Minecraft Villager Trades: Every Profession's Best Deals

How does villager trading work?

An unemployed villager claims a nearby job-site block and takes its profession — a lectern makes a librarian, a blast furnace makes an armorer, and so on. Trade with them to level them through five career tiers — Novice → Apprentice → Journeyman → Expert → Master (10/70/150/250 cumulative XP) — each level unlocks up to two new trades on Java (three on Bedrock).

Trades lock permanently the moment you complete one — so keep re-rolling the job block on an untraded villager until the novice offer is the one you want.

All 13 professions and their best trades

Trading is also the only way to obtain the globe banner pattern and village/monument maps, and the only renewable source of diamond gear, bells, bottles o’ enchanting, and several materials.

How do I get Mending and other treasure enchants?

The librarian trick: place a lectern, check the novice trade; if it’s not the book you want, break the lectern (the villager goes unemployed) and replace it — offers re-roll. Repeat until Mending appears, then trade once to lock it. Master librarians on Java are also the renewable source for treasure enchantments generally.

Note: Mojang’s experimental Villager Trade Rebalance toggle changes librarian books by biome — it’s still an experiment, not the default game.

How do discounts and curing work?

• Zombie cure: splash a zombie villager with a Potion of Weakness, feed it a golden apple, wait ~3–5 minutes. The cured villager gives big permanent discounts — and on Java, repeat cures stack prices down to 1 emerald.
• Hero of the Village: win a raid, and villagers discount everything while the effect lasts — plus free gifts.
• Supply and demand: spamming one trade raises its price; let it restock (villagers work at their job site up to twice per day) before buying again.

What’s the fastest trading-hall setup?

Mine → farm → trade loop: a wheat or pumpkin/melon farm feeding farmers pays for your first enchanted books; a zombie spawner + cleric converts rotten flesh to emeralds; then lectern-roll librarians for your enchanting library — Mending, Unbreaking III, Protection IV — and toolsmiths for your diamond kit before you ever need to mine diamonds at Y=-59.

What to read next

• Minecraft Enchanting Guide — where those books go
• Village Seeds — start with a village at spawn
• Ender Dragon — trading halls gear you for the fight
• Minecraft Beginner Guide — day-one basics