EMPTY MAP
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Empty Map in villager trading
Empty Map 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.
Empty Map is generated against your current world, pointing toward the nearest matching structure. It is created the moment you trade for it, so two players receive maps to different locations.
Only the Cartographer deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Empty Map is built around that one profession. Empty Map 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 Empty Map(you give emeralds, get Empty Map)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartographer | Novice |  7 Emeralds | 1x |
Who trades Empty Map, and at what price
To buy Empty Map, visit a Cartographer at the Novice tier (7 emeralds).
Is trading Empty Map worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell empty map for is 7 emeralds (the Cartographer). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Empty Map trading works
Every Empty Map 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 empty map 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 empty map in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the empty map 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 Empty Map
- Cheapest source: the Cartographer sells empty map for 7 emeralds once it reaches the Novice 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 empty map 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 empty map stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.