Evoker

Evoker

Health points	24 ( × 12)
Attack strength	6 ()
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Woodland Mansion
Drops	Totem of Undying (1) Emerald (0–1)
Experience	10
Internal ID	JE: 34 BE: 104
Entity ID	evocation_illager

	“	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 which conjures a row of fangs to erupt from the ground - all part of Jens’ plan to keep the player moving. “I wanted to force players to move around and not just stand with a shield and wait,” Jens says.	„
		—Marsh Davies

Evokers are hostile mobs. They are one of the three types of illagers, which are offshoot villagers – the other two being the illusioner and the vindicator.

Spawning

Natural generation

Individual evokers spawn during the generation of particular woodland mansion rooms. They will not respawn after their initial spawn, thus there are a limited number of them per world. Evokers spawned with mansions do not naturally despawn, unless the world is switched to Peaceful mode. In the Legacy Console Edition, they still despawn.

Drops

Evokers drop when dying:

• 1
  Totem of Undying
• 0–1
  Emerald if killed by the player.
• Looting increases the maximum drop of emeralds by 1 per level, up to 4 emeralds.
• Looting doesn't affect the drop by totem of undying.

Behavior

Evokers will attack players, villagers and iron golems within 12 blocks.

If the player is within an 8 block radius and the evoker is not in the middle of summoning an attack, the evoker will attempt to run away from the player to avoid being attacked.

The evoker has three different spells: fang attacks, summoning vexes, and a sheep color conversion spell. 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 will raise their arms and wave them and also produce the different coloured particles for the different attacks.

Fang attack

An evoker attacking with its fangs.

An evoker defending itself from a zombie villager.

The evoker signals this attack by producing purple color particles (
) and a deep horn-like sound. A number of fangs rise out of the ground, then snap shut and vanish. Non-illager mobs caught in the attack are dealt 6 () damage, regardless of armor, enchantments, or difficulty. In the Legacy Console Edition, the Protection enchantment on armor reduces the damage dealt.

Fangs will appear no lower than the feet of the lowest combatant, and no higher than one block above the feet of the highest combatant. Fangs will attempt to appear on the highest opaque block between those two extremes, but will fail to spawn if they are obstructed by a solid block. In practice, this means that fangs will not spawn in 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.

This attack has two forms: offensive and defensive. The offensive form is used if the target is more than three blocks away, the defensive form if they are closer.

Offensive Form

• The evoker summons 16 fangs in a horizontal line toward the target, spaced a block apart. The fangs are all summoned at once, but with individual delays so that they appear and snap shut in a wave away from the evoker.

Defensive Form

• The evoker summons a total of 13 fangs in two circles centered on the evoker. The outer circle is made up of 8 fangs and has a radius of three blocks, while the inner circle is made up of 5 fangs and has a radius of two blocks. The inner circle bites slightly before the outer circle.

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

Summoning vexes

An evoker summoning vexes.

The evoker signals this attack by producing off-white color particles (
) and a higher-pitched horn-like sound. Three vexes appear nearby. The evoker will summon vexes even if there are some still left alive from the last summoning.

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

While the evoker is not engaged in combat and /gamerule mobGriefing is set to true, it will change the wool color of any blue sheep within 16 blocks to red. It signals the spell by producing orange color particles (
) and making a "wololo" sound.

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

After the spell, the sheep is red.

An evoker using his sheep conversion spell.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Evokers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is evocation_illager.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • 
     SpellTicks: Number of ticks until a spell can be cast. Set to a positive value when a spell is cast, and decreases by 1 per tick.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker		Yes	Yes	Yes	Wii U, Switch	30G	Silver

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	minecraft:adventure/root
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 24 mobs (2 added in 1.13[upcoming]). Other mobs are ignored for this advancement.	minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 24 mobs (2 added in 1.13[upcoming]). Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:adventure/kill_all_mobs

Evocation Fangs

Evocation Fangs

Internal ID	33
Network ID	JE: 79 BE: 103
Entity ID	JE: evocation_fangs BE: evocation_fang

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.

Evocation fangs are not affected by Peaceful difficulty.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Evocation fangs are also entities which have associated entity data. Their entity ID is evocation_fangs.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • 
     Warmup: Time in ticks until the fangs appear. The fangs appear and begin to close as soon as this value becomes zero or less; negative values simply result in no delay. The value continues ticking down while the closing animation is playing, and will reach -20 on naturally spawned fangs.
  • 
     Owner: Contains information about the entity who owns the evocation fangs.
    • 
       OwnerUUIDLeast: Least significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the fangs' owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDMost to form a unique ID.
    • 
       OwnerUUIDMost: Most significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the fangs' owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDLeast to form a unique ID.

History

Official release
1.11			16w39a		Added evokers.
			16w43a		Added the  Owner tag to evocation fangs.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Added evokers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Added evokers.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Minecraft's "Meet the Evoker" shows an Evoker with a hat, which is the similar model of the Illusioner's.
  • 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

• 

  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 hat at "Meet the Evoker".

References

Entities

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