Change Villager Jobs and Professions in Minecraft

The open-world game Minecraft opens up infinite possibilities for players to try and have fun. You can do almost anything that you want in this creation game. One of the first inhabitants that you will come across in Minecraft World is the villagers. All the villagers have different jobs, which all work in co-relation to facilitate trading in your world.

However, sometimes, you might feel the need to change the profession of a particular villager to increase the amount of yield from a specific sector. Maybe you require a bunch of your villagers to work on the same thing. In that case, you will have to change the profession of the other villagers to make them switch to a particular profession that you prefer. In this article, we will guide what different professions are there when it comes to villagers in Minecraft. We will also tell you how you can switch the job or profession of a particular villager according to your liking.

How to Change Villager Jobs & Professions?

A point to note here is that not every villager in your world will have a job. Just like it is with our everyday world, there will be some villagers who are nitwit or unemployed. There is no point in spending time and try to assign a profession to a nitwit. These villagers won’t do anything.

However, all the other employed villagers will pick up any profession that you provide for them. If you are confused about what is the profession of a particular villager, then you can observe their clothes, and you will get an idea. A more clear idea about a villager’s profession is evident by the job site block they are interacting with while working around. Each employed villager will have a particular job site block assigned to them.

Types of jobs:

What are these different jobs for villagers in Minecraft World? Let’s find out. We will also see what kind of job site block is assigned for each of these professions.

Jobs & Professions	Job site block
Armorer	Blast Furnace
Butcher	Smoker
Cartographer	Cartography Table
Cleric	Brewing Stand
Farmer	Composter
Fisherman	Barrel
Fletcher	Fletching Table
Leatherworker	Cauldron
Librarian	Lectern
Stone Mason (Bedrock Edition) / Mason (Java Edition)	Stonecutter
Nitwit	Not available
Shepherd	Loom
Toolsmith	Smithing Table
Unemployed	Not Available
Weaponsmith	Grindstone

How to change jobs?

Changing the jobs of villagers in Minecraft is not complicated at all. Whenever you spot an employed villager working on something, you will see a job site block that they are currently using. Go up to the villager whose profession you want to change and destroy the block of that villager. For instance, if you’re going to change the profession of a weaponsmith, first you will have to destroy the grindstone block that he is using.

As soon as you do that, the villager will lose his cool for losing his job and will be angry with you. So place a job block for the profession you want to assign to that angry villager in a 48-block vicinity. The villager will automatically look for a new job, and as soon as he finds the new job block, he will automatically switch his job over. For instance, if you have destroyed the grindstone block of a weaponsmith, assign him the job of a librarian, then place a Lectern block nearby, and the weaponsmith will switch over to a librarian.

As mentioned above, there are also unemployed and nitwit villagers in Minecraft. There is no point in wasting efforts with a nitwit, and they will never work. However, unemployed villagers are people who are willing to work. Just place a job block in a 48-block vicinity of the unemployed villager, and he will pick up the job. Rather than changing the profession of an employed villager, you should first assign professions to the unemployed ones.

That is all that you need to know about changing jobs and professions of villagers in Minecraft. If you have any questions or queries about this guide, then comment down below, and we will get back to you. Also, be sure to check out our other articles on iPhone tips and tricks, Android tips and tricks, PC tips and tricks, and much more for more useful information.