Wandering Trader
passiveOurs, not the game's own: where it turns up, its whole drop list, how a wandering trader behaves. Same on Bedrock v1.26.40.05 for health. Checked 2026-08-22, and here is how we check.
Added InOverview
A Wandering Trader is a passive mob: it will never attack a player and simply goes about its own behaviour.
Look for the Wandering Trader across the Overworld; it is tied to all Overworld biomes.
What sets it apart is its behaviour: offers random trades for emeralds, selling biome-specific items, flowers, saplings, and other resources.
Stat-wise it sits at 20 health (10 hearts), dropping no experience on death.
It was first added in 1.14 and has been a fixture of Minecraft ever since.
A useful detail many players miss: Despawns naturally with leashed llamas staying behind.
The reason to seek out the Wandering Trader is what it leaves behind: Milk Bucket, which is worth more than the fight it puts up.
Spawning
Wandering Traders spawn in all Overworld biomes.
Randomly spawns near the player with 2 Trader Llamas. Despawns after 40-60 minutes.
Left alone far from any player, wild wandering traders eventually despawn, so use a name tag if you want a specific one to stick around.
With no attack to worry about, the Wandering Trader is something you gather rather than fight, and since it does not breed, every one you want has to come from a fresh spawn.
Another mob's spawn rule points back at it: the trader llama, which spawns with Wandering Traders.
Drops
Here is what you can expect to collect from a Wandering Trader:
Nothing here is guaranteed: a kill can give you 1 Milk Bucket.
Milk Bucket is the reason to seek them out, and since they do not breed, each one has to be found rather than raised.
With nothing guaranteed, output is swingy: over many kills the averages hold, but any single Wandering Trader may give you little, so farm in volume rather than expecting a jackpot each time.
As a harmless mob, the Wandering Trader is best gathered opportunistically while you explore, and there is no danger in collecting from it, so it rarely justifies a dedicated trip.
| Item | Count | Chance | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milk Bucket | 0 to 1 | not every kill |
Wandering Trader attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
 Size | 0.6 x 1.95 blocks |
 Eye height | 1.62 blocks |
 Tracking range | 10 chunks |
 Experience | 0 |
| Follow range | 16 blocks |
 Health | 20 points |
Wandering Trader: 2 values straight out of Minecraft Java 26.2
Nothing in the biome spawn lists and nothing in the rolls on death names the wandering trader, so the numbers on this page come from one place only: the game's own entry for it in Minecraft Java 26.2sets 20 health and 16 blocks follow range.
The ranges Minecraft Java 26.2 rolls for a wandering trader give 0.5 Milk Bucket per kill, so 64 Milk Bucket costs 128 kills before Looting.
| Weapon | Attack damage | Full swings | Swings per 64 Milk Bucket |
|---|---|---|---|
 golden sword, wooden sword | 4 | 5 | 640 |
 stone sword | 5 | 4 | 512 |
 iron sword | 6 | 4 | 512 |
 diamond sword, golden axe, wooden axe | 7 | 3 | 384 |
 netherite sword | 8 | 3 | 384 |
 diamond axe, iron axe, stone axe | 9 | 3 | 384 |
 netherite axe | 10 | 2 | 256 |
Behavior & Combat
In the field, offers random trades for emeralds, selling biome-specific items, flowers, saplings, and other resources. Drinks Invisibility potion at night.
Its 20 health is 23rd of 80, just over the 16 of the spider.
It is completely harmless and deals no damage, so the only risk it poses is wandering into lava, cacti or a long fall.
The Wandering Trader cannot be bred, so the only way to get more is to find them spawning naturally in their home biomes.
All told, the Wandering Trader is a low-risk part of the world that rewards patience more than aggression.
Wandering Trader commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /summon minecraft:wandering_trader | Puts a wandering trader on the block you are standing on. |
| /give @p minecraft:wandering_trader_spawn_egg | Hands you the wandering trader spawn egg, so you can place wandering traders where you want them. |
| /kill @e[type=minecraft:wandering_trader] | Removes every wandering trader that is loaded around you. |
Entity id minecraft:wandering_trader, spawn egg minecraft:wandering_trader_spawn_egg.
Wandering Trader farm
There is no platform that produces wandering traders. Randomly spawns near the player with 2 Trader Llamas. Despawns after 40-60 minutes. Anything you build has to feed that source instead of a dark floor.
Each kill is worth 0 experience and up to 1 milk bucket, and that figure is what decides how big the wandering trader farm has to be.
0 experience per kill
Milk Bucket up to 1Wandering Trader version history
The wandering trader was added in Minecraft 1.14, which came out on 23 April 2019, so the wandering trader has been in the game for 7 years.
6 other mobs here came with it: the fox, the panda, the trader llama, the ravager, the pillager and the cat. That puts the wandering trader behind 55 of the 88 mobs here and ahead of 26.
Every wandering trader figure on this page is read from Minecraft Java 26.2 as it stands today, not from the version above.
What Wandering Trader sounds like
Turn subtitles on and every wandering trader sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 10 lines a wandering trader can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.wandering_trader.ambient master @p.
| Sound | What you hear |
|---|---|
| entity.wandering_trader.ambient |  Wandering Trader mumbles |
| entity.wandering_trader.hurt | Wandering Trader hurts |
| entity.wandering_trader.death | Wandering Trader dies |
| entity.wandering_trader.disappeared | Wandering Trader disappears |
| entity.wandering_trader.drink_milk | Wandering Trader drinks milk |
| entity.wandering_trader.drink_potion | Wandering Trader drinks potion |
| entity.wandering_trader.no | Wandering Trader disagrees |
| entity.wandering_trader.reappeared | Wandering Trader appears |
| entity.wandering_trader.trade | Wandering Trader trades |
| entity.wandering_trader.yes | Wandering Trader agrees |
