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Villagers sell Mending books, enchanted diamond gear and Bottles o' Enchanting for emeralds.
Tested 26.3
The Emerald is the currency of villagers and the wandering trader: almost every trade is paid in emeralds, or earns you some. You get it from trading, from loot chests and from emerald ore, which only appears in mountain biomes.
It is made with the Crafting Table from Block of Emerald (other recipes also exist).
What it does
The usual way to get emeralds is to sell villagers what they ask for: crops to a farmer, paper to a librarian, sticks to a fletcher, coal to an armorer. With those emeralds you then buy enchanted books, diamond gear, food, maps or rare blocks. The wandering trader also sells plants, coral and other hard-to-find blocks for emeralds.
Emerald ore is rare and hides inside the stone of mountains; mining it gives one emerald, more with Fortune. Desert temples, jungle temples, buried treasure and archaeology sites also hold some.
Nine emeralds make a Block of Emerald, one of the blocks a Beacon pyramid accepts, and a single emerald pays for a beacon power. Emerald is also one of the armor trim colors.
How to craft
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Crafting table Any arrangement Also in the 2×2 inventory grid 
9 Block of Emerald → 9 × Emerald
Furnace 
Emerald Ore → Emerald
Blast furnace Emerald Ore → Emerald
// Slots with several items cycle through every accepted option.
How Emerald connects
22 links · from the 26.3 game dataWhere to get it
Loot in structureschance per item drawn
Ocean RuinsSuspicious Sand or Gravel, with a Brush, Chest · Cold ruins · suspicious gravel, Warm ruins · suspicious sand, Large ruins…13.3%Same family · tag #trim_materials
Tutorials with Emerald (13)
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A Cartographer villager sells an Empty Map for 7 Emeralds at the Novice level, and buys 24 Paper for 1 Emerald.
Tested 26.3
Tested 26.3
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Librarian villagers sell an Enchanted Book for emeralds and a Book at levels 1 to 4.
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Used to craft (1)
Block of Emerald Obtained from
Tags
#minecraft:beacon_payment_items#minecraft:trim_materials
Emerald · FAQ
How do you get Emerald in Minecraft?
At the Crafting Table: 1 × Block of Emerald gives 9 × Emerald. In a Furnace: 1 × Deepslate Emerald Ore gives 1 × Emerald. It can be found as loot in Trial Chambers, Buried Treasure, Shipwreck, Ocean Ruins and 6 more. It is dropped by Evoker and Vindicator.
What is Emerald used for in Minecraft?
It is the currency of villager and wandering trader trades, pays a beacon and colors armor trims. It is an ingredient in one recipe: Block of Emerald.