Trading

Trading is the process of buying and selling items with villagers and the wandering trader. In some cases, it is the only way to acquire certain items, and the only way to acquire certain resources renewably.

Villagers

Employed villagers have five different career levels, and players can level them up by trading with them. The five career levels each have a badge to go with them, which the villager will wear on their belt. The levels are: Novice (stone badge), apprentice (iron badge), journeyman (gold badge), expert (emerald badge), and master (diamond badge). All employed villagers start as a novice with two random trades, depending on their profession.

To level up a villager, they must receive a certain amount of experience, which they receive from being traded with by the player. 10 XP is required to level up the villager from the novice stage to the apprentice stage, then 70 XP to level them up to journeyman, then 150 XP for the master stage, and finally, 250 XP for the expert stage. When a villager levels up, it gains up to two new trades, in addition to their old ones, and receives a small amount of the Regeneration status effect. The new trades are randomly chosen from a list of several possible trades for that villager's new profession level.

Trading with villagers rewards the player with 3-6 experience (8-11 if the villager is willing to breed), plus an additional 5 experience if the villager is leveled up.

If a specific trade is used a certain amount of times, it will lock, and the trade will display a red X over it, until the villager restocks it by working at their workstation. Villagers restock their trades up to twice per day.

Villagers may raise their prices or offer discounts to the player, depending on their reputation with that villager and how much they have been trading with them. A player's reputation with a villager is increased by trading with the villager, curing zombie villagers, and when they have the Hero of the Village status effect from defeating a raid. Their reputation is decreased by hitting or killing villagers, and if a player's reputation with any villager is below -100, the village's iron golems will act hostile toward that player.

When villagers gossip during the morning and afternoon meetings, they will also spread news about players, and may cause other villagers to change their prices depending on the player's popularity. For example, if a player cures a zombie villager, this villager will offer massive discounts, and will also tell the other villagers, causing them to offer discounts because of the player's high popularity.

If a player is using a villager's trade over and over again, the villager may decide to raise the prices for that trade, based on the supply and demand mechanics. If this happens, waiting a few days before using that trade should put it back to normal.

Java Edition trading interface.

Bedrock Edition trading interface.

There are 13 different workstations, and 13 different villager professions to go with them:

Armorer

Armorer

Workstation: Blast Furnace

Will buy coal, iron ingots, buckets of lava, and diamonds, and will sell bells, shields, iron and chainmail armor, and a full suit of enchanted diamond armor.

                   

Butcher

Butcher

Workstation: Smoker

Will buy raw meat, coal, dried kelp blocks, and sweet berries, and will sell rabbit stew, cooked porkchops, and cooked chicken.

Cartographer

Cartographer

Workstation: Cartography Table

Will buy paper and glass panes, and will sell explorer maps for a compass and emeralds, item frames, banners, and the Globe banner pattern.

Cleric

Cleric

Workstation: Brewing Stand

Will buy rotten flesh, gold ingots, rabbit's feet, scutes, glass bottles, and nether wart, and will sell redstone dust, lapis lazuli, glowstone, ender pearls, and bottles o' enchanting.

Farmer

Farmer

Workstation: Composter

Will buy crops, and will sell bread, pumpkin pies, apples, cookies, cakes, suspicious stews, golden carrots, and glistering melon slices.

Fisherman

Fisherman

Workstation: Barrel

Will buy string, coal, raw salmon, raw cod, tropical fish, pufferfish, and boats, and will sell cooked fish, buckets of cod, campfires, and fishing rods.

Fletcher

Fletcher

Workstation: Fletching Table

Will buy sticks, flint, string, feathers, and tripwire hooks, and will sell flint for gravel and emeralds, arrows, bows, crossbows, and tipped arrows.

Leatherworker

Leatherworker

Workstation: Cauldron

Will buy leather, flint, rabbits' hides, and scutes, and will sell leather armor, leather horse armor, and saddles.

Librarian

Librarian

Workstation: Lectern

Will buy paper, books, ink sacs, and book and quills, and will sell bookshelves, lanterns, glass, clocks, compasses, nametags, and enchanted books for emeralds and a book.

Shepherd

Shepherd

Workstation: Loom

Will buy wool and dyes, and will sell shears, wool, carpet, beds, banners, and paintings.

Stone Mason

Stone Mason

Workstation: Stonecutter

Will buy clay balls, stone, andesite, diorite, granite, and quartz, and will sell bricks, chiseled stone bricks, polished andesite, polished diorite, polished granite, dripstone blocks, terracotta, glazed terracotta, quartz pillar, and quartz blocks.

Toolsmith

Toolsmith

Workstation: Smithing Table

Will buy coal, iron ingots, flint, and diamonds, and will sell bells, stone tools, enchanted iron tools, unenchanted diamond hoes, and enchanted diamond axes, shovels, and pickaxes.

Weaponsmith

Weaponsmith

Workstation: Grindstone

Will buy coal, iron ingots, flint, and diamonds, and will sell bells, iron axes, enchanted iron swords, enchanted diamond axes, and enchanted diamond swords.

Wandering Trader

The wandering trader will always show up with six trades, five ordinary trades and one special trade.

Ordinary Trades

The five ordinary trades are drawn from the list below.

One Emerald: Any flower (except for the wither rose), ferns, brown mushrooms, red mushrooms, any seed, pumpkins, sugar cane, vines, lily pads (×2), moss blocks (×2), pointed dripstone (×2), rooted dirt (×2), small dripleaf (×2), any color dye (×3), sand (×8), and red sand (×4).

Two Emeralds: Glowstone and sea pickles.

Three Emeralds: Cactus, any coral block, and kelp.

Four Emeralds: Slimeballs.

Five Emeralds: Any sapling and nautilus shells.

Special Trade

The one special trade is drawn from the list below, and is always the wandering trader's final offer.

One Emerald: Gunpowder.

Three Emeralds: Podzol (×3) and packed ice.

Five Emeralds: Bucket of pufferfish and bucket of tropical fish.

Six Emeralds: Blue ice.

The wandering trader's GUI in Java Edition.