GRANITE

Nobody buys granite from a villager, only the other way around. The Mason takes it off your hands at journeyman for 16 granite per 1 emerald, which puts it in the same bucket as clay balls and stone: raw material a villager wants, not stock he is selling.

It is not the base stone either. A crafting grid builds it out of 1 diorite and 1 quartz, which is why it carries a pinkish warmth that plain diorite does not have. Anyone digging for it underground will find it mixed in among ordinary stone, not sitting in its own vein.

Sell it to a Mason once he reaches Journeyman, and he pays 1 emerald for every 16 you hand over.

The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 16 granite, from the Mason, and 4 of the other 5 pay out faster. No villager sells granite back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.

One slot at the Mason takes 16 granite a trade, 16 trades, 16 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

16 acacia boats against 384 paper for the same 16 emeralds, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 10 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Granite itself pays 16 an emerald, so 50 of the 72 ask less and 19 ask more.

This offer is not there on day one. A villager needs a stonecutter claimed and 70 trading experience banked before journeyman opens up, level 3 of five, which in practice means several rounds of other trades first.

Once it does, the slot takes 16 granite at a time, 16 times before it locks, and refills on the same restock schedule as everything else he sells, up to twice a Minecraft day. Nothing about selling raw stone speeds that clock up.

16 sales close the slot, and the wait after that runs 2 real minutes flat, no faster no matter how quickly you click through it. Two of those fit inside one Minecraft day, itself 20 real minutes long.

A mason worked that hard hands over 32 emeralds for 512 granite in a single day. Skip a few days and come back and the slot is sitting there untouched, exactly as full as you left it.

Emptying the slot in one visit takes 256 granite and hands back 16 emeralds, better than trickling it in over several trips since the rate never changes between them.

A stonecutter turns diorite and quartz into granite for free if you already have both, so the honest cost of this trade is whatever it took to gather the ingredients, not the emeralds the Mason hands back.

He sells as well as buys: the same Mason offers bricks in the other direction too, his cheapest listing running that way, worth knowing if you came for building material rather than a place to unload stone.

Also on the Mason's list: andesite, diorite, polished andesite, polished granite, polished diorite and dripstone block.

Granite generates in blobs through ordinary stone, so most players end up with stacks of it while looking for something else. Polished, it turns into one of the warmer building blocks in the game, which is why a Mason buying it is quietly useful.

It can also be made rather than mined: diorite and nether quartz in a crafting grid give granite, which matters for anyone building above ground far from a cave. A stonecutter handles the polished version at one to one.

Granite has a recipe most people never use: diorite and nether quartz on the grid give two granite. That means the stone nobody wants can also be manufactured, which says something about how much of it a world generates on its own.

A stonecutter turns it into slabs, stairs and walls one for one, so a granite build wastes nothing, and the polished version is a second material from the same block.

It mines into itself rather than into cobblestone, which makes it one of the few stones you can take apart and rebuild without a furnace in between.