ive recently started doing minecraft rsg runs, and im looking for some advice in village runs? Im actually a pretty big fan of doing structureless overworld, since its pretty consistent and less resets which i find really boring. However, when i do get really near a village in spawn, i never get an iron pick, which is super important (or at least i think it is). Without it you cant do bastions, and everything is slower. Is there any method for getting an iron pick consistently when all you have is village resources?

for fsg i recommed cod if you are digging down then mine iron (use cod if you find lava)

Cod strats make a barrel get haybales from a village trade wheat for emeralds one you get 3 emeralds place the barrel until you get a villager that trades 3 emeralds for a bucket ,or if possible you could get iron from a blacksmith

You will get the iron from the bastion chest

id say either bank on iron in bastion or try to get iron while mining down for lava, then smelt it while building your portal, it's a good way to task overlap and might honestly be faster than double trading