5 best farms for trading for emeralds in Minecraft

In Minecraft, one solid way of collecting plenty of emeralds involves selling excess items and blocks to various villagers. To that end, players have created some remarkable item/block farms so they can mass-produce commodities to sell off. Each item and block involved has its own emerald value for villagers, and the right farm can be quite profitable in the long run.

With that in mind, it doesn't hurt to examine some of the best farms in Minecraft for producing goods that villagers will happily buy for quite a few emeralds.

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5 best Minecraft farms to use for emerald trading

1) Sugar Cane farms

Sugar cane is easy to produce and can be made into easily tradeable paper in Minecraft (Image via Mojang)

One of the simplest villager trades in Minecraft involves handing over 24 pieces of paper for an emerald via cartographer villagers. The reason this is so quick and simple is that paper can be crafted from three pieces of sugar cane, which is arguably the easiest crop to grow in the game. Players can have a burgeoning farm from as little as one piece of sugar cane planted next to a water source.

Just a few stalks are more than enough to craft stacks upon stacks of paper, and all of that can be traded to cartographer villagers for a hefty emerald profit. Additionally, the paper can be combined with leather to craft books, four of which can be traded to librarian villagers in Minecraft for one emerald.

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2) Iron farms

Hundreds of iron ingots can be farmed with iron farms per hour, which can then be sold for emeralds (Image via Wattles/YouTube)

Players have created farm designs for iron golems in Minecraft ever since they were added to the game. Most designs work on the premise of containing villagers and nearby zombies close to each other. This is so that iron golems spawn nearby, where they can be funneled into a kill zone, and their dropped iron ingots are deposited for collection for players to use as they see fit.

Four iron ingots can be traded to armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers. And since most iron farms can bank hundreds of iron ingots per hour, players should be able to trade them for emeralds easily.

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3) Melon farms

Melons are easy to grow in Minecraft and can net a cozy emerald profit from trading (Image via Mojang)

Farmer villagers, once leveled up to journeyman level or higher, are more than willing to take four melon blocks and provide an emerald in return. This works to a player's advantage, as it's easy to set up a melon farm that is efficient enough to produce plenty of blocks that can be mined with a Silk-Touch-enchanted tool or broken into melon slices. It should be noted that nine of these can be crafted into blocks.

Six pumpkin blocks can also be traded for one emerald for apprentice level farmer villagers, and they grow almost identically to melons. However, trading four melons for an emerald as opposed to six pumpkins is a bit more economical down the line.

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4) Dried kelp farm

Kelp is easy to source and dry before trading the dried kelp blocks for emeralds in Minecraft (Image via Xisumavoid/YouTube)

Kelp is incredibly easy to collect from Minecraft's ocean biomes, and converting it into dried kelp with smoker blocks is both effortless and can provide some experience points depending on the design being used. With nine pieces of dried kelp, players can craft a dried kelp block, 10 of which can be traded to butcher villagers for an emerald.

As of the Minecraft 1.21 update, players can even integrate the crafter block into their dried kelp farm to automatically convert dried kelp into blocks to save time.

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5) Traditional mob farms

Mob farms produce plenty of rotten flesh, which can be sold to cleric villagers in Minecraft (Image via Wattles/YouTube)

Mob farms may be used mostly for gaining XP in Minecraft, but they're not bad for emerald trading either. Because these towering structures can produce a ton of zombies and destroy them, the zombies resultingly drop plenty of rotten flesh. The item is often considered useless, but it does have an upside. Specifically, 32 pieces of rotten flesh can be traded to cleric villagers for an emerald.

Since most Minecraft players simply dispose of rotten flesh anyway and traditional mob farms produce so much of it, it seems a shame to let that zombie flesh go to waste. If fans are going to get rid of it, they might as well sell off the product to cleric villagers for a tidy emerald profit.