RAW PORKCHOP

A pig pen is one of the oldest farms in the game, standing next to a wheat field and feeding on the same crop it takes to breed cows. What comes out the other end is raw porkchop, and the Butcher is who buys it. The overworld version is not the only source: hoglins in the Nether drop it too, so a Piglin-adjacent base can feed this trade without a single pig on site.

Nothing about the offer cares which of the two animals it came from. Reach novice on a Butcher and the trade is simply there from the moment he claims his smoker, no promotion needed first.

To sell raw porkchop for emeralds, bring it to a Butcher at the Novice tier, 7 units per emerald.

The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 7 raw porkchops, from the Butcher, and 2 of the other 7 pay out faster. No villager sells raw porkchop back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.

One slot at the Butcher takes 7 raw porkchops a trade, 16 trades, 16 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

16 acacia boats against 416 potatoes for the same 16 emeralds, 26 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 10 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Raw Porkchop itself pays 7 an emerald, so 26 of the 72 ask less and 44 ask more.

Every raw porkchop offer here locks after 16 uses, and a villager restocks up to twice a Minecraft day, no more.

The earliest raw porkchop shows up is the Butcher's Novice tier, which a villager has the moment he claims the workstation, no experience banked first.

16 trades empty the slot, and 2 real minutes later it refills, the same clock every Butcher shares. A Minecraft day holds two of those refills across 20 real minutes.

One Butcher worked through both moves 224 raw porkchop for 32 emeralds, whether the animals behind it were pigs, hoglins, or a mix of both.

One villager, one restock: the Butcher pays an emerald per 7 raw porkchop and that slot runs 16 trades, so 112 raw porkchop is all one will take before it locks.

Where they go back: rabbit stew is that Butcher's cheapest offer.

Also on the Butcher's list: raw rabbit, coal, cooked porkchop, cooked chicken, raw mutton and raw beef.

Two mobs drop this. Pigs in the overworld are the obvious one, bred with carrots, potatoes or beetroot, and a pig follows a held carrot which makes moving a herd simple. Hoglins in the Nether drop the same raw porkchop when killed, which is the only meat source on that side of the portal.

Cooked, it sits level with steak at the top of the food table, so the sensible pattern is to sell the raw chops the Butcher wants and cook the rest for travel. A pig farm and a Butcher next to each other turn the same field into both food and emeralds.

Cooked porkchop restores as much as steak, which puts it level with the best ordinary food, and the pig behind it breeds on carrots, potatoes or beetroot rather than on wheat. A crop farm you already run feeds the herd.

Raw, it is the mediocre version of that, and it is also what tames nothing and heals nothing. The furnace step is the whole value.

A saddled pig steered with a carrot on a stick is the other use, and it is slow, awkward and exactly as much fun as it sounds. The carrot on a stick wears out, and the pig does not care where you wanted to go.