RAW RABBIT

Rabbits die in one hit and are quick underfoot, which makes them the least reliable livestock to farm on purpose: no pen keeps them the way a fence keeps a cow. What they leave behind when killed is raw rabbit, along with the hide and the foot that make the animal worth chasing in the first place, and a Butcher is who buys the meat.

The rate reflects that scarcity from the other direction. A Butcher asks only 4 raw rabbit per emerald once he reaches novice, and no other trade on his shelf costs less to fill, which makes the animal worth killing for the meat alone even without the hide and foot on top.

To sell raw rabbit for emeralds, bring it to a Butcher at the Novice tier, 4 units per emerald, the cheapest fill of anything he sells.

The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 4 raw rabbit, from the Butcher, and nothing else on the list pays out faster. No villager sells raw rabbit back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.

One slot at the Butcher takes 4 raw rabbit 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 Rabbit itself pays 4 an emerald, so 13 of the 72 ask less and 50 ask more.

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

The earliest raw rabbit 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 128 raw rabbit for 32 emeralds, a small pile against how many kills it usually takes to gather, since rabbits rarely queue up the way pigs or cows do.

One villager, one restock: the Butcher pays an emerald per 4 raw rabbit and that slot runs 16 trades, so 64 raw rabbit 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: coal, cooked porkchop, cooked chicken, raw mutton, raw beef and dried kelp block.

Rabbits breed on carrots, golden carrots or dandelions, and they spawn in deserts, snowy places and meadows rather than in ordinary grassland. That combination makes a rabbit pen a deliberate project instead of something that happens near a village on its own.

The meat is the least of what they drop. Hide turns into leather four to one, and the foot is the only source for Potion of Leaping, so a hunter usually wants the rabbit for something other than dinner. Cooked rabbit still feeds you about as well as cooked chicken.

A rabbit can drop hide as well, and two hides make one leather, which matters in a desert or a snowy biome where there are no cows to shear or kill. That makes rabbits the leather supply of the biomes that have none.

The foot is the rare one, and it is the base of the leaping potion, so a rabbit pen is a brewing supply as much as a food one.

Cooked rabbit is decent food, and it is one of the five things in rabbit stew, which is the single most filling item in the game. That is the reason to keep any at all rather than eat them as you go.