How to Build a Villager Trading Hall

Guide Java Bedrock

Quick answer: Give each adult unemployed villager a job site block, check its offers before trading, and trade once to lock its profession and offers. Keep access to the claimed workstation for restocking. Curing can reduce prices, but does not guarantee 1-emerald trades, and repeated cures do not add discounts.

What you need

Adult unemployed villagers
Job site blocks for the professions you want
Building blocks, lighting and barriers
Boats or minecarts for transport
Beds for Bedrock restocking
Optional: splash Potions of Weakness and golden apples

Step by step

Choose a secure site and bring adult unemployed villagers. A breeder is optional; protect the hall from zombies and leave room to expand.
Build separate trading spaces with a walkway for the player. Each villager must be able to work at its claimed job site block. Test the first cell before repeating the design.
Assign professions: lectern for librarian, composter for farmer, blast furnace for armorer, smithing table for toolsmith, grindstone for weaponsmith, fletching table for fletcher, cartography table for cartographer or stonecutter for mason.
Check offers before trading. For an untraded novice, remove and replace its claimed job site block to change the offers. Nitwits and baby villagers cannot take jobs.
Trade once when you want to keep the offers. That villager keeps its profession and offers even if you remove the workstation later, but needs its workstation to restock.
Check restocking: villagers can replenish trades up to twice per day while working. In Bedrock, keep the villagers linked to beds as well; they do not need to sleep to restock.
Optional curing supplies: a splash Potion of Weakness and 1 golden apple. Craft 1 golden apple with 1 apple in the center of a crafting table and 8 gold ingots in the surrounding slots. A fermented spider eye uses 1 spider eye, 1 brown mushroom and 1 sugar in any arrangement.
If converting your own villager, check difficulty first: death from a zombie converts it on Hard (100%) or sometimes on Normal (50%); on Easy it dies instead. Keep the zombie isolated from the rest of the hall.
Cure a zombie villager by giving it Weakness, then using a golden apple on it. Protect it from sunlight and other threats while it converts. Keep the curing setup separate from other villagers.
Do not repeat zombification to stack discounts. Current curing gives no extra discount for curing the same villager again, and prices can still vary with demand and reputation.
Keep the hall lit and enclosed. Move unwanted traders elsewhere rather than building a killing route; attacking villagers harms your reputation.

Java vs Bedrock

Villagers need access to their claimed job site blocks to restock in both editions. Bedrock also requires a bed link, not sleep; Java does not require beds for trading and restocking. Repeated cures do not add discounts in current releases.

Versions: Describes the current Java and Bedrock releases. See the edition note above for differences.

Frequently asked questions

How do you get Mending from villagers?

Check librarian book offers before trading. In standard trading, you can reroll an untraded librarian by removing and replacing its lectern until it offers Mending, then trade once to keep the offers. Curing does not guarantee a 1-emerald price. Experimental trade-rebalance worlds use different book rules.

Why won't my villager take a profession?

It cannot pathfind to the workstation, or it already locked a profession by trading. Break the old workstation, place the new one within reach, and never trade before you like the offers. Nitwits (green coats) never take jobs.

Do villagers need beds to trade?

Java villagers do not need beds to trade or restock. In Bedrock, villagers need a bed link to restock, though they do not need to sleep. Both editions require access to the claimed workstation for restocking.

How do I reroll a villager's trades?

Break its job site block and place it back - as long as you have never traded with that villager, it loses and reclaims the profession with fresh offers. Once you trade even once, the trades are locked forever, so reroll first, trade after.

Why did my villager lose its profession?

It lost access to its claimed job site block - broken, moved or blocked. If it has never traded, it simply becomes unemployed and can claim a new station. A traded villager keeps its profession even without a station, but cannot restock.

Is killing bad traders bad for me?

Attacking or killing villagers harms your reputation. Move traders you do not want to another safe area instead. Do not assume a low price will stay fixed: demand and reputation affect prices.