Minecraft wiki entry for Speedrun, associated text: If you use a dark oak forest or jungle, place the TNT closer to the top of the trees. The top area generally is more crowded with logs, and less dirt/grass will be blown up, which lets more logs be blown up. Collect at least 6 stacks of logs, which is about 24 stacks of planks, or 48 stacks of sticks. Once you have enough, head to the village, and then, if you are not on the second day yet, sleep in a bed. Find an unemployed (brown coat with no decorations) villager. Craft a fletching table, with 4 wood and 2 flints, and place it by that villager. When he becomes a fletcher, see if he has the sticks trade (32 sticks -> 1 emerald). If he does not, break the table, wait for it to become unemployed, and then place it again. Do this until he offers the stick to emerald trade.