Archaeologist

This is the Matcha Flavoured version of Cartographer, renamed or changed from vanilla Minecraft.

Archaeologist

A plains archaeologist

Type	Villager profession
Replaces	Cartographer
Job site block	Cartography Table

The Archaeologist is a villager profession that sells explorer maps, pottery sherds and the Archeologist's Brush. It replaces the cartographer, and its job site block is the Cartography Table. It is the only villager that sells maps to the Overgrown Abbey and the Papal Outpost.

Trades

Level	Villager wants	Villager gives	Villager XP
Novice	Obol	Mineshaft Map	10
	Obol	Sheaf Pottery Sherd	10
	Obol	Swamp Hut Map	10
	Obol	Papal Outpost Map	40
	Obol	Shipwreck Map	10
Apprentice	Obol	Desert Pyramid Map	20
	Obol	Howl Pottery Sherd	10
	Obol	Jungle Pyramid Map	20
	Obol	Trail Ruins Map	20
	Obol	Archeologist's Brush	30
Journeyman	Obol	Ocean Monument Map	40
	Obol	Snort Pottery Sherd	10
	Obol	Trial Chamber Map	40
	Obol	Warm Ocean Ruins Map	40
	Paradise Lost	Overgrown Abbey Map	40
	The Divine Comedy	Overgrown Abbey Map	40
Expert	Obol	Ancient City Map	40
	Obol	Mourner Pottery Sherd	10
Master	Obol	Arms Up Pottery Sherd	10
	Obol	Woodland Explorer Map	60
	Clay Fetish “Rejoice”	Crystal Heart	20
	Clay Fetish “Lament”	Crystal Heart	20

All trades can be used 999 times before restocking, and every level offers all of its trades.

Maps

Main article: Explorer maps

Every map costs a single obol, with no compass, compared with 8 to 14 emeralds and a compass for a vanilla cartographer's explorer map. The Overgrown Abbey map is the exception: it costs a copy of Paradise Lost or The Divine Comedy instead of an obol.

Each map searches for the nearest structure of its type within a radius of 100 chunks when the archaeologist reaches that level. If there is none, the map trade is not offered. The Papal Outpost map targets pillager outposts, since papal outposts replace them. Each map shows its structure's marker; the pack draws its own markers for the papal outpost, shipwreck, trail ruins and abbey.

Pottery sherds

The archaeologist sells one pottery sherd per level for 1 obol: Sheaf, Howl, Snort, Mourner and Arms Up.

Archeologist's Brush

At Apprentice level it sells the Archeologist's Brush, an unbreakable brush, for 1 obol.

Clay fetishes

At Master level the archaeologist exchanges either kind of Clay Fetish (the cheerful one, "Rejoice", or the mournful one, "Lament") for a crystal heart.

Like every villager, an archaeologist that has been traded with will also buy its favorite food once.

History

1.10	Sells Overgrown Abbey and Papal Outpost maps, with new map textures. Takes Clay Fetishes.
1.12.6-alpha	The maps are built on the separate map items of Minecraft 26.3, and six of them show their structure's marker instead of a red X. New markers for the papal outpost, shipwreck, trail ruins and abbey.
1.12.8-beta October 23, 2026	Five maps now take their names from Minecraft 26.3 instead of the pack's language file: the Witch Hut Map is the Swamp Hut Map, the Desert Temple Map the Desert Pyramid Map, the Jungle Temple Map the Jungle Pyramid Map, the Warm Ocean Ruin Map the Warm Ocean Ruins Map and the Mansion Map the Woodland Explorer Map.

Trivia

• The developer has described plans for the archaeologist to buy sacred texts in exchange for maps to structures: "The Moutpiece seeks wisdom, the Archaeologist seeks knowledge." The Overgrown Abbey map is the first trade of this kind.
• Internally the profession is still minecraft:cartographer; only its displayed name changes.

See also

• Explorer maps
• Archaeology