Villager Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about villagers with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about villagers in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a villager looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Passive Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 20 health points x 10 |
| Where to Find | In villages |
| Weapon | None |
| Attack Method | Will never attack you |
| Drops | None |
| Experience Points | 0 experience points |
Hostility Level (Passive)
A villager is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and villagers. Because a villager is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).
Health Points
In Minecraft, a villager has 10 hearts for health. This gives a villager 20 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a villager, you need to inflict 20 points of damage to the villager.
Where to Find Villagers
In Minecraft, villagers can be found in villages in most biomes. Each village will be made of different materials depending on the biome.
Plains Village
Desert Village
Savanna Village
Taiga Village
Snow Village
The villages are easy to spot because they are made up of a group of small buildings with gardens of vegetables. Villagers grow gardens of potatoes, carrots, and wheat. When you are running low on food, you can harvest their vegetables for yourself.
If you are having trouble finding a villager, you can summon a villager using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Weapon
A villager does not carry a weapon.
Attack Method
You are safe to walk near a villager and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a villager, it will just try to walk away. It will not attack you back.
Drops
When you kill a villager in Minecraft, it will not drop anything. It is one of the few mobs that when killed, does not drop any items.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. Unfortunately, when you kill a villager, you will not gain any experience points.
Types of Villagers
Starting in Java Edition 1.14 and Bedrock Edition 1.11.0, villagers have unique clothing and appearance that relate to their profession and biome, and each profession has a different work table.
Here is a list of the professions and the work table for the different types of villagers:
| Profession | Minecraft ID | Work Table |
|---|---|---|
| Farmer | minecraft:farmer |  Composter |
| Fisherman | minecraft:fisherman |  Barrel |
| Shepherd | minecraft:shepherd |  Loom |
| Fletcher | minecraft:fletcher |  Fletching Table |
| Librarian | minecraft:librarian |  Lectern |
| Cartographer | minecraft:cartographer |  Cartography Table |
| Cleric | minecraft:cleric |  Brewing Stand |
| Armorer | minecraft:armorer |  Blast Furnace |
| Weaponsmith | minecraft:weaponsmith |  Grindstone |
| Toolsmith | minecraft:toolsmith |  Smithing Table |
| Butcher | minecraft:butcher |  Smoker |
| Leatherworker | minecraft:leatherworker |  Cauldron |
| Mason | minecraft:mason |  Stonecutter |
| Nitwit | minecraft:nitwit | No work table |
“New” Villager Profession Levels
Each villager has a career level associated with their profession. The higher the level, the better the trades the villager can offer.
Here is a list of the profession levels for a villager:
| Level | Minecraft ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Novice | 1 | Villager is a Novice which is the lowest level. Villagers that are spawned as “Novice” will not immediately select a profession and may even switch professions on you. If you want the villager to hold its profession, you must spawn them with at least a level of “Apprentice”. |
| Apprentice | 2 | Villager is an Apprentice which is a level higher than “Novice”. |
| Journeyman | 3 | Villager is a Journeyman which is a level higher than “Apprentice”. |
| Expert | 4 | Villager is an Expert which is a level higher than “Journeyman”. |
| Master | 5 | Villager is a “Master” which is the highest level. |
TIP: If you summon a villager using the /summon command with a career level that is higher than Master, the villager will not have any trades unless you specify your own set of custom trades.
“New” Villager Biomes
Villagers will have different looks depending on the biome that they are associated with. The biome determines the clothes that the villager wears which means that a Farmer from the Plains biome will look different than a Farmer from the Taiga biome.
Here is a list of the biomes that a villager can belong to:
| Biome | Minecraft ID |
|---|---|
| Plains | minecraft:plains |
| Taiga | minecraft:taiga |
| Savanna | minecraft:savanna |
| Jungle | minecraft:jungle |
| Desert | minecraft:desert |
| Snow | minecraft:snow |
| Swamp | minecraft:swamp |
TIP: If you spawn a villager in a different biome than their own, they will seek out the biome they were created for. This makes it difficult to keep a villager in a different biome than its own.
Spawn Egg for Villager
You can spawn a villager using the following spawn egg:
Villager Spawn Egg
Villager Spawn EggThings to Do with Villagers
Here are some activities that you can do with villagers in Minecraft:
Villager Trade Generator
Need help generating the /summon command for a villager with custom trades? Try our command generator:
Command Examples
Here are some game command examples for a villager in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Villager (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a villager in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Villager (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a villager in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft: