CAMPFIRE

Every other item this family covers is something you eat. Campfire is not: it is a light source, a smoke signal, a cooking block and a way to keep a boat from taking fall damage when you jump off it, all in one placeable object. It also happens to be the odd one out in who sells it, since a Fisherman deals in campfire rather than any of the crop or meat traders that carry the food on this list.

A Fisherman at apprentice sells 2 campfire for 1 emerald, built from 3 stick, 1 coal or charcoal, 3 logs, none of which have anything to do with fishing.

One seller. A Fisherman reaching apprentice, level 2 of five, sells 2 campfire for 1 emerald, a rate fixed in the trade file rather than something a villager rolls.

Campfire sells for as little as 2 emeralds, from the Fisherman at the Apprentice tier, and nothing else on the list costs less. The price is fixed rather than rolled, so a second Fisherman will quote you exactly the same.

The Fisherman at its apprentice tier asks 2 emeralds for a campfire. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

2 acacia boats against 48 paper for the same 2 emeralds, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 1.3 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

Campfire opens at apprentice, needing 10 banked trading experience earned selling the Fisherman's cheaper goods first, before the row appears on his table at all.

12 sales close the slot, then a restock brings the same campfire offer back rather than rolling in something new.

12 sales close the row, needing 2 real minutes idle before it restocks, comfortably inside the 20-minute villager day.

Stay for both refills and one fisherman sells 48 campfire for 24 emeralds a Minecraft day, the ceiling for a single villager.

Clear the slot in one visit: 24 campfire for 12 emeralds before it locks and needs a restock.

Where the emeralds come from: the same Fisherman pays an emerald per 10 coal, which you likely already have from smelting or mining trips.

Also on the Fisherman's list: cooked salmon, raw salmon, enchanted fishing rod, tropical fish, pufferfish, and oak boat.

A campfire cooks up to four items at once and needs no fuel at all, only time, which makes it the quietest way to feed a camp far from a furnace. It also stays lit in the rain and gives a warm light without a torch.

A hay bale under it turns the smoke into a column you can see from a long way off, the traditional way to mark a base in the dark. The same smoke calms bees, so a campfire under a hive lets you take honey without being stung.

A campfire under a beehive keeps the bees calm while you take the honey or the honeycomb, which is the only way to harvest a hive without being stung. Put a carpet over the fire and it still works, so the smoke can be hidden inside a build.

Smoke rising through a hay bale goes far higher, which is how a signal fire is made, and a campfire under a mob farm damages what walks over it without destroying the drops.

The soul version burns blue, does more damage and frightens piglins, and it is the only campfire that keeps them away from a nether outpost.