Chibi’s Guide to Minecraft: Job blocks
People go looking for lists of job blocks for a number of reasons. Maybe you’re returning an abandoned village to its former glory. Maybe you just want to keep villagers out of your base and can't find the pesky block that keeps them coming. You can head over to the old reliable that is the Minecraft Wiki or stick around for a different version of the list. I’ll be breaking this up into categories rather than a bullet point list. It’s honestly just so that I had an excuse to get creative with my screenshots.
Category 1: Food
The work that these guys do revolves around food in the village. You can trade for cooked food or emeralds. Food related jobs can be created by putting down any of the following blocks. A smoker, a compost bin, and a barrel.
A smoker opens up the position of butcher. These guys trade emeralds for raw meat or will cook your food in exchange for a fee. Farmers will flock towards compost bins to empty their inventory of excess food. All farmers will sell bread and will buy select crops that they typically don’t grow themselves. Barrels in a village will give you fishermen. Trading with these villagers will have you selling more food rather than buying it.
Category 2: Nerds
The village nerds are a simple bunch and 100% my people. While some of their buying habits are a little odd, they can be extremely beneficial to level up. A cleric spends their time in front of a brewing stand. Collecting rotten flesh and trading out all sorts of interesting items. The librarian is pretty keen on giving you your emeralds worth before spending the rest of their day in front of a lectern. Cartographers can be a hit and miss with trading. However, their cartography table is the source of exploration and other shenanigans.
Category 3: The Smiths
Working with any sort of hard material is where these guys shine brightest. While only a couple of them are actually called smiths, it's still works as a category.
The stone mason can be found wherever there's a stonecutter in the village. Selling chiseled stone or buying clay for making bricks. A tool smith sets up shop at a smithing table. At first, it’s a convenient way to restock on tools after a raid, but sometimes you can upgrade to some real treasures. Grindstones turn villagers into weapon smiths. Much like the too smith, they can be a pretty helpful investment.
An armorer is the leatherworker's older sibling. Making a variety of armor pieces at their blast furnace. Some of which you won't find easy to make on your own.
Category 4: Creative
The creative crew can make so much with so little. Leatherworkers can make a suit of leather armor over time with the help of their cauldron. Meanwhile a shepherd sells blocks of wool while making room for other fabric creations at their looms. Fletchers take getting rich quick to another level. Find them at their fletching table to sell sticks or flint and trade in those emeralds for something enchanted after leveling them up enough.
Whatever you may need this sort of list for, I hope it was as entertaining as it was helpful. Thank you for reading.
