BOW
2 trades involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Bow in villager trading
Bow 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.
Bow appears in the villager trade economy as a tradeable good.
Only the Fletcher deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Bow is built around that one profession. Bow 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 buy Bow(you give Bow, get emeralds)
| Profession | Level | You Give | You Get | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher | Expert |  7x Emerald+1x Bow | 1 Emerald |
Villagers that sell Bow(you give emeralds, get Bow)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher | Apprentice | 2 Emeralds | 1x |
Who trades Bow, and at what price
To buy Bow, visit a Fletcher at the Apprentice tier (2 emeralds).
Bow is also required as a secondary cost on the Fletcher's Expert-tier enchanted bow trade, where you hand it over alongside emeralds rather than receiving emeralds for it.
Is trading Bow worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell bow for is 2 emeralds (the Fletcher). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Bow trading works
Every Bow trade follows Minecraft's standard supply-and-demand rules. A trade can be used a limited number of times — 12 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 bow 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 bow in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the bow 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 Bow
- Cheapest source: the Fletcher sells bow for 2 emeralds 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 bow 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 bow stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.