COOKED SALMON
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Cooked Salmon in villager trading
Cooked Salmon 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 Salmon 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 Salmon is built around that one profession. Cooked Salmon 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 Salmon(you give emeralds, get Cooked Salmon)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisherman | Apprentice |  6 Emeralds | 6x |
Who trades Cooked Salmon, and at what price
To buy Cooked Salmon, visit a Fisherman at the Apprentice tier (6 emeralds, 6 per trade).
Is trading Cooked Salmon worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell cooked salmon for is 6 emeralds for 6 at a time (the Fisherman). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Cooked Salmon trading works
Every Cooked Salmon 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 salmon 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 salmon in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the cooked salmon 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 Salmon
- Cheapest source: the Fisherman sells cooked salmon for 6 emeralds once it reaches the Apprentice 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 salmon 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 salmon stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.