OCEAN EXPLORER MAP
1 trade involving this item across 1 profession.
View on Items Database →Ocean Explorer Map in villager trading
Ocean Explorer Map 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.
Ocean Explorer Map is generated against your current world, pointing toward the nearest matching structure. It is created the moment you trade for it, so two players receive maps to different locations.
Only the Cartographer deals in it, so any trading hall that supplies Ocean Explorer Map is built around that one profession. Ocean Explorer Map cannot be crafted, so trading (alongside the occasional loot drop) is one of the only ways to obtain it in survival.
Villagers that sell Ocean Explorer Map(you give emeralds, get Ocean Explorer Map)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartographer | Apprentice |  13 Emeralds | 1x | Points to nearest ocean monument |
Who trades Ocean Explorer Map, and at what price
To buy Ocean Explorer Map, visit a Cartographer at the Apprentice tier (13 emeralds).
Is trading Ocean Explorer Map worth it?
On the demand side, the cheapest a villager will sell ocean explorer map for is 13 emeralds (the Cartographer). Stack multiple villagers offering it, or cure one for a discount, and you can pull large quantities cheaply.
How Ocean Explorer Map trading works
Every Ocean Explorer Map 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 ocean explorer map 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 ocean explorer map in bulk.
One caution: the first trade you complete with a fresh villager permanently locks its current offers, including the ocean explorer map 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 Ocean Explorer Map
- Cheapest source: the Cartographer sells ocean explorer map for 13 emeralds once it reaches the Apprentice 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 ocean explorer map 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 ocean explorer map stays cheap for that villager. Reset only happens on never-traded Novice villagers via the rolling method.