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can happily loot any chests you find without dinging your popularity with the vil-
lagers.
There's no particular technique for finding a village, but if you haven't found one
yet in your world, despite substantial exploration, you can get a taste of the experi-
ence by searching for a game seed online. Search for something like “Minecraft
village seed.” It should match your version of Minecraft to ensure the terrain gen-
erates correctly. Even though villages can be hard to find, you will find one even-
tually in your own world. It may just be a small clutch of houses, but there is al-
ways the chance you can stumble upon one much larger. If you need a quick re-
fresher on seeds, see “
Seeding Your World
”
in
Chapter 1
,
“
Getting Started
.”
Emerald City: Your Ticket to Trade
Villagescontainuptofivetypesofvillagers(see
Figure11.3
)
,witheachofferingaparticu-
larsetofitems fortrade,according totheirprofession,usingemeralds asthecurrency.You
can recognize each by their attire. Here's a quick guide:
Farmers, dressed in brown, specialize in food products and most often offer up an
emerald for 18-21 sheaves of wheat.
Librarians wear a white coat and offer to buy paper, books, and gold. They sell,
among other things, bookshelves, enchanted topics, compasses, and clocks.
Priests are recognizable by their purple robes. They buy gold and sell Eyes of
Ender (pricey at 7 to 10 emeralds), redstone, and glowstone, and they are the only
source in the game for the Bottle o' Enchanting, which generates experience orbs
when thrown. Priests can also enchant swords, axes, pickaxes, and armor chest-
plates.
Blacksmiths wear brown clothes with a black apron. They buy coal, iron, gold, and
diamonds and offer all the metallic items for sale including chainmail armor,
which can't otherwise be crafted.
Butchers have a white apron. They buy raw pork chops and beef, as well as coal
and gold, and they sell saddles, leather armor, cooked pork chops, and steak.
