The trading system is a component in the game that allows players to trade emeralds for things (and vice versa) with villages and travelling traders.
How does it work?
When a player presses use on a travelling trader or an adult villager with a profession, a menu appears, enabling the player to trade with the villager or wandering trader. This operation halts the entity’s pathfinding process. While the entity’s trading menu is active in Bedrock Edition, an emerald appears over its head. The trade menu shuts if the entity gets harm during trading.
Emeralds are used in every transaction. Villagers purchase and sell commodities in exchange for emeralds, whereas roaming traders sell but do not buy. In Survival mode, trading is the only way to get the globe banner pattern, forest explorer maps, and ocean explorer maps.
How to Trade with a Villager in Minecraft
Bell, diamond gear, lapis lazuli [BE only], bottles o’ enchantment, glass, bricks [BE only], terracotta [BE only], sand, red sand, coral blocks, and little drop leaves are all obtained by this method.
Villagers have five different profession levels that may be advanced by trading with them. Every villager begins out as a “novice.” The trading menu displays a villager’s rank. Stone denotes a beginner, iron denotes an apprentice, gold denotes a journeyman, emerald denotes an expert, and diamond denotes a master. The next level of trade is unlocked by trading until the villager’s trading bar is full. Both the villager and the gamer get to experience when they trade with each other.All villager trades provide the player 3–6 experience points, or 8–11 if the villager is willing to breed. Although the trader does not have experience levels to acquire, trading with a travelling trader gives the player some experience. When a villager’s experience bar is full, they level up and earn up to two new trades while maintaining their previous ones. A villager also obtains the Regeneration effect, which causes them to be surrounded by purple and green particles for 10 seconds.
The trading pool used to determine a villager’s trades is determined by the villager’s occupation. Farmers, for example, wear straw hats, and their trades are based on the Farmer trade pool. Each profession grants access to a limited number of offers. Each villager is allocated a different career depending on their job-site block. Their look and the trade interface both reveal their occupation. If their claimed work site block is lifted, novice villagers who have not traded would lose their occupation and become unemployed. Removing and rebuilding a job site block can change the trades available, and a villager with little experience will frequently reset their trades.Once a player trades with a villager, the villager’s occupation is locked in for the duration of the deal.
After a specific number of transactions, villagers deactivate an offer; the precise number varies by item and is listed in the tables below. Villagers can activate their offers up to twice per day while they work at their employment site blocks. A red “X” shows in the trade interface when an offer is disabled, and the villager exhibits the same particle effect as when an offer is created.
Damaged tools cannot be traded for completely repaired tools because villagers discern between data values. [Only the Bedrock Edition] However, because NBT data is disregarded, the content of a written book is irrelevant. Written books, on the other hand, can no longer be sold to villages, and no villagers are now purchasing durable tools.
Economics
Villagers in Java Edition are limited to ten transactions. A maximum of two additional transactions are unlocked at each level. If a level has more than two trades available, the two proposed transactions are picked at random from the set.
Villagers in Bedrock Edition have 7–10 trade slots. Some slots with numerous possible transactions only show one; for example, farmer villagers’ first trade slot contains four potential deals, each with a 14 percent chance of being picked.
Each trade may only be used a certain amount of times before being disabled. Villagers must labour at their relevant job site block to restock their trades once they have been deactivated.
The price of an object fluctuates based on three criteria. These adjustments effect items with a high price multiplier (0.2) more than ones with a low multiplier (0.05). All price changes only effect the first item in a transaction; for example, a deal of 32 sticks for 1 emerald can be reduced to 1 stick or increased to 64 sticks for 1 emerald, but never to two emeralds. Furthermore, no amount can be less than one or greater than the stack size.
The first consideration is demand. When a sold-out item is resupplied, the price increases for all players. The price of an item is decreased the following time the villager resupplies if a player does not trade for a higher-priced item. Because demand is recorded by item rather than per person, a villager might offer a higher-priced trade for one item while others are cheaper. Demand has no effect on trades with a price multiplier of 0.
The Hero of the Village effect, which momentarily cuts costs for the afflicted player based on the magnitude of the impact, is the second technique to alter pricing.
Finally, based on their reputation with that particular villager, gamers receive personal discounts or penalties. Curing zombie villagers earns you a good reputation (the villager that was cured gives a permanent discount much larger than the temporary discount in nearby villagers). A player must use a splash potion of weakness on a zombie villager and then feed it a golden apple to heal it. The permanent discount is limited to 5 cures, whereas the temporary discount is limited to 8. Players can earn poor reputation by striking or murdering villagers, and high reputation by trading or pouring healing on them in Java Edition.
