ARMORER
Workstation: Blast Furnace|18 trades across 5 levelsBiome-specific
Sells iron, chainmail, and diamond armor. Buys coal, iron ingots, lava buckets, and diamonds.
What is the Armorer?
The Armorer is one of Minecraft's 13 working villager professions, and an unemployed adult villager takes the job the moment it claims a Blast Furnace — the block that doubles as its job-site marker. Place that blast furnace within range of a jobless villager and it will path to the block, change into armorer clothing, and open its Novice-tier offers. Remove the blast furnace before any deal is struck and the villager drops the profession again.
Across its 5 career tiers this villager exposes 18 distinct trades in total, and it is primarily a supplier that sells finished goods for emeralds. It will take coal, iron ingot, lava bucket, and diamond off your hands for emeralds, and in return it sells iron leggings, iron boots, iron helmet, and iron chestplate, and more. Because the Armorer is biome-specific, the exact goods it offers (and their tints, patterns, or stock) shift with the biome its village sits in, so a desert Armorer will not always match a plains one.
For players farming currency, the Armorer's quickest route to an emerald is handing over 1 lava bucket at the Journeyman tier, which is worth keeping in mind when you decide whether to build a trading hall around this profession.
| Input | Output | Price | Uses | Edition | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15x  Coal |  1 Emerald | 16 | ||||
| 7 Emeralds | 7 | 12 | ||||
| 4 Emeralds | 1x  Iron Boots | 4 | 12 | |||
| 5 Emeralds | 1x  Iron Helmet | 5 | 12 | |||
| 9 Emeralds | 9 | 12 |
Iron Leggings
Iron ChestplateArmorer trades by tier (Novice to Master)
A Armorer climbs five career ranks, and each rank it reaches adds a fresh batch of offers on top of the ones below it. In vanilla 1.21 the experience gates are fixed: the Novice tier opens immediately with 5 offers, 10 more trade-XP points unlock Apprentice (4 offers), 60 more trade-XP points unlock Journeyman (4 offers), 80 more trade-XP points unlock Expert (3 offers), and 100 more trade-XP points unlock Master (2 offers). The full price list for every rank is laid out below; emerald costs marked as a range roll randomly within that band each time the trade is generated or restocked.
Tier 1 · Novice
5 trades · available from the startSell to villager: 15 coals for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: iron leggings for 7 emeralds, iron boots for 4 emeralds, iron helmet for 5 emeralds, and iron chestplate for 9 emeralds.
Tier 2 · Apprentice
4 trades · 10 cumulative XPSell to villager: 4 iron ingots for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: bell for 36 emeralds, chainmail leggings for 1-3 emeralds, and chainmail boots for 1 emerald.
Tier 3 · Journeyman
4 trades · 70 cumulative XPSell to villager: 1 lava bucket for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: chainmail helmet for 1 emerald, chainmail chestplate for 1-4 emeralds, and shield for 5 emeralds.
Tier 4 · Expert
3 trades · 150 cumulative XPSell to villager: 1 diamond for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: enchanted diamond leggings for 13-27 emeralds and enchanted diamond boots for 7-15 emeralds.
Tier 5 · Master
2 trades · 250 cumulative XPBuy from villager: enchanted diamond helmet for 11-27 emeralds and enchanted diamond chestplate for 16-35 emeralds.
Armorer trading tips
- Fastest emerald income: stockpile lava bucket and sell it in stacks of 1. This Armorer buy slot can be used 12 times before it locks, so a single villager returns up to 12 emeralds per cycle before you must wait for it to work its blast furnace and restock (which it does up to twice a day).
- Best-value purchase: the cheapest thing this villager sells is chainmail leggings for 1-3 emeralds at the Apprentice tier — a reliable sink for spare emeralds.
- Save the diamonds for Master: the headline trade is bell for 36 emeralds, so it pays to level this villager all the way to Master before spending big.
- Re-roll the enchantment: the enchanted gear this villager offers is rolled randomly. Until you complete a single trade with it the offers stay unlocked, so you can break and replace the blast furnace on an unemployed, never-traded villager to reshuffle what it sells. Browse every possible enchantment at enchantments.astroworldmc.com.
- Cure for permanent discounts: let a zombie infect this Armorer on Hard difficulty (guaranteed), trap it safely, hit it with a Splash Potion of Weakness, then feed it a Golden Apple. After the 3-5 minute cure every price drops sharply — often to a single emerald even for its priciest goods. See the full method in our zombie-villager discount guide.
- Leveling up: trading is the only way a Armorer earns career XP. It needs 10 XP to leave Novice, 70 to reach Journeyman, 150 for Expert, and 250 for Master; a green badge becomes a gold one as it ranks up. The villager must be able to reach its blast furnace to restock and gain XP.
- Locking and resetting: the very first completed trade locks this villager's offers for good. If you want to reset them, do it while it is still Novice and untraded — remove the blast furnace so it forgets the job, then give it back to generate a new Novice list. Our villager rolling guide walks through it.