Mastering Villager Trading in Minecraft: A Complete Guide
Are you looking to enhance your Minecraft gameplay by trading with villagers but not sure where to start?
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore everything you need to know about trading in Minecraft. From finding a villager to trade with, to understanding the different types of villagers and items that can be traded, we’ve got you covered.
Discover the benefits of trading with villagers and learn some tips for successful trading. Let’s dive into the world of Minecraft trading!
Contents
- Key Takeaways:
- What Is Trading in Minecraft?
- How To Find a Villager to Trade With?
- How To Trade With A Villager?
- What Are The Items That Can Be Traded With Villagers?
- What Are The Benefits of Trading with Villagers?
- What Are Some Tips for Successful Trading in Minecraft?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- 1. How to Trade With a Villager in Minecraft?
- 2. What items can I trade with a villager in Minecraft?
- 3. How do I know what the villager wants in return for their item?
- 4. How do I get emeralds to trade with villagers?
- 5. Can I trade with a villager multiple times?
- 6. Are there any special tricks for trading with villagers in Minecraft?
Key Takeaways:
What Is Trading in Minecraft?
Trading in Minecraft is a game mechanic that allows players to exchange Emeralds with villagers to get goods and services in return for those emeralds. Trading was added to the game in Update 1.3 in February 2012, and it has since become a cherished part of the game depending on which biome and version the player is using.
Villagers in Minecraft have become a fixture of the game, and the trading system with them has been expanded a great deal to include more types of villagers and items. Not every type of item can be received via Introduction trading – players must earn reputation points by trading with the villager type they are interested in, which gets them to the next trading level on their way to receiving the items they want most.
How To Find a Villager to Trade With?
You may find a villager to trade with in the following ways:
- Naturally Spawning Villagers: Villagers and villages generate randomly in the world. According to Minecraft’s Java Edition data, they most tend to spawn in the Savanna or Plains. You may come across one of these naturally spawned villages. Note that this method may require a great deal of walking or teleportation and may end in failure depending on how long you search and how many villages may be in your current play world.
- Spawn Your Own Village: Players may expand the population of existing villages or build a small village themselves by capturing and curing zombie villagers.
- Trading Hall: Advanced players may build a large trading hall to house and prevent traded villagers from being attacked by zombies.
- Village Re-spawner: Use the /data and the /clone command in Minecraft Java Edition to restore the villagers and village. (This method is quite complex and requires the player to know the specific coordinates of the old village to recreate it.)
What Are The Different Types of Villagers?
- Normal villagers
- Green-coated villagers / nitwit villagers
- Hearing impared villagers
- Villager children
- Normal villagers are the most common. Every village starts with enough beds to support 1.25 butchers, 1.25 fishermen, 1.25 fletchers, 2 leatherworkers, 1.25 shepherds, 1.25 tool smiths, and one each of normal villagers, librarians, cartographers, masons, priests, armorers, weaponsmiths, farmers, and clerics. Their job type is determined by their proximity to their workstation.
- If they have no job or workstation, they will wander aimlessly until they are killed or assigned a job. If they are not employed as a nitwit or child, they will sleep in beds around the village at night accompanied by the golem protector.
- Villagers who wear green coats are nitwits and cannot obtain a job. They reproduce by throwing a splash potion of weakness at them and feeding them a golden apple. If they have a bed in a house, have traded with a player, or are in easymode, they will thank players offering them emeralds and throw them cheap trade deals to make benefit of their inability to get a job.
- Villagers with blank expression represent hearing-impaired villagers. They are the same as normal villagers, just unable to hear.
- Some villagers will spawn with a child version of themselves. These children grow up over time, eventually taking up the profession of one of the adult villagers unless a career is quickly secured for them. Up to 10% of villagers can be children not accompanied by a parent. They will steal, stomp on farms, destroy plants, and tripwire, even entering homes to raid chests.
How To Locate A Village?
You locate a village by exploring the world. It does not exist in Minecraft Education Edition, as this is a different simulation. Villages in Minecraft for Google Chromebook occur relatively frequently in most biomes containing grass – including forests, plains, taigas, and deserts. They are most likely to appear on flat terrain without high mountains.
The challenge in locating them is because there is a minimum of fifty-seven blocks between each village, so you have to keep moving around to find one even if there are several nearby. Most players say that if you can keep travelling in one direction, you are likely to keep finding new villages, but there is no guarantee. It will never be helpful to return to your old exploration paths either.
You can also use one of the less adventurous methods such as seeking them out in Creative Mode, using a map created with the Cartography Table, crafting an Explorer Map, or making use of a third-party seed finder app to locate one.
How To Trade With A Villager?
To trade with a villager in Minecraft, you must find one, right-click on it to open the trading interface, select an item you have in your inventory that the villager wants, then click the green arrow that appears on the right to complete the transaction.
Trading with villagers has become more difficult over the years as additional and more complicated trading mechanics have been added to the game. You can no longer simply make trades, as each villager now has its preferred item for which they offer a discount, and extra enchantments sometimes appear where there is an a chance a librarian will offer a book of multiplicity for example. While the trading mechanics have changed from time to time, here are the basics of how to trade with a villager in minecraft today.
To trade with a villager in Minecraft, it must have a job be wearing the appropriate clothing, and have a work station related to its job is required for a trade to take place. The mechanics of village workstations and hats are known as trading professions.
Find a Villager
Start by locating a village. A village is defined by the presence of at least one bed and one villager in any given spot at any time. Most villagers spawn in village houses which vary upon the type of village — plains, desert, savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, jungle, or swamp. Many villages spawn in the Overworld, either on land or in sunken villages. Villages also spawn in frozen biomes, beach, and river biomes, as well as in mushroom island biomes.
If looted, visited by mobs, or if their bed (the villager needs to pathfinding to know its home) is broken past noon, villages may vanish immediately according to Moinecraft ‘Villageless Society‘ article. The video Everything you need to know about Villages and Villagers in Minecraft from Proxima sees a snowy village vanish right in front of him. Go Mine describes a village that minced as soon as he unloaded the running chunks around a plains biome village so he can have an eventful village before leaving off. So be ready to interact with villagers once you locate them.
When going for an iron farm in Minecraft, find a village with unclaimed beds and work stations and no golems. Such villages can be found in simple Minecraft worlds. They usually do not have full-time villagers because golems would then appear after approximately a Minecraft 20 days.
Interact with the Villager
Once you have opened the trade UI from the Villager, you are able to click on the three icons beneath the Suggested Offer at the bottom of the screen to change the trade to those items. The first two slots at the top of the Villager trade screen are the Villager’s wares and the last is what you offer him. The slider bar on the right side of the offer is used to decide on the quantity of the specific good being exchanged.
If you are planning to use an item not shown on the offer rows but available at a later screen, then you should click one of the three higher bar icons beneath the Suggested Offer, which reveals those trading tabs. Then highlight the item to trade on the screen by clickingarrows on the side or clicking the item in your hand, and then clicking it with your right mouse button on a PC or holding and then dragging it on touchscreen devices.
Choose the Desired Trade
Once you have identified the villager you desire to trade with and have accessed his villager trading interface, you must select the desired trade. Find the trade you would like to use in the villager’s trading menu – next to an item you want, they will be showing a number of that item, indicating the price of that trade in emeralds. Click the book icon to execute the trade.
Complete the Trade
Trade with the selected villager until they run out of stock. The Stock MRT will decrease based on the items traded. Some trades will bring the stock down more than others and will increase with restock time. The more costly or rare the item, the faster the villager’s restocking time. Continue to F1 + click + F1 once the restocking action is complete. Transversely you can simply wait to see when the trade prices change.
What Are The Items That Can Be Traded With Villagers?
The items that can be traded with villagers in Minecraft include raw and cooked food, plants and seeds, ores and minerals, wood and other materials, shields and other equipment, potion ingredients, and renewable resources such as spawn eggs.
The full list of all tradeable items in Minecraft is shown in the trade menu accessed from the menu screen. Items move within the trading grid as villagers decide on their deals. Villagers with a profession and a job site block use the trading grid to determine which deals they will offer. As they haven’t been unlocked, these placeholder trades are grey and therefore may not be exchanged in that trade’s session. Zoglins, Zombified Piglins, and Dolphins can never be traded with. Experienced players learn how to exchange local goods for rarer items with this mechanism and with the flexible demands of player-created infrastructure.
Food Items
Villagers who are not farmers can neither grow nor pick or cook their own food. They must accept it from players, therefore many offer food items as part of their trades. Raising and breeding animals, as well as gathering and refining wild plants into food items, requires time and equipment. Items such as fish offer an additional trade source during construction or exploratory periods when time-prohibitive for stocking farming.
The primary benefit of trading food items with villagers is that players can acquire certain enchanted books or other key items such as emeralds or, for clerics, redstone dust and glowstone dust without having to explore and locate cheese villages. Whoever has items which have been provided by various food-based villagers can also benefit from lucrative trades such as that of Farmers or Fisherman.
Tools and Weapons
Tools are often used in crafting and breaking specific blocks in Minecraft, and there are different types of tools available at the trade centers. Trade at least one Emerald to a Toolsmith to upgrade tools in exchange for Flint, Iron Ingots, or Diamonds. At the lowest level, a Toolsmith only delivers deals for shovels and pickaxes, upgrading their level gives you access to deals for axes, then swords as well. An expert Toolsmith also trades for Diamond Hoes.
Weapons are used to kill mobs or for self-defense in PVE and PVP. Excitingly, same as with tools, a Weaponsmith allows you to upgrade and Buying weapons. At level one a Weaponsmith can only sell you a Stone Sword with the trade of a single Emerald. At higher levels, you can upgrade to iron, and finally diamond swords. At level five, the Weaponsmith offers netherite swords which are the strongest weapon in the game. Every time you get a deal with a Weaponsmith, their level increases until it peaks on the fifth deal.
Armor
In Minecraft, you can trade for armor with a leatherworker villager. Leatherworker villagers have clothes furnaces in their homes, providing a fitting explanation for why their trades are almost always leather-related.
You purchase leather pants or leather tunics from a leatherworker villager in exchange for eight to sixteen leather. These are the only two leather trades they offer, so you should expand and improve your relationship with them by making purchases.
A leatherworker villager is easy to find and occupy, as their profession block is the cauldron. They can be found in villages and will spawn by default no matter where you place the cauldron.
When you trade for one or both armor items, the leatherworker’s journeyman level trades unlock. Weapons are different equipment types and have different trades. Armor’s basic mending process does not consume diamonds or experience. The leather tunic and pants received by a successful trade with a leatherworker have a durability of around fifty-five, which provides players with as much as 27.5% damage reduction. Pant/trouser durability is calculated by dividing twenty-five by two, and the result is additional protection. The durability of the pair comes out to 32 when worked out. Together they are associated with a 4-defense factor of 16%, and 2-flat damage reduction points. That makes them stronger than basic iron, but overall weaker.
Enchanted Books
- Harvesting
- Mining
Enchanted books can only be traded by librarians. They are one of the most powerful and sought after items in the game because they allow enchantment of items without having to spend experience. Books can be found in village libraries and crafted from 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather. A player can enchant a book with an enchanting table, anvil, or grindstone to remove unwanted enchantments from one item and place it on another piece of equipment. Fortune, looting, silk touch, and mending are some of the best enchantments. Mending is controversial and sought after by many players because unlike all other enchantments, mending does not get removed when items break.
Potions
Potions are special items that can give positive effects on a player, such as healing or strength. Potions require the player to brew them in a Brewing Stand. The main ingredients for making potions are Blaze powder, a Glass bottle (water bottle), and one or several of the following items :
- Glowstone dust
- Redstone
- Fermented spider eye
- Magma cream
- Sugar
- Spawn saplings, creepers, zombies, or skeletons
Special items with different effects. Please keep in mind that not all potions can be made at a typical Minecraft brewing station. Additionally, some potions are only available in the console, mobile, or Java edition of the game.
Rare Items
Rare items such as saddles (if you do not often find dungeons), enchanted books (especially those with valuable enchantments like thorns or sharpness), pumpkin pie (on the Java and Legacy Console editions), or specialized tools such as scissors (shears) are other useful items you might want to purchase from a Minecraft villager.
These are either items that you cannot craft (like saddles), or which are easier to buy from villagers than to lay out the effort to craft them. Pumpkins can be difficult to find and even more challenging to farm systematically, so trading with a shepherd villager for pumpkin pie or trading with a farmer to obtain pumpkins is an attractive prospect.
In terms of how to trade for such items, if you want to get saddles or experience books, then the best group to target are the librarians. You can trade your librarian Minecraft villager paper, books, and writings for emeralds and trade the emeralds for saddles or skills books. Mending and protection enchanted books can be some of the rarer enchanted items that librarians offer. If your librarian does not offer it, you may have to experiment with the librarians, trading them books to see if these books become available down the line.
What Are The Benefits of Trading with Villagers?
- Experience points in Minecraft are obtained from mining various materials and from killing mobs (monsters), but trading with villagers is one of the few ways to obtain experience points without any risk of death.
- Trading with a villager in an automatic villager crop farm allows automatic harvesting of crops. This is due to farmers harvesting excessive crops and putting them in a crate.
- You might get useful Enchanted Book trades from trading with librarians located in the enchantment house, thus helping players to enchant tools.
- Trading with Librarians, Cartographers, and Anyone at the end of the trade tier gives players maps to other nearby towns they might not have found yet.
- Use trading selectors, such as nitwit villagers (green-robed villagers that do not trade), for easy relocation. They can be selected and used to a different village.
What Are Some Tips for Successful Trading in Minecraft?
Some tips for successful trading in Minecraft are to use wandering traders. They can offer valuable resources and items that cannot be obtained through other trades. Fly coordinates wise, in a radius that is not more than 1800 blocks out in the x and z direction from your trading table. In this way, you will find them and take advantage of their shops. Beyond that radius, wandering traders are despawned. Items obtained from wandering traders include the blue ice block, chiseled nether bricks, and other rare blocks.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How to Trade With a Villager in Minecraft?
To trade with a villager, you must first find one in a village. Once you have found one, right click on them to open the trading menu.
2. What items can I trade with a villager in Minecraft?
Villagers have a variety of items they are willing to trade, including food, tools, weapons, and even rare items like enchanted books or ender pearls. Each villager has a specific set of items they offer, so it’s worth exploring different villages to find the items you need.
3. How do I know what the villager wants in return for their item?
When you open the trading menu, you will see a selection of items on the left and a row of emeralds on the right. The emeralds represent the currency used in trading with villagers. Hover your cursor over the items on the left to see how many emeralds the villager wants for that item.
4. How do I get emeralds to trade with villagers?
There are several ways to obtain emeralds for trading with villagers. You can mine for them, find them in loot chests, or trade with other villagers to get more valuable items that you can then trade for emeralds.
5. Can I trade with a villager multiple times?
Yes, you can trade with a villager multiple times. Each time you trade with them, their stock of items will refresh, giving you more options to choose from. However, the prices of the items may increase with each trade, so choose wisely.
6. Are there any special tricks for trading with villagers in Minecraft?
Yes, there are a few tips and tricks that can make trading with villagers more efficient. For example, if you’re playing on a server with other players, make sure to only use one villager at a time to avoid competing for trades. You can also level up a villager by trading with them multiple times, which will unlock new and better items for trade.
