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Your Ultimate Guide To Minecraft Villager Trades

Minecraft has a fantastic feature called villager trades that enables users to exchange their stuff for possibly better ones with other non-player characters in the game. In fact, certain things are only available through trade! You may engage in trades to transform your surplus of useless items—like coal, raw meat, etc.—into something valuable if you have a lot of them and can afford to part with them.
However, if you’ve never traded previously, it may be challenging to comprehend how it works. Keeping track of all the potential Minecraft villager trades can develop is another challenge.
How Do Villager Trades Work in Minecraft?
Only a Minecraft villager trader is capable of making trades. It’s likely that you can’t trade with someone if they’re not on this list.
Any villager without a profession (except the nitwit) may be made into a merchant by putting a certain block in front of them (called a job site block). It depends on the block you lay down and what kind of trader the villager becomes.
The villager-turned-trader cannot return to being a villager after you have traded with them, even if their work site block is damaged.
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List Of Every Villager Trades In Minecraft
Not Very Interesting Villager Trades
Starting with the less prosperous villagers will be a good idea. Simply said, even at their maximum level, you won’t receive many cool or useful items from them (which is Master). The things they provide you are things you can find or manufacture yourself with a lot less work and time. However, you may still use them as reliable sources of emeralds to store up for trading with villages that provide better returns.
Additionally, at lower levels, who knows? They could possibly be giving you precisely what you need!
We’ll use the Fisherman as our starting point for our guide breakdown:
Fisherman
Block to Put Down: This is the block you place down and attach the villager to, also known as the construction site block. In this instance, the villager will turn into a Fisherman to trade with if a Barrel block is placed and linked to it.
Items to Trade for Emeralds
The objects you can gift the villager in return for emeralds are discussed in this section. For instance, you may pay a fisherman 20 strings in exchange for one emerald. Additionally, if you offer them four pufferfish, you will still get one emerald.
- 20 string
- 10 coal
- 15 raw cod
- 13 raw salmon
- 6 tropical fish
- 4 pufferfish
- 1 boat (5 variations)
Items to Receive for Emeralds
What goods you can get from the villager in return for emeralds are covered in this section. Some villages will want two things in place of one. For instance, a fisherman at the apprentice level will swap 6 cooked salmon and 1 emerald for 6 raw salmon.
- 6 raw cod + 1 emerald → 6 cooked cod
- 6 raw salmon + 1 emerald → 6 cooked salmon
- 3 emeralds → 1 bucket of cod
- 2 emeralds → 1 campfire
- 7 to 22 emerald → 1 Enchanted fishing rod
Leatherworker
Block to Put Down: Cauldron
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 6 leather
- 26 flints
- 9 rabbit hide
- 4 scute
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 3 emerald → 1 Leather Pants
- 7 emerald → 1 Leather Tunic
- 5 emerald → 1 Leather Cap
- 4 emerald → 1 Leather Boots
- 6 emerald → Leather Horse Armor
- 6 emerald → 1 saddle
- 5 emerald → 1 Leather Cap
Cleric
Block to Put Down: Brewing Stand
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 32 rotten flesh
- 3 gold ingot
- 2 rabbit’s foot
- 4 scute
- 9 glass bottle
- 22 Nether wart
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 1 emerald → 2 Redstone dust
- 1 emeralds → 1 Lapis Lazuli
- 4 emeralds → 1 Glowstone dust
- 5 emeralds → 1 Ender pearl
- 3 emeralds → Bottle o’ Enchanting
Cartographer
Block to Put Down: Cartography Table
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 24 paper
- 11 glass pane
- 1 compass
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 13 emerald + 1 compass → 1 Ocean Explorer Map
- 14 emerald + 1 compass → 1 Woodland Explorer Map
- 7 emerald → 1 empty map (empty maps can be treasure maps (that lead to sunken ships), woodland mansion maps (that take you to the nearest woodland mansion), etc.)
- 7 emerald → 1 item frame
- 7 emerald → 1 blank banner (16 random variations)
- 1 emerald → 1 flower charge banner pattern
- 2 emerald → 1 field masoned banner pattern
- 2 emerald → 1 bordure indented banner pattern
Shepherd
Most dyes are exchanged for emeralds by the shepherd. But keep in mind that different colors are permissible at various concentrations. Red, light gray, pink, yellow, and orange dye cannot be accepted by apprentice-level shepherds, while journeyman-level shepherds may. Green, purple, cyan, magenta, brown, or blue dye cannot be accepted by Journeyman-level Shepherds, although it may be by Expert-level Shepherds.
Block to Put Down: Loom
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 18 wool (4 variations)
- 12 dye (5 variations: lime, gray, light blue, black, white)
- 12 dye (5 variations: red, light gray, pink, yellow, orange)
- 12 dye (6 variations: green, purple, cyan, magenta, brown, blue)
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 2 emeralds → 1 shear
- 1 emerald → 1 wool (16 variations)
- 1 emerald → 1 carpet (16 variations)
- 3 emeralds → 1 bed (16 variations)
- 3 emeralds → 1 blank banner (16 variations)
- 2 emeralds → 3 paintings
Fairly Interesting Villager Trades
Mason
In Minecraft, quartz isn’t always simple to discover or mine, so having a ready supply is a smart idea. A reasonably reliable supply of colored and/or glazed terracotta might be helpful if you enjoy designing and building.
Block to Put Down: Stonecutter
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 10 clays
- 20 stones
- 16 stones (3 variations)
- 12 Nether quartz
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 1 emerald → 10 brick
- 1 emerald → 4 chiseled stone bricks
- 1 emerald → 4 polished stones (one of 3 variations) OR Dripstone Block
- 1 emerald → 1 Colored Terracotta or Glazed Terracotta (16 variations)
- 1 emerald → 1 block of Quartz OR Quartz pillar
Fletcher
Making enchanting weapons might be tiresome even though it’s quite simple to accomplish once you have all the necessary materials. And making pointed arrows is very difficult. Therefore, if you can purchase them with emeralds, we strongly advise you to do so. Any tipped arrow is useful to have on hand, but since the trades are random, you might not always acquire the same type.
Block to Put Down: Fletching Table
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 32 sticks
- 26 flint
- 14 string
- 24 feather
- 8 tripwire hook
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 1 emerald + 10 gravel → 10 flint
- 2 emeralds + 5 arrows → 5 tipped arrows (1 of 15 variations)
- 1 emerald → 16 arrows
- 2 emeralds → 1 bow
- 3 emeralds → 1 crossbow
- 7 to 21 emeralds → 1 Enchanted bow
- 8 to 22 emeralds → 1 Enchanted crossbow
Butcher
Always keep enough cooked meat on hand, especially beef. Cooked beef replenishes 12.8 saturation and 4 hunger points, which is a significant amount. Why not get a few handfuls from your friendly local butcher and cook it without a furnace?
Block to Put Down: Smoker
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 14 raw chicken
- 7 raw porkchop
- 4 raw rabbit
- 15 coal
- 7 raw mutton
- 10 raw beef
- 10 dried kelp block
- 10 sweet berries
Items to Receive for Emeralds
- 1 emerald → 1 rabbit stew
- 1 emerald → 5 cooked porkchop
- 1 emerald → 8 cooked chicken
- 1 emerald → 3 cooked beef
Highly Interesting Villager Trades
These are the Minecraft villagers that you have to put up right away. Put down as many as you can after you have their construction site block, then connect the villagers for trade. We strongly advise putting up many of the same merchants at once because the things they provide may be fairly challenging to locate, acquire, or make in-game.
Some Minecraft users even have special Trading Halls that they populate with nothing but these incredibly successful villagers. Look at this!
Armorer
Trading emeralds is far simpler than laboriously mining enough diamonds to create a full set of diamond armor, much alone an Enchanted set. Additionally, the diamonds you utilize to create diamond armor may be used to create other goods or recipes.
Although it is considerably simpler to get iron than diamonds, you can also utilize it in a wide variety of other recipes outside making iron armor. As usual, the armor’s enchantments are random, but you never know if you’ll get lucky and acquire a pair with particularly advantageous characteristics.
Block to Put Down: Blast Furnace
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 15 coals
- 4 iron ingots
- 1 lava bucket
- 1 diamond
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
- 5 emeralds → 1 iron helmet
- 9 emeralds → 1 iron chestplate
- 7 emeralds → 1 iron leggings
- 4 emeralds → 1 iron boots
Apprentice
- 36 emeralds → 1 bell
- 3 emeralds → 1 chainmail leggings
- 1 emerald → 1 chainmail boots
Journeyman
- 1 emerald → 1 chainmail helmet
- 4 emeralds → 1 chainmail chestplate
- 5 emeralds → 1 shield
Expert
- 19 to 33 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond leggings
- 13 to 27 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond boots
Master
- 13 to 27 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond helmet
- 21 to 35 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond chest plate
Toolsmith
For the same reason why dealing with the Armorer is highly successful, trading and gathering emeralds methodically may help you save a lot of diamonds. A few pieces of coal or some flint may be exchanged for emeralds, which can then be exchanged for diamond tools that may be Enchanted. Diamond tools are among the toughest alternatives available (second only to Netherite).
Block to Put Down: Smithing Table
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 15 coals
- 4 iron ingots
- 30 flints
- 1 diamond
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
- 1 emerald → 1 stone ax
- 1 emerald → 1 stone shovel
- 1 emerald → 1 stone pickaxe
- 1 emerald → 1 stone hoe
Apprentice
- 36 emerald → 1 bell
Journeyman
- 6 to 20 emeralds → 1 Enchanted iron ax
- 7 to 21 emeralds → 1 Enchanted iron shovel
- 8 to 22 emeralds → 1 Enchanted iron pickaxe
- 4 emerald → 1 diamond hoe
Expert
- 17 to 31 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond ax
- 10 to 24 emeralds → 1 Enchanted diamond shovel
Master
- 18 to 32 emerald → 1 Enchanted diamond pickaxe
Weaponsmith
In the same manner that the Armorer and Toolsmith are profitable, so is the Weaponsmith. Once more, purchasing diamond weaponry with emeralds will result in significant diamond savings. Additionally, a lot of veteran Minecraft players claim that the Diamond ax will always have a combat enchantment.
Block to Put Down: Grindstone
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 15 coal
- 4 iron ingot
- 24 flint
- 1 diamond
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
- 3 emeralds → 1 iron ax
- 7 to 21 emeralds → Enchanted iron sword
Apprentice
- 36 emeralds → 1 bell
Expert
- 17 to 31 emeralds → Enchanted diamond ax
Master
- 13 to 27 emeralds → Enchanted diamond sword
Farmer
Here are some reasons why the Golden Carrot is one of the most important food and brewing things in Minecraft, and why you should absolutely harvest as much of it as you can if you haven’t already: It offers the second-highest level of saturation in the game (the first being suspicious stew crafted with blue orchid or dandelion).
This carrot can only be obtained by searching certain chests (all with fewer than 15% drop probability), creating it (1 carrot + 8 gold nuggets), or exchanging it. And as you would have guessed, trading it is by far the simplest course of action.
Block to Put Down: Composter
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 20 wheat
- 26 potato
- 22 carrot
- 15 beetroot
- 6 pumpkin
- 4 melon
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
- 1 emerald → 6 bread
Apprentice
- 1 emerald → 4 pumpkin pie
- 1 emerald → 4 apple
Journeyman
- 3 emeralds → 18 cookies
Expert
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 5s of Night Vision)
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 8s of Jump Boost)
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 7s of Weakness)
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 6s of Blindness)
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 14s of Poison)
- 1 emerald → 1 suspicious stew (with 0.35s of Saturation)
Master
- 3 emeralds → 3 Golden Carrot
- 3 emeralds → 3 Glistering Melon Slice
Librarian
In return for emeralds, the librarian offers you a random Enchanted book (plus one regular book). You can enchant goods with enchanted books, and as you may probably assume, this is quite helpful for combat, mining, and exploring.
Efficiency enchantments like Speed (which you may apply to tools to assist speed up mining and crafting) and Unbreaking (which significantly increases a tool’s durability) are a few examples of enchantments.
Block to Put Down: Lectern
Items to Trade for Emeralds
- 24 papers
- 5 ink sac
- 4 books
- 1 book and quill
Items to Receive for Emeralds
All Levels
- 5 to 64 emeralds + 1 book → 1 Enchanted book
Novice
- 9 emeralds → 1 bookshelf
Apprentice
- 1 emerald → 1 lantern
Journeyman
- 1 emerald → 4 glass
Expert
- 5 emeralds 1 clock
- 4 emeralds 1 compass
Master
- 20 emeralds 1 name tag
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