Java Edition guides/Village & Pillage

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Village & Pillage update (1.14 releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with Update Aquatic (1.13 releases).

Mobs

New

Name	Image	Habitat	Drops	Notes
Brown Mooshroom		Red mooshrooms will turn into brown mooshrooms when struck by lightning. Breeding two red mooshrooms has 1⁄1024 chance to spawn a brown baby variant, and vice versa.	Leather (0–2) Raw Beef (1–3) Steak (1–3) (If Killed by Fire)	Brown mooshrooms will give the player suspicious stew when fed a flower and milked with a bowl.
Cat		Stray cats can be found wandering villages. A single stray black cat can be found inside witch huts.	String (0–2)	Cats can be tamed with raw fish. Phantoms will not swoop in to attack a player if a cat is nearby. Cats will seek active furnaces, beds, and chests to sit on. When waking up from a bed, there is a chance a tamed cat will give their owner one rabbits foot, rabbit hide, string, rotten flesh, feather, raw chicken, or phantom membrane.
Fox		Foxes can spawn in taiga and snowy taiga biomes. Foxes can also spawn in taiga villages in groups of 1–3.		Wolves and polar bears are aggressive towards foxes. Baby foxes born by breeding two adult foxes will be loyal towards the player. Foxes will eat any food-item, and can pick up any item in their mouth. Foxes sleep during the day and are active at night.
Ravager		Ravagers have a chance to spawn as part of raids.	Saddle (1)	The ravager will destroy leaves and all crops it comes in contact with, except for melon and pumpkin stems.
Panda		Pandas spawn in bamboo forest biomes.	Bamboo (0–2)	Pandas can spawn with either an aggressive, lazy, playful, weak or worried personality. Pandas will eat bamboo, but can only be bred if there is at least eight bamboo blocks within five blocks of each panda. Pandas will pickup and eat cake that is thrown to them. Worried pandas will shake and cover their face during thunderstorms.
Pillager		Pillagers spawn as part of illager patrols, which consist of a maximum of five pillagers. Illager patrols will only spawn in plains, taiga, desert, and savanna biomes and all their variants. Pillagers spawn around pillager outposts. Pillagers spawn as part of raids.	Crossbow (0–1)	Pillagers which spawn with an ominous banner on their head are known as raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, the player will receive the Bad Omen effect.
Trader Llama		Trader llamas spawn in the world with wandering traders.	Leather (0–2) Anything equipped, such as a carpets or chest. All items in their inventory.	Trader llamas are hostile toward all zombie variants, and illagers. They will also become hostile toward mobs and players that attack the wandering trader they are leashed to.
Wandering Trader		Wandering traders spawn randomly in the world within a 48 block radius of the player.	Wandering traders have a chance of dropping a bucket of milk if they are holding it when killed.	Wandering traders randomly spawn in the world with two trader llamas. Only one wandering trader will exist in the world at any given time, new wandering traders will not spawn until an existing wandering trader despawns. At the night (or when light level is 7 and below) wandering traders drink potion of invisiblity. When light level is above 7, they drink bucket of milk and cancel any effects they have.

Changed

Name	Image	Change
Creeper		Creepers now drop music discs when killed by strays.
Evoker		Evokers can now spawn as part of raids. Evokers which spawn with an ominous banner on their head are known as raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, the player will receive the Bad Omen effect.
Ocelots		Ocelots can no longer be tamed to get cats.
Phantom		Phantoms will no longer swoop to attack a player if a cat is nearby.
Villager		Villagers now have biome specific skins. Villager skins now reflect their unique profession. Villagers can now change their profession at will. (according to which workplace is nearby) Once a villager has levelled up, it cannot change their profession. Villagers now have a new profession, the mason. Villager trading has been overhauled. Villagers now have levels and require experience to unlock the next tier of trades; level 1 is novice, level 2 is apprentice, level 3 is journeyman, level 4 is expert, and level 5 is master. Villagers cannot resupply trades instantly anymore, however they can resupply up to two times per day at their workplace block. They can now increase/decrease their trade prices. Villagers will hold items in their hands to the player when the player holds an item which the villager has a trade offer for. Villagers now will sleep in beds at night. Villagers now have schedules. Their schedule includes working, gathering, as well as sleeping in beds at night. Villagers now gossip at meeting points during their schedule. There are six types of gossip: major_negative, minor_negative, major_positive, minor_positive, trading, and golem, each gossip will have an effect on the village, such as spawning in an iron golem in the village center, or increasing/lowering trade prices for the player. When bells are rung or when a raid is happening, villagers will retreat into their houses. Villagers will ring bells during raids themselves to alert other villagers. Villagers will sweat during raids. When a raid is successfully cleared, villagers will celebrate by setting off firework rockets, and cheering. When a player has the Hero of the Village effect applied, villagers will gift the player various different items, as well as decrease their trade prices.
Vindicator		Vindicators can now spawn as part of illager patrols. Vindicators now spawn as part of raids. Vindicators which spawn with an ominous banner on their head are known as raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, the player will receive the Bad Omen effect.
Witch		Witches can now spawn as part of a raid. Witches will heal raid members during attacks with healing potions.

Blocks

New

Name	Image	Acquired	Tool Required	Uses
Andesite Slab and Polished Andesite Slab		Ingredients Crafting recipe Andesite 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Andesite 6	Andesite and polished andesite slabs can be mined with any pickaxe.	Andesite and polished andesite slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Andesite Stairs and Polished Andesite Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Andesite 4 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Andesite 4	Andesite and polished andesite stairs can be mined with any pickaxe.	Andesite and polished andesite stairs can be used as a decorative block.
Andesite Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Andesite 6	Andesite walls can be mined with any pickaxe.	Andesite walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Bamboo		Bamboo can be found in bamboo forest and jungle biomes.	Bamboo can be broken with any tool as well as by hand. Bamboo will break instantly when hit by any sword.	Bamboo can be used to craft scaffolding. Bamboo can be used to craft sticks. Bamboo can be feed to pandas, this can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas. Bamboo can be planted on grass, dirt, sand, podzol, coarse dirt, or red sand. Bamboo will grow to between twelve and sixteen blocks tall.
Barrel		Ingredients Crafting recipe Any Planks + Any Wood Slab Barrels can be found around and in fisher cottages in villages.	Barrels can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with axes being the fastest way to break them.	Barrels are a storage block similar to chests, with twenty-seven inventory spaces. The main difference between barrels and chests is that barrels can be opened from any side, regardless of orientation or whether there's a solid block on top. Unemployed villagers will take on the fisherman profession when near a barrel that hasn't been taken by another.
Bell		Bells generate naturally in village centers.	Bells can be mined with any pickaxe.	Bells can be purchased from either apprentice-level armorer, toolsmith or weaponsmith villagers for 36 emeralds each. Bells are also used to alert nearby villagers to return to their houses. Bells will resonate and highlight nearby raiders during a raid. Villagers will ring the bell during raids to alert other villagers.
Blast Furnace		Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Ingot + Furnace + Smooth Stone Blast furnaces can be found naturally in villages.	Blast furnaces can be mined with any pickaxe.	The blast furnace is used to smelt ores, as well as smeltable tools and armor. The blast furnace smelts items at twice the speed of a furnace. Unemployed villagers will take on the armorer profession when near a blast furnace that hasn't been taken by another.
Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Bricks 6	Brick walls can be mined with any pickaxe.	Brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Cartography Table		Ingredients Crafting recipe Paper + Any Planks Cartography tables can be found naturally in villages.	Cartography tables can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with axes being the fastest way to break them.	Cartography tables are used for cloning, expanding, and zooming out maps. They can also be used to lock maps, by using glass panes, making them no longer able to update. Unemployed villagers will take on the cartographer profession when near a cartography table that hasn't been taken by another.
Composter		Ingredients Crafting recipe Any Wood Fence + Any Planks Composters can be found around farms in villages.	Composters can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with axes being the fastest way to break them.	Composters can be used to turn certain items into bone meal. Unemployed villagers will take on the farmer profession when near a composter that hasn't been taken by another.
Cornflower		Corn flowers can be found in plains biomes.	Cornflowers can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.	Cornflowers can be used to craft suspicious stew with the Jump Boost effect.
Diorite Slab and Polished Diorite Slab		Ingredients Crafting recipe Diorite 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Diorite 6	Diorite and polished diorite slabs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Diorite and polished diorite slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Diorite Stairs and Polished Diorite Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Diorite 4 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Diorite 4	Diorite and polished diorite stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Diorite and polished diorite stairs can be used as a decorative block.
Diorite Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Diorite 6	Diorite walls can be mined with any pickaxe.	Diorite walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
End Stone Brick Slab and End Stone Brick Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe End Stone Bricks 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe End Stone Bricks 4	End stone brick slabs and end stone bricks stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	End stone brick slabs and end stone brick stairs can be used as decorative blocks.
End Stone Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe End Stone Bricks 6	End stone brick walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	End stone brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Fletching Table		Ingredients Crafting recipe Flint + Any Planks Fletching tables can generate naturally within villages.	Fletching tables can be broken with any axe.	Unemployed villagers will take on the fletcher profession when near a fletching table that hasn't been taken by another.
Granite Slab and Polished Granite Slab		Ingredients Crafting recipe Granite 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Granite 6	Granite and polished granite slabs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Granite and polished granite slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Granite Stairs and Polished Granite Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Granite 4 Ingredients Crafting recipe Polished Granite 4	Granite and polished granite stairs can be mined with any pickaxe.	Granite and polished granite stairs can be used as a decorative block.
Granite Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Granite 6	Granite walls can be mined with any pickaxe.	Granite walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Grindstone		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks A grindstone will generate naturally as part of the blacksmith structure in villages.	Grindstones can be broken with any pickaxe.	The grindstone is used to repair items and tools by combining two items or tools of the same type together, this will remove all enchantments apart from curses. A single item can be used in the grindstone to remove all enchantments from it apart from curses. Unemployed villagers will take on the weaponsmith profession when near a grindstone that hasn't been taken by another.
Lantern		Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Nugget + Torch Lanterns generate naturally in snowy tundra villages.	Lanterns can be broken with any pickaxe.	Lanterns can be used as a light source, it can be placed on top of and below solid blocks giving a light level of 15. Lanterns can be used as a decorative block.
Lectern		Ingredients Crafting recipe Any wood Slab + Bookshelf Lecterns generate naturally as part of libraries in villages.	Lecterns can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with axes being the fastest tool to use.	The lectern allows multiple players to read the same book at the same time. Lecterns holding a book will also output a redstone pulse when a page is turned. Unemployed villagers will take on the librarian profession when near a lectern that hasn't been taken by another.
Lily of the Valley		Lily of the Valley can be found in forest biomes.	Lily of the Valley can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.	Lily of the Valley can be used to craft suspicious stew with the Poison effect.
Loom		Ingredients Crafting recipe String + Any Planks	Looms can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with axes being the fastest tool to use.	Looms allow the player to apply patterns to banners. Unemployed villagers will take on the shepherd profession when near a loom that hasn't been taken by another.
Mossy Stone Brick Slab and Mossy Stone Brick Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Mossy Stone Bricks 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Mossy Stone Bricks 4	Mossy stone brick slabs and mossy stone brick stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Mossy stone brick slabs and mossy stone brick stairs can be used as decorative blocks.
Mossy Stone Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Mossy Stone Bricks 6	Mossy stone brick walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Mossy stone brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Nether Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Nether Bricks 6	Nether brick walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Nether brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Prismarine Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Prismarine 6	Prismarine walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Prismarine walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Red Nether Brick Slab and Red Nether Brick Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Red Nether Bricks 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Red Nether Bricks 4	Red nether brick slabs and stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Red nether brick slabs and stairs can be used as decorative blocks.
Red Nether Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Red Nether Bricks 6	Red nether brick walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Red nether brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Sandstone Walls and Red Sandstone Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Sandstone 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Red Sandstone 6	Sandstone and red sandstone walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Sandstone and red sandstone walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Scaffolding		Ingredients Crafting recipe Bamboo + String 6	Scaffolding can be broken with any tool as well as by hand. When broken all connected scaffolding will break as well.	Scaffolding is designed to be used for building in survival. Standing in scaffolding and jumping will allow the player to climb, while sneaking will allow the player to descend through the scaffolding. If there is no block below the scaffolding block the player is on the player will not descend through the block.
Signs for all wood types.		Ingredients Crafting recipe Spruce Planks or Birch Planks or Jungle Planks or Acacia Planks or Dark Oak Planks + Stick 33333	Signs can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.	All sign variants retain the same use as the original sign. While the default text color is black, the color can be changed with dyes.
Smithing Table		Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Ingot + Any Planks Smithing tables generate naturally as part of plains village toolsmiths houses.	Smithing tables can be broken with any axe.	Unemployed villagers will take on the toolsmith profession when near a smithing table that hasn't been taken by another.
Smoker		Ingredients Crafting recipe Any Log or Any Stripped Log or Any Wood or Any Stripped Wood + Furnace	Smokers can be broken with any pickaxe.	Smokers are used to cook food items twice as fast as a regular furnace. Unemployed villagers will take on the butcher profession when near a smoker that hasn't been taken by another.
Smooth Quartz Slab and Smooth Quartz Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Quartz Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Quartz 4	Smooth quartz slabs and smooth quartz stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Smooth quartz slabs and smooth quartz stairs can be used as decorative blocks.
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab and Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Red Sandstone 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Red Sandstone 4	Smooth red sandstone stairs and smooth red sandstone slabs can be mined with any pickaxe.	Smooth red sandstone stairs and smooth red sandstone slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Smooth Sandstone Slab and Smooth Sandstone Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Sandstone 6 Ingredients Crafting recipe Smooth Sandstone 4	Smooth sandstone stairs and smooth sandstone slabs can be mined with any pickaxe.	Smooth sandstone stairs and smooth sandstone slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Stonecutter		Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Ingot + Stone	Stonecutters can be mined with any pickaxe.	Stonecutters can be used to craft stone related blocks, such as walls, stairs, or slabs. Unemployed villagers will take on the mason profession when near a stonecutter that hasn't been taken by another.
Stone Brick Walls		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stone Bricks 6	Stone brick walls can be broken with any pickaxe.	Stone brick walls can be used as a decorative block, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Stone Slab		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stone 6	Stone slabs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Stone slabs can be used as a decorative block.
Stone Stairs		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stone 4	Stone stairs can be broken with any pickaxe.	Stone stairs can be used as a decorative block.
Sweet Berry Bushes		Sweet berry bushes can be found naturally in all taiga variants. Sweet berry bushes can be planted with sweet berries.	Sweet berry bushes can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.	Sweet berry bushes drop sweet berries by using or when broken, dropping 1-2 berries at age three, and 2-3 berries at age four. Sweet berry bushes slow players while standing in them at age one, as well as deal damage to players while moving at age two and above. Standing still while in sweet berry bushes will deal no damage.
Wither Rose		A wither rose will drop from mobs killed by a Wither.	Wither Roses can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.	Wither Roses can be used to craft suspicious stew with the Wither effect. Any mob standing on a Wither rose will be inflicted with one second of the Wither effect for as long as they continue to touch it.

Changed

Name	Image	Change
Brewing Stand		Brewing stands can now be found in village temples. Unemployed villagers will take on the cleric profession when near a brewing stand that hasn't been taken by another.
Carpet		Ingredients Crafting recipe White Carpet + Matching Dye 88888888888888888888 Can now be crafted by surrounding a dye with white carpet.
Chorus Flower		Chorus flowers now break when shot with an arrow.
Dispenser		Dispensers with shears can now shear sheep standing in front of the dispenser.
All Leaves		Leaves now have a chance of dropping sticks.
Nether Brick Fence		Ingredients Crafting recipe Nether Bricks + Nether Brick 3 Previously the recipe used all nether bricks, this is now changed to take both nether brick and nether bricks to avoid conflict with the recipe for Nether Brick Walls.
Sign		Signs can now only be crafted with matching wood planks. The color of text on signs can be changed with dye now. All original signs have been changed to oak signs. Signs now support editing anywhere on the sign, without having to backspace to the place where the edit is to be made. Signs now have copy and paste support.
All Slabs and Stairs		Slabs and stairs now have directional opacity, meaning sides that are not completely solid will not block light.
Smooth Stone Slab		Name changed from stone slab to smooth stone slab. Recipe now uses smooth stone instead of stone.
Vines		Vines can now be climbed without supporting blocks by holding jump.

Items

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Uses
Banner Pattern		Ingredients Crafting recipe Paper + Chosen Design Item	Banner patterns can be used in a loom to apply the chosen pattern to that banner. The globe banner pattern cannot be crafted, and is only obtainable from master-level cartographer villagers.
Black Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Ink Sac or Wither Rose	Black dye is used in place of ink sacs as dye in all recipes.
Blue Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Lapis Lazuli or Cornflower	Blue dye is used in place of lapis lazuli as dye in all recipes.
Brown Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Cocoa Beans	Brown dye is used in place of cocoa beans as dye in all recipes.
Crossbow		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stick + Iron Ingot + String + Tripwire Hook	The crossbow is a ranged weapon that has a longer range, as well as being able to deal more damage than a bow. Crossbows can fire fireworks, as well as arrows.
Suspicious Stew		Ingredients Crafting recipe Brown Mushroom + Red Mushroom + Bowl + Any Flower	Suspicious stew gives a status effect to the player after eating it, the effect given depends on the flower used to craft it. The effect is hidden after suspicious stew is crafted, making it impossible to tell ones with negative effect from ones with positive effects.
Sweet Berries		Sweet berries can be harvested from sweet berry bushes. Additionally sweet berries can be found in taiga village house chests.	Sweet berries give 2 () hunger points when eaten. Sweet berries can be used on grass blocks, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt, and farmland to plant a sweet berry bush sapling. Used to breed foxes.
White Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley	White dye is used in place of bone meal as dye in all recipes.

Changed

Name	Image	Changes
Bone Meal		Bone meal can now be used to craft white dye. Bone meal can no longer be used as a dye, it can still be used as a fertilizer though. Bone meal can now be obtained from a composter for players on the peaceful difficulty.
Book and Quill		While writing you can now edit any part of the page. The maximum number of pages has been raised to one hundred.
Cocoa Beans		Cocoa beans are now used to craft brown dye. Cocoa beans can no longer be used as a dye. Name changed from cocoa beans to cocoa.
Green Dye		Name changed from Cactus Green to Green Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Ink Sac		Ink sacs can now be used to craft black dye. Ink sacs can no longer be used as a dye.
Lapis Lazuli		Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dye. Lapis lazuli can no longer be used as a dye.
Red Dye		Name changed from Rose Red to Red Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Yellow Dye		Name changed from Dandelion Yellow to Yellow Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.

Biomes

New

Name	Internal id	Image	Description	Structures
Bamboo Jungle	minecraft:bamboo_jungle		Bamboo Jungles generate in large patches within regular jungles. Trees are much less dense in this variant than in the main jungle, comparable to the jungle edge, but boasts countless amounts of bamboo across its landscape. Podzol generates on the jungle floor in this biome. It is home to all jungle mobs, including pandas, which are exclusive to this biome.	Jungle pyramids.
Bamboo Jungle Hills	minecraft:bamboo_jungle_hills		The bamboo jungle hills biome is similar to the bamboo jungle, though with steeper terrain just like the regular jungle hills variant. Large amounts of bamboo cover the landscape, and patches of podzol replace grass blocks.	Jungle pyramids.

Events

New

Name	Trigger	Description
Raid	A raid is triggered when a player with the Bad Omen effect enters a village.	During a raid a combination of pillagers, vindicators, evokers, witches, and ravagers, the combination being dependant on the level of the bad omen effect, will spawn arround a village. A boss bar at the top of the screen will show the number of raid enemies still alive within the village.

Effects

New

Name	Acquired	Description
Bad Omen	The Bad Omen effect is given to the player when they kill the leader of an illager patrol or raid captain.	If the player enters a village while having the Bad Omen effect a raid will be triggered.
Hero of the Village	The Hero of the Village effect is given to the player after they have successfully defended the village from a raid	If the player kills all of the illagers during the raid, the player will receive the Hero of the Village effect. This effect lasts for 2 in-game days.

Structures

New

Name	Image	Found	Chests	Mobs	Description
Pillager outpost		Pillager outposts can generate in any biome a village can generate in.	The structure contains one chest at the very top.	Pillagers Iron Golems	The pillager outpost can have a combination of smaller structures surrounding it, these structures include a cage, targets, logs, and a tent.
Snowy Villages		Snowy villages can generate in snowy tundra biomes.	Many different buildings can contain chests which will have various loot based on the snowy tundra.	Villagers Iron Golems Cats Pigs Cows Sheep	The snowy village is a variant of the village, designed specifically for snowy tundra biomes. It is the only place where lanterns can naturally generate. The structures are made up from various spruce wood and stripped logs. Some buildings resemble igloos and are constructed from either snow, ice or blue ice.