Butcher

The Butcher is a villager profession in Minecraft that specializes in trading food-related items. It uses the Smoker as its job site block, which allows unemployed villagers to take on the profession when placed nearby.

Trades include various food items such as cooked meat and rabbit stew, as well as resources like emeralds in exchange for raw meat. From the Apprentice level, Butchers offer cooked porkchops and cooked chicken, making them a useful source of food.

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 or offering raw porkchops, raw chicken, raw beef, and dried kelp blocks.

Butchers 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 Smoker near an unemployed villager.