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Obtaining and Using Villager Noses

Hunting for Villager Noses

In addition to dropping raw villager meat, villagers have a chance to yield a rare, specialized item upon death: the villager nose.

To acquire one:

1. Locate a village in your world.

2. Attack and defeat villagers.

3. Check their drops. While raw villager meat drops consistently, the nose is an occasional, rarer drop.

Ways to Use the Nose

Once you have acquired a villager nose, you have two distinct options for utilizing it:

  • Eat as a Delicacy: The villager nose can be consumed directly from your hand as an edible food item.
  • Cook into a Slime Ball: If you need sticky pistons, leads, or other slime-based recipes and cannot find a swamp or slime chunk, place the villager nose into a furnace. Smelting the nose cooks it down directly into a slime ball.