How Do Villagers Lose Their Professions in Minecraft?
In Minecraft, villagers can lose their profession due to several factors:
- Villagers can lose their profession if they unlink from their job site block. This situation arises when a villager cannot find their job site.
- Reasons for unlinking include:
- The job site is destroyed.
- The villager is unable to pathfind to it.
- The villager no longer has a job site to claim.
- Moreover, if a villager loses their bed due to obstruction, they might also lose their job if they cannot reach another unclaimed job site.
To elaborate further, if a villager cannot reach their bed and loses ownership of it, they forget the bed location. Consequently, they search for another unclaimed bed, which can lead to a loss of their profession if they are unable to claim a new job site after losing their previous one.
- Villagers will also become unemployed if there is an absence of job site blocks.
- If a villager is infected and turns into a zombie, they will preserve their profession but lose their career and trades. For instance, a zombie villager blacksmith can become either an armororer, a toolsmith, or a weaponsmith after being cured.
- Interestingly, a zombified villager retains all original trades after being cured. However, trades that have been maxed out (marked with a red X) will still remain unavailable.
- This mechanic regarding villagers losing their profession when zombified was reported back in 2013 on Mojang’s bug tracker under the code MC-11883, which remains open.
Additionally, some professions have sub-types known as careers (e.g., Fisherman, Armorer, Leatherworker, etc.).
- If a villager’s workstation is destroyed, or they can no longer pathfind to that block (including moving beyond a certain radius of the block), they will lose their profession and can be reassigned a new one.
- For players looking to change a villager’s profession, destroying their job site block will cause the villager to seek another nearby block, albeit discontented at first.
- If a villager is moved far enough away from their job block, they will immediately lose their job, even without the chance to be taken out of a boat.
Understanding Trading Locks: Do They Affect Villager Professions?
Understanding trading locks is essential in comprehending how they affect villager professions.
Once a player trades with a villager, the villager keeps its profession forever. This subsequently locks in the offered trades. For example, villagers wearing straw hats are farmers, and their trades are based on the Farmer trade pool.
- A villager’s profession dictates the trading pool used to determine its trades.
- Each profession unlocks a pre-defined and finite set of offers.
- Different professions are assigned to each villager based on their job-site block, which is indicated by their appearance and in the trading interface.
However, it is essential to note that:
- Removing and then replacing a job site block can alter the trades offered.
- Novice villagers who have not traded can lose their profession and change back into unemployed villagers if their claimed job site block is removed.
- Once you trade with a villager, they are locked into that profession. Breaking their job site blocks will not unlink them, and they are unable to link to any other profession.
Moreover, villagers run out of stock after a certain number of trades. This number varies for each item.
When villagers work at their job site blocks, they activate their offers again, up to twice per day. If an offer is disabled, a red ‘X’ will appear in the trading interface.
In summary, trading locks play a significant role in determining villager professions, impacting the trades they offer and their availability.
Can Cured Villagers Change Jobs or Lose Them After Trading?
Villagers in Minecraft can be a great source of entertainment and utility, providing you with various goods and services. However, did you know that you can change their jobs after trading with them? In this article, we’ll dive into the details of how to change villager jobs after trading, and what benefits and limitations come with it.
To change a villager’s job after trading with them, follow this step-by-step guide:
- Find a villager that you want to change the job of. Make sure you have traded with them before, as this is a requirement to change their job.
- Gather Required Items: The items required to change a villager’s job depend on the job you want to change them to. For example, to change a farmer to a cleric, you’ll need to gather 12-16 bread, 12-16 wheat, and 2-3 iron ingots.
- Use the required items on the villager to initiate the job change process.
- Wait for the job change.
While changing villager jobs can be a great way to increase trade options and improve your gameplay experience, there are some limitations and tips to keep in mind:
- Job Change Costs: Changing a villager’s job can be costly, both in of resources and time.
- Job Change Limits: Each villager can only be changed to a certain number of jobs before they become ‘stuck’ in their current occupation. You can reset their job limit by trading with them again, but this will also reset their profession.
Changing villager jobs after trading can be a fun and rewarding experience, but it requires careful planning and execution. By following the steps outlined in this article and considering the limitations and tips, you can unlock new goods and services from your villager friends and take your Minecraft gameplay to the next level.
Novice villagers who have not traded can lose their profession and change back into unemployed villagers if their claimed job site block is removed. Removing and then replacing a job site block can alter the trades offered. Additionally, a villager with no experience resets its trades every so often. Once a player trades with a villager, the villager keeps its profession forever and subsequently locks in the offered trades.
Unemployed villagers (other than babies and nitwits) seek employment at job site blocks (also referred to as workstations). Employed villagers use job site blocks to refresh their trades. Villagers who have made their first trade must claim a site block that corresponds with their profession, whereas tradeless villagers may change their profession to match a site block.
To change a Villager’s job, all you need to do is destroy the job site block that they’re currently using as their profession and replace it. For example, if you want to change a Librarian’s job, you would need to destroy the lectern they are using.
