PALE HANGING MOSS
1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.
- 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
Pale Hanging Moss in Minecraft trading
Pale Hanging Moss is a Wandering Trader exclusive: no job villager buys or sells it at all, so the roaming merchant with the two llamas is the only source, at 1 emerald for 3.
No recipe in Java 26.2 produces it: it is gathered from the world rather than made.
The Wandering Trader sells Pale Hanging Moss(you give emeralds, get Pale Hanging Moss)
| Trader | Stock | Price | Amount | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wandering Trader | common | verified | verified |
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 Pale Hanging Moss
A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades pale hanging moss is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the wandering trader (common pool): 6.6% of them carry it, so it takes about 15.2 of them on average before one does.
| Villager | Tier | Villagers with this offer | Rolls to see it | Most from one villager | After a cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wandering Trader | common pool | 6.6% (5 in 76)same in Bedrock | about 15.2 | 12 pale hanging moss in total4 uses, he never restocks | cannot 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 Pale Hanging Moss, and at what price
The Wandering Trader sells Pale Hanging Moss for 1 emerald for 3. He does not buy pale hanging moss back: that offer runs one way.
No standard villager profession lists Pale Hanging Moss in its trade table, so the trader above is the whole market for it.
Is buying Pale Hanging Moss from the Wandering Trader worth it?
He asks 1 emerald for 3, which works out at well under an emerald each, and 15 of the other 75 come cheaper. Price is the easy part: he draws his stock from a shared pool, so catching one that happens to be carrying pale hanging moss is the real constraint.
| Acacia Log | 1 for 8 | ||
| Gunpowder | 1 for 4 | ||
| Pale Hanging Moss | 1 for 3 | ||
| Rooted Dirt | 1 for 2 | ||
| Melon Seeds | 1 | ||
| Red Tulip | 1 | ||
| Cactus | 3 | ||
| Enchanted Iron Pickaxe | 6 |
What 1 emerald costs in goods
The Wandering Trader asks 1 emerald for 3 pale hanging mosses. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:
| A full slot of | To | Emeralds | Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 compasses | journeyman Cartographer | 12 | 36 pale hanging mosses |
| 48 iron ingots | apprentice Armorer | 12 | 36 pale hanging mosses |
| 112 raw mutton | journeyman Butcher | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
| 160 coal | novice Fisherman | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
| 240 beetroot | novice Farmer | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
| 240 coal | apprentice Butcher | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
| 288 gray wool | novice Shepherd | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
| 512 sticks | novice Fletcher | 16 | 48 pale hanging mosses |
a compass against 32 sticks for the same 1 emerald, 32 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.
How to actually get Pale Hanging Moss 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.
He does not buy pale hanging moss. He takes six kinds of item and this is not one of them, so the offer runs one way: emeralds out of your inventory, pale hanging moss into it.
Each trader carries only a slice of the full stock list, so the one standing in front of you may simply not have pale hanging moss 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.
Tips for trading Pale Hanging Moss
- What a full stack costs: he asks 1 emerald for 3 pale hanging mosses, so a full stack of 64 means 22 emeralds across 22 trades.
- Also on the wandering trader's list: sulfur spike, rooted dirt, pale moss block, wildflowers, tall dry grass, firefly bush.