Villager Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about villagers with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about villagers in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a villager looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	20 health points  x 10
Where to Find	In villages
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	None
Experience Points	0 experience points

Hostility Level (Passive)

A villager is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and villagers. Because a villager is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a villager has 10 hearts

 for health. This gives a villager 20 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a villager, you need to inflict 20 points of damage to the villager.

Where to Find Villagers

In Minecraft, villagers can be found in villages in most biomes. Each village will be made of different materials depending on the biome.

Plains Village

Desert Village

Savanna Village

Taiga Village

Snow Village

The villages are easy to spot because they are made up of a group of small buildings with gardens of vegetables. Villagers grow gardens of potatoes, carrots, and wheat. When you are running low on food, you can harvest their vegetables for yourself.

If you are having trouble finding a villager, you can summon a villager using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A villager does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a villager and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a villager, it will just try to walk away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a villager in Minecraft, it will not drop anything. It is one of the few mobs that when killed, does not drop any items.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. Unfortunately, when you kill a villager, you will not gain any experience points.

Types of Villagers

Starting in Java Edition 1.14 and Bedrock Edition 1.11.0, villagers have unique clothing and appearance that relate to their profession and biome, and each profession has a different work table.

Here is a list of the professions and the work table for the different types of villagers:

Profession	Minecraft ID	Work Table
Farmer	minecraft:farmer	Composter
Fisherman	minecraft:fisherman	 Barrel
Shepherd	minecraft:shepherd	Loom
Fletcher	minecraft:fletcher	 Fletching Table
Librarian	minecraft:librarian	 Lectern
Cartographer	minecraft:cartographer	 Cartography Table
Cleric	minecraft:cleric	 Brewing Stand
Armorer	minecraft:armorer	 Blast Furnace
Weaponsmith	minecraft:weaponsmith	 Grindstone
Toolsmith	minecraft:toolsmith	 Smithing Table
Butcher	minecraft:butcher	 Smoker
Leatherworker	minecraft:leatherworker	 Cauldron
Mason	minecraft:mason	 Stonecutter
Nitwit	minecraft:nitwit	No work table

“New” Villager Profession Levels

Each villager has a career level associated with their profession. The higher the level, the better the trades the villager can offer.

Here is a list of the profession levels for a villager:

Level	Minecraft ID	Description
Novice	1	Villager is a Novice which is the lowest level. Villagers that are spawned as “Novice” will not immediately select a profession and may even switch professions on you. If you want the villager to hold its profession, you must spawn them with at least a level of “Apprentice”.
Apprentice	2	Villager is an Apprentice which is a level higher than “Novice”.
Journeyman	3	Villager is a Journeyman which is a level higher than “Apprentice”.
Expert	4	Villager is an Expert which is a level higher than “Journeyman”.
Master	5	Villager is a “Master” which is the highest level.

TIP: If you summon a villager using the /summon command with a career level that is higher than Master, the villager will not have any trades unless you specify your own set of custom trades.

“New” Villager Biomes

Villagers will have different looks depending on the biome that they are associated with. The biome determines the clothes that the villager wears which means that a Farmer from the Plains biome will look different than a Farmer from the Taiga biome.

Here is a list of the biomes that a villager can belong to:

Biome	Minecraft ID
Plains	 minecraft:plains
Taiga	 minecraft:taiga
Savanna	 minecraft:savanna
Jungle	 minecraft:jungle
Desert	 minecraft:desert
Snow	 minecraft:snow
Swamp	 minecraft:swamp

TIP: If you spawn a villager in a different biome than their own, they will seek out the biome they were created for. This makes it difficult to keep a villager in a different biome than its own.

Spawn Egg for Villager

You can spawn a villager using the following spawn egg:

Villager Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Villagers

Here are some activities that you can do with villagers in Minecraft:

How to Trade with a Villager
How to turn a Villager into a Witch

Villager Trade Generator

Need help generating the /summon command for a villager with custom trades? Try our command generator:

Villager Trade Generator

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a villager in Minecraft:

Summon Villager with Customized Trade
How to Summon a Villager

NBT Tags for Villager (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a villager in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Villager

Spawn Events for Villager (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a villager in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Villager

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC