How much cheaper are the trades after curing a zombie villager?

One cure is worth 125 reputation with that villager, the largest single swing in the game. The discount lands on each trade separately, worked out from the trade's own price, so cheap offers often drop to a single emerald while expensive ones fall by a lot more in absolute terms.

What do you need to cure a zombie villager?

A splash potion of Weakness and a golden apple, in that order. The zombie villager has to take the Weakness effect first, then be fed the apple, and it shakes for a few minutes before it turns back. Nothing else works as a substitute.

Does curing the same villager twice stack?

It helps, but less each time. Reputation is capped per source, so the first cure does the heavy lifting and further cures push against a ceiling rather than doubling the discount.

Do other villagers in the village get cheaper too?

A little. Villagers gossip, so good standing spreads to the ones nearby, though what they pass on is capped and it fades day by day. The villager you cured yourself keeps by far the best prices.

Is the zombie villager at risk of dying while you cure it?

Yes, and that is the part worth planning. It stays hostile until the apple is fed, other mobs can kill it, and daylight will burn it. Walling it in or putting it in a boat before the potion is thrown is the usual answer.

The discount is game behaviour, not a number in a file. The prices it reduces are the ones this site lists, and those are checked daily against the game's own data. How that check works.

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ZOMBIE VILLAGER DISCOUNTS

Curing a zombie villager is a permanent price cut on everything that villager sells. It is the strongest trading mechanic in the game, worth 125 reputation, and on the expensive trades that is the difference between 21 emeralds and 1.

How Discounts Work

Curing does not set a discount percentage. It files two pieces of gossip about you with that villager: 20 points of major_positive and 25 of minor_positive. Each type has its own cap and its own worth, so once they are capped the cure is worth 125 reputation to you with that villager, and every price he quotes you drops by that reputation multiplied by the trade's own price multiplier, rounded down. On an expensive trade that is enough to hit the floor of one emerald; on a cheap one you will not notice it.

It is permanent because major_positive is the one gossip type the game never decays: 0 per day, against 1 for minor_positive and 2 for ordinary trading. That single zero is the whole reason the discount is still there a hundred days later.

Java Edition

The discount belongs to you and that villager, and neighbours pick up part of it through gossip, capped at 20 points passed on. Curing the same villager a second time adds nothing: major_positive stops at 20 and one cure already puts it there. Curing more villagers is what widens the discount, not curing one twice.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock writes the same multiplier into its own trade tables, and on 171 of the trades checked here the two editions ask for exactly the same one. The exceptions are the 0 maps: Java prices them at where Bedrock uses , so a cure is worth 0 times less on a map there.

What cannot be checked from here is the rest: Bedrock spreads the discount across the village rather than one villager and stacks repeat cures, but that behaviour lives in its code and Bedrock ships no code to read. Treat those two sentences as the shape of it, not as a figure taken from the game.

Every number above was read out of Minecraft Java 26.2 itself: GossipType for the weights, caps and decay, Villager.onReputationEventFrom for what a cure adds, and Villager.updateSpecialPrices for how reputation becomes a price. How that check works.

How to Cure a Zombie Villager

Find or Create a Zombie Villager

Zombie villagers spawn naturally (5% of zombies) or you can let a zombie kill a regular villager. In Hard difficulty, zombification is guaranteed. In Normal, there's a 50% chance. In Easy, villagers always die instead.

Trap the Zombie Villager

Build a small enclosure and lure or push the zombie villager inside. Make sure it can't despawn (name tag helps) and is protected from sunlight. Boats work well for trapping and transporting them.

Apply Weakness

Throw a Splash Potion of Weakness at the zombie villager. You can also use a Witch (they occasionally throw weakness potions) or a tipped arrow of Weakness. The zombie villager needs the Weakness effect.

Feed a Golden Apple

While the zombie villager has the Weakness effect, right-click it with a Golden Apple (regular, not enchanted). You'll hear a loud hissing sound and the zombie villager will start shaking with red particles.

Wait for the Cure

The curing process takes 3-5 minutes. During this time, keep the zombie villager safe from damage and sunlight. Iron bars and beds nearby can speed up the process slightly.

Enjoy the Discount

Once cured, the villager charges less on every trade he offers. Assign them a workstation if they do not have one. The discount is permanent, but curing the same villager again adds nothing: the gossip it files is already at its cap. Cure more villagers instead.

What One Cure Is Actually Worth

Not every trade drops to one emerald. The discount is the same 125 reputation everywhere, but each trade carries its own multiplier, and the saving is capped by the price itself. These are the biggest drops on the site, straight out of the trades:

Prices before and after one cure, from the trade files
Trade	Villager	Normally	After one cure
Bell	Armorer, apprentice	36 emeralds	11 emeralds
Enchanted Diamond Chestplate	Armorer, master	21 to 35 emeralds	1 to 10 emeralds
Enchanted Diamond Leggings	Armorer, expert	19 to 33 emeralds	1 to 8 emeralds
Enchanted Diamond Pickaxe	Toolsmith, master	18 to 32 emeralds	1 to 7 emeralds
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Toolsmith, expert	17 to 31 emeralds	1 to 6 emeralds
Enchanted Diamond Boots	Armorer, expert	13 to 27 emeralds	1 to 2 emeralds
Chainmail Boots	Armorer, apprentice	1 emerald	1 emeraldalready at the floor

Worked out per trade: 125 reputation times that trade's own multiplier, floored, never below one. Where the price is a band the enchantment is part of the cost, so the discount comes off the whole thing and an expensive roll stays expensive. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

Which trades carry which multiplier

What one cure is worth per price multiplier
Multiplier	Trades on this site	One cure takes off	Biggest saving it buys
0.2 per point	44	25	25 on the armorer bell, 36 down to 11
0.05 per point	126	6	6 on the armorer coal, 15 down to 9

One cure is 125 reputation (20 major_positive and 25 minor_positive, each capped and weighted), and the price drops by that times the trade's own multiplier, floored. The multipliers are in the trade files, the reputation is in the code. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

The Other Discount: Hero of the Village

Curing is not the only way a villager sells cheaper, and the second way works on completely different arithmetic. Win a raid and every villager in range knocks a flat share off the first thing you hand over: 30% at the first level of the effect and 6.25% more for every level above that, rounded down, never less than 1 item. Reputation plays no part in it and neither does the trade's own multiplier, which is the whole difference between the two: a cure is worth four times as much on a gear trade as on a food one, and this is worth the same share of everything.

36 Emerald for 1 Bell - the dearest emerald price on the site, Armorer, Apprentice

Hero of the Village	Share taken off	Emeralds off	You pay
Level 1	30%	10	26
Level 2	36.25%	13	23
Level 3	42.5%	15	21
Level 4	48.75%	17	19
Level 5	55%	19	17

One cure takes 25 emeralds off that same trade and the effect at its strongest takes 19, so where the multiplier is the high 0.2 the potion is still the better one. It flips on the ordinary trades. 32 Rotten Flesh for 1 Emerald sits at 0.05, so a cure takes 6 off it and the weakest level of the effect already takes 9. They are not a choice, though. Both are worked out in the same pass and both are subtracted, so a cured villager you visit wearing the effect is cheaper than either on its own. The difference is how long it lasts: a cure is permanent reputation and the raid reward runs out, so the effect is what you spend on the trades a cure hardly moves, and the cure is what you keep.

Materials Needed

1xSplash Potion of Weakness - Brew a Potion of Weakness (water bottle + fermented spider eye) then add gunpowder to make it splash
1xGolden Apple - 8 gold ingots + 1 apple at a crafting table. Regular golden apple, NOT the enchanted variant
optName Tag - To prevent the zombie villager from despawning while you prepare materials
optIron Bars / Bed - Placing these near the curing zombie villager speeds up the conversion process

Curing, step by step

The prices above assume the cure went through. How to Cure Zombie Villagers in Minecraft covers trapping a zombie villager and curing it with a Splash Potion of Weakness and a Golden Apple, and Zombie Villager Curing for Maximum Discounts repeats the cure for the lowest prices a villager will ever quote.

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Curing villagers FAQ

How much cheaper are the trades after curing a zombie villager?
One cure is worth 125 reputation with that villager, the largest single swing in the game. The discount lands on each trade separately, worked out from the trade's own price, so cheap offers often drop to a single emerald while expensive ones fall by a lot more in absolute terms.
What do you need to cure a zombie villager?
A splash potion of Weakness and a golden apple, in that order. The zombie villager has to take the Weakness effect first, then be fed the apple, and it shakes for a few minutes before it turns back. Nothing else works as a substitute.
Does curing the same villager twice stack?
It helps, but less each time. Reputation is capped per source, so the first cure does the heavy lifting and further cures push against a ceiling rather than doubling the discount.
Do other villagers in the village get cheaper too?
A little. Villagers gossip, so good standing spreads to the ones nearby, though what they pass on is capped and it fades day by day. The villager you cured yourself keeps by far the best prices.
Is the zombie villager at risk of dying while you cure it?
Yes, and that is the part worth planning. It stays hostile until the apple is fed, other mobs can kill it, and daylight will burn it. Walling it in or putting it in a boat before the potion is thrown is the usual answer.