how about you get to hire villagers with emeralds to help carry stuff for you or do jobs like coal mining or collecting iron ore. not to make it too easy but if you are digging in a cave and you come across a block of coal ore or something then the villager could mine it for you providing you have given them the correct tools and is not close to monsters they will then carry it for you until you get back to you house where they would then drop it into a chest and leave. or they would drop it if they die and you would then have to scramble like hell to collect it all
how about you get to hire villagers with emeralds to help carry stuff for you or do jobs like coal mining or collecting iron ore. not to make it too easy but if you are digging in a cave and you come across a block of coal ore or something then the villager could mine it for you providing you have given them the correct tools and is not close to monsters they will then carry it for you until you get back to you house where they would then drop it into a chest and leave. or they would drop it if they die and you would then have to scramble like hell to collect it all