ITEM FRAME
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Item Frame in villager trading
Item Frame 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.
Item Frame is a decorative block or item. Buying it from a villager saves you the dyes, materials, or rare drops its recipe would normally demand.
Only the Cartographer deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Item Frame is built around that one profession. Item Frame 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 Item Frame(you give emeralds, get Item Frame)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartographer | Expert |  7 Emeralds | 1x |
Who trades Item Frame, and at what price
To buy Item Frame, visit a Cartographer at the Expert tier (7 emeralds).
Is trading Item Frame worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell item frame 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 Item Frame trading works
Every Item Frame 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 item frame 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 item frame in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the item frame 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 Item Frame
- Cheapest source: the Cartographer sells item frame for 7 emeralds once it reaches the Expert 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 item frame 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 item frame stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.