What do villagers eat in Minecraft?

Villagers are perhaps one of the most useful mobs in Minecraft. While they drop nothing and don’t even give XP when killed, they do provide something that no other mobs do: trades.

Villagers can be traded with to acquire something that their profession offers. Armorers can give armor, toolsmiths can give tools, fishermen can give fishing rods, farmers give golden carrots, clerics give Bottles O’ Enchanting and Ender Pearls, and librarians give enchanted books.

These can all be really great to have, but the problem is that most villages don’t have more than three or four villagers and there are a lot more job blocks than that. Getting more of them requires breeding, and often transportation to another place.

Villagers eating in Minecraft

Villagers don’t appear to eat anything regularly. They don’t hunger and therefore don’t need to eat food to remedy that. They do, however, breed, and that requires them to “eat.”

No, it’s not the same as eating for a player, and actually, when players give villagers food, it just kind of disappears. Still, that’s the only time villagers currently eat.