Farmer

Farmer

Workstation	Composter
Buys	Wheat Potato Carrot Beetroot Pumpkin Melon
Sells	Bread Pumpkin Pie Apple Cookie Suspicious Stew Cake Golden Carrot Glistering Melon

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A farmer is a villager that trades crops and natural foods, such as bread and cookies. Farmers wear a straw hat and have a small bag roped around their waist.

An unemployed villager turns into an farmer when an unclaimed composter is nearby.

The workstation of farmers, the composter, generates in farms in villages.

In Java Edition, a farmer can drop various items by throwing them as a gift towards a nearby player with the Hero of the Village effect. The gift is randomly selected from the following list:

• Bread
• Cookie
• Pumpkin Pie

In Java Edition, during the "work" portion of their schedule, farmers tend nearby crops.

• Farmers sometimes move to random farmland blocks they detect within ±4 on the X and Z axes and ±2 on the Y axis, rather than going to their job site.
• If there are fully-grown crop blocks or air above farmland within ±1 of the farmer on each axis, the farmer spends 10 seconds tending them (not counting time spent walking to the next block), one per second. The block is harvested if necessary and (re-)planted if the farmer has any plantable crop, crop seed, or flower seed items.
  • If /gamerule mobGriefing is false, farmers cannot farm.
  • Harvesting is done regardless of the farmer's current inventory, even if they lack space to pick up the results.
  • Planting takes the item from the first eligible inventory slot, independently of any previously harvested crop type.
• If there is at least one non-fully-grown crop block within ±1 of the farmer on each axis, the farmer has bone meal, and it has been at least 8 seconds since the farmer last did some fertilization, then the farmer fertilizes up to four crop blocks (one every two seconds).
• When the farmer works at their composter, it can perform all of the following tasks in this order in the same work session. The composter always plays the composting sound as the workstation sound, even if nothing is actually put into the composter.
  • If the farmer has at most 36 bread and enough wheat, it crafts up to 3 bread from the available wheat. Any bread that does not fit into the farmer's inventory is dropped as item entity.
  • If possible, the farmer extracts a bone meal item to empty the composter. The item drops as usual and may be picked up separately later.
  • If wheat seeds or beetroot seeds are available, the farmer composts excess seeds. Up to 20 total seeds are composted in one work session, but at least 10 of each type of seed are retained. Inventory slots are checked in reverse order. (Sniffer seeds are never composted.)

In Bedrock Edition, farmers tend crops within the village boundary. Farmers far enough outside the boundary of any village also tend nearby crops. Farmland to be tended is found by seeking for certain blocks up to 9 blocks away from the farmer in the X and Z coordinates and up to 1 away in the Y coordinate (a 19×19×3 volume total).

• If a farmer does not have enough food in one stack in its inventory (15 bread, 60 carrots, 60 potatoes, 60 beetroots, or 45 wheat) and finds fully-grown wheat, carrots, potatoes, or beetroot, the farmer moves to the crop block and harvests it.
• If a farmer has any seeds, carrots, potatoes, or beetroot seeds in its inventory and finds an air block above farmland, the farmer moves to it and plants a crop. They always plant from the first eligible slot in their inventory.
• Farmers use and pick up bone meal. They also fill their composter with seeds.
• Farmers start farming only if a crop is planted on farmland previously.
• Farmers continue to plant on the farmland even if all crops are destroyed.

For both editions:

• Farmers cannot turn dirt, grass blocks, or dirt paths into farmland, nor they pick up any hoes to till the blocks.
  • If a hoe is placed into a farmer's mainhand or offhand via commands, they still cannot till any blocks.

Farmer
Level	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
	Probability	Probability	Slot
Novice	40%	25%	1	20 × Wheat	Emerald	16	2	0.05
	40%	25%		26 × Potato	Emerald	16	2	0.05
	40%	25%		22 × Carrot	Emerald	16	2	0.05
	40%	25%		15 × Beetroot	Emerald	16	2	0.05
	40%	100%	2	Emerald	6 × Bread	16	1	0.05
Apprentice	67%	100%	3	6 × Pumpkin	Emerald	12	10	0.05
	67%	50%	4	Emerald	4 × Pumpkin Pie	12	5	0.05
	67%	50%		Emerald	4 × Apple	16	5	0.05
Journeyman	100%	100%	5	4 × Melon	Emerald	12	20	0.05
	100%	100%	6	3 × Emerald	18 × Cookie	12	10	0.05
Expert	29%	17%	7	Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 1]	12	15	0.05
	29%	17%		Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 2]	12	15	0.05
	29%	17%		Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 3]	12	15	0.05
	29%	17%		Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 4]	12	15	0.05
	29%	17%		Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 5]	12	15	0.05
	29%	17%		Emerald	Suspicious Stew[t 6]	12	15	0.05
	29%	100%	8	Emerald	Cake	12	15	0.05
Master	100%	50%	9	3 × Emerald	3 × Golden Carrot	12	30	0.05
	100%	50%		4 × Emerald	3 × Glistering Melon Slice	12	30	0.05

1. ↑ The stew gives 6 seconds of Blindness in Java Edition, or 5 seconds of Night Vision in Bedrock Edition.
2. ↑ The stew gives 8 seconds of Jump Boost in Java Edition, or 5 seconds of Night Vision in Bedrock Edition.
3. ↑ The stew gives 5 seconds of Night Vision.
4. ↑ The stew gives 14 seconds of Poison in Java Edition, or 5 seconds of Night Vision in Bedrock Edition.
5. ↑ The stew gives 0.35 seconds of Saturation in Java Edition, or 5 seconds of Night Vision in Bedrock Edition.
6. ↑ The stew gives 7 seconds of Weakness in Java Edition, or 5 seconds of Night Vision in Bedrock Edition.

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Farmer works	Friendly Mobs	Randomly while a farmer is working	entity.villager.work_farmer	subtitles.entity.villager.work_farmer​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions [upcoming]	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key [upcoming]	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Randomly while a farmer is working	block.composter.fill	​ ?	1.3	0.8

Farmers have the data value minecraft:farmer in Java Edition.

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Instructions: missing most of BE and all LCE history. Maybe add on to JE history

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added villagers, including farmers.
1.3.1			12w21a				With the introduction of villager trading, farmers can now be traded with.
1.8			14w02a				Added the "Fisherman", "Fletcher", and "Shepherd" careers for farmers.
1.14			18w50a				The textures of farmers have been changed.
							Farmers, like other villagers, now have career levels.
							The fisherman, fletcher, and shepherd careers have been split from farmers and are now their own professions.
1.14.3			pre1				Farmers now spend more time farming when they are working.
							Farmers now always give away food even if other villagers do not need it.
1.20			23w14a				Farmers now can pick up torchflower seeds.
			23w16a				Farmers can now plant torchflower seeds and pitcher pods.

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added villagers, including farmers.
v0.12.1			build 1				Farmer villagers now harvest fully grown crops.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				With the introduction of villager trading, farmers can now be traded with.
Bedrock Edition
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Farmers can now pick up and plant torchflower seeds and pitcher pods.

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  Lying snowy farmer

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  A farmer at a farm
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  A farmer working near a crafter contraption
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  Makena trading with two farmers
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  Three farmers
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  A cleric and farmer speaking while a third villager hurries by in the background.

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  Villager artwork, including a savanna farmer
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  A farmer watching Steve, Noor, and Alex riding pigs
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  LEGO jungle farmer
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  Lego snowy farmer
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  Artwork of the Farmer's Market Expansion of the board game Minecraft: Builders & Biomes.

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