Evoker

Health points	24 × 12
Behavior	Hostile Passive (Peaceful) ‌^{[BE only]}
Attack strength	6 ‌^{[JE only]} Easy: 4 Normal: 6 Hard: 9
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Woodland Mansion Raids
Drops	Totem of Undying (1) Emerald (0–1)
Experience	10
Internal ID	JE: 34 BE: 104
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

An evoker is a spell-casting illager found in woodland mansions and raids, and is the only source of the totem of undying.

Spawning[edit]

Woodland mansions[edit]

Individual evokers spawn during the generation of particular woodland mansion rooms. They do not respawn after their initial spawn.

Evokers spawned with mansions do not naturally despawn (unless the world is switched to Peaceful mode‌^{[JE only]}).

They may also rarely spawn as a raid captain.‌^{[JE only]}

Raids[edit]

Java Edition[edit]

Up to 5 evokers spawn during raids, starting at wave 5. During these events, they can be a raid captain.

Bedrock Edition[edit]

Up to 5 evokers spawn during raids, with 1 evoker spawning during waves 5 and 6, and 3 evokers spawning during wave 7. One of them rides a ravager during wave 7.

Drops[edit]

1 Totem of Undying, the Looting enchantment does not increase this drop.
0–1 Emerald if killed by the player, with an increase by 1 with each level of looting, 0-4 maximum.
1 Ominous banner, if they spawn as a wave leader in raid or take an ominous banner on ground.

Behavior[edit]

	“	Evokers can summon devilish flying beasts, called vexes, that can pass through walls to swoop at the player. If that wasn’t enough, they have a secondary attack that conjures a row of fangs to erupt from the ground - all part of Jens’ plan to keep the player moving.	„
		— Marsh Davies^[1]

Evokers attack players, villagers or baby villagers,‌^{[BE only]} iron golems, snow golems‌^{[BE only]} and wandering traders within 12 blocks.

If the player is within a 10 block radius and the evoker is not in the middle of summoning an attack, the evoker flees from the player to avoid being attacked.

The evoker has two different attack methods: fang attack and summoning vexes. When attacking, the evoker is much more likely to use a fang attack, and may immediately follow it up by summoning some vexes.

When evokers are ready to attack, they raise their arms, doing different colored particles for the different attacks.

Evokers can open doors like villagers.‌^{[JE only]}

Like shulkers and vindicators, evokers are passive on peaceful difficulty.

Fang attack[edit]

An evoker attacking with its fangs.

An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it.

The evoker signals this attack by producing dark purple particles () and a low-pitched horn-like sound. A number of fangs rise out of the ground, then snap shut and vanish. Players caught in the attack are dealt 6 damage in normal mode (regardless of difficulty.‌^{[JE only]}) This damage is not mitigated by armor but is mitigated by enchantments such as Protection.

Fangs appear no lower than the feet of the lowest combatant and no higher than one block above the feet of the highest combatant. Fangs attempt to appear on the highest opaque block between those two extremes, but fail to spawn if they are obstructed by a solid block. In practice, this means that fangs cannot spawn inside deep pits or on top of high walls, but may, for example, go up a staircase if the target is at the top and the evoker at the bottom, or vice versa.

The evoker would usually summon its fangs in a straight line toward the target, but if the target is close enough to the evoker, the evoker summons them in 2 circles around the target.

Summoning fangs resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 5 seconds, and resets the cooldown for summoning fangs to 17 seconds.

Summoning vexes[edit]

An evoker summoning vexes.

The evoker signals this attack by producing white particles () and a higher-pitched horn-like sound. Three vexes appear nearby. The evoker can summon vexes as long as there are fewer than 8 vexes within 16 blocks centered on the evoker.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 2 seconds, and resets the cooldown for summoning vexes to 5 seconds.

Sheep color conversion spell[edit]

An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

After the spell, the sheep is red.

While the evoker is not engaged in combat and /gamerule mobGriefing is set to true, it changes the wool color of any blue sheep within 16 blocks to red. It signals the spell by producing orange particles () and making a "wololo" sound. In Bedrock Edition, evokers can still change a sheep's color when /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 3 seconds, and resets the cooldown for the sheep color conversion spell to 7 seconds.

Evoker Fangs[edit]

Evoker Fangs

Internal ID	33
Network ID	JE: 79 BE: 103
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

Evoker fangs are the entities that evokers use to attack the player with their fang attack.

The individual fangs in an evoker's fang attacks each have a delay. Before the delay is over, the fangs cannot be seen, although unlike truly invisible entities, fangs in warmup still have a visible debug hitbox. After the delay, the fangs expand into existence, snap shut, and shrink out of sight again, dealing 6 magic damage to all creatures standing on the spot. Naturally spawned fangs do not harm illagers, but player-spawned ones do.

Evoker fangs are not affected by Peaceful difficulty.

Sounds[edit]

Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
Evoker murmurs	`entity.evoker.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.ambient`	?	?	?	16
Evoker casts spell	`entity.evoker.cast_spell`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.cast_spell`	?	?	?	16
Evoker cheers	`entity.evoker.celebrate`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.celebrate`	?	?	?	16
Evoker dies	`entity.evoker.death`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.death`	?	?	?	16
Evoker hurts	`entity.evoker.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.hurt`	?	?	?	16
Evoker prepares summoning	`entity.evoker.prepare_summon`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_summon`	?	?	?	16
Evoker prepares attack	`entity.evoker.prepare_attack`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_attack`	?	?	?	16
Evoker prepares charming	`entity.evoker.prepare_wololo`	`subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_wololo`	?	?	?	16
Fangs snap	`entity.evoker_fangs.attack`	`subtitles.entity.evoker_fangs.attack`	?	?	?	16

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Evoker	`evoker`
Evoker Fangs	`evoker_fangs`

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Evoker	`evocation_illager`	104
Evoker Fangs	`evocation_fang`	103

Entity Data[edit]

Achievements[edit]

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: enderman, zombie pigman, spider, cave spider.	Xbox One	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster		Xbox 360	Yes	Alt	Yes	20G	Bronze
	Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	30G	Silver

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	`adventure/root`
Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. Other mobs are ignored for this advancement.	`adventure/kill_a_mob`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`

History[edit]

Java Edition
1.11		16w39a			Added evokers and evocation fangs.
1.11		16w43a			Added the Owner tag to evocation fangs.
1.13		pre5			The entity ID has now been changed from `evocation_illager` to `evoker`.
1.13		pre5			The name and ID of "Evocation Fangs" have now been changed to "Evoker Fangs".
1.14		18w43a			The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have now been changed.
		18w47a			Evokers can now spawn in raids.
		19w05a			Evokers are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
		19w13a			Evokers can now open doors during raids.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added evokers and evocation fangs.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have now been changed.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Evokers are now hostile to the new wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Evokers can now spawn during raids.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers and evocation fangs.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added evokers and evocation fangs.

Issues[edit]

Issues relating to "Evoker" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[edit]

Minecraft's "Meet the Evoker" shows an evoker with a hat, which is the similar model of the illusioner's.^[1]
- This hat model is also seen in the witch, nitwit, librarian, priest and vindicator's texture file but unused.
The sheep color conversion spell is a reference to priests in a video game named "Age of Empires", where they can turn enemy units into friendly units after making a "wololo" sound.

Gallery[edit]

A dying evoker mob.
An evoker preparing to summon its fangs.
An evoker summons fangs while its vex minions attack.
An evoker looks on as its vexes lunge toward its target.
An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.
An evoker wearing a wig from "Meet the Evoker", as a reference to a game Age of Empires.
An excessive amount of illagers, including several hundred evokers, vindicators, and illusioners spawned by command blocks. Note the abundance of Vexes that originate from the evokers.
Evoker with an illager banner.