COOKED MUTTON
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Cooked Mutton in villager trading
Cooked Mutton 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 Mutton 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 Butcher deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Cooked Mutton is built around that one profession. Cooked Mutton 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 Cooked Mutton(you give emeralds, get Cooked Mutton)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butcher | Master |  1 Emerald | 5x |
Who trades Cooked Mutton, and at what price
To buy Cooked Mutton, visit a Butcher at the Master tier (1 emerald, 5 per trade).
Is trading Cooked Mutton worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell cooked mutton for is 1 emerald for 5 at a time (the Butcher). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Cooked Mutton trading works
Every Cooked Mutton 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 mutton 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 mutton in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the cooked mutton 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 Cooked Mutton
- Cheapest source: the Butcher sells cooked mutton for 1 emerald once it reaches the Master 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 cooked mutton 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 cooked mutton stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.