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Librarian

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Librarian is a passive mob in Minecraft. Librarian has 20 health points (10 hearts).

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 main trade is enchanted books, which allow players to obtain powerful enchantments for tools, weapons, and armor.

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.

Properties
20(HeartHeartHeartHeartHeartHeartHeartHeartHeartHeart)(Heart × 10)
Passive
0.5
1.9
0.6
0Experience
Lectern
AllTradingUsable Items1Tips1

What does Librarian trade?

Trading

Villager trades

13
LibrarianLibrarian
LibrarianVillager trades · 13
Novice3 trades
Paper24 × Paper24EmeraldEmeraldEmerald
100%
16+2
Emerald9 × Emerald9BookshelfBookshelfBookshelf
50%
12+1
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach
50%
12+1
Apprentice3 trades
Book4 × Book4EmeraldEmeraldEmerald
100%
12+10
Emerald1 × EmeraldLanternLanternLantern
50%
12+5
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach
50%
12+5
Journeyman3 trades
Ink Sac5 × Ink Sac5EmeraldEmeraldEmerald
100%
12+20
Emerald1 × EmeraldGlass4 × Glass4Glass
50%
12+10
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach
50%
12+10
Expert4 trades
Book and Quill2 × Book and Quill2EmeraldEmeraldEmerald
100%
12+30
Emerald4 × Emerald4CompassCompassCompass
33.28%
12+15
Emerald5 × Emerald5ClockClockClock
33.28%
12+15
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach
33.43%
12+15
LibrarianLibrarian
LibrarianVillager trades · 13
Novice3 trades
Paper24 × Paper24EmeraldEmeraldEmerald100%16+2
Emerald9 × Emerald9BookshelfBookshelfBookshelf50%12+1
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach50%12+1
Apprentice3 trades
Book4 × Book4EmeraldEmeraldEmerald100%12+10
Emerald1 × EmeraldLanternLanternLantern50%12+5
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach50%12+5
Journeyman3 trades
Ink Sac5 × Ink Sac5EmeraldEmeraldEmerald100%12+20
Emerald1 × EmeraldGlass4 × Glass4Glass50%12+10
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach50%12+10
Expert4 trades
Book and Quill2 × Book and Quill2EmeraldEmeraldEmerald100%12+30
Emerald4 × Emerald4CompassCompassCompass33.28%12+15
Emerald5 × Emerald5ClockClockClock33.28%12+15
Emerald5-64 × Emerald5-64Book1 × BookAny of 39 optionsProtectionFire ProtectionFeather FallingBlast ProtectionProjectile ProtectionRespirationAqua AffinityThornsDepth StriderFrost WalkerCurse of BindingSharpnessSmiteBane of ArthropodsKnockbackFire AspectLootingSweeping EdgeEfficiencySilk TouchUnbreakingFortunePowerPunchFlameInfinityLuck of the SeaLureLoyaltyImpalingRiptideChannelingMultishotQuick ChargePiercingMendingCurse of VanishingDensityBreach33.43%12+15

What items can you use on Librarian?

Usable Items

1
Name Tag

What are the best tips for Librarian?

Tips

Librarian FAQ

Quick answers

No — Librarian is a passive mob.

Librarian has 20 health points, which equals 10 hearts.

Related

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  • 鸢的世界September 2026

    For the enchanted book you need, whether on Bedrock Edition or Java Edition, you can get an unemployed Villager to path to and claim a Lectern (a Lectern is a Villager job block that binds to a Villager and gives it a profession) and become a Librarian — its first trade slot will then refresh randomly; if an employed Villager hasn't traded with a player yet, you can mine out its bound job block to turn it back into an unemployed Villager, and the next time it takes a job its first trade slot refreshes again, so if the trades don't have the enchanted book you want, you can keep breaking and replacing the Lectern to reroll the trade slot until you get the book you're after. As for getting Emeralds: on Java Edition you can trade Iron Ingots from an iron farm with Weaponsmith, Armorer, and Toolsmith Villagers — once one has been turned into a Zombie Villager and cured by the player, its trade becomes 1 Iron Ingot for 1 Emerald, while on Bedrock Edition you can instead make use of raid and Pillager Outpost mechanics, turning a Pillager Outpost into an AFK farm. Making full use of Villager mechanics is the essential path to getting strong and farming endgame gear and food in vanilla survival Minecraft — without Villagers, a single enchanted book or a single set of armor is precious, but once you learn to use Villagers, these become cheap, mass-produced items.

    ›Translated from Chinese (China)

    对于需要的附魔书，无论是基岩版本还是java版本，都可以通过让无业村民寻路认领讲台（讲台是一种村民工作方块，可以绑定一位村民并赋予其职业），赋予图书管理员职业，此时的第一项交易项目会随机刷新，对于没有和玩家有过购买交易的有职业村民，可以通过挖去绑定的工作方块令其转变为失业村民，并在下一次就业重新刷新第一项交易项，所以如果交易项目没有所需要的附魔书，可以通过拆除讲台再次摆放的方式让其刷新交易栏目，直至刷取到想要的附魔书 有关绿宝石的获取，可以java版可以使用刷铁机获取的铁锭与武器匠，盔甲匠和工具匠等职业的村民进行交易，在一次转变为僵尸被玩家治愈后会变为1铁锭交换1绿宝石，而基岩版则可以利用袭击和掠夺者哨站的机制，改造掠夺者哨站挂机刷取等 对于村民机制的利用，是minecraft游戏纯净生存模式里面迈向强大，批量获取毕业装备，食物的必经之路。如果不使用村民，一本附魔书，一套盔甲都会变得尤为珍贵；但当你学会利用村民，这些都是不值钱的批量物品