Minecraft wiki entry for Survival_in_an_infinite_desert, associated text: Once you get two villagers, start by placing them in minecarts to keep them safe and build a building around them. Then, give them professions. Your first villager should be a fletcher with the stick to emerald trade. You can make a fletching table using 2 flint from gravel and 4 planks (nether wood works) Use the nether wood you gathered to make sticks and sell them to the fletcher. Your next villager should be a farmer with the bread trade and a carrot or potato trade. If you got a carrot or potato from a zombie, you can farm it and sell the excess crops. You can also buy bread for food and villager breeding. One emerald is 6 bread, which is enough to get 1 villager. Make more beds from wood planks and wool (from string). After you get more villagers, you can start to employ them. Each profession has its own trades and benefits.