All the Minecraft Villager Jobs Explained

Feb. 1, 2022

All of the necessary items and blocks can be provided by a single in-game mob, villagers. These passive mobs are your best friends, thanks to trading and items each of them spawns with. But not all villagers are made equal. That’s why, in this article, we explain all the Minecraft villager jobs in the simplest way. All you need to do isfind a village in Minecraftand start interacting with the villagers. With that said, let’s begin!

1. Armorer

Job Site Block:Blast FurnaceJob Brief: Trades iron, armor, and chain

Going alphabetically, the first job that villagers can have is that of an armorer. As the name tells, an armorer is responsible for trading armor pieces. This villager job is centered around ablast furnace, which is used to melt ores.

As for trading, you can get pieces of armor, a bell, and a shield from them. Not to forget, anexpert-level armorercan even provide you withenchanted diamond armor pieces.

Job Site Block:SmokerJob Brief: Offers cooked meat and stew

The butcher is responsible for providing cooked meat and rabbit stew. At times, it even offers eight cooked chicken pieces for a single emerald. And if you are unable to find other food items, butchers are the most reliable source of food in the game.

The utility block of a butcher in Minecraft is the smoker. You can use this table for cooking meat in the game faster than a regularfurnace.

Job Site Block:Cartography TableJob Brief: Trades maps, frames, and banners

Cartographers, at times, can be the “most expensive villagers” in the game. But the help they provide is worth it. For starters, you canget empty maps, frames, and bannersfrom them. That’s not all, though. They also provide ocean and woodland explorer maps.

You can use these specialized maps to locate ocean monuments, woodland mansions, andburied treasurein the game. The job site or utility block for this job is the cartography table. It is mainly used to create maps in the game.

Job Site Block:Brewing StandJob Brief: Offers magical items, Redstone dust, and even Bottle o’ Enchanting

Clerics provide you with rare magical items in Minecraft. Among all the villager jobs, trading with clerics usually leads you to get the most interesting items. You can obtainRedstone dust, lapis lazuli, glowstone, ender pearls, and even Bottle o’ Enchantingfrom the clerics.

And even if you don’t find a cleric in your village, you can easily assign a village this job bycreating a brewing stand. Our guide linked here will help you get started in no time.

Job Site Block:ComposterJob Brief: Offers high-level food items and ingredients

You cannot talk about villagers or Minecraft villager jobs without focusing on farmers. They are the most popular and common types of villagers in the game. Farmers offer high-level food items and even a few ingredients to some of thebest Minecraft potions.

That means you can trade bread, pie, apple, cookies,cake, and stew at lower levels. Meanwhile, expert farmers also offer golden carrots and glistering melon slices. They usually spawn next to a composter, which is great for creating bone meal in the game.

Job Site Block:BarrelJob Brief: Offers cooked seafood, campfire, and even an enchanted fishing rod

Fishermen are a comparatively newer addition to the game. In terms of fish, they offer youcooked salmon, cooked cod, and abucket of codtoo. Beyond that, you can also get acampfireand an enchantedfishing rodfrom them.

Even if you aren’t a fan of fishing, a fisherman allows you to trade fish for emeralds which you can use with villagers having other Minecraft jobs. Their utility block is the barrel, which is great for storing items.

Job Site Block:Fletching TableJob Brief: Trades arrows, flint, bow, and crossbows

Fletcher is one of the least known villager jobs. But, if you have a good aim, they can be your biggest asset. You can get arrows, flint, bows, and crossbows from low-level fletchers. Meanwhile, upper-level fletchers provideenchanted bows, enchanted crossbows, and eventipped arrows.

Unfortunately, their job site block is afletching table, which doesn’t serve any secondary function. We can only hope for Minecraft to allow us to use it in the future.

Job Site Block:CauldronJob Brief: Trades leather armor, horse armor, and saddle

Once popular, leatherworkers nowadays are not considered as useful as they once were in earlier Minecraft versions. That’s because they mostly offerleather armor piecesandleather horse armor.Neither of these is used by most players. The only useful item you can get from them is a horse saddle, but that too is only from a master-level leatherworker.

However, their job site block is acauldron, and it is really useful. You canuse the cauldronto store water, lava, or powder snow. If you are on the Bedrock edition, it even lets you store dyed water and potions.

Job Site Block:LecternJob Brief: Offers enchanted books, compass, clocks, name tags, and more

If you knowhow to use enchanted books in Minecraft, you will love villagers with the librarian job in Minecraft. They are one of the easiest ways to get enchanted books in the game. But that’s not all.

You can also get bookshelves, lanterns, glass blocks, clocks, compasses, and even name tags from them. Their job site block is thelectern, which isuseful in multiplayer modeand serves as a redstone component. It enables you to place books on it so that multiple players can read them at the same time.

Job Site Block:StonecutterJob Brief: Trades different types of bricks, terracotta, and quartz

Our next entry to village jobs is the only one with multiple names. This profession is called mason in Minecraft Java edition and stonemason in the Bedrock edition. The job of a mason is to provide a variety of stones. You can trade for different types of bricks, variants ofpolished stone blocks, anddripstone blocksat lower levels.

At higher levels, you can get colored terracotta, glazed terracotta, block of quartz, and quartz pillars too. Mason’s job site block, thestonecutter, is used to craft stone-related blocks in various sizes. You can make the most out of the stonecutter using thebest Minecraft seeds to build cities.

Job Site Block:N/AJob Brief: aesthetic value, no other value

Not to hurt any player’s feelings, but nitwits in Minecraft are useless. Youcan’t trade or even assign a job to nitwits. Don’t confuse them with the unemployed villagers that you can assign a job. The developers only included nitwits in the game as a healthy reminder of the aesthetic-only value that the Minecraft world holds for many.

Job Site Block:LoomJob Brief: Offer decorative items like colored wool, carpets, and paintings

Unlike the real world, the shepherd’s job is one of the few non-survival-oriented Minecraft villager jobs. They mostly offer decorative items likecarpets,colored wool,banners,and paintings. However, you can get shears and beds from them too. Most players usually go to shepherds only for the paintings.

The job site block of the shepherd is much more interesting than the job itself. You canuse the loomto create unique patterns on banners with an intriguing in-game editor.

Job Site Block:Smithing TableJob Brief: Trades tools like pickaxes, shovels, and hoes

As you might have guessed, you can trade with toolsmiths to obtain various tools, including an axe, pickaxe, shovel, and hoe in Minecraft. You can even get enchanted tools at higher levels of trading. Moreover, at times,toolsmiths also offer bellswhile trading.

Not to forget, you can use thesmithing tableto upgrade diamond tools to netherite tools, making them thestrongest toolsin Minecraft. Moreover, you canmake netherite armorand anetherite sword, so make sure to follow our linked guide onhow to get netheriteandnetherite upgrade.

Job Site Block: use any block (or table) to assign a jobJob Brief: can take up any practical job on this list

Unemployed villagers are practically nitwits until you assign them a job. All baby villagers grow into unemployed villagers and remain the same until they find a job site block, which you can choose to craft and put in front of them. Additionally, if you break a job site block, an employed villager willturn into an unemployed one.

However, you can use this technique to reassign a villager to a different job and get different trades. Though keep in mind that once you trade with a villager at least once, you can no longer reset their trades.

Job Site Block:GrindstoneJob Brief: Offers minerals, enchanted weapons, and bells

Finally, our villager jobs list reaches its end with weaponsmith, which is one of the most desirable jobs. If you are doing a speedrun in Minecraft, weaponsmithchestsare even better than their trades. You can findobsidian, weapons, and iron in these chests.

As for trading, theyoffer swords and axes both with and without enchantments. You can also get a bell from them if you need it. Furthermore, you can use their grindstone to repair tools and weapons. It is also the most reliable tool toremove enchantments in Minecraft.

Wandering traders aren’t essentially villagers. But that’s only because they don’t spawn in a village. Other than that, they look and act like villagers, and you can eventrade with them for unique items. Unlike villagers with specific items, the trading offers from a wandering trader are usually random. From packed ice to flowers, you can expect a diverse range of items from the trader.

Moreover, there is no way to turn a regular villager into a wandering trader. Neither there is a way of spawning them. A wandering traderrandomly spawns with 2 leashed trader llamasaround the player after 1 in-game day has passed. They can spawn anywhere within a48-block radius around your location. So, keep your eyes peeled. Also, they definitely despawn after a while, so you cannot keep them or their trades for too long.

The villagers’ jobsdepend upon the utility blockpresent around them. These blocks are also known asjob site blocks. For example, if a villager has a composter nearby, they will automatically attain a farmer’s profession. But as you can expect, due to limited utility blocks, many villagers are also jobless.

Though, if you want to assign a particular profession to an unemployed villager, you can easilycraft and place the required utility block near them. Doing so will automatically make the villager opt for the profession connected to that block. Then, you can trade for completely unique items with the same villager.

Villagers have been discussed recently a lot and Mojang is definitely planning to modify their trades. At least, this goes for librarians, armorers, and cartographers. You can try these potential changes by enabling the “Villager Trade Rebalance” experimental features in Java edition or the “Villager Trade Rebalancing” features in Bedrock edition while creating a new world.

The thing that will be changed is how biomes will affect villager trades. Librarians will still trade enchanted books, but the biome will determine which one. When these changes are officially added to the game, we’ll update this article, so you know exactly what they’re about.

Now that you know every detail about all villager jobs, you are more than ready to make the most out of your survival world. Meanwhile, you only need emeralds for trading with villagers in most cases.

You can break emerald ores and get emeralds that way, or simply offer villagers something you don’t really need like sticks to a fletcher and that’ll earn you emeralds. With that said, don’t forget to share your favorite villager job in Minecraft in the comments section. Let’s see how many of our readers have the same thought.

There are a couple of reasons for this villager behavior. One of them is that the villager cannot find their path to the workstation block. Additionally, villagers work only during the work time during the day.That means early in the morning and late in the evening, they won’t try to work and won’t be assigned a new profession. One more reason can be the fact that some other villager is occupying that job site block, so the villager you want to assign the job cannot take it. Try to isolate all the other villagers outside of the room and the chosen villager will soon take that job if it’s middle of the day.

No. Villagers need a bed to spawn an iron golem, but not to work. They also restock their trades just fine even if they don’t sleep.

No, they cannot. Villagers can open and close regular doors, but not iron doors, trapdoors, gates or chests.