Librarian

The Librarian is a villager profession in Minecraft that specializes in trading books, enchanted books, and other knowledge-related items. It uses the Lectern as its job site block, which allows unemployed villagers to take on the profession when placed nearby.

Trades include bookshelves, regular books, paper, and clocks, but the most valuable trade is enchanted books, which allow players to obtain powerful enchantments for tools, weapons, and armor. At higher levels, Librarians also offer name tags, which can be used to rename mobs and prevent them from despawning.

They progress through five levels—Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and Master—unlocking better trades as they gain experience. They can be leveled up by trading emeralds, paper, books, and ink sacs.

Librarians can be zombified and cured to reduce trade costs, making them useful in trading halls. They spawn naturally in villages but can also be assigned the profession by placing a Lectern near an unemployed villager.

Health Points

Behavior

Speed

Height

Width

Job Site

20(

‎ × 10

)

Passive

0.5

1.8

0.6

Lectern

All trades for Librarian

Level	Slot	Slot Probability	Items Wanted	Items Given	Stock	Villager XP
Novice	1	100%	24 × Paper	Emerald	12	2
	2	50%	9 × Emerald	Bookshelf	12	1
	2	1.28%	5-64 × Emerald 1 × Book	One of the following (39 possible items): Protection or Fire Protection or Feather Falling or Blast Protection or Projectile Protection or Respiration or Aqua Affinity or Thorns or Depth Strider or Frost Walker or Curse of Binding or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods or Knockback or Fire Aspect or Looting or Sweeping Edge or Efficiency or Silk Touch or Unbreaking or Fortune or Power or Punch or Flame or Infinity or Luck of the Sea or Lure or Loyalty or Impaling or Riptide or Channeling or Multishot or Quick Charge or Piercing or Mending or Curse of Vanishing or Density or Breach	12	1
Apprentice	3	100%	4 × Book	Emerald	12	10
	4	50%	1 × Emerald	Lantern	12	5
	4	1.28%	5-64 × Emerald 1 × Book	One of the following (39 possible items): Protection or Fire Protection or Feather Falling or Blast Protection or Projectile Protection or Respiration or Aqua Affinity or Thorns or Depth Strider or Frost Walker or Curse of Binding or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods or Knockback or Fire Aspect or Looting or Sweeping Edge or Efficiency or Silk Touch or Unbreaking or Fortune or Power or Punch or Flame or Infinity or Luck of the Sea or Lure or Loyalty or Impaling or Riptide or Channeling or Multishot or Quick Charge or Piercing or Mending or Curse of Vanishing or Density or Breach	12	5
Journeyman	5	100%	5 × Ink Sac	Emerald	12	10
	6	50%	1 × Emerald	4 × Glass	12	10
	6	1.28%	5-64 × Emerald 1 × Book	One of the following (39 possible items): Protection or Fire Protection or Feather Falling or Blast Protection or Projectile Protection or Respiration or Aqua Affinity or Thorns or Depth Strider or Frost Walker or Curse of Binding or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods or Knockback or Fire Aspect or Looting or Sweeping Edge or Efficiency or Silk Touch or Unbreaking or Fortune or Power or Punch or Flame or Infinity or Luck of the Sea or Lure or Loyalty or Impaling or Riptide or Channeling or Multishot or Quick Charge or Piercing or Mending or Curse of Vanishing or Density or Breach	12	10
Expert	7	100%	2 × Book and Quill	Emerald	12	30
	8	33.28%	4 × Emerald	Compass	12	15
		33.28%	5 × Emerald	Clock	12	15
		0.86%	5-64 × Emerald 1 × Book	One of the following (39 possible items): Protection or Fire Protection or Feather Falling or Blast Protection or Projectile Protection or Respiration or Aqua Affinity or Thorns or Depth Strider or Frost Walker or Curse of Binding or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods or Knockback or Fire Aspect or Looting or Sweeping Edge or Efficiency or Silk Touch or Unbreaking or Fortune or Power or Punch or Flame or Infinity or Luck of the Sea or Lure or Loyalty or Impaling or Riptide or Channeling or Multishot or Quick Charge or Piercing or Mending or Curse of Vanishing or Density or Breach	12	15
Master	9	100%	20 × Emerald	Name Tag	12	30