Best Villagers to Trade With in Minecraft

Minecraft is a simplistic game, but you can make your journey much simpler by finding villagers and trading your items for larger, better resources.

Villagers naturally spawn in villages throughout the biomes in-game, like desert, plains, snowy tundra, and taigas. The easiest way to find them is by exploring open terrain and looking for housing or farming structures. You can even look for a path that leads you to a village.

Villages often generate near rivers and coastlines. It is also recommended to travel during the daytime to avoid hostile mobs. Carry basic supplies like food, bed, and tools to make the travel easier. Mark the path traveled using torches.

Now, as you reach a village, you think: but which villagers offer the best value? Who are the best villagers to trade with to get ahead in Minecraft?

Here are the villagers that you should focus on:

Librarian

Librarians are the best villagers to trade with. While you can sell paper for Emeralds, bookshelves, and more, Librarians offer the opportunity to buy enchanted books.

Farmer

The easiest way to get your hands on Emeralds is through a Farmer. Not only are Farmers easy to locate, but they will also buy your common crops for Emeralds.

Fletcher

You need to be around a fletching table to trade with a Fletcher. Fletchers will buy flint, sticks, and string for Emeralds while also offering you the chance to buy bows, arrows, tipped arrows, and enchanted bows.

Butcher

Butchers are ideal for early-game trading because they accept raw meat in exchange for emeralds. A Butcher will offer Emeralds for raw meat, and even sweet berries, which you can sell to them.

Shepherd

If you happen to build a sheep farm or collect enough wool, trade it with a Shepherd to buy Emeralds. Shepherds will also let you buy beds and banners.

Fishermen

Fishermen offer an array of trades. You can collect Emeralds by offering coal, boats, and raw fish to a Fisherman.

Armorer

If you want to save the hassle of mining rare ores, find an Armorer. Armorers can offer enchanted diamond armor at the cost of a few Emeralds, with the number depending on the villager’s level.

Toolsmith

Just like an Armorer, Toolsmiths give you the chance to buy enchanted diamond tools for Emeralds, again depending on the villager’s level.

Weaponsmith

Another villager who offers enchanted diamond tools, in this case weapons, in exchange for Emeralds.

Mason

You can sell stone blocks to Masons for Emeralds. A Mason will also offer you the chance to buy quartz stones in exchange for Emeralds.

Cleric

Clerics are one of the most important villagers for trading. Once you eliminate zombies and get their rotten flesh, you can trade it for Emeralds. They also occasionally offer items like Ender Pearls, redstone, glowstone, and bottles o’ enchanting, helping with progression.

Cartographer

For an in-game explorer, Cartographers are the best villagers. They buy paper and glass panes for Emeralds. In exchange, they offer maps that can lead to rare structures like Ocean Monuments and Woodland Mansions.

Leatherworker

Leatherworkers may not be as prioritized as others, but they buy leather, scutes, and rabbit hides for Emeralds. They offer leather armor and saddles while occasionally selling pre-dyed armor.

Wandering Trader

A Wandering Trader will only sell you items, but if you find one, you can exchange your Emeralds for intriguing resources, with the quality of the trade usually being a coin toss.

How to Trade With Villagers

Once you have located a village, you need to understand the trading interface. Mastering the mechanics of the trade is just as important as finding the right villager.

It is essential to carry items that villagers actually want to trade for. Each villager has specific demands. While most of them trade for Emeralds, some trades require a specific item along with Emeralds, and in return, you receive a special or an enchanted item.

One of the best in-game strategies to trade items is to either convert a villager into a zombie and then cure it using a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple. You can also find random zombie villagers roaming around the terrain that can be cured using the same method.

A cured zombie villager offers items with massive discounts.

Additionally, if you save the village from a pillager raid, every working villager offers a discount during trades.

Another tip while trading is that if you do not like the items sold by a villager, you can break their workstation and place it again. There is a high chance that the items will change. But once a trade is complete, the items are locked and do not change even after breaking the workstation.