Butcher Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Guide Java Bedrock

Quick answer: Butchers buy raw chicken (14), raw rabbit (4), raw porkchop (7), coal (15), raw beef (10), raw mutton (7), dried kelp blocks (10) and sweet berries (10) for emeralds, and sell rabbit stew, cooked chicken (8 per emerald) and cooked porkchops (5 per emerald). Give one a smoker and your animal farms turn into emeralds and ready-cooked food.

What you need

A smoker and an unemployed villager
Animal pens (chickens, pigs, cows, sheep or rabbits)
Coal and sweet berries for the high-level buy offers

Step by step

Novice: buys 14 raw chicken, 4 raw rabbit or 7 raw porkchops for 1 emerald each offer; sells rabbit stew for 1 emerald.
Apprentice: buys 15 coal for 1 emerald; sells 8 cooked chicken or 5 cooked porkchops for 1 emerald.
Journeyman: buys 10 raw beef or 7 raw mutton for 1 emerald.
Expert: buys 10 dried kelp blocks for 1 emerald - an automatic kelp farm pays out here.
Master: buys 10 sweet berries for 1 emerald; a berry farm with foxes or manual rows finishes the loop.
Best emerald route: a cooked-chicken farm gives raw chicken for the novice trade and eggs to grow it; pig and cow farms cover apprentice and journeyman.
Level the butcher by selling meat and coal, keep the smoker reachable so it restocks twice a day, and cure it for discounted prices.
Food note: the apprentice cooked-meat trades convert emeralds straight into stacks of cooked chicken and porkchops - a solid mid-game food supply.

Java vs Bedrock

The butcher is the meat profession: raw meat and coal in, emeralds and cooked food out - it pairs perfectly with animal farms you already built.

Versions: Trade amounts are the same on Java and Bedrock, with small offer-probability differences per level. Verified against the current trading table as of 26.x.

Frequently asked questions

What workstation does a butcher need?

A smoker. Place it near an unemployed villager and it becomes a butcher; breaking the smoker removes the profession.

What do butchers buy for emeralds?

Raw chicken (14), raw rabbit (4), raw porkchops (7), coal (15), raw beef (10), raw mutton (7), dried kelp blocks (10) and sweet berries (10), spread across the five levels.

Is the butcher worth levelling?

Yes if you run animal farms: the raw-meat buys are an easy emerald income, and the cooked-chicken and cooked-porkchop trades are cheap, filling food.