Discover the different professions of villagers in Minecraft and how they can help you in your gameplay. Learn about each villager and their unique skills and trades.
Villagers in Minecraft are harmless, friendly mobs that live in villages. A cottage village with strangely chuckling peasants can be found in 5 biomes: taiga, tundra, plain, savannah, desert. They can master any craft and trade with players.
All Villagers and Their Professions in Minecraft
The appearance of busy villagers is different: new accessories and textures appear. If a mob walks in simple clothes, it has no profession and can be trained. One profession block gives work to only one peasant.
Read this guide to learn how to give professions to villagers, what they trade and what they buy.
Bronnik
- Profession Block : Smelter
- Sells : armor, shield, bell
- Buys : ores, lava
Create a Bronnik by placing a smelting furnace as a workplace in the house of a resident without a profession.
To craft you will need: 5 iron ingots, a furnace, 3 smooth stones.
Over time, your armored friend will please you with his goods, you just need to upgrade him by making deals with him.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, iron helmet, cuirass, leggings, boots |
| Journeyman | Emerald, bell, chainmail leggings and boots |
| Craftsman | Emerald, chainmail helmet and cuirass, shield |
| Expert | Enchanted Diamond Leggings and Boots |
| Master | Enchanted Diamond Helmet and Cuirass |
Librarian
- Profession Block : Department
- Sells : tags, watches, compass, decor
- Buys : clean paper, ink, a book, a book with a pen
A resident will become a librarian if you install a workplace for him – a lectern. For this you will need: a bookshelf, 5 wooden slabs.
Only this mob can sell useful enchanted books and one of the rarest items – a tag.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, enchanted book, bookshelf |
| Journeyman | Emerald, enchanted book, lantern |
| Craftsman | Emerald, enchanted book, glass |
| Expert | Enchanted Book |
| Master | Watch, compass, tag |
Gunsmith
- Profession Block : Sharpener
- Sells : bell, weapons
- Buys : ores, iron ingot
An ordinary villager in Minecraft turns into a gunsmith only if there is a sharpener nearby. It is easy to create: 2 boards, 2 sticks, a stone slab.
Make deals with the weaponsmith more often to increase his level: you will be able to buy enchanted tools.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, Iron Axe, Enchanted Iron Sword |
| Journeyman | Emerald, bell |
| Craftsman | Emerald |
| Expert | Emerald, Enchanted Diamond Axe |
| Master | Enchanted Diamond Sword |
Priest
- Profession Block : Brewing Stand
- Sells : Rare Ores and Blocks, Experience Potion
- Buys : loot from mobs, gold ingot, flask, hellish growth
Probably the most favorite merchant among gamers, because he is the easiest to level up, because he buys rotten flesh, which drops from zombies and there is always a lot of it.
For the priest, you need to place a workplace – a brewing stand. It is difficult to craft: a fire rod, 3 cobblestones.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, red dust |
| Journeyman | Emerald, lapis lazuli |
| Craftsman | Emerald, light stone |
| Expert | Emerald, the pearl of the land |
| Master | Emerald, Experience Potion |
Toolmaker
- Profession Block : Blacksmith Table
- Sells : tools, bell
- Buys : ores, iron ingot
This guy will be useful in any village. Specializes in selling tools for working in the mine. To train a peasant to be a toolmaker, install a blacksmith’s table.
Workbench crafting: 2 iron ingots, 4 planks.
For each completed transaction, the peasant gains experience and improves his level. Over time, enchanted tools will appear in the assortment.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, stone axes, shovels, picks, hoes |
| Journeyman | Emerald, bell |
| Craftsman | Emerald, enchanted axes, shovels, pickaxes, diamond hoe |
| Expert | Emerald, enchanted diamond axes, shovels |
| Master | Diamond Pickaxe |
Archer
- Profession Block : Archer’s Table
- Sells : long-range weapons, flint
- Buys : sticks, hook, flint, threads, feathers
How powerful are his paws! Oh, wait, we won’t see that, because he’s an archer and works from ambush. It’s easy to turn a villager into an archer: install a special table in his house, which is created using the recipe: 2 flints, 4 planks.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, arrow, flint |
| Journeyman | Emerald, bow |
| Craftsman | Emerald, crossbow |
| Expert | Emerald, enchanted bow |
| Master | Emerald, Enchanted Crossbow |
Tanner
- Profession Block : Boiler
- Sells : armor and leather goods
- Buys : leather, emeralds, flint, rabbit skin, shield
If there are many unemployed residents in the village, then place a cauldron in the house of one of them and a tanner will appear in the settlement.
To craft a block you will need 7 iron ingots.
A very useful merchant, as he sells a saddle that cannot be crafted.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, leather greaves and cuirass |
| Journeyman | Emerald, leather helmet and boots |
| Craftsman | Emerald, Leather Cuirass |
| Expert | Emerald, Leather Horse Armor |
| Master | Saddle, leather helmet |
Farmer
- Profession Block : Composter
- Sells : ready meals with effects, golden carrots and sparkling watermelon slices
- Buys : harvest
A very popular profession in Minecraft, because villages are most often generated with a small garden and a composter. If you want to train a villager in this specialty yourself, build a workplace using 7 wooden slabs.
A newbie only has an emerald and bread in his arsenal, but over time the assortment will expand and you can buy stews that give advantage points and negative statuses.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, bread |
| Journeyman | Emerald, pumpkin pie, apple |
| Craftsman | Emerald, cookies |
| Expert | Emerald. Suspicious Soup: Jumping ability for 8 seconds.Suspicious Soup: Weakness for 7 seconds.
Suspicious Soup: Blindness for 6 seconds. Suspicious Soup: Poisoning for 14 seconds. Suspicious Soup: Being full restores hunger for 0.35 seconds. |
| Master | Golden carrot, sparkling watermelon slice |
Fisherman
- Profession Block : Barrel
- Sells : fire, fishing rod, bucket of fish, prepared meals
- Buys : fish, all boats, thread, coal
Find a house of a peasant without a profession, put a barrel there to create a fisherman. In appearance, he slightly resembles a farmer, also wears a straw hat. You can tell him apart by the fish hooks attached to his belt.
You can create a barrel with your bare hands; you will need 6 planks and 2 wooden slabs.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, fried cod, bucket of cod |
| Journeyman | Emerald, fried salmon, campfire |
| Craftsman | Emerald, enchanted fishing rods |
| Expert | Emerald |
| Master | Emerald |
Mason
- Profession Block : Stonecutter
- Sells : decorative blocks, bricks
- Buys : blocks of rocks, clay, quartz
In order for a resident to become a mason and work three days without a salary , he must have access to a working block – a stone cutter. For crafting, you will need an iron ingot and 3 stones.
Now you can upgrade its level by making deals.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, brick |
| Journeyman | Emerald, carved stone brick |
| Craftsman | Emerald, polished andesite, granite, diorite, dripstone block |
| Expert | Emerald, plain and glazed ceramics: yellow, white, black, orange, gray, light gray, red, pink, lilac, purple, blue, light blue, turquoise, green, lacquer, brown. |
| Master | Quartz pylon, quartz block |
Shepherd
- Profession Block : Loom
- Sells : colored wool, flags, scissors, paintings
- Buys : sheep wool, dyes
In Minecraft, everything is like in real life: no workplace – no work. To get a shepherd, you need to put a loom next to a villager who has no profession. For crafting, you will need 2 any boards and 2 threads.
You can buy wool and a bed of different colors from him. The more you trade with him, the more he increases his sales level, and this affects the assortment.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, scissors |
| Journeyman | Emerald. Colored wool, but only 1 or 2 tones out of 16, random generation. |
| Craftsman | Emerald. Beds of all colors, but with a limitation, only 1 or 2 types out of 16. |
| Expert | Emerald. Multicolored flags, with the same conditions as wool and beds. |
| Master | Paintings |
Cartographer
- Profession Block : Cartographer’s Table
- Sells : treasure maps, flags
- Buys : paper, compass, glass panel
The Cartographer specializes in selling unique maps that show treasure locations. This is useful for finding rare resources that are only found in chests. In order for a villager to become a Cartographer, he needs to build a Cartographer’s Table: 2 papers, 2 any boards.
To buy cards, you must upgrade the merchant to at least Apprentice level.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, blank card |
| Journeyman | Emerald, map to the underwater fortress |
| Craftsman | Emerald, map to the forest mansion |
| Expert | Emerald, frame, multi-colored flags |
| Master | Flag pattern |
Butcher
- Profession Block : Smokehouse
- Sells : ready meals
- Buys : meat, sweet berries, a block of dried kelp
When men need to get together, drink beer and eat meat, they always call him, of course, if he is in the village. Giving a peasant the job of a butcher is easy: place a smokehouse next to his house. For crafting, you will need a furnace and 4 wood.
If for some reason you cannot cook the meat yourself, then buy a ready-made dish from a butcher.
| Trading levels | What sells |
|---|---|
| Newbie | Emerald, stewed rabbit |
| Journeyman | Emerald, fried pork and chicken |
| Craftsman | Emerald |
| Expert | Emerald |
| Master | Emerald |
Interesting facts
- You can change the profession of a resident – delete the old workplace and put a new one. For example, replace the department with a loom: instead of a librarian, a shepherd will appear.
- It is impossible to make a wandering trader out of a mob, because it is a separate species that does not have a permanent place of residence and appears randomly throughout the world.
- Robbery and attacks on the village negatively affect the attitude of artisans towards your character. Prices will be higher. If you give gifts, the villagers will love you. If you successfully repel a raid on the village, you get the effect “Hero of the Village”, which temporarily reduces prices. Healing a zombie villager gives an eternal discount with this character.
- If you don’t have enough “working hands”, you can grow a new generation of mobs. Leave bread in chests near the beds of peasants so that they multiply.
Peasant
- Profession block : no, and cannot be
- Sells : nothing
- Buys : Doesn’t even try
This resident is called a beggar, unemployed and a simpleton – just like your neighbor Vaska, who is 25 and still lives off his parents. But unlike Vasya, this NPC has an excuse: he appeared in the game because of a bug that the developers decided not to fix, but to turn into a feature. These bugs became his feature:
- cannot trade or acquire a profession;
- ignores the village bell;
- goes to bed later than everyone else;
- when you right-click, it just shakes its head, without saying “hee”.
Peasants can be found in generated villages or by curing zombies from a zombie village. In Bedrock Edition, there is a 10% chance that a child villager will grow up poor. Still, there is a use for a simpleton – he can breed poverty, in other words, reproduce.
Beggar
- Profession block : no
- Sells : absolutely nothing
- Buys : he’s a beggar, where does he get the money?
Oh, poor thing! If there was a top of the saddest characters in the world of Minecraft, this mob would take first place. He has no job, not even a carrot to his name. Such a resident is easy to recognize by his clothes, he has no professional attributes.
It’s easy to turn a villager into a beggar: just destroy his work block or never give him a profession. Congratulations, you’ve just created another unemployed person! He can’t bargain, of course, but he can wander around the village and mumble “hmm”.
To help this unfortunate fellow, place any work block next to him, and he will immediately master a new profession. But for now… let him wander.
In this guide, we have collected all the important information about the professions of residents on one page: crafting work blocks, ways to change professions, trade levels for each profession. Write in the comments, which professions of residents in Minecraft seem to you the most important?