you need for the one project in front of you.

Check the rest of that trader's stock while you are there. Also on his list: oxeye daisy, cornflower, lily of the valley, wheat seeds, beetroot seeds and pumpkin seeds.

A pink tulip gives pink dye directly, one for one. The alternative is mixing red with white, which costs two dyes to make one, so the flower is worth twice what it looks like the moment you are colouring anything in quantity.

Tulips come in four colours and each gives its own dye: red, orange, white and this one. They grow in plains and flower forests, and bone meal on grass in those biomes keeps making more.

A peony works too, and gives pink as well, so if your biome has peonies and no tulips you are still covered.