Master the Art of Making Villagers Work in Minecraft - IVGHOF (2024)

Are you looking to enhance your gameplay in Minecraft by utilizing villagers to their full potential?

This guide explores everything you need to know about villagers – from finding them in the game to assigning job roles and getting the best deals.

Whether you are a seasoned player or just starting out, unlocking the secrets of villagers will undoubtedly take your Minecraft experience to the next level.

Let’s dive in!

What Are Villagers?

Villagers are passive mobs in Minecraft that can walk, sprint, and open and close doors. They have personalities: some are brave, others cowardly. Villagers always spawn in instances of villages. Villages are naturally generated structures that look like a small village with houses and villagers. The entire village will generally consist of one or more distinct buildings that are home to various villagers. Villagers can also sleep on the first night after they have completed their daily activities and can maybe work, trade, or adopt roles that can be assigned to them. The average village is a wooden, small stone, brick, or cobblestone structure on a flat area with a well somewhere on the property. They usually have one or two areas in the center where the bell and job blocks are placed. There may be other areas, such as gardens, composters, or butcher shops. Villages can be found in plains, forests, deserts, tundra, taiga, or savannah.

Why Are Villagers Important?

Villagers are important in Minecraft for a variety of reasons such as survival, completing advancements, having trading partners, defending against invasions, and having a thriving in-game community. Advancements are achieved faster when trading with new villager professions that were not initially obtained and equating with biomes, such an advancement is entitled Arbalistic and is the upgrading of a Crossbow from a Fletching Table.

Some of the advancements unlocked utilizing the help from villagers that are linked with their jobs are entitled Treasure Hunter and Tactical Fishing. Ensure to try out several of these advancements in order to take advantage of villager jobs fully.

How to Find Villagers in Minecraft?

• Look for villages. Villages have more villagers than any other naturally generated structures.
• They are usually in the overworld mode of Minecraft. If you do not find structures of village-type or village-trees somewhere in the map, you can change the map generation until you find one to fit your desired difficulty settings.
• Spawn them with eggs. The command /summon minecraft:villager ~ ~ ~ can be used to summon a wandering trader (a villager type). It may be difficult to do this once due to the inability to choose a profession for the villager. Hostile mobs have the ability to kill summoned villagers quickly, there is a light-hearted article on this exact topic in The Register.
• Breed two existing villagers together, read the next section for information.

Natural Villages

Natural villages spawn in Plains, Deert, or a few other biomes. Large populations from these villages can be hard to find but give players already-built houses and infrastructure. The player can easily tell natural villagers from ones that have not spawned, as they will already possess already-built infrastructure, such as farms and buildings, whereas players with Unemployed villagers will have to build these themselves.

Now for the bad news. A 2019 update has changed how the game handles village dynamics, making it difficult for abandoned villages to persist over time without user intervention. Every Natural village has a Job Site block. Since 1.14, villagers now automatically change their jobs based on the job site blocks they see. So when the player does not want that to happen, that is known as villagers with static careers. You can keep villagers by sparing them their job site items and keeping them in a secure area to keep villagers clothed.

Curing Zombie Villagers

To cure zombie villagers, build yourself a splash potion of weakness and add it to a golden apple. Thrown splash potions of weakness will lower the target’s attack strength by 0.5, which helps lower the infecting citizen’s strength so they don’t convert back into zombies before the curing process is complete. Ensuring villagers have proper lighting of at least 9 to 10 blocks up to secure their safe day-time home is of utmost importance when taking this measure.

Trading with Other Players

Secondmost effective way to engage Illagers, trading with another player is simply showing the Illagers to a player and let them buy whatever is on offer. Assuming the player has emeralds, this sets up a profit-sharing agreement with other non-Illager players. Either party can take whatever gains they manage to accrue home with them. This obviously completely changes the dynamic of trading and introduces several factors not present in simple bartering.

How to Make Villagers Work for You?

To make villagers work for you in the game Minecraft secure and keep villagers until they work a job where they can trade goods or provide necessary services.

If you ask how do you make villagers breed then the answer is that if you keep them well-fed they will occasionally become `willing` to breed at their work site. To ensure villagers are safe and working productively, follow these step by step instructions on how to make villagers work for you in the game Minecraft.

To get them to this point though, why would you spend so much time of your game in Minecraft making so the villagers dont die prematurely or get lost, let alone feeding them and making sure they own homes? The answer involves investing in villagers in long-term economic terms. According to the laws of supply and demand, if their numbers remain small they will never want to trade better merchandise at cheap levels.

To unlock the complex trading economy of Minecraft involving villagers the microrounivan YouTube channel suggests the following in a video called Everything You Need To Know About The Trading Economy in Minecraft. If you need sticks, you need to sense when a villager is about to die and take advantage of the ruins of his to bequeath his stoie outcome. Depending on a villager’s two-sided work, you need to give it everything it asks for to open its full business. A villager must be compensated if you are looking for his last business and he does not die of old age. But before he does business, he should not have to be left in the place of his birth. He then needs to move to his assigned work site to accept his destiny though he must accept work to begin plying his trade. The microurban YouTube channel asserts in their aforementioned video that the two points regarding a Villagers workstation and a Villagers bed indicate that the two sides are interconnected. According to them this means you need to make sure a Villager has a workstation during work hours ensuring that they will return to toil daily, feeding satisfying Emeralds and profession logs will result in them opening the full potential of their trading economy..

Assigning Job Roles

You can make villagers work for you in Minecraft by assigning them jobs. Prospective employees can be hired by other villagers who currently work, using the job site block they are unable to work. Without the use of a job block, villagers are not able to upgrade to a job level higher than novice.

In a Minecraft village, multiple job sites can be given to NP Cs to make them work. Each job is linked with a specific job site block. The Gossip Profession doesn’t have a designated job site block, but villagers being gossips can still benefit from interacting with others. Eight different jobs are available in the village.

Building Workstations

Although they won’t work outside of work days, you can assign professions to villagers by placing a job site block or workstation next to them during the work day. These are the job site blocks currently available for different professions in Minecraft Java 1.17 edition and above. To create the blocks that make good work stations for lectern for Lectern Villager, barrels for Fisherman Villager, composters for Farmer Villagers, Smoker or Blast Furnace for Butcher Villagers, and Smithing Tables for Toolsmith Villagers.

Trading with Villagers

Trading in Minecraft is a good way to exchange items with others that you need for those you do not have. If a player manages to make a Villager a relevant NPC, it can create the opportunity to change necessary resources to renewable ones (e.g., Iron to food, food to paper for the Villager). Villagers sell a variety of items that the player might otherwise not have access to. unfortunately, trade only becomes available once a Village has accessible work, so furthering this Beyond trading’s current base application is not possible.

What Are the Different Villager Professions?

These are the merchant, farmer, fisherman, shepherd, fletcher, librarian, cartographer, butcher, leatherworker, stonemason, toolsmith, weapon smith, and armor smith. Their profession dictates what workstations the villagers are able to use and the goods or services they will provide. A villager’s profession is determined by the job site block that the villager has claimed.

Most villagers begin the game as a nitwit (green-robed) until they grow into adults, at which point they switch to the profession that corresponds to their work station. Profession can technically be changed by using that villager’s job site block to change their profession, but the maintenance and spawning mechanics in the game sometimes undo player changes and revert the profession back to the previous one.

Farmer

A farmer is a Generalist Villager in Minecraft who works a Farm and produces bread, wheat, potatoes, new plants such as sweet berries and beetroots, and products such as leather, feathers, and eggs. This is a recommended profession for new players because Villagers possess all of the simple and basic tasks players need to know. For example, a farmer gathers and makes items for the player. Because farmers are generalists, they work in their respective buildings at various times of the day according to a default schedule of block learning and work.

To make villagers work for you as a farmer, you have 3 options. Simply let the villager move autonomously to any adjacent work blocks and speak to him until you see the farmer at his new position. Punch him until he runs to his desired work location. Build your seafaring village so that the villagers can see the new work block. When the villager no longer attempts to sleep and go to another job block, it indicates they are the new farmer.

Librarian

The librarian profession is a complex one, like the cartographer profession. The two share nearly identical working and leveling dynamics but provide unique trades. As with cartographer villagers, the librarian villagers require a lectern. You link a librarian villager to a lectern by placing one near them permanently.

Once you have linked a librarian to a lectern, they will work early unto the day and night standing on top of the lectern, reading as they update locked trades and restock the trades they offer. Villagers who have a profession that is not linked to a workstation and/or bed will lose their profession if they do not work for over 10 in-game days. If a librarian is separated from their lectern for more than one minute, they drop their profession. At that point, you can reassign the profession from a cartographer’s station if you temporarily lack a librarian’s.

Blacksmith

Blacksmith minecraft villager job provides smelting and repairing services. A blacksmith villager is dressed in a dark brown middle-ages style apron uniform with a long tube-shaped skirt, black lines resembling molten iron at the bottom of the dress, black buttons that resemble nails, five-pointed stars on a light blue shading that resembles army belts on both shoulders. He also wears a long brimmed cap typical of the middle ages and carries a forging hammer in their right hand while holding a wooden slab under their left arm.

The lectern is the work site block associated with the blacksmith is the Smithing Table. The Smithing Table allows villagers to smelt weapons, tools, and armor. Blacksmith villagers repair damaged armor too. Blacksmith villagers consume up to 12 blast furnace charges per day with at least half of those charges made from an item that can create 1 Ingots. They consume roughly 20% of their workstation block per day resulting in plenty of future job runs. They get a red coat after 200 iron uses or when they notice the blast furnace charges running low at that rate. When needed, blacksmith villagers visit the work site first of course.

Butcher

A butcher is a role that can only be assigned to villagers that purchase raw meat. They will sell four items only, raw porkchop (15 pork to 1 emerald), raw mutton (15 mutton to 1 emerald), raw rabbit (12 rabbit to 1 emerald), and raw beef (15 beef to 1 emerald). One piece of meat will be sold for one emerald, and all meats restock 6 times in a given day.

Butcher villagers wear a long white apron with grey leather boots. They are the only non-nitwit villagers that don’t use a workstation, instead, they use their own jobsite in the environment. They must acquire the workstation, claimed or unclaimed, within a 48-block radius. When traded with, their first and second trades give them experience points to set them to level1, and their level2 trade sets them at level2.

In general, villagers that trade with them, think they are the one the player is choosing to profit from the most, and therefore trade with them the most. This leads to faster stock repopulating. If not traded with, the butcher’s stock will repopulate at a rate of one item per day if the villager has not already replenished its stock.

A leatherworker, farmer, or fisherman who doesn’t trade with nitrats will stock up their items at the same rate as nitwits. This will occur every 2nd in-game day after they pick up their workstation. If fully restocked already then they will move around locking in the workstation of an unassigned nitwit in the vicinity.

Cleric

The Cleric is a Nitwit villager that, when given the chance, will work without demands. They accept Rotten Flesh and Gold Ingots as payment for brewing experience, and after brewing a brew in their brewing stand, the cleric will hand you experience potions, Redstone, and Glass Bottles to take the experience potions home in. Clerics also sell Lingering Potions of Weakness and of Water Breathing in exchange for Emeralds. Clerics stand at lecterns during their working hours.

Pros of the cleric include their being Nitwits, the fact that any player need only four future trades, unlimited trades, lack of inventory micro-management, and location filtering. Cons of the clerics include the challenging payment demands of ½∏ of a Golden Ingot for 1-2 bottles of any experience watermark, and repeating the brewing process to satisfy a very high experience demand.

Armorer

The Armorer is a work-site profession and is not a requirement for the creation of other professions. This appears to be a profession suited for the start of the game that lets villagers smelt Iron and Chainmail. The workstation block for the Armorer is a Blast Furnace which is the upgraded form of a Smelter. To craft a Blast Furnace requires three smooth stone pieces and five iron ingots.

The raw materials for these items are difficult to come by because Iron Ingots can only be crafted through smelting Iron Ore. Blast Furnaces are primarily used to smelt ore quicker. In the trade-like profession scheme deployment with Minecraft 1.18, Blast Furnaces and Armorers are made even less valuable because they cannot smelt Copper, Gold or Netherite which are the more valuable ore resources.

The Armorer table requires a Blast Furnace. The Armorer will buy Iron Ingots at a price ranging from 8 – 10 Iron Ingots per emerald and Chainmail Boots at the rate ranging from 2 – 3 boots per emerald. Armorers are able to trade Chainmail Boots. Armorers have a trade XP to make them a better profession to utilize. The Farmers XP of 1 moves up to an Armorers XP of 2 to make them the most valuable profession XP-wise. These qualities make the Armorer an important profession.

Cartographer

Cartographers are nitwit villagers who assist in map-making and exploration by using their cartography table to trade for compasses, empty maps, and explorer maps. These explorer maps can show the location of several different biomes and structures such as Woodland Mansions to players who possess them. The ten trades are as follows:

As with librarians, exploring your world or seeking cartographer villagers elsewhere can get you some expert enchanting and map assistance. The easiest way to acquire a lot of empty maps is to find a villager and use the cartography trade. However, the best way for getting maps is to buy an ‘Ocean Explorer Map’ from a cartographer.

Fisherman

Nitwit villagers are now complete and will now be referred to as Unemployed villagers. These types of villagers can be given the proper work clothes (which is as simple as using the /data command to change their clothes type to the one of the other working jobs). Their task can then be selected in the same way that any other complete villager can be assigned a job, by making sure that the proper job site block for the desired job is unlocked, can only be accessed by the designated villager, is in close proximity to where the villager offers his services, and that the villager has a bed and can access the job site at the time when he would be able to work.

Once assigned, if the conditions for work are met, the villager will begin to offer the job in the normal manner.

Fletcher

A fletching table is fletchers-only work station for their profession and their workplace device. Villagers who work with this workstation are tailored in making bows and crossbows.

The primary high-school-level skill the fletcher will offer is trading bows and crossbows. Flint, feathers, and sticks could also be traded, and when buying or selling items related to archery, the fletcher produces the best deals in this area. The maximum level that this villager can reach is Master.

Fletchers usually have yellow clothing and are identified by brown-fletching helmets. Depending on what they have drawn in as bows or crossbows, fletchers can end up looking stylish, like a reverse Robin-hood or dangerous like a living military fog-of-war unit. The fletching table does not perform a role within the game and cannot be compiled by players as it is considered only for villagers. This is important to understand so no time or resources are wasted towards that end.

Leatherworker

In Java Edition, if leatherworker villagers were spawned by the game (meaning they were not players cured from zombie villagers) before being assigned to a job site block, they will not be able to select their job according to the block they are closest to and will instead lose their workstation. However, if they were players cured from zombie villagers, they operate as intended and can wear work clothes like other job users. To trade with them further after their initial trade at apprentice level has been established, players can focus on selling rotten flesh to get leather, and buy a lot of leather armor and boots.

If trading with a number, these are great deals if trade is to be maximized with a Leatherworker villager, even going beyond the Master level meaning a grindstone is available for work clothes.

Shepherd

Shepherds in Minecraft are the upgraded version of farmers after a farmer finds themselves near some sheep and picks up shears in response. When a farmer with harvested crops picks up a piece of wheat, they look for sheep in the vicinity to sheer or as the game puts it in the events summary, “planning by a farmer”. A farmer looking for sheep chooses the nearest thing which is another farmer, thus they essentially spam the same job ad on different farmers with slightly new job copies. Post-farmerville-officers the new shepherd will seek sheep.

Shepherds will buy wool from the player for any of the following values in Bedrock edition:

• 3-6 wool for 2 emeralds.
• 6-24 wool for 3 emeralds.
• 23-40 wool for 2 emeralds.
• 23-40 wool for 1 emerald.
• 40+ wool for 1 emerald.
• 11-17 white wool for 1 emerald.

This is a random value system. In the Java edition shepherds will pay up to 40 times the selling value. Tasks involving the player’s sheep which are tedious for the player (e.g. milking, breeding, and moving) are great for the shepherd. They are attracted (or at least pick up leftover roles from toolsmiths) by any local heavily damaged sheep. Almost too helpful, the shepherd (although not as helpful as a cleric) has valuable resources and tasks.

Toolsmith

Toolsmith villagers are another special type of mason that focus on toolmaking rather than stonecutting. As of the 1.14 Village & Pillage Update, toolsmiths are not well defined as a class, with them vocation jumping most frequently after being unemployed, but as of the 1.15 Buzzy Bees Update, their new uniform was the same as masons – a blue tunic with a tan apron – and they were finally given a unique one-level tier system.

There are 7 tool-based items villagers can buy from or sell to a toolsmith. Iron pickaxes, iron axes, iron shovels, iron hoes, stone pickaxes, stone axes, and stone shovels.

Villagers can sell the multi-level iron tools to the player if the smith has that tool and tier specified for purchase. Weapon based tools are all leveled to a maximum of 4, while trident enchantments are leveled to 5 and the Bane of Arthropods sword enchantment is tier 2 only.

Gaining experience automatically gives a toolsmith the option of two additional job advancements. Master of tools is a wandering trader who sells diamond tools, and master of the stone is a new villager profession who makes items from stone, cobblestone, and blackstone. If tier 2 is unlocked, a toolsmith gains the skill of killing iron golems.

Weaponsmith

Weaponsmiths spawn after having a Village Level of 3. Weaponsmiths buy and sell higher-quality weapon-related gear, such as crossbows and diamond axes. They also have six trade job levels. You can determine the Weaponsmith’s job level by the number of notches on their stone-crafted workstation.

How to upgrade a Weaponsmith in Minecraft? Looting ruins, outposts, rare villages, and bastion remnants in order to find iron and diamonds may be one way. Here are three tasks to upgrade a weaponsmith in Minecraft:

How to Get the Best Deals from Villagers?

You get the best deals from villagers in Minecraft by having a high Hero of the Village effect from defending a village from a raid. Upon successfully defending a village from a raid, bad omen will become effective, with a louder raid horn and Heralds obviously noticed. Killing any Captain within the village 20 minutes will cause a raid, or kill your own after delivering you this buff.

This will lead villagers to give the best deals of any kind. The higher the point counts (7, 14, 21), the better the chance.

Increasing Villager Happiness

Villagers do not work for you; rather, you make villagers work for you in Minecraft. One tip to increase the productivity of villagers is to increase their happiness. If all villagers in a village whose center is located in the bounding boxes of village entities like houses or job sites have slept in the last 24000 ticks and have not been rained on in the last 24000 ticks, their happiness increases. When a villager is happy, its efficiency and work speed will increase. More job site blocks help to make villagers happy, as does the presence of a villager that has previously traded with the work site block.

Using the Hero of the Village Effect

The Hero of the Village effect is a status effect granted to the player when they defeat a raid. The effect allows the player to unlock extra special trades, including discounted prices during the effect duration, which occurs based on the number of waves in the raid.

Number of waves in the raid – Number of bad omen flags
Wave of raid – Number of rally assailants

Unlock special discounted trades with villagers through the following steps in Minecraft after raiding.

The Hero of the Village Effect
Step 1: Go to the trading screen of a villager during the Hero of the Village effect to see if they have discounted prices.

Check the discounted price of a trade by seeing – Original cost (1M)
Step 2: Buy or sell a part of the trade to ensure the original cost is (1M). The amount is displayed in the output slot after scrolling over the desired item
Step 3: Exit the trading screen to see if the trade remains at the discounted price.

Trading During a Village Raid

Trading during a village raid is a high-risk option, but you can use village raids to your advantage. A raid is when a pillager captain holding a banner spawns and causes a raid against a village. Raids are complex, get out of hand quickly, and are usually disaster situations. However, if you are able to handle the situation and kill the captain, you may be awarded with the Bad Omen status effect. This effect is as a debuff, and when a player having the Bad Omen effect enters a village, it starts a raid automatically or after a certain time interval. Raids by themselves do not help with acquiring new, or expanding existing, villagers. Instead, they harm your acquisition of villagers.

However, for experienced players or players who have prepared in advance, a raid means a newly-spawned captain in no danger of escape. You can trade with villagers during the raid so that they are safe, and as soon as the raid is over, kill the captain. Trading during a raid is the easiest if the villagers have been sorted into rooms similar to the iron farms. This reduces the protectable area and makes it easier to ensure traders’ safety. This technique should not be used regularly as it has the possibility of going wrong if any of the contingencies you have not accounted for show up such as reinforced pillagers or faster reinforcers so the situation becomes less predictable.

Conclusion

You make Villagers work for you in Minecraft by helping them reproduce and trade among their own population or by taking advantage of their trades after converting them, rather than forcing them to work through direct orders. Capturing Villagers and keeping them locked away in cells is not only cruel, but a big waste of reproduction and trade potential for the player. They have specific professions that give them particular abilities and items for trade glory.

It is important to keep your Villagers alive to keep getting unique items, as they can turn into witches, zombies, or skeletons via mobs or changes in environmental conditions. With new changes being introduced in Minecraft 1.17 and coming to 1.18, these professions are important for acquiring essential resources such as emeralds, diamonds, books, and more.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best way to make villagers work for you in Minecraft?

The best way to make villagers work for you in Minecraft is to trade with them and assign them to specific jobs.

Can I force villagers to work for me in Minecraft?

No, you cannot force villagers to work for you. You will need to trade with them and give them jobs in order for them to work.

How do I assign jobs to villagers in Minecraft?

To assign a job to a villager, you will need to place the appropriate job block near them. For example, a farmer will need a compost bin and a librarian will need a lectern.

Can I change a villager’s job in Minecraft?

Yes, you can change a villager’s job by breaking their current job block and placing a new one near them. They will then switch to the new job.

How do I trade with villagers in Minecraft?

To trade with a villager, you will need to have emeralds and items that they are willing to trade for. Right-click on the villager to open their trading menu and select the items you want to trade with them.

Is it possible to make all villagers in a village work for me in Minecraft?

Yes, you can assign all villagers in a village to jobs and make them work for you. This can help you create a more efficient and productive village.