Pillager

Pillager

Health points	24 × 12
Behavior	Hostile Passive (unarmed)
Attack strength	Ranged 3 - 6 Melee ‌[BE only] Easy: 2 Normal: 3 Hard: 5
Size	Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Spawn	Patrols Pillager outposts Raids
Internal ID*	114
Namespaced ID*	pillager

A pillager is an illager equipped with a crossbow. It spawns as part of illager patrols and around outposts.

Spawning

Patrols

5 pillagers spawn in patrols. Patrols spawn naturally after 5¹⁄₂ in-game days. They spawn only at night independently of structures, i.e. they still spawn in a world without generated structures.

In Bedrock Edition, patrols spawn 2–5 illagers; on easy and normal difficulties, all mobs are pillagers, on hard difficulty 80% are pillagers and 20% are vindicators, spawning 24–48 blocks away from the player. On easy difficulty, they can spawn only at light level 0–7, while in normal and hard difficulties they can spawn in any light level after 5¹⁄₂ in-game days.

Pillager outposts

Pillagers naturally spawn and respawn in pillager outposts.

In Java Edition they spawn in a 72×54×72 block area centered on the top floor (with the chest).

They need block light level 0-8. Additionally they need sky light level 0-11 (after adjustment for nighttime and weather) unless the block underneath is a grass block or sand.

In Bedrock Edition they spawn at or below a particular location in the outpost, choosing the highest opaque block with a non-solid block on top and spawning on the northwest corner.

Raids

Pillagers are able to spawn as part of raids, as the most common mob in one.

Behavior

A pillager is armed with a crossbow, Axe, and Torch (Minecraft Dungeons), and shoots arrows at players, iron golems, snow golems, wandering traders and adult villagers. They shoot an arrow each 3 seconds up to 8 blocks away, following an enemy from 32‌^{[JE only]} or 64‌^{[BE only]} blocks away. Pillagers never attack one another; even if one is shot by another pillager, it does not start dueling.

In Java Edition, pillagers do not attack when unarmed. If unarmed, the pillager wanders idly. Snow golems and iron golems, however, still attack the unarmed pillagers.

If raiding pillagers kill all the villagers in a village, the pillagers and other raiders celebrate their victory by cheering.

The durability of a pillager's crossbow decreases as the pillager uses it.‌^{[JE only]} It breaks after shooting 250 arrows. No other mob loses durability of its weapon.

It uses melee attacks when underwater.‌^{[BE only]}

Drops

• A crossbow loaded or unloaded, which has an 8.5% chance to be dropped; this rate increases by 1% per level of Looting (11.5% with Looting III).
  • It has a random durability.
  • It has a 0-10% chance of being enchanted at level 5–19. This is depending on regional difficulty.
• 5 and an additional 1–3 per naturally-spawned equipment when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• 1 Ominous banner, if the pillager is a raid captain. The raid captain spawns with an ominous banner above its head and always drops the banner when defeated.

In Bedrock Edition:

• 0–2 Arrows, dropping more with the presence of Looting, up to 5.

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers spawned by raids can drop:

• 0–1 Emerald

In Bedrock Edition, the following additional drops from pillagers spawned by raids changes depending on difficulty (65% chance on easy and normal, 80% chance on hard):

• 0–1 Emerald (¹⁰⁄₃₉ or 25.6%)
• 2–3 Emerald (⁵⁄₃₉ or 12.8%)
• 4–5 Emerald (²⁄₃₉ or 5.1%)
• 1 Enchanted Book (²⁄₃₉ or 5.1%)
• 1 Iron Pickaxe (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Axe (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Shovel (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Sword (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Helmet (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Chestplate (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Leggings (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)
• 1 Iron Boots (⁵⁄₇₈ or 6.4%)

Notes

• Iron equipment drops from raids always has a 50% chance of being enchanted with random enchantment level 5-19. A pillager may also have enchantments on books and armor that cannot be normally obtained, such as blast protection and fire protection on the same pair of boots.
• Iron equipment is always damaged, having from 30 to 90% of the full durability.
• These drops are affected by the Looting enchantment.
• Emeralds are both a regular raid drop and an additional drop.
• Enchanted books have a level 30 enchantment and also can be a treasure enchantment.

Bad Omen

If the player kills a pillager wearing a banner on its head, the player receives the Bad Omen status effect. These pillagers are patrol or outpost captains.

Patrols spawn a single captain, while outposts can spawn 1-3 captains at a time. These captains give the Bad Omen effect at level I, whereas illager captains in raids do not give Bad Omen. The effect lasts for 100 minutes (5 days in-game) and stacks to a maximum of level 6 (without using commands), but can be removed by drinking milk.

The higher the Bad Omen effect, the more additional waves appear in a raid.‌^{[JE only]}

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Pillager murmurs	entity.pillager.ambient	subtitles.entity.Pillager.ambient	?	?	1	10 [verify]
	Pillager cheers	entity.pillager.celebrate	subtitles.entity.Pillager.celebrate	?	?	1	16
	Pillager dies	entity.pillager.death	subtitles.entity.Pillager.death	?	?	1	16
	Pillager hurts	entity.pillager.hurt	subtitles.entity.Pillager.hurt	?	?	1	16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Pillagers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties of the mob.

• 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
  •  Inventory:^{[more information needed]}

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Who's the Pillager Now?	Give a Pillager a taste of their own medicine	Ol' Betsy	Kill a pillager with a crossbow.	adventure/whos_the_pillager_now

History

March 27, 2017					Jeb replies to a Reddit post suggesting to add pillagers, saying that they were already planned to be added in the future.
September 29, 2018					Pillagers are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added pillagers.
		18w45a			Pillagers can now spawn naturally during illager patrols.
		18w46a			The pillager's AI has been improved.
					Pillagers no longer drop emeralds.
		18w47a			Pillagers now spawn as part of raids.
					Pillagers now spawn around pillager outposts.
		18w47b			Pillagers now spawn less often around pillager outposts.
					Pillagers no longer cross their arms when not equipped with a crossbow, which has changed the poses from to .
		19w09a			Pillagers can now use tipped arrows and fireworks in their offhand when shooting their crossbow.
		19w13a			Pillagers can now open doors during raids.
					If all villagers are killed during a raid, pillagers now laugh and wave their arms in the air.
		19w14a			Pillagers no longer open doors during raids.
1.14.4		pre4			The pillager's arm texture has been changed.
1.15		19w39a			Pillagers no longer have arms when they're not armed with a crossbow.
		19w45a			Both of the arms of pillagers now display correctly even if the pillager does not have an armed crossbow.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Added pillagers.
					Pillagers do not have sounds or animations.
		beta 1.9.0.2			Pillagers now have the crossbow animations and reloading sounds.
		beta 1.9.0.3			The crossbow held in the pillager's hand is now larger.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Pillagers now have their own sounds.
					Pillagers are no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay.
					Pillagers now spawn around pillager outposts.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Pillagers now spawn as part of illager patrols and during raids.
					Pillagers can now spawn as a raid captain.
					Pillagers no longer attack baby villagers.
					Pillagers can now ride ravagers.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Pillagers in raids may now drop special items when killed.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			If all villagers are killed during a raid, pillagers now laugh and wave their arms in the air.
		release			Looting now increases the crossbow drop chance for pillagers by 1% per level, rather than 12%, to be like in Java.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Pillagers now pick up illager banners.
Legacy Console Edition
		1.90			Added pillagers.
					Pillagers are available only in creative mode.
		1.91			Pillagers now spawn in raids, illager patrols and around pillager outposts.
					Pillagers can now spawn as a raid captain.
					Pillagers can now ride ravagers.

Issues

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Trivia

• In Java Edition, a pillager's crossbow eventually breaks if the pillager shoots at the player repeatedly, leaving the pillager with no method of attacking. This causes its behavior to change as well; it walks at random similarly to passive mobs, but always faces any player in its field of view. The pillager also always holds its arm up, similar to an attacking vindicator.
  • No other mob runs out of durability on their weapon. For example, a skeleton or illusioner could shoot arrows forever, as their bow does not lose durability.

Gallery

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  A pillager armed with a crossbow, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A group of pillagers, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A group of pillagers.

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  A pillager patrol leader with a villager (before 18w46a).

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  A pillager outpost inside of a desert temple with pillagers inside and outside of the temple.

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  A pillager attacking a villager.

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  A pillager without a crossbow.

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  A pillager riding a ravager.

In other media

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  Official Mojang pillager artwork.

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  A group of pillagers and illagers shown in the Village & Pillage artwork.

References

Entities

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