CLOCK
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Clock in villager trading
Clock 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.
Clock is a utility item. Several, like the name tag and saddle, cannot be crafted, which makes villager trading one of the only renewable ways to obtain them.
Only the Librarian deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Clock is built around that one profession. Clock 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 Clock(you give emeralds, get Clock)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Librarian | Expert |  10 Emeralds | 1x |
Who trades Clock, and at what price
To buy Clock, visit a Librarian at the Expert tier (10 emeralds).
Is trading Clock worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell clock for is 10 emeralds (the Librarian). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Clock trading works
Every Clock 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 clock 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 clock in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the clock 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 Clock
- Cheapest source: the Librarian sells clock for 10 emeralds once it reaches the Expert 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 clock 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 clock stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.