This is the first and foremost category of my recently started guide, and it is barely a secret.
It used to be in the 1.19 Craftymynes server you could trade these items to follow a plot line, as an incentive to use your votes rewards. I never did it then, so I can't say with certainty what it looked like at its peak functionality, but there are still remnants of the NPCS and the locations I have found. I can make some guess-timates on the progression based on that.
The first villager you see is in a desert build.
You may have found others before this one, but I believe this is the one you are supposed to start with.
He asks you to get something from his daughter, so you have to go to the top of the cherry tree at spawn to find the next npc to investigate.