BREAD
1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.
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- 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
Bread in villager trading
Bread 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.
Bread is a prepared food item. Trading for it is often quicker than assembling the ingredients, especially for a steady supply. A crafting grid makes one from 3 × wheat. It also sits in 18 of the game's chest loot tables.
Villagers that sell Bread(you give emeralds, get Bread)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Villager XP |  Java 26.2 |  Bedrock 1.26.30.5 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Novice |  | | 1same in Bedrock | 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 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 Bread
A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades bread is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the farmer (novice): 40% of them carry it, so it takes about 2.5 of them on average before one does.
| Villager | Tier | Villagers with this offer | Rolls to see it | Most from one villager | After a cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Novice | 40% (2 in 5)Bedrock 100% (1 in 1) | about 2.5 | 192 bread a day32 uses, 2 restocks a day | no change |
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 day figure is the trade's use limit times the 2 restocks a villager is allowed per in-game day (Villager.allowedToRestock), so it is a ceiling and not an average: it assumes you are there for every restock. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.
Buying bread against making it
The game's recipe makes one, made from 3 wheat. Villagers here buy every one of those, so the parts have a price of their own: wheat at 20 an emerald. That puts one at 0.15 emeralds of goods.
A Farmer sells bread at Novice for 1 emerald for 6, so 0.17 emeralds each. That is 1.1 times what the parts are worth, so gathering the materials and making it yourself is the cheaper side of the same trade.
Recipe out of data/minecraft/recipe in the same client jar the trades are read from. Part prices are the best rate any villager on this site pays, before any cure discount, and each of those is a trade with a page of its own. How that check works. The grid itself is on the bread recipe page.
Who trades Bread, and at what price
To buy Bread, visit a Farmer at the Novice tier (1 emerald, 6 per trade).
Is trading Bread worth it?
Bread sells for as little as 1 emerald for 6 at a time, from the Farmer at the Novice tier, and 1 of the other 7 costs less. The price is fixed rather than rolled, so a second Farmer will quote you exactly the same.
 | AppleApprentice | 1 | |
| BreadNovice | 1 | |
 | Pumpkin PieApprentice | 1 | |
 | Suspicious StewExpert | 1 | |
| CakeExpert | 3 | ||
 | CookieJourneyman | 3 | |
 | Golden CarrotMaster | 3 | |
 | Glistering Melon SliceMaster | 4 |
What 1 emerald costs in goods
The Farmer at its novice tier asks 1 emerald for 6 bread. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:
| A full slot of | To | Emeralds | Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 lava buckets | journeyman Armorer | 12 | 72 bread |
| 48 iron ingots | apprentice Weaponsmith | 12 | 72 bread |
| 72 pumpkins | apprentice Farmer | 12 | 72 bread |
| 96 tripwire hooks | master Fletcher | 12 | 72 bread |
| 192 any dye | apprentice Shepherd | 16 | 96 bread |
| 256 diorite | journeyman Mason | 16 | 96 bread |
| 384 feathers | expert Fletcher | 16 | 96 bread |
| 416 potatoes | novice Farmer | 16 | 96 bread |
a lava bucket against 26 potatoes for the same 1 emerald, 26 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Shepherd at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.
How Bread trading works
Every bread offer here locks after 16 uses, and a villager restocks up to twice per Minecraft day, so one is good for 32 of these trades a day and no more.
The earliest bread shows up is the Farmer's Novice tier, which a villager has the moment it claims the workstation.
How long Bread takes in real time
96 bread empty one slot at the Farmer, 2400 ticks (Villager.allowedToRestock) at 20 a second (TickRateManager) refill it 2 real minutes later, and the 24000-tick villager day (Timelines) holds 2 of those fills in 20 real minutes.
So one farmer moves 192 bread against 32 emeralds a Minecraft day, 6 bread every 37.5 real seconds, 1.6 emeralds a real minute. 64 bread fit inside one of those slots, refill untouched.
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