BRAIN CORAL BLOCK

1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.

Last checked: 11 August 2026
Java Edition: 26.2, 1 of 1 row found
Bedrock Edition: 1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
Edition differences: none, both editions match

Brain Coral Block in Minecraft trading

Brain Coral Block is a Wandering Trader exclusive: no job villager buys or sells it at all, so the roaming merchant with the two llamas is the only source, at 3 emeralds each.

No recipe in Java 26.2 produces it, and its own block only gives it back to Silk Touch.

The Wandering Trader sells Brain Coral Block(you give emeralds, get Brain Coral Block)

Trader	Stock	Price	Amount	Java 26.2	Bedrock 1.26.30.5	Notes
Wandering Trader	common			verified	verified

The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on 11 August 2026 against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.

Your odds of finding Brain Coral Block

A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades brain coral block is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the wandering trader (common pool): 6.6% of them carry it, so it takes about 15.2 of them on average before one does.

Chance and daily throughput per villager for Brain Coral Block
Villager	Tier	Villagers with this offer	Rolls to see it	Most from one villager	After a cure
Wandering Trader	common pool	6.6% (5 in 76)same in Bedrock	about 15.2	8 brain coral block in totalhe never restocks	cannot be cured

The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The wandering trader has no workstation and never restocks, so his row is everything that offer will ever give you, and he has no reputation to earn, so curing does nothing for him. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

Who trades Brain Coral Block, and at what price

The Wandering Trader sells Brain Coral Block for 3 emeralds each. He does not buy brain coral block back: that offer runs one way.

No standard villager profession lists Brain Coral Block in its trade table, so the trader above is the whole market for it.

Is buying Brain Coral Block from the Wandering Trader worth it?

He asks 3 emeralds each, and 52 of the other 75 come cheaper. Price is the easy part: he draws his stock from a shared pool, so catching one that happens to be carrying brain coral block is the real constraint.

Where brain coral block sits in the 76 offers he can carry
	Acacia Log		1 for 8
	Gunpowder		1 for 4
	Rooted Dirt		1 for 2
	Melon Seeds		1
	Red Tulip		1
	Brain Coral Block		3
	Cactus		3
	Enchanted Iron Pickaxe		6

Emeralds asked per item, sampled across his whole price range. Every other row links to that item.

What 3 emeralds cost in goods

The Wandering Trader asks 3 emeralds for a brain coral block. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

8 emerald routes measured against Brain Coral Block
A full slot of	To	Emeralds	Buys
12 dark oak boats	master Fisherman	12	4 brain coral blocks
48 melons	journeyman Farmer	12	4 brain coral blocks
64 raw rabbit	novice Butcher	16	5.3 brain coral blocks
96 tripwire hooks	master Fletcher	12	4 brain coral blocks
224 string	journeyman Fletcher	16	5.3 brain coral blocks
240 coal	apprentice Butcher	16	5.3 brain coral blocks
320 wheat	novice Farmer	16	5.3 brain coral blocks
360 flint	journeyman Toolsmith	12	4 brain coral blocks

3 dark oak boats against 90 flint for the same 3 emeralds, 30 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 1.9 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

How to actually get Brain Coral Block from the trader

The Wandering Trader is not part of any village. He arrives on his own near where you are playing, with two leashed trader llamas behind him, stays for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and then vanishes whether or not you traded with him. There is no workstation to place and no job block to break, so the usual tricks for steering a villager toward a particular offer do nothing.

He does not buy brain coral block. He takes six kinds of item and this is not one of them, so the offer runs one way: emeralds out of your inventory, brain coral block into it.

Each trader carries only a slice of the full stock list, so the one standing in front of you may simply not have brain coral block today. If he does and you want more than one visit's worth, put a name tag on him: a named mob will not despawn, which turns a passing merchant into a permanent shop you can come back to.

Tips for trading Brain Coral Block

What a full stack costs: he asks 3 emeralds each, so a full stack of 64 comes to 192 emeralds.
Also on the wandering trader's list: bubble coral block, fire coral block, horn coral block, tube coral block, pale hanging moss, sulfur spike.

Brain Coral Block trading FAQ

Which villager sells Brain Coral Block?

None of them. Only the Wandering Trader carries brain coral block, at 3 emeralds each. There is no profession to level for it and no trading hall to build.

Can you sell Brain Coral Block to a villager for emeralds?

No. The trader only ever sells, and no job villager lists brain coral block in its trade table either, so there is no way to turn brain coral block into emeralds by trading.

Same trader, other items

The wandering trader carries these on the same visit: