Mining in minecraft can be really frustrating. Imagine going underground, mining through hundreds of blocks just to some mere amounts of diamonds to craft yourself some armor and tools. You risk your entire inventory to some dumb fall damage or a surprise lava bath, all this just for some diamonds. That’s an old fashioned way to grind for stuff. In the modern Minecraft era, you should be focusing on making everything more easier and convenient. If you haven’t thought about it yet, building a proper Villager Trading hall fixes all of those issues. This is a perfect guide that helps you how to create a Trading Hall.
Emerald: The Green Gold Of Minecraft
In the world of Minecraft, people are always in search of Diamonds and spend a lot of hours in their search. People who have been playing Minecraft for a long time know something that others don’t. Diamonds in Minecraft are not as great as they seem to be. It is hard to get them and losing them makes you feel really bad.
Emeralds are the thing you actually need to grind in game if you truly wanna become rich because you can do so much with them. When you have a lot of emeralds you do not need to look for Diamonds. You do not need to make tools or other things. You can just go to a villager and buy what you need. Having a good amount of emeralds means you get to ignore the boring basics and jump straight to being overpowered.They help you make a lot of things and the Villager Trading Hall is like a marketplace where you can use your emeralds to trade for tools and gear.
Why You Need a Trading Hall
Building a Trading Hall is not about having a place to buy and sell stuff, it’s about taking total control over your world. Normally, you’re just crossing your fingers and hoping the game’s random generation actually gives you something decent to work with. You hope to find diamonds. You hope the Enchanting Table gives you useful enchants like Sharpness, Efficiency or Protection. A Trading Hall changes everything. It turns hope into a guarantee by getting villagers to live in a better home, you create a shop where you can get anything you need. You don’t have to travel to find rare items. You bring the experts to you instead. The Trading Hall is where you get all the gear and building blocks without having to spend hours searching for them.
Choosing The Right Specialist/Trader:
Not every villager who lives in the village is worth talking to. An efficient hall has zero room for a nitwit. If a villager isn’t offering top-tier gear or their best enchants at a reasonable price, you want the emerald to be as strong as it can be. To do that you need to find the right villagers and put them in your hall.
This is the list of all traders/villagers:
1. Librarian
2. Fletcher
3. Farmer4. Armorer
5. Toolsmith
6. Weaponsmith
7. Mason
8. Cleric
9. Butcher
10. Fisherman
11. Shepherd
12. Leatherworker
13. Cartographer
14. Nitwit
1. Librarian:
- Workstation: Lectern
- Description: Librarian is arguably the most powerful and important villager in the history of minecraft. They wear white robes. By simply breaking and replacing a Lectern, you can cycle their trades until they offer exactly what you need. They have the ability to provide an infinite supply of max-tier books like Mending, Sharpness 5, and Fortune 3, all available for a bunch of emeralds.
- What they offer: Enchanted books of every type, paper-to-emerald trades, glass, lanterns and nametags.
- Best Offered Items: Mending or Level 5 Enchants.
2. Fletcher:
- Workstation: Fletching Table
- Description: Fletchers can be a great source to earn emeralds as they offer cheap trades like giving you emeralds in exchange of sticks or even feathers sometimes. They wear a brown colored hat with a feather on it.
- What they offer: Arrows, flint, bows, and crossbows.
- Best Offered Item: 1 emerald for 32 sticks, and since finding wood is pretty common in minecraft. Using this, you can craft sticks and can get a lot of emeralds easily.
3. Farmer:
- Workstation: Composter
- Description: Farmers can be used as one of the quickest way to obtain food if you ever find yourself in a hurry. They wear a yellow colored straw hat and go around harvesting crops and planting seeds.
- What they offer: Bread, pumpkin pie, apples and emeralds in exchange for wheat.
- Best Offered Item: Golden Carrots, which is the best food source in the game as it offers the highest saturation.
4. Armorer:
- Workstation: Blast Furnace
- Description: The armorers are often known as the best source to gather armor pieces and saves the time you spend in mining diamonds by offering you decent enchanted diamond armor trades in exchange for emeralds. They wear a welding mask and a heavy apron.
- What they offer: Iron armor, bells, chainmail, and enchanted diamond armors.
- Best Offered Item: Enchanted Diamond Chestplates. If upgraded to the last level and cured from the Zombie Curse (we’ll go deep into the science of zombified villager curing later on), they offer a full set of diamond armor for just 4 emeralds.
5. Toolsmith:
- Workstation: Smithing Table
- Description: If you’re tired of your armor and tools breaking again and again, and you have to spend diamonds to craft more, then Toolsmith is your best friend. They turn your emeralds into an endless supply of the top-tier tools you need to actually run your world. They wear a dark brown colored heavy cloak.
- What they offer: Stone, Iron, and Diamond tools.
- Best Offered Items: Diamond Tools. They save your time when you need to quickly get a spare tool.
6. Weaponsmith:
- Workstation: Grindstone
- Description: They can be easily recognized by their black colored eye patch on their left eye. If you ever need a spare melee weapon, then they are your best option.
- What they offer: Iron and Diamond swords and axes.
- Best Offered Item: Enchanted Diamond Swords.
- Weaponsmith, when combined with Armorer, provides a complete set of tools and armor for you or maybe your friends too.
7. Mason:
- Workstation: Stonecutter
- Description: Covered in dust and wearing a black apron, Mason is the best friend of any builder because they offer good materials that you usually need to spend a lot of time gathering.
- What they offer: Quartz, bricks, polished stones, and terracotta.
- Best Offered Items: Quartz Blocks. Usually, it’s risky to get quartz from the nether. The Mason sells it to you in the safety of your base.
8. Cleric:
- Workstation: Brewing Stand
- Description: Dressed in purple robes with a Creeper face on the back, they deal in magical items and mob drops.
- What they offer: Ender pearls, experience bottles, redstone, lapis lazuli, and glowstone.
- Best Offered Items: Ender Pearls and Experience Bottles are the best items because obtaining ender pearls through regular gameplay is risky and Cleric is the only safe way to get experience bottles.
9. Butcher:
- Workstation: Smoker
- Description: They wear a red headband and a bloody apron, and trades different types of meat.
- What they offer: Rabbit stew, cooked porkchop, chicken and emeralds for berries and meat.
- Best Offered Item: Emeralds for Berries. If you have a Sweet Berry farm the Butcher will pay you richly in emeralds for them.
10. Fisherman:
- Workstation: Barrel
- Description: Dressed in a fisherman’s hat and their classic fishermen outfit.
- What they offer: Fishing rod, cooked fish, campfire. Salmon water buckets, emeralds in exchange of strings.
- Best Offered Item: Emeralds for String. If you have a Spider Spawner farm, you will have more strings than you know what to do with. The Fisherman turns that “trash” into emeralds.
11. Shepherd:
- Workstation: Loom
- Description: The shepherd wears a white vest and has a brown hat on his head. This is a villager who is engaged in the production and processing of wool.
- What they offer: Wool, carpets, paintings, and banners.
- Best Offered Item: Emeralds for White Wool. With a simple automatic sheep shearer, the Shepherds can be used as an emerald generating machine.
12. Leatherworker:
- Workstation: Cauldron
- Description: Dressed in leather gear, they focus on early-game utility and horse travel. This guy is the only way to gear up your stable without spending hours raiding dungeons or mineshafts.
- What they offer: Saddles, leather armor and horse armor.
- Best Offered Item: Saddles, horse armor to protect your horse from any possible danger.
13. Cartographer:
- Workstation: Cartography Table
- Description: Dressed in white robes with a monocle, the Cartographer is the explorer’s best friend. They are your GPS in minecraft who sells exploration maps for structures in your world.
- What they offer: Paper-to-emerald trades, empty maps, item frames, and banners, ocean explorer maps, woodland mansion maps.
- Best Offered Item: Ocean and Woodland Explorer Maps. These can be really helpful as they allow you to travel directly to a nearby structure and saves your time.
14. Nitwit:
- Workstation: None (They won’t take one)
- Description: They wear a bright green robe and have a very lazy attitude. They don’t take a job at all and are useless.
Trick To Get Cheaper Trades:
- Hero Of The Village Discount: The best way to lower prices in your Trading Hall is by starting a Raid. You can get a lot of rewards. When you defeat some waves of pillagers, ravagers, vindicators and witches, etc, you get the Hero of the Village effect. Those villagers will think you are a hero/their protector. For about 40-60 minutes, all the traders near you will give you a big discount on all the items they sell. To do this you need to find a Pillager Outpost, defeat their leader who has a banner and get the Bad Omen effect from the bad omen bottles they drop, then go to your villagers area and start a raid. After you fight off the Pillagers, Vindicators, Vexes and Ravagers you will get a lot of emeralds, totems and enchanted books from the loot they drop. Starting a Raid is a move that can get you a lot of rewards if you are not afraid to fight.
Icon of Hero of the village effect:
- Curing Zombified Villagers: If you want your discounts to be permanent not temporary, you need to master the process of Zombification. This is actually a trick that pro-Minecraft players use. To do it, you let a Zombie attack a villager, this turns the villager into a Zombified Villager. Note that it only works if you are playing on Hard Difficulty. On lower difficulties, the villagers might just die. Once the villager is infected you throw a Splash Potion of Weakness at them. Pop them a Golden Apple and give it a minute. Once that cure hits, their prices are going to drop permanently. You can repeat this process up to five times for the same villager, eventually forcing even the rarest trades, like Mending books or Diamond Chestplates, down to a throwaway price of one emerald.
Enchantment Table v/s Librarian:
If you are still getting enchantments using the Enchantment Table, then you are playing the game in the old style and not in the most efficient way.
Enchantment Table gets you only a handful of enchants on your armors and tools. However, trading with villagers allows you to collect some special enchants which can’t be obtained through the enchantment table.
Example:
1. Mending: A type of book which helps to repair your armor and tools with xp levels. Here
2. Max Level Enchants: A normal enchantment table with max bookshelves setup has a high chance of giving you enchants of around level 4, but Librarians on the other hand can get you level 5 enchantments easily if their lecterns are cycled properly.
Summary:
To really get good at the Villager Trading Hall you need to change the way you do things. You have to stop relying on mining and start using emeralds.
First you should get Fletchers and Farmers. They will help you quickly generate a good amount of emeralds since items like sticks and pumpkin can be grinded really easily. When you have a lot of emeralds you can hire Librarians. You should also get the Armorer, Toolsmith and Weaponsmith. These three are like the “Diamond Trinity”. They can give you a full diamond armor and diamond tools like sword, pickaxe and axe, so you don’t have to do it yourself. The Villager Trading Hall is all about emeralds. If you want to get to the point where you can trade one emerald for enchanted diamond gear, you need to convert them to Zombified Villagers. To do that, you need to force convert your villagers into zombified villagers by letting the zombies bite them and then later treating those zombified villagers with potion of weakness and a golden apple. Following this step makes them sell you stuff at really lower prices. If you follow these steps you will make your survival experience much easier and you will have a steady supply of everything you need.
