ENCHANTED BOOK
4 trades involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Enchantments Database →Enchanted Book in villager trading
Enchanted Book 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.
As enchanted equipment, enchanted book arrives pre-enchanted, letting you skip the enchanting table and the experience levels it would normally cost. The specific enchantment and its level are decided when the trade generates.
Only the Librarian deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Enchanted Book is built around that one profession. Because this is an enchanted item, the exact enchantment is rolled when the trade is generated, so the precise book or tool a villager offers varies from one villager to the next.
Villagers that sell Enchanted Book(you give emeralds, get Enchanted Book)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Librarian | Novice |  5-64 Emeralds | 1x | Random enchantment from full pool. Price varies by enchantment level. Treasure enchantments (Mending, Frost Walker, Soul Speed, Swift Sneak) are possible. Formula: base_price = 2 * enchant_level + floor(random * 5 * enchant_level + random * 5). Treasure enchantments double the price. | |
| Librarian | Apprentice | 5-64 Emeralds | 1x | Random enchantment from full pool | |
| Librarian | Journeyman | 5-64 Emeralds | 1x | Random enchantment from full pool | |
| Librarian | Expert | 5-64 Emeralds | 1x | Random enchantment from full pool |
Who trades Enchanted Book, and at what price
To buy Enchanted Book, visit a Librarian at the Novice tier (5-64 emeralds), a Librarian at the Apprentice tier (5-64 emeralds), a Librarian at the Journeyman tier (5-64 emeralds), and a Librarian at the Expert tier (5-64 emeralds).
Is trading Enchanted Book worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell enchanted book for is 5-64 emeralds (the Librarian). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Enchanted Book trading works
Every Enchanted Book 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 enchanted book 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 enchanted book in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the enchanted book 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 Enchanted Book
- Cheapest source: the Librarian sells enchanted book for 5-64 emeralds once it reaches the Novice tier, the lowest emerald cost recorded for this item.
- Re-rolling the enchantment: the enchantment on enchanted book is random. Find an unemployed villager, give it the right workstation, and if the offer is wrong, break and replace the workstation before trading to reshuffle it.
- Cure for a discount: curing a zombie villager of the relevant profession permanently slashes its prices, so enchanted book 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 enchanted book stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.