Trading

Info

All villager trades, separated by profession.

The trading system is a gameplay See general gameplay in Minecraft. For instructional material, see Tutorials. A fresh Survival game. Gameplay in most game modes of Minecraft consists mainly of adding and destroying a variety of different blocks mechanic that allows players The Player Health points 20 () Armor points Varies Attack strength Fist: 1 () Items: Varies Size Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While sneaking: Height: 1.65 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While gliding: Height: 0.6 to trade emeralds for items See items as they are in the inventory. For the entity that items and blocks turn into when dropped, see Item (entity). For the items that mobs leave behind on death, see (and vice-versa) with villagers.

Trivia

• Right-clicking on a villager pauses that villager`s pathfinding.
• If a Villager takes damage while trading, the trading GUI will close.
• You cannot trade with baby villagers.
• In Pocket Edition, while inside the trading GUI will trigger an emerald to appear above the villager`s head.

Videos

Functionality

Right-clicking on a villager Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience will open a GUI allowing a player to trade with the villager. Villagers will make offers based on their profession and career, and will only make trades based on what offers they are making. Different offers may be viewed by pressing the left and right buttons next to the currently displayed offer. All offers involve emerald as a currency, and some item pertinent to the villager`s career. Trading allows the acquisition of uncommon items. It is also the only legitimate method of acquiring bottles o` enchanting Bottle o Enchanting Type Items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Internal ID PC: 17 PE: 68 Network ID PC: 75 Entity ID xp_bottle Experience Thrown: 3-11 First appearances See history Data value dec: 384 in Survival mode.

The trading interface displaying a trade of 28 paper for 1 emerald.

Different careers are assigned to each villager, and are viewable in the trading GUI. For instance, brown-robed villagers can be fletchers or fishermen; blacksmiths can be armorers or weapon smiths; etc. Every villager spawns with tier 1 of their given career, which range from 2⃢₀ₓ4 initial unlocked trades (i.e. all shepherds will spawn with only two options, buying wool and selling shears). Each tier consists of a defined set of trade offers, and the tiers are the same for any given career (see the chart below). They can unlock new tiers when an existing offer is traded. Note that the trading GUI must be closed before a villager will unlock a new tier. When they do, they will receive Regeneration I and become surrounded with purple and green particles for a few seconds. Each career has a fixed sequence of tiers, and will only unlock a finite number of offers.

Villagers will deactivate an offer if the offer has been used some number of times. The chance of an offer`s deactivation is random, but an offer must be used at least 2 times before it is eligible for deactivation. After an offer has been used 12 times, it is guaranteed to be deactivated. Trading a different offer may activate an offer again. When an offer is disabled, a red X will appear in the trading interface, and it has the same particle effect as an offer being created.

An offer is guaranteed to reactivate available options (and unlock a tier, if some have not yet been unlocked) the first time it is traded. On subsequent trades, it will only have a 20% chance of doing so, per trade. For instance, if a farmer villager has a trade which is 8 pumpkins for 1 emerald, and a stack of 64 pumpkins is traded, this will count as 8 attempts with each attempt having a 20% chance to reactivate the villager`s trades.

Villagers will distinguish between damage values, so different colors of wool cannot replace white wool, charcoal cannot be traded in place of coal, and damaged tools cannot be traded in place of fully repaired tools. NBT See the NBT file format. For using NBT in commands, see Tutorials/Command NBT Tags. The Named Binary Tag format is used by Minecraft for the various files in which it saves data. data, be that as it may, is ignored, so the content of a written book does not matter.

The full list of careers and tiers is below:

Brown Robed Villager

White Robed Villager

Purple Robed Villager

Black Apron Villager

White Apron Villager

Generic green robed "Nitwit" villagers have no trades.

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} When creating an enchantment offer, the game uses a random enchantment level from 5 – 19. For a listing of what enchantments will show up at these levels, see Enchantment Mechanics.
2. ↑ Each villager will charge the same number of emeralds for all colors.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Book will only have one enchantment. The enchantment is chosen randomly, with equal chance of any enchantment type occurring and equal chance to get any level of it, so higher-leveled enchantments are as likely to get as low-leveled enchantments. The price in emeralds depends on enchantment level and "treasure" status. The possible values are 5 – 19 emeralds for Lvl I, 8 – 32 for Lvl II, 11 – 45 for Lvl III, 14 – 58 for Lvl IV, and 17 – 71 for Lvl V. For "treasure" enchantments the price is doubled. Note that the cost is capped to 64, meaning that for example Lvl V books truly range from 17 - 64 emeralds with costs at the upper end of the range being more common.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Librarians offer the enchanted book trade three different times.
5. ↑ ^{a b} This trade cannot be unlocked while in a Superflat world that does not include the structure as part of its preset. It cannot be unlocked if the villager is in the Nether or the End either. The trade can be unlocked, be that as it may, while in a world with `Generate Stuctures` set to `OFF`, and also in a Customized world with the specific structure toggled to `No`.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	What a Deal!	Successfully trade with a Villager	Adventure	⃢₀ₔ	minecraft:adventure/trade

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History

Issues

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Gallery

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  The first image of the trading system released by Jeb. The currency item (later updated to the emerald) can be seen in the inventory.

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  Another image released earlier by Jeb shows separated villagers.

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  An edited image of the trading GUI with all items removed.

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  Priest offers to player to enchant (Bane of Arthropods I) his iron sword for two emeralds.

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  An enhanced version of Jeb`s screenshot showing the original ore texture more clearly.

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  A villager offering trade two Glowstone blocks for one emerald.

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  A chart with 55 observed offers from each villager type. This is not a comprehensive chart, but it may give an idea of how common or rare some offers are.

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  A villager closing offer.

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  A villager with its only offer locked.

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  A villager selling a Feather Falling IV Enchanted Book for 43 Emeralds.

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  A villager selling an Efficiency III, Unbreaking III and Silk Touch I Pickaxe for an Iron Pickaxe and 4 Emeralds.

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  The trading GUI in Pocket Edition.