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MILK BUCKET

1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.

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Last checked
11 August 2026
Java Edition
26.2, 1 of 1 row found
Bedrock Edition
1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
Edition differences
none, both editions match

Milk Bucket in Minecraft trading

Milk Bucket is one of the six things the Wandering Trader buys rather than sells. He pays 2 emeralds each and stops after 2 trades, and no job villager wants it at any tier, so that offer is the entire market for it.

Milk comes from any cow with an empty bucket in hand and clears every status effect when drunk. A small cow pen keeps this offer supplied, and the bucket comes back to you each time you refill it. No recipe in Java 26.2 produces it. Outside trading the jar names it in 1 chest table and nowhere else.

The Wandering Trader buys Milk Bucket(you give Milk Bucket, get emeralds)

TraderYou GiveYou GetUsesJava 26.2Bedrock 1.26.30.5
Wandering Trader1x Milk Bucket2x Emerald2xverifiedverified

The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.

Your odds of finding Milk Bucket

A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades milk bucket is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the wandering trader (buying pool): 33% of them carry it, so it takes about 3 of them on average before one does.

Chance and daily throughput per villager for Milk Bucket
VillagerTierVillagers with this offerRolls to see itMost from one villagerAfter a cure
Wandering Traderbuying pool33% (2 in 6)same in Bedrockabout 34 emeralds in total2 uses, he never restockscannot be cured

The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The wandering trader has no workstation and never restocks, so his row is everything that offer will ever give you, and he has no reputation to earn, so curing does nothing for him. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

Who trades Milk Bucket, and at what price

The Wandering Trader buys Milk Bucket, and pays 2 emeralds each (2 trades before it locks). It is one of only six items he takes, and each trader offers two of the six at random.

No standard villager profession lists Milk Bucket in its trade table, so the trader above is the whole market for it.

How to actually get Milk Bucket from the trader

The Wandering Trader is not part of any village. He arrives on his own near where you are playing, with two leashed trader llamas behind him, stays for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and then vanishes whether or not you traded with him. There is no workstation to place and no job block to break, so the usual tricks for steering a villager toward a particular offer do nothing.

Milk Bucket is one of the six things he does buy, so this one runs both ways: he pays 2 emeralds each for it, and that offer locks after 2 trades because he never restocks.

Each trader carries only a slice of the full stock list, so the one standing in front of you may simply not have milk bucket today. If he does and you want more than one visit's worth, put a name tag on him: a named mob will not despawn, which turns a passing merchant into a permanent shop you can come back to.

Same trader, other items

The wandering trader carries these on the same visit: