Minecraft Villager Jobs Explained – Complete List of All Professions

Minecraft is a game that, despite being released more than fifteen years ago, still manages to dominate in terms of popularity — both with adult players and newcomers just starting their gaming journey.

The wide variety of gameplay mechanics is what keeps players hooked!

One particularly engaging gameplay option is establishing a settlement, where villagers will eventually appear (or you can bring them in yourself by transporting them from other villages or curing zombie villagers).

These villagers can be highly beneficial to your world. That’s because everything revolves around the profession each villager is assigned to.

So, what exactly is the complete list of Minecraft villager professions? How many villager roles are there? Today we’ll walk you through everything in detail!

Types of Villager Jobs

In Minecraft, there are fifteen total professions. Thirteen of these are actual working jobs, while two more are special roles tied to villagers who do not work.

The first of these is Unemployed — a villager with no current profession but who can be given one by assigning a proper job block (we’ll explain how later in the article).

The second is Nitwit — a villager who cannot be assigned to any profession at all (they are easy to spot since working villagers typically wear brown robes, but Nitwits wear green clothing). The remaining villager professions include:

Armorer

The Armorer specializes in crafting different types of armor pieces and shields, so you can trade or buy these items (as well as bells) from them. As the Armorer levels up, you’ll gain access to enchanted armor and even diamond or emerald gear.

Like other villagers, you can trade unwanted items in your inventory with them. Armorers usually accept iron, coal, or even lava buckets in exchange.

Butcher

This villager works with meat, offering cooked foods such as chicken, pork, and rabbit stew.

You can trade raw meats, sweet berries, dried kelp blocks, and coal with Butchers.

Cartographer

Cartographers are excellent villagers to have in your settlement since they supply empty maps, banners, and item frames. At higher levels, you can buy explorer maps such as Ocean and Woodland maps — a must for treasure hunting.

They usually need items like paper, glass panes, and compasses.

Cleric

Clerics are incredibly valuable villagers because they trade items like redstone dust, lapis lazuli, glowstone, and ender pearls. At the Master level, they even offer Bottles o’ Enchanting.

To trade with them, you’ll need items such as gold ingots, glass bottles, rabbit’s foot, and even rotten flesh.

Farmer

Similar to the Butcher, the Farmer villager specializes in food trades, providing bread, cookies, pies, cakes, and even suspicious stews. These stews can grant effects such as Night Vision or Jump Boost, but they may also inflict negative effects like Poison or Blindness.

Farmers will happily trade crops you’ve harvested — wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, pumpkins, and melons.

Fisherman

Fishermen focus on fish-related food items. You can get cooked cod, salmon, or even a bucket of cod from them. They may also sell enchanted fishing rods and campfires.

Their trades typically include raw fish like cod, salmon, tropical fish, pufferfish, as well as string and coal.

Fletcher

A Fletcher villager handles everything related to archery. You can acquire bows, crossbows (including enchanted ones), arrows, tipped arrows, and flint from them.

In return, they take sticks, feathers, flint, string, and gravel.

Leatherworker

Leatherworkers, much like Armorers, provide armor, but specifically leather armor. They also make horse-related gear such as saddles and leather horse armor.

They usually want leather, rabbit hides, flint, or scutes in exchange.

Librarian

Librarians are among the most useful villagers, as they trade enchanted books, bookshelves, compasses, lanterns, clocks, and glass. Their enchanted books can be used to improve your weapons and tools.

They usually accept items like paper, books, ink sacs, and quills.

Mason/Stonemason

This job is called Mason in Java Edition and Stonemason in Bedrock Edition. They trade different stone and stone-related blocks such as bricks, quartz, terracotta, and glazed terracotta in multiple colors.

Their trades often involve clay balls, quartz, and stone blocks like andesite.

Shepherd

Shepherd villagers work with wool and related items. You can buy beds, carpets, banners, and dyed wool blocks from them.

They trade for wool blocks in base colors (white, black, brown, and grey) along with dyes.

Toolsmith

Toolsmiths offer a wide range of tools — hoes, axes, shovels, and pickaxes in various materials, sometimes enchanted. They also sell bells.

In return, they want coal, flint, iron ingots, or even diamonds.

Weaponsmith

Weaponsmith villagers sell weapons (including enchanted versions) and bells.

To trade with them, you’ll need resources such as coal, flint, iron, or diamonds.

Importantly, every villager also trades emeralds — you can either pay emeralds for items or sell your goods in exchange for emeralds, then use them with other villagers.

You might also notice that villagers can level up. For instance, an Armorer progresses from Novice to Master through repeated trades. Usually, 12–16 trades are enough for a villager to gain a level. Master-level villagers then unlock their best items, like diamond gear and powerful enchanted equipment.

Minecraft Villager Job Blocks

Knowing about villager professions, you might now wonder how these villagers actually take on jobs. The answer lies in job blocks.

Job blocks are crafted items that represent the tools or stations tied to each profession. They are easy to make with common materials. Below is a list of villager professions alongside their respective job blocks and recipes:

• Armorer: Blast Furnace – 5 iron ingots, 1 furnace, 3 smooth stones.
• Butcher: Smoker – 4 wooden blocks, 1 furnace.
• Cartographer: Cartography Table – 4 wooden planks, 2 papers.
• Cleric: Brewing Stand – 1 blaze rod, 3 cobblestones.
• Farmer: Composter – 7 wooden slabs.
• Fisherman: Barrel – 6 wooden planks, 2 wooden slabs.
• Fletcher: Fletching Table – 4 wooden planks, 2 flints.
• Leatherworker: Cauldron – 7 iron ingots.
• Librarian: Lectern – 4 wooden planks, 1 bookshelf.
• Mason: Stonecutter – 1 iron ingot, 3 stones.
• Shepherd: Loom – 2 wooden planks, 2 strings.
• Toolsmith: Smithing Table – 2 iron ingots, 4 wooden planks.
• Weaponsmith: Grindstone – 2 wooden planks, 2 sticks, 1 stone slab.

If you want to change a villager’s profession or create a specific one, you can simply destroy their current job block. This will turn them into an Unemployed villager, and then you can place a different job block nearby. Once the villager interacts with it, they’ll adopt that profession. Just make sure there are no obstacles blocking their path to the new job block.

Summary

As you can see, villager jobs are a fun and effective way to build a thriving settlement filled with useful trades and resources. Assigning jobs is simple, and it allows you to easily gather rare and unique items in your world.

And remember — job blocks can always be used not just to assign professions to villagers, but also as functional crafting stations for yourself!