PAPER

Paper is the only item on this list two different professions buy back at the identical rate: , and undefined both pay 24 emeralds for 1 paper once they reach novice, so whichever one you happen to be working with already can take your extras.

Making it is cheap too, which is why the payout per sheet is so small next to what a full stack of sugar cane can fetch.

Two buyers, one identical price. , and undefined. The trade file sets that rate the same on both of their sheets, so there is no cheaper profession to seek out.

The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 24 paper, from the Cartographer, and nothing else on that list asks for more. No villager sells paper back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.

One slot at the Cartographer takes 24 paper a trade, 12 trades, 12 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

12 acacia boats against 264 nether wart for the same 12 emeralds, 22 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 7.5 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Paper itself pays 24 an emerald, so 62 of the 72 ask less and 6 ask more.

Novice is the earliest tier on both ladders, needing 0 trading experience, which for a fresh villager can mean this offer is available right after his very first trade with you.

12 sales close the slot, then a restock brings the same offer back rather than swapping in a different one.

12 sales close the row, needing 2 real minutes idle before it restocks, comfortably inside the 20-minute villager day.

Camp for both refills and one villager takes 24 paper off your hands across a single Minecraft day, whichever of the two professions you are trading with.

Sugar cane farms produce paper faster than either villager can buy it, so this offer is best treated as a way to offload surplus rather than something to build a farm around.

Where those emeralds can go: the same Cartographer also sells empty maps, a natural next step for anyone selling off paper by the stack.

Also on the Cartographer's list: glass pane, village explorer map, compass, swamp explorer map, jungle explorer map, and ocean explorer map.

Three sugar cane make three paper, and sugar cane grows on sand beside water without any care at all. That is why paper is the classic emerald farm: the input is free, the plant regrows, and the Librarian buys the result at his opening rank.

Paper is also the start of the chain that ends in the things he sells back. Paper and leather make a book, books make bookshelves and a lectern, and paper plus a compass makes a map. A sugar cane farm therefore feeds both sides of the same villager.

The Librarian pays in emeralds, so a river of sugar cane is effectively a mint.

Nine paper make an empty map and eight more zoom it out a step, so a full wall map is a surprising amount of sugar cane. That is the largest single use of paper in most worlds.

Rockets are the other one. One paper, one gunpowder, and the number of gunpowder decides the flight time, which is what keeps an elytra in the air and what fires from a crossbow.

Three paper and a leather make a book, and books are the whole enchanting economy: bookshelves, enchanted books, and the anvil work that puts them on a tool.

Paper is crafted from sugar cane, one sheet per stalk, so every sheet the Librarian or the Cartographer asks for is a stalk of cane. Between them they take 672 Paper before a restock, 24 to the emerald at the Librarian's lectern. How to Build an Automatic Sugar Cane Farm in Minecraft is the farm that keeps a Paper trade running.