APPLE
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Apple in villager trading
Apple is something you buy from villagers rather than sell to them; it does not appear as a raw-material trade, so trading is one of the few survival-friendly ways to stock up on it.
Apple is a prepared food item. Trading for it is often quicker than assembling the ingredients, especially for a steady supply.
Only the Farmer deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Apple is built around that one profession. Apple can also be obtained outside of trading, but buying it from a villager is often faster than gathering or smelting the ingredients yourself.
Villagers that sell Apple(you give emeralds, get Apple)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Apprentice |  1 Emerald | 4x |
Who trades Apple, and at what price
To buy Apple, visit a Farmer at the Apprentice tier (1 emerald, 4 per trade).
Is trading Apple worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell apple for is 1 emerald for 4 at a time (the Farmer). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Apple trading works
Every Apple trade follows Minecraft's standard supply-and-demand rules. A trade can be used a limited number of times — 16 for the slot in question — before it greys out and locks until the villager restocks. A villager restocks up to twice per in-game day, but only if it can path to its job-site block and "work" there, which is why a trading hall must leave the workstation reachable.
Buying apple repeatedly nudges its price up: heavy demand temporarily inflates the emerald cost, and the price drifts back down over time or resets when the villager restocks. Curing the villager from zombie form, or triggering the Hero of the Village effect, applies a discount on top of that, which is the cheapest way to acquire apple in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the apple slot at whatever price it rolled. If you are chasing a specific price, decide before you trade, because there is no re-rolling a villager once it has done business with you.
Tips for trading Apple
- Cheapest source: the Farmer sells apple for 1 emerald once it reaches the Apprentice tier, the lowest emerald cost recorded for this item.
- Cure for a discount: curing a zombie villager of the relevant profession permanently slashes its prices, so apple can often drop to a single emerald. See how.
- Lock the price: once you complete a trade the offer is fixed, so a cheap roll of apple stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.