Villagers and trading

Librarian

Workstation: Lectern

The most valuable villager in the game. Librarians sell enchanted books, and because a lectern can be broken and replaced to reroll an unemployed villager, you can fish for a specific enchantment at a fixed price.

Worth trading for

• · Enchanted books, including Mending
• · Bookshelves
• · Glass
• · Name tags
• · Compasses

Farmer

Workstation: Composter

Buys crops and sells food. A farmer turns a wheat farm into emeralds and is the easiest early source of golden carrots, which are the best food in the game by saturation.

Worth trading for

• · Emeralds for wheat, carrots, potatoes and beetroot
• · Bread
• · Golden carrots
• · Cakes
• · Suspicious stew

Toolsmith

Workstation: Smithing Table

Sells enchanted iron and diamond tools, and buys coal and iron. Useful mainly as an emerald sink early on, and as a way to get a diamond pickaxe before you have found diamonds.

Worth trading for

• · Enchanted diamond pickaxe, axe and shovel
• · Bells
• · Emeralds for coal and iron ingots

Weaponsmith

Workstation: Grindstone

Sells enchanted iron and diamond swords and axes. A master weaponsmith is one of the cheapest routes to an enchanted diamond sword.

Worth trading for

• · Enchanted diamond sword and axe
• · Bells
• · Emeralds for coal and iron ingots

Armorer

Workstation: Blast Furnace

Sells iron, chainmail and eventually enchanted diamond armour. Buying a full enchanted diamond set from an armorer is usually far cheaper than enchanting it yourself.

Worth trading for

• · Enchanted diamond chestplate and other pieces
• · Chainmail armour
• · Shields
• · Bells

Cleric

Workstation: Brewing Stand

The only renewable source of ender pearls from trading, which matters if you are short of them before the End. Also buys rotten flesh, turning a zombie farm into emeralds.

Worth trading for

• · Ender pearls
• · Bottles o’ enchanting
• · Redstone
• · Lapis lazuli
• · Glowstone
• · Emeralds for rotten flesh

Fletcher

Workstation: Fletching Table

Buys sticks — which are trivially cheap to make from any wood — and sells arrows, bows and crossbows. The stick trade is one of the fastest early emerald farms in the game.

Worth trading for

• · Emeralds for sticks
• · Arrows
• · Tipped arrows
• · Enchanted bows and crossbows

Shepherd

Workstation: Loom

Buys wool and dye and sells beds, banners and paintings. A sheep farm plus a shepherd is a steady emerald income with almost no setup.

Worth trading for

• · Emeralds for wool of any colour
• · Beds
• · Banners
• · Paintings
• · Shears

Butcher

Workstation: Smoker

Buys raw meat and sells cooked. Pairs naturally with an animal farm, and the cooked-meat trades are a reasonable food supply before you have a proper farm.

Worth trading for

• · Emeralds for raw chicken, pork and rabbit
• · Cooked porkchop and chicken
• · Rabbit stew
• · Dried kelp blocks

Leatherworker

Workstation: Cauldron

Buys leather and sells leather armour and horse armour. The saddle trade is the reliable way to get one without exploring for chests.

Worth trading for

• · Saddles
• · Leather horse armour
• · Dyed leather armour
• · Emeralds for leather

Mason

Workstation: Stonecutter

Buys clay and stone and sells decorative blocks — polished stone, terracotta, glazed terracotta and quartz. The best trading source of building materials in quantity.

Worth trading for

• · Emeralds for clay balls and stone
• · Polished stone variants
• · Terracotta in every colour
• · Quartz blocks

Cartographer

Workstation: Cartography Table

Sells explorer maps that point at ocean monuments and woodland mansions, which are otherwise very hard to find deliberately. Also the source of item frames and banner patterns.

Worth trading for

• · Ocean explorer map
• · Woodland explorer map
• · Item frames
• · Banner patterns
• · Emeralds for paper

Fisherman

Workstation: Barrel

Buys string and coal and sells cooked fish, campfires and an enchanted fishing rod. The boat trade is a cheap way to move a villager.

Worth trading for

• · Enchanted fishing rod
• · Cooked cod and salmon
• · Campfires
• · Boats
• · Emeralds for string and coal

Does not trade at all and cannot be given a profession. Nitwits wear a green robe and are identifiable before you waste a workstation on them. They still breed and still count toward village population.

A villager with no workstation claimed. Place a job site block within range and it will take that profession — and because an unemployed villager has no locked trades yet, this is how you reroll for the enchantment you want.