How Many Villager Jobs Are There in Minecraft

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When you are exploring an area in Minecraft, you may find some villagers there. The villagers dress up based on what job that they are doing. Since you often see various of them, then you may wonder how many villager jobs in Minecraft.

In Minecraft, there are 15 villager jobs. What are they? You may have seen some of them or even all of them in the game. Here are the jobs of villagers including the job site block of each job.

  • Cartographer – Cartography Table

These villagers trade banners, banner patterns, compasses, various maps, papers and explorer maps.

  • Cleric – Brewing Stand

These villagers trade magic items such as ender pearls, redstone dust, and enchanting or potions ingredients.

  • Farmer – Composter

These villagers trade crops and natural foods.

  • Fisherman – Barrel

These villagers trade campfires and fishing items.

  • Armorer – Blast Furnace

These villagers trade foundry items and sell chain, iron and also enchanted diamond armor tiers.

  • Toolsmith – Smithing Table

These villagers trade bells, minerals and harvest tools.

  • Unemployed – N/A (No job assigned)

These villagers do not trade until they are employed.

  • Weaponsmith – Grindstone

These villagers trade bells, minerals and enchanted melee weapons.

  • Butcher – Smoker

These villagers trade meats, rabbit stew, sweet berries, and dried kelp blocks.

  • Leatherworker – Cauldron

These villagers trade rabbit hide, scutes, and leather-related items.

  • Librarian – Lectern

These villagers trade enchanted books, compasses, clocks, glass, name tags, ink sacs, lanterns and book and quills.

  • Stone Mason /Mason – Stonecutter

These villagers trade polished stones, clay, terracotta, glazed terracotta and quartz.

  • Nitwit – N/A (No job assigned)

These villagers do not trade.

  • Shepherd – Loom

These villagers trade shears, dyes, wool, beds and paintings.

  • Fletcher – Fletching Table

These villagers trade crossbows, bows, all types of arrows and archery ingredients.


You are able to see in the list above that there is an Unemployed job. We do not know whether this thing should be entered into one of the jobs in the list above or not including the Nitwit. But, In the Gamepedia, it is categorized into one of villager’s jobs.

Villagers in Minecraft will spawn in their respective buildings and it depends on their job. If you trade with villagers, it will fill their rank bar. If the bar of the villager is bad, happy particles (green particles) and purple bubble-like particles will come up and the villager will unlock more of its item to be able to exchange for.

As you also can see in the list above that each villager with each job trades different things. But some villagers do not trade at all unless they were given a profession by using a kind of job block or if they in question’s trading system has been mixed out by trading with the villager enough to rank it up to the max level which is Master level.

Villagers which are unemployed will wander the village to look for a job site block to claim. In the village, the job site block can be anywhere as long as it is unclaimed and unobstructed. If the villagers’ job site block has been destroyed, they will lose their job unless they have been traded with before.

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