COOKED COD

Cooked Cod 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.

Cooked Cod is cooked food that restores hunger efficiently. Buying it in bulk from a Butcher is a hands-off alternative to running a cooker.

Only the Fisherman deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Cooked Cod is built around that one profession. Cooked Cod can also be obtained outside of trading, but buying it from a villager is often faster than gathering or smelting the ingredients yourself.

To buy Cooked Cod, visit a Fisherman at the Novice tier (6 emeralds, 6 per trade) and a Fisherman at the Master tier (1 emerald, 15 per trade).

On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell cooked cod for is 1 emerald for 15 at a time (the Fisherman). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.

Every Cooked Cod trade follows Minecraft's standard supply-and-demand rules. A trade can be used a limited number of times — 16 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 cooked cod 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 cooked cod in bulk.

One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the cooked cod 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.