Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21.4: without Trade Rebalance · 3 min read

Villager trading: professions, books and restocking

Before the first transaction, you can change your profession by work block; After the transaction, the offers are fixed. To replenish, you need access to the block with which this particular merchant is associated.

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Wheat fields, beehives and a pen with animals near the village
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Get the right profession

Isolate one unemployed adult and set up one work block during the day. A pulpit gives a librarian, a composter gives a farmer. A green nitwit does not receive a profession. Reference: Java 1.20.2: treatment discounts.

Discover offers before purchasing. If the book you need is not there, remove the block, wait until the profession is lost, and install it again. The first completed transaction will secure the profession and goods; It is useless to break the lectern after purchasing it for the sake of a new book.

Diagram: how a merchant is assigned
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Test restocking with one villager

Exhaust one trade, leave the villager access to his work block and wait for the day's work. Replenishment is possible up to two times per game day. If the cross remains, check someone else's connection to the block and the ability to work, and not just the presence of a pulpit in the room.

In Bedrock, a trading settlement needs a connected bed; Each salesperson does not have to sleep personally. Do not copy the Java room to Bedrock without checking the village and connections. When the book rebalancing experiment is enabled, trading differs from normal trading.

To get new villagers, start with the manual site: Breeding villagers and finding why it fails.

Discounts without losing the villager

To treat a zombie villageger, you need Weakness and a regular golden apple: apply the effect, then the apple and protect the patient from the sun and attacks. Milk is not a villager's cure.

Intentionally infecting a valuable individual is dangerous: on Easy difficulty it will die, on Normal difficulty the transformation is not guaranteed, on Hard difficulty killing a zombie leads to transformation. In Java 1.20.2, re-infection and treatment no longer accumulates the same discount bonus. Choose treatment for one improvement, not an endless chain of discounts.

The repair procedure with new experience is described separately: Mending in Minecraft: repair equipment with experience.

Frequently asked questions

Why doesn't the department change the book?

This villager has already been traded with or the block is connected to another individual.

Why is the deal not being replenished?

Check the working hours and access to the associated work unit.

Do all librarians sell Mending using the same rules?

No, the rebalancing experiment changes the rules; check world settings.

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