How to make Librarian in Minecraft & Best Librarian Trades

First, you will need to locate a villager. You can do this through two methods, either finding a village or curing a zombie villager. While finding a village is more about luck and speed of travel, curing a zombie villager is a more involved process. They both come with their own benefits and detriments so consider which process you would rather complete.

To cure a zombie villager, you will need a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple. You can craft a golden apple with a regular apple and 8 golden ingots. Find apples by breaking oak tree leaves and find golden ingots either underground or crafting them with gold nuggets.

To make a splash potion of weakness you will need a brewing stand, blaze powder, water bottle, and a fermented spider eye. To make a fermented spider eye you will need a brown mushroom, sugar, and a spider eye.

Place the fermented spider eye in a brewing stand with a water bottle to make a potion of weakness. This is one of the few potions that does not require making an awkward potion first.

Once your potions of weakness are done brewing, you can turn them into splash potions of weakness by adding gunpowder. This will allow you to hit the zombie villager with the weakness effect.

Now all that is left is to track down a zombie villager. There is about a 5% chance for any zombie that spawns to be a zombie villager. You could also get a zombie to convert a regular villager into a zombie villager, but this seems to defeat the purpose. This will provide you with better trades in terms of cost, but if the goal is to get a villager, there is no need to convert a regular villager is there?

Regardless, once you have found a zombie villager leads him somewhere you can keep him contained. Throw the splash potion of weakness at it and then feed the zombie villager a golden apple while it still has the weakness effect. The curing process takes about 3-5 minutes and you should hear a thunderbolt sound effect when it is done correctly.

You can tell if the zombie villager is inflicted with weakness by the red swirls surrounding it. After you feed it a golden apple and wait 3-5 minutes, it should convert into a regular villager.

Once you have cured the villager, you can change his profession to a librarian by placing a lectern nearby. Do not trade with the villager if you want him to change his profession. Once you trade with the villager his profession becomes locked even if you break his Jobsite block. Also, ensure that no other job site blocks are placed nearby to make the process smoother. If they do pick a nearby Jobsite block you will have to break the specific block they are assigned to and place a lectern close by if you want a librarian.

His trades will be discounted as he is thankful that you cured him of zombification. While this method is more involved than finding a regular village, it does come with the perks of discounted trades, choosing the villager’s location, and removing the frustration of having dozens of Jobsite blocks around.

Another thing to consider with the zombie villager method is you will need to have certain villager aspects around to ensure that the villager changes their profession. First, you need to ensure they are not a nitwit (check their clothes and if it is green you will need to start over), next they will need to claim a nearby bed, and finally, they need their specific job site block in order to select a profession.

Of course, you can just find a village if that is easier than converting a zombie villager. You will have to deal with the frustration of them running around as well as ensuring they select the correct job site block. They will also only trade at full price, or even more if you are new to the village.

In my case, I was able to corral a villager into a fenced area and place a lectern nearby to convert him into a librarian. It did take breaking a lot of nearby composters as this villager was passionate about farming apparently. This also caused the problem of other farmers assigning themselves to the lectern instead. Either trap that specific villager or add just enough Jobsite blocks for everyone else, except for the villager you want to become a librarian.

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