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Well I think the value of emeralds will get really really low.
See, you can get emeralds form villagers. Here is a video to show some of the things villagers accept in exchange for emeralds:

Here is a list of things that you could give a villager and he would give you back 1 emerald:
16 meat
22 coal
9 gold ingots
9 iron ingots
20 wool
21 wheat
14 books
26 paper
51 rotten flesh
2 eye of ender

So basically if you can farm any of the things in the list, you can farm emeralds. As of the current pre release.

Last I checked, you can't give emeralds and get things like iron/ gold/ diamond, but you can get iron/ diamond tools weapons and armor.

Also, you can get chain mail from the blacksmith villager!

Ofc this is all just a pre release. The trade values might change.

I see a 21 wheat to 3 glowstone blocks equivalence. Honestly, renewable glowstone doesn't seem that exciting. It's a sign of wealth on minerealm. But I guess access to an alchemist villager is also a sign of wealth too.

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[ZachHunt]

I hope they make it more common and add other ores and stone types too...
Like in Tekkit...

I really want some fossils, tin, limestone, marble, etc. etc.

Wants Tekkit Tooooo

[alexrybicki]

It's still too early to speculate on the rarity of emeralds.

I found this to be useful though

[Susan_Boyle]

No emerald ore any more.

[lizardsrock4]

No emerald ore any more.

Good, there would have been many arguments to update the map, and the value and blah blah blabbity blah

[Prodigy9]

hai guiz teh villegers spawn teh emralds out off nowere so their not leggit.

[/sarcasm][/noob]

[Susan_Boyle]

hai guiz teh villegers spawn teh emralds out off nowere so their not leggit.

[/sarcasm][/noob]

Burn.

[lizardsrock4]

hai guiz teh villegers spawn teh emralds out off nowere so their not leggit.

[/sarcasm][/noob]

Ban all the vlleigres they are ngoood hax0rs!!11!!

[Bonejunky]

Oh goody, more "ban da hax0r sqweed" -type posts.