Farmer

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

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.

Spawning

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

Natural generation

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

Drops

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:

Behavior

Farming

Farmer villager picking and planting carrots.

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 seeds.
- 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 is done as from the first eligible inventory slot.
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 composts excess wheat and beetroot seeds, and extracts bone meal if it is full. Up to 20 seeds are composted in one work session, but at least 10 of each type of seed are first kept. Inventory slots are checked in reverse order.

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.

Trading

Farmer
Level	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
Level	Probability	Probability	Slot	Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
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%	4	Emerald	4 × Apple	16	5	0.05
Journeyman	100%	100%	5	4 × Melon	Emerald	12	20	0.05
Journeyman	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
Master	100%	50%	9	4 × Emerald	3 × Glistering Melon Slice	12	30	0.05

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

Sounds

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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

Bedrock Edition

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Randomly while a farmer is working	`block.composter.fill`	1.3	0.8

Data values

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

History

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Instructions: missing BE and 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.
1.14.3	pre1	Farmers now always give away food even if other villagers do not need it.
1.20	23w14a	Farmers now can pick up torchflower seeds.
1.20	23w16a	Farmers can now plant torchflower seeds and pitcher pods.

Issues

Issues relating to "Farmer" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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Snowy farmer

Screenshots

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

In other media

Villager artwork, including a savanna farmer
A farmer watching Steve, Noor, and Alex riding pigs
LEGO jungle farmer
Lego snowy farmer

Navigation

[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.

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