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All the Minecraft

Villager Jobs Explained
Updated: May 1, 2024

Udayveer Singh

In Short

There are a total of 15 villager jobs in

Minecraft, with nitwit being useless and
unemployed being useless until they get a
job.

The rest are: armorer, butcher, cartographer,

cleric, farmer, fisherman, fletcher,
leatherworker, librarian, mason, shepherd,
toolsmith and weaponsmith.

These mobs can trade food items, various

building blocks, weapons, tools, potion
ingredients, decorative blocks, progression-
relevant items and more.

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 is find a village
in Minecraft and start interacting with
the villagers. With that said, let’s begin!

1. Armorer

Job Site Block: Blast Furnace

Job 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 a
blast 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, an expert-level armorer
can even provide you with enchanted
diamond armor pieces.

2. Butcher

Job Site Block: Smoker

Job Brief: O!ers cooked meat
and stew

The butcher is responsible for providing

cooked meat and rabbit stew. At times,
it even o!ers 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 regular furnace.

3. Cartographer

Job Site Block: Cartography

Table
Job 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 can get empty maps,
frames, and banners from 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, and buried treasure in 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.

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4. Cleric

Job Site Block: Brewing Stand

Job Brief: O!ers 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 obtain Redstone dust,
lapis lazuli, glowstone, ender pearls,
and even Bottle o’ Enchanting from the
clerics.

And even if you don’t find a cleric in

your village, you can easily assign a
village this job by creating a brewing
stand. Our guide linked here will help
you get started in no time.

5. Farmer

Job Site Block: Composter

Job Brief: O!ers 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 o!er high-level food
items and even a few ingredients to
some of the best Minecraft potions.

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That means you can trade bread, pie,

apple, cookies, cake, and stew at lower
levels. Meanwhile, expert farmers also
o!er golden carrots and glistering
melon slices. They usually spawn next
to a composter, which is great for
creating bone meal in the game.

6. Fisherman

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Job Site Block: Barrel

Job Brief: O!ers cooked
seafood, campfire, and even an
enchanted fishing rod

Fishermen are a comparatively newer

addition to the game. In terms of fish,
they o!er you cooked salmon, cooked
cod, and a bucket of cod too. Beyond
that, you can also get a campfire and an
enchanted fishing rod from 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.

7. Fletcher

Job Site Block: Fletching Table

Job 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 provide enchanted
bows, enchanted crossbows, and even
tipped arrows.

Unfortunately, their job site block is a

fletching table, which doesn’t serve any
secondary function. We can only hope
for Minecraft to allow us to use it in the
future.

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8. Leatherworker

Job Site Block: Cauldron

Job 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 o!er leather
armor pieces and leather 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 a

cauldron, and it is really useful. You can
use the cauldron to store water, lava, or
powder snow. If you are on the Bedrock
edition, it even lets you store dyed
water and potions.

9. Librarian

Job Site Block: Lectern

Job Brief: O!ers enchanted
books, compass, clocks, name
tags, and more

If you know how 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 the lectern, which is useful
in multiplayer mode and serves as a
redstone component. It enables you to
place books on it so that multiple
players can read them at the same time.

10. Mason or Stone Mason

Job Site Block: Stonecutter

Job Brief: Trades di!erent
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 di!erent types of bricks,
variants of polished stone blocks, and
dripstone blocks at lower levels.

At higher levels, you can get colored

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

11. Nitwit

Job Site Block: N/A

Job Brief: aesthetic value, no
other value

Not to hurt any player’s feelings, but

nitwits in Minecraft are useless. You
can’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.

12. Shepherd

Job Site Block: Loom

Job Brief: O!er 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 o!er
decorative items like carpets, 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.

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The job site block of the shepherd is

much more interesting than the job
itself. You can use the loom to create
unique patterns on banners with an
intriguing in-game editor.

13. Toolsmith

Job Site Block: Smithing Table

Job 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 o!er bells while trading.

Not to forget, you can use the smithing

table to upgrade diamond tools to
netherite tools, making them the
strongest tools in Minecraft. Moreover,
you can make netherite armor and a
netherite sword, so make sure to follow
our linked guide on how to get netherite
and netherite upgrade.

14. Unemployed

Job Site Block: use any block

(or table) to assign a job
Job 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 will turn into
an unemployed one.

However, you can use this technique to

reassign a villager to a di!erent job and
get di!erent trades. Though keep in
mind that once you trade with a villager
at least once, you can no longer reset
their trades.

15. Weaponsmith