CLERIC
Workstation: Brewing Stand|11 trades across 5 levels
Sells magical items like ender pearls, redstone, glowstone, and bottles of enchanting. Buys rotten flesh, gold, and rabbit foot.
What is the Cleric?
The Cleric is one of Minecraft's 13 working villager professions, and an unemployed adult villager takes the job the moment it claims a Brewing Stand — the block that doubles as its job-site marker. Place that brewing stand within range of a jobless villager and it will path to the block, change into cleric clothing, and open its Novice-tier offers. Remove the brewing stand before any deal is struck and the villager drops the profession again.
Across its 5 career tiers this villager exposes 11 distinct trades in total, and it is primarily an emerald sink that buys your surplus materials. It will take rotten flesh, gold ingot, rabbit foot, and scute, among other items, off your hands for emeralds, and in return it sells redstone dust, lapis lazuli, glowstone, and ender pearl, and more. The Cleric is not biome-specific, so the same trade pool appears no matter which biome the village generates in.
For players farming currency, the Cleric's quickest route to an emerald is handing over 2 rabbit foots 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
32x  Rotten Flesh |  1 Emerald | 16 | ||||
| 1 Emerald | 1 | 12 |
Redstone DustCleric trades by tier (Novice to Master)
A Cleric 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 2 offers, 10 more trade-XP points unlock Apprentice (2 offers), 60 more trade-XP points unlock Journeyman (2 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
2 trades · available from the startSell to villager: 32 rotten fleshs for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: 2 redstone dust for 1 emerald.
Tier 2 · Apprentice
2 trades · 10 cumulative XPSell to villager: 3 gold ingots for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: lapis lazuli for 1 emerald.
Tier 3 · Journeyman
2 trades · 70 cumulative XPSell to villager: 2 rabbit foots for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: glowstone for 4 emeralds.
Tier 4 · Expert
3 trades · 150 cumulative XPSell to villager: 4 scutes for 1 emerald and 9 glass bottles for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: ender pearl for 5 emeralds.
Tier 5 · Master
2 trades · 250 cumulative XPSell to villager: 22 nether warts for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: bottle o' enchanting for 3 emeralds.
Cleric trading tips
- Fastest emerald income: stockpile rabbit foot and sell it in stacks of 2. This Cleric 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 brewing stand and restock (which it does up to twice a day).
- Best-value purchase: the cheapest thing this villager sells is redstone dust for 1 emerald at the Novice tier — a reliable sink for spare emeralds.
- Cure for permanent discounts: let a zombie infect this Cleric 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 Cleric 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 brewing stand 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 brewing stand so it forgets the job, then give it back to generate a new Novice list. Our villager rolling guide walks through it.