Minecraft Butcher Villager Trades

Getting a Butcher: the Smoker

Butchers use a smoker, which is a furnace surrounded by four logs. Smokers cook food twice as fast as a furnace, so they're worth placing in any base kitchen.

How to reroll and lock Butcher trades

Novice butchers buy raw chicken, porkchop or rabbit; reroll the smoker until it buys whichever meat your farm produces. Lock it by selling one batch.

Best Butcher trades by level

• Novice — 7 raw porkchop or 14 raw chicken for 1 emerald — Animal farms with automatic breeding produce meat continuously.
• Apprentice — 15 coal for 1 emerald — Shares the coal trade with smiths for fast leveling.
• Journeyman — 10 sweet berries for 1 emerald — Sweet berry bushes regrow and can be harvested by dispensers with bone meal.
• Master — rabbit stew — A single-item food with good hunger restoration.

Butcher emerald farm idea

A sweet berry farm is the easiest butcher farm: berries grow back fast and only need a fox or a player to harvest. In Java, Expert butchers also buy dried kelp blocks, so an automatic kelp farm feeding a smoker is another strong option.

Java vs Bedrock Butcher trades

Bedrock butchers have similar trades but show all offers per tier. Java butchers roll two per tier from the pool, so the sweet berries trade may not always appear.

Butcher trading tips

Butchers are one of the easiest villagers to level because they buy raw meat from any animal farm: chicken, pork, mutton, beef or rabbit. A chicken farm with an egg dispenser feeding a hopper sells chicken almost endlessly. Their smoker workstation cooks food twice as fast as a furnace, so place one in your kitchen whether you trade or not. Butchers sell rabbit stew and cooked meats in return, which matters most early in a world when food is scarce. Many players keep one butcher simply to empty overflowing chests of raw meat from a mob-proof animal pen.

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