TOOLSMITH
Workstation: Smithing Table|16 trades across 5 levels
Sells iron, enchanted iron, and enchanted diamond tools. Buys coal, iron ingots, flint, and diamonds.
What is the Toolsmith?
The Toolsmith is one of Minecraft's 13 working villager professions, and an unemployed adult villager takes the job the moment it claims a Smithing Table — the block that doubles as its job-site marker. Place that smithing table within range of a jobless villager and it will path to the block, change into toolsmith clothing, and open its Novice-tier offers. Remove the smithing table before any deal is struck and the villager drops the profession again.
Across its 5 career tiers this villager exposes 16 distinct trades in total, and it is primarily a supplier that sells finished goods for emeralds. It will take coal, iron ingot, flint, and diamond off your hands for emeralds, and in return it sells stone axe, stone shovel, stone pickaxe, and stone hoe, and more. The Toolsmith is not biome-specific, so the same trade pool appears no matter which biome the village generates in.
For players farming currency, the Toolsmith's quickest route to an emerald is handing over 1 diamond at the Expert 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 | ||||
| 1 Emerald | 1x  Stone Axe | 1 | 12 | |||
| 1 Emerald | 1x  Stone Shovel | 1 | 12 | |||
| 1 Emerald | 1 | 12 | ||||
| 1 Emerald | 1x  Stone Hoe | 1 | 12 |
Stone PickaxeToolsmith trades by tier (Novice to Master)
A Toolsmith 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 (2 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: stone axe for 1 emerald, stone shovel for 1 emerald, stone pickaxe for 1 emerald, and stone hoe for 1 emerald.
Tier 2 · Apprentice
2 trades · 10 cumulative XPSell to villager: 4 iron ingots for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: bell for 36 emeralds.
Tier 3 · Journeyman
4 trades · 70 cumulative XPSell to villager: 30 flints for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: enchanted iron axe for 6-20 emeralds, enchanted iron shovel for 7-20 emeralds, and enchanted iron pickaxe for 8-20 emeralds.
Tier 4 · Expert
3 trades · 150 cumulative XPSell to villager: 1 diamond for 1 emerald.
Buy from villager: enchanted diamond axe for 13-35 emeralds and enchanted diamond shovel for 11-27 emeralds.
Tier 5 · Master
2 trades · 250 cumulative XPBuy from villager: enchanted diamond pickaxe for 13-35 emeralds and enchanted diamond hoe for 11-27 emeralds.
Toolsmith trading tips
- Fastest emerald income: stockpile diamond and sell it in stacks of 1. This Toolsmith 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 smithing table and restock (which it does up to twice a day).
- Best-value purchase: the cheapest thing this villager sells is stone axe for 1 emerald at the Novice 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 smithing table 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 Toolsmith 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 Toolsmith 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 smithing table 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 smithing table so it forgets the job, then give it back to generate a new Novice list. Our villager rolling guide walks through it.