Tutorials/Trading

This tutorial will teach you about how to get the most out of villager trading.

Setting up a village
First, you will need to set up your village. Check out these tutorials to set up your village or villager trading hall.

Tutorials/Creating a village

Tutorials/Villager trading hall

Benefits of villager trading
Villager trading has many advantages. It allows you to:


 * Obtain exclusive resources like Explorer Maps
 * Obtain rare items like Saddles
 * Obtain renewable diamond equipment without having to mine for diamonds
 * Obtain valuable enchantments through books
 * Make otherwise non-renewable resources renewable, like Lapis Lazuli
 * Make otherwise useless items like Rotten Flesh useful because they can be traded for Emeralds

Armorer
This profession is a must, as it allows you to obtain Chain and Diamond Armor easily. In addition, you can buy Bells if you plan on starting a new village. The best way to level it up is using Iron. Iron is not too hard to get in large quantities after a large mining session, and it offers decent XP. Diamonds and Lava Buckets are too hard to obtain in large quantities to be ideal. In Java Edition, one villager is needed to get a full set, while in Bedrock Edition, at least two villagers are needed.

Butcher
This profession does not sell anything other than food. However, it is useful to sell raw meat, and later, Sweet Berries and Dried Kelp Blocks, to obtain Emeralds. Level it up with the desired meat.

Cartographer
The main reason to have a cartographer is to obtain Explorer Maps for an ocean monument or woodland mansion, in addition to unique banner patterns. Paper is sufficient to level it up, but if you have lots of sand, glass panes work fine, too. Once you have purchased the maps, the villager is not very useful, and you may kill it and replace it with a different villager.

Cleric
This profession is mainly useful for purchasing Ender Pearls, or by obtaining Bottles o' Enchanting to raise your experience level. In addition, it allows you to trade away Rotten Flesh that has probably been either accumulating in your chests or thrown out. It is a little hard to level up, as aside from the flesh, it buys hard to obtain items, but this profession is still useful nonetheless.

Farmer
The main use of this profession is to obtain Emeralds by trading away crops, although they sell Golden Carrots and Glistering Melon Slices if you do not have a lot of gold. It is recommended to sell Pumpkins, as these grow fast and are easy to mass farm. Level them up with Melon trades, however, as it is twice as effective.

Fisherman
One of the less useful professions, it is really only useful for selling fish that you obtain from fishing sessions. While it buys String and coal, it asks for relatively high quantities, and you can sell these items to other professions. Level them up with the fish trades.

Fletcher
This profession is very useful in obtaining Emeralds, as they buy Sticks, which are easy to get. In addition, if you do not have Infinity on their bow, you can buy lots of arrows for a relatively cheap price. If you max them out, you can get hard to obtain tipped arrows, as well. If you want them, level the villager up with sticks unless you can afford the other trades.

Leatherworker
This profession is really only useful for obtaining Saddles, since leather armor is weak. It is recommended to level it up with leather unless you can afford the later trades.

Librarian
This is a very important profession late-game, as it allows you to obtain every enchantment, including treasure enchantments, with the exception of Soul Speed. In addition, it can buy Paper and Books, giving a good source of emeralds. This allows you to get perfect enchanted gear, although it will require a lot of XP. In addition, having every enchantment will take up a lot of space in a village, and it takes a while until you get the enchantment you need for each villager. There is no need to level them up unless you need Name Tags, in which case level them up with the latest available trade.

Stone Mason
This villager is very useful for obtaining Emeralds, as you can trade it Stone (not cobblestone), especially if you have a stone generator and a Silk Touch pickaxe. Otherwise, you can sell them extra Andesite, Granite and Diorite that you picked up from a mining session, or buy Quartz Blocks for a large build. Level them up with the stone trade unless you have a lot of the stone variant to trade away. Note that you will need three masons to trade away each type of stone.

Shephard
This profession does not sell anything valuable, but it can buy Wool as a good source of Emeralds. There is no need to level it up.

Toolsmith
This profession is also a must, since you can obtain diamond tools, as well as buying Bells. Try to get a villager that sells you a Diamond Shovel instead of a Diamond Axe because you can get the axe from a Weaponsmith villager. Also, if you plan on using a diamond hoe, try to get a villager that sells you one, too. Like the armorer, level it up using iron.

Weaponsmith
This profession is also very important, since you can obtain a Diamond Axe and a Diamond Sword easily, in addition to buying bells. Level it up with Iron, as well