Minecraft has a fantastic feature called trading 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 operates. Keeping track of all the potential trades that Minecraft villagers can develop is another challenge. We’ve created this concise, clear tutorial on Minecraft villager trading.
How Does Trading Work in Minecraft?
Only a Minecraft 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 relies on the block you lay down 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.
The five career levels for traders are beginner, apprentice, journeyman, expert, and master. Their level rises with each exchange you make with them. It’s important to note that traders at higher levels will have more products to offer, most of which will be of higher value. As a result, you should continue trading with them to get experience points.
Let’s now examine the list of available dealers and the products they provide.
Not So Profitable Villagers
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.
1. 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
This section describes the goods that the villager will provide you in return for emeralds. Some folks will ask for two things instead of only one. For instance, a fisherman at the apprentice level will trade six cooked salmon for six raw salmon and one emerald.
6 raw cod + 1 emerald for 6 cooked cod
6 raw salmon + 1 emerald for 6 cooked salmon
3 emerald for 1 bucket of cod
2 emerald for 1 campfire
7 to 22 emerald for 1 Enchanted fishing rod
2. LEATHERWORKER
Block to Put Down: Cauldron
Items to Trade for Emeralds
6 leather
26 flint
9 rabbit hide
4 scute
Items to Receive for Emeralds
3 emerald for 1 Leather Pants
7 emerald for 1 Leather Tunic
5 emerald for 1 Leather Cap
4 emerald for 1 Leather Boots
6 emerald for Leather Horse Armor
6 emerald for 1 saddle
5 emerald for 1 Leather Cap
3. 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 for 2 Redstone dust
1 emerald for 1 Lapis Lazuli
4 emerald for 1 Glowstone dust
5 emerald for 1 Ender pearl
3 emerald for Bottle o’ Enchanting
4. 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 for 1 Ocean Explorer Map
14 emerald + 1 compass for 1 Woodland Explorer Map
7 emerald for 1 empty map
7 emerald for 1 item frame
7 emerald for 1 blank banner (16 random variations)
1 emerald for 1 flower charge banner pattern
2 emerald for 1 field masoned banner pattern
2 emerald for 1 bordure indented banner pattern
5. SHEPHERD
Most dyes are exchanged for emeralds by the shepherd. But keep in mind that different colors are permissible at various concentrations. Red, light grey, pink, yellow, and orange dye cannot be accepted by apprentice-level shepherds, while journeyman-level shepherds may. Some dyes 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 which are lime, gray, light blue, black, white)
12 dye (5 variations that are red, light gray, pink, yellow, orange)
12 dye (6 variations that is green, purple, cyan, magenta, brown, blue)
Items to Receive for Emeralds
2 emerald for 1 shears
1 emerald for 1 wool (16 variations)
1 emerald for 1 carpet (16 variations)
3 emerald for 1 bed (16 variations)
3 emerald for 1 blank banner (16 variations)
2 emerald for 3 painting
Fairly Profitable Villagers
These are the villagers who have some really valuable goods for trade. Gaining a good deal from these villagers is pretty likely because the item you receive in exchange for your emeralds could be hard to locate, buy, or construct in-game (depending of what you receive). Even if they aren’t as profitable and beneficial as those in the impending third group, it’s still a good idea to connect them and conduct occasional trades with them. Let’s begin:
1. MASON
Block to Put Down: Stonecutter
Items to Trade for Emeralds
10 clay
20 stone
16 stone (3 variations)
12 Nether quartz
Items to Receive for Emeralds
1 emerald for 10 brick
1 emerald for 4 chiseled stone bricks
1 emerald for 4 polished stone (one of 3 variations) OR Dripstone Block
1 emerald for 1 Colored Terracotta or Glazed Terracotta (16 variations)
1 emerald for 1 block of Quartz OR Quartz pillar
Why it’s profitable: 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.
2. FLETCHER
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 for 10 flints
2 emerald + 5 arrows for 5 tipped arrow (1 of 15 variations)
1 emerald for 16 arrows
2 emerald for 1 bows
3 emerald for 1 crossbows
7 to 21 emeralds for 1 Enchanted bow
8 to 22 emeralds for 1 Enchanted crossbow
Why it’s profitable: Making and 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.
3. BUTCHER
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 for 1 rabbit stew
1 emerald for 5 cooked porkchop
1 emerald for 8 cooked chicken
1 emerald for 3 cooked beef
Why it’s profitable: Having a large supply of cooked meat on hand is usually a smart idea, especially beef. Cooked beef replenishes 12.8 saturation and four hunger points, which is a significant amount. Why not get a few handfuls from your friendly local butcher and cook it without a furnace?
Highly Profitable Villagers
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!
1. ARMORER
Block to Put Down: Blast Furnace
Items to Trade for Emeralds
15 coal
4 iron ingot
1 lava bucket
1 diamond
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
5 emerald for 1 iron helmet
9 emerald for 1 iron chestplate
7 emerald for 1 iron leggings
4 emerald for 1 iron boot
Apprentice
36 emerald for 1 bell
3 emerald for 1 chainmail leggings
1 emerald for 1 chainmail boots
Journeyman
1 emerald for 1 chainmail helmet
4 emerald for 1 chainmail chestplate
5 emerald for 1 shield
Expert
19 to 33 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond leggings
13 to 27 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond boots
Master
13 to 27 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond helmet
21 to 35 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond chestplate
The reason it’s successful is because trading emeralds is far simpler than laboriously mining enough diamonds to make a whole 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.
2. TOOLSMITH
Block to Put Down: Smithing Table
Items to Trade for Emeralds
15 coal
4 iron ingot
30 flint
1 diamond
Items to Receive for Emeralds
Novice
1 emerald for 1 stone axe
1 emerald for 1 stone shovel
1 emerald for 1 stone pickaxe
1 emerald for 1 stone hoe
Apprentice
36 emerald for 1 bell
Journeyman
6 to 20 emerald for 1 Enchanted iron axe
7 to 21 emerald for 1 Enchanted iron shovel
8 to 22 emerald for 1 Enchanted iron pickaxe
4 emerald for 1 diamond hoe
Expert
17 to 31 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond axe
10 to 24 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond shovel
Master
18 to 32 emerald for 1 Enchanted diamond pickaxe
It is profitable for the same reason that trading with the Armorer is so lucrative. Simply trading and collecting emeralds methodically can 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).
3. WEAPONSMITH
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 emerald for 1 iron axe
7 to 21 emerald for Enchanted iron sword
Apprentice
36 emerald for 1 bell
Expert
17 to 31 emerald for Enchanted diamond axe
Master
13 to 27 emerald for Enchanted diamond sword
The same reasons the Armorer and Toolsmith are profitable also apply to 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.
4. FARMER
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 for 6 bread
Apprentice
1 emerald for 4 pumpkin pie
1 emerald for 4 apple
Journeyman
3 emerald for 18 cookie
Expert
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 5s of Night Vision)
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 8s of Jump Boost)
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 7s of Weakness)
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 6s of Blindness)
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 14s of Poison)
1 emerald for 1 suspicious stew (with 0.35s of Saturation)
Master
3 emerald for 3 Golden Carrot
3 emerald for 3 Glistering Melon Slice
Why it’s profitable: If you haven’t already, here are some reasons why the Golden Carrot is one of the most beneficial food and brewing things in Minecraft and why you should harvest as much of it as you can. It delivers the game’s second-highest saturation (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.
5. LIBRARIAN
Block to Put Down: Lectern
Items to Trade for Emeralds
24 paper
5 ink sac
4 book
1 book and quill
Items to Receive for Emeralds
All Levels
5 to 64 emerald + 1 book for 1 Enchanted book
Novice
9 emerald for 1 bookshelf
Apprentice
1 emerald for 1 lantern
Journeyman
1 emerald for 4 glass
Expert
5 emerald 1 clock
4 emerald 1 compass
Master
20 emerald 1 name tag
Why it’s profitable: For emeralds, the librarian will trade you one of several enchanted books (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.