NAME TAG
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Name Tag in villager trading
Name Tag 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.
Name Tag is a utility item. Several, like the name tag and saddle, cannot be crafted, which makes villager trading one of the only renewable ways to obtain them.
Only the Librarian deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Name Tag is built around that one profession. Name Tag cannot be crafted, so trading (alongside the occasional loot drop) is one of the only ways to obtain it in survival.
Villagers that sell Name Tag(you give emeralds, get Name Tag)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Librarian | Master |  20 Emeralds | 1x | Name Tags cannot be crafted |
Who trades Name Tag, and at what price
To buy Name Tag, visit a Librarian at the Master tier (20 emeralds).
Is trading Name Tag worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell name tag for is 20 emeralds (the Librarian). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Name Tag trading works
Every Name Tag 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 name tag 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 name tag in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the name tag 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 Name Tag
- Cheapest source: the Librarian sells name tag for 20 emeralds once it reaches the Master 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 name tag 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 name tag stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.