Evoker

For the miniboss in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Evoker.

Evoker

Health points	24 × 12
Armor points	2 ()‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Behavior	Hostile Passive (Peaceful difficulty)‌[BE only]
Attack strength	6 ‌[JE only] Bedrock Edition: Easy: 4 Normal: 6 Hard: 9
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Woodland mansions Raids

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

Spawning

Woodland mansions

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

Java Edition

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

Bedrock Edition

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

• 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 the ground.
• 10 exp. upon player kills or if killed by a wolf/ summoned iron golem.

Behavior

An evoker attacking with its fangs.

An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it.

An evoker summoning vexes.

An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

After the spell, the sheep is red.

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.

Like shulkers and vindicators, evokers are passive on peaceful difficulty.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Fang attack

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, 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 typically summons 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 itself.

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

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 5 seconds, and resets the cooldown for summoning vexes to 17 seconds.

The particles of the spell has shown on the evoker when there are raids and that they change every time the spell is different^{[needs testing]}.

Sheep color conversion spell

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.

The particles also show up in their body rarely in raids only. When they walk, it stays with them forever^{[needs testing]}

Spell Data

Bedrock Edition

Evoker Spell data in Vanilla Behavior Pack. (Evoker in bedrock used behavior pack from Bedrock Edition entity components documentation)

Data

Type	Weight	Min activation range (Distance)	Max activation range (Distance)	num Entities spawned (Amount)	Size	Summon cap	Summon cap Radius
Fangs Attack (Line)	3	3.0	N/A	16 Fangs	20	N/A
Fangs Attack (Inside Circle)	3	0.0	3.0	5 Fangs	1.5	N/A
Fangs Attack (Outside Circle)	3	0.0	3.0	8 Fangs	2.5	N/A
Summoning Vexes	1	N/A		3 Vexes	1.0	8	16.0
Sheep color conversion spell	3	0.0	16.0	N/A

Timer (Seconds)

Type	Base delay	Delay per summon	Cooldown time	Cast duration	Entity lifespan
Fangs Attack (Line)	1.0	0.05	5.0	2.0	1.1
Fangs Attack (Inside Circle)	1.0	0.0	5.0	2.0	1.1
Fangs Attack (Outside Circle)	0.15	0.0	5.0	2.0	1.1
Summoning Vexes	2.0	N/A	17.0	5.0	N/A
Sheep color conversion spell	N/A		5.0	3.0	N/A

Evoker Fangs

This article is about the evoker fangs in Minecraft. For evoker fangs in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Evoker Fang.

Evoker Fangs

Hitbox size	Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 79 BE: 33

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

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Evoker	evoker	raiders	entity.minecraft.evoker
Evoker Fangs	evoker_fangs	None	entity.minecraft.evoker_fangs

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Evoker	evocation_illager	104	entity.evocation_illager.name
Evoker Fangs	evocation_fang	103	entity.evocation_fang.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Evokers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Tags common to all mobs spawnable in raids see Template:Nbt inherit/raidable/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.

Evoker fangs have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• 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, reaching -20 on naturally spawned fangs.
  •  Owner: The UUID of the entity that that fired the fangs, stored as four ints. If the entity is an Illager, the fangs do not damage other Illagers.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Monster Hunter	Attack and kill a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15G	Bronze
		Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker	—	30G	Silver

Advancements

Icon	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 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.11		16w39a			Added evokers and evocation fangs.
		16w43a			Added the  Owner tag to evocation fangs.
1.13		pre5			The entity ID has been changed from evocation_illager to evoker.
					The name and ID of "Evocation Fangs" have been changed to "Evoker Fangs".
1.14		18w43a			The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have 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.
					If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
		?			Evokers can no longer 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 been changed.
					Evokers are now hostile to the new wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Evokers can now spawn during raids.
					Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
1.13.0		?			Evokers now have smoother casting animations.
		beta 1.13.0.9			If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers and evocation fangs.
		1.90			The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have been changed.
					Evokers can now spawn in raids.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added evokers and evocation fangs.

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 evoker, witch, and vindicator's texture file but unused.
    • The hat models also used to exist in the nitwit, librarian, and priest's texture before the Village and Pillage update.
• 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 (changing the unit's color in the process) after making a "wololo" sound.
• Evokers are referred to as 'evocation illagers' in the code for pre-1.13 and Bedrock Edition code.
• Since "Age of Empires" and Minecraft are Microsoft branded IPs, Mojang was able to get the actual "wololo" sound effect from "Age of Empires" for evokers to use.

Gallery

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  A dying evoker mob.

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  An evoker preparing to summon its fangs.

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  An evoker attacking with its fangs.

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  An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it.

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  An evoker summons fangs while its vex minions attack.

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  An evoker looks on as its vexes lunge toward its target.

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  An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

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  An evoker wearing a wig from "Meet the Evoker", as a reference to a game Age of Empires.

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  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.

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  Evoker with an illager banner.

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  An evoker from Minecraft Dungeons.

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  An evoker sitting

References

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