Vindicator

Vindicator

Health points	24 × 12
Behavior	Hostile ‌[JE only] Hostile or Neutral ‌[BE only][until BE 1.16.0] Passive (Peaceful) ‌[BE only]
Attack strength	Easy: 7 Normal: 13 × 6.5 Hard: 19 × 9.5
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Mansions Raids Patrols‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Internal ID*	JE: 36 BE: 57
Namespaced ID*	vindicator

	“	The Evoker came first, but Jens wanted another, partly to increase the variety of attackers you’d be facing, deploying long and short range tactics. But also, Jens says, he wanted to give the sense of that the Illagers are a diverse bunch of individuals, each with their own set-up. And so the homicidal rush-mob, the Vindicator, was born - lurching at you from the dark recesses of the mansion, axe raised high.	„
		— Marsh Davies

Vindicators are illagers equipped with iron axes.

Spawning

Vindicators sometimes spawn with a randomly enchanted iron axe, in normal or hard modes: the chances, 0-25%, go up as the regional difficulty goes up.

Woodland mansions

Vindicators spawn during the generation of mansions, inside particular rooms. Some rooms contain 1, others contain 3, some contain 2 accompanied by an evoker, and some can rarely spawn in the corridors.

They do not respawn after their initial spawn point. Vindicators generated with mansions do not naturally despawn (unless the world is switched to Peaceful mode ‌^{[JE only]}).

Patrols

Main article: Patrol

Patrols consist of 2–5 illagers, with all illagers always being pillagers on Easy and Normal difficulties. On Hard difficulty, 80% of them are pillagers and 20% of them are vindicators.‌^{[BE only]}

Raids

Main article: Raid

Vindicators can spawn during raids. They appear less frequently during earlier waves and at easier difficulties but are more common in later waves and at higher difficulties.

Vindicators can spawn riding ravagers.‌^{[JE only]}

Drops

Vindicators drop loot only when killed by a player or tamed wolf. They drop when they die:

• 5 and an additional 1–3 per naturally-spawned equipment.
• 0–1 emeralds when killed by the player. The maximum increases by 1 for every level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
• 8.5% chance of dropping their normal or enchanted iron axe, which increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting.

• 1 Ominous banner, if they spawn as a raid captain.

In Bedrock Edition, if a vindicator spawns as part of a raid, it drops:

• 0-1 Emerald

Additionally, vindicators have a 65% chance of dropping the following on Easy and Normal difficulties, and an 80% chance of dropping them on Hard difficulty:

• 0-1 Emerald (¹⁰⁄₃₉ chance)
• 2-3 Emerald (⁵⁄₃₉ chance)
• 4-5 Emerald (²⁄₃₉ chance)
• 1 Enchanted Book (²⁄₃₉ chance)
• 1 Iron Axe (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
  
• 1 Iron Shovel (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
• 1 Iron Sword (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
• 1 Iron Helmet (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
• 1 Iron Chestplate (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
• 1 Iron Leggings (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
• 1 Iron Boots (⁵⁄₇₈ chance)
  

Notes:

• Iron equipment from raid drops always has a 50% chance of being enchanted with a random enchantment at level 5-19.
• Iron equipment from raid drops is always damaged.
• These drops are also affected by the Looting enchantment.
• The enchanted book has a level 30 enchantment, may be treasure enchantment.
• Emeralds are both a regular raid drop and an additional raid drop.
• With Looting III enchantment, a vindicator spawned from a raid can drop up to 16 emeralds upon death, but the chance is 3.328% on Easy or Normal, and 4.096% on Hard.
• It is possible for a vindicator spawned from a raid to drop both its naturally-spawned iron axe and a second iron axe from its additional raid drops (in Easy and Normal difficulty 0.3536% chance, 0.3952% chance with Looting I, 0.4368% chance with Looting II, and 0.4784% chance with Looting III, while in Hard difficulty 0.4352% chance, 0.4864% chance with Looting I, 0.5376% chance with Looting II, and 0.5888% chance with Looting III).

Behavior

A vindicator chasing a villager.

Vindicators are hostile toward players, iron golems, adult villagers, wandering traders and snow golems.

Vindicators that spawn in woodland mansion are neutral to players.‌^{[BE only][until BE 1.16.0]}

When attacking, a vindicator raises its main hand brandishing an iron axe. It moves sprinting. While not attacking, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a villager and does not show the axe in its hand. A vindicator follows from up to 12 blocks away.

A vindicator named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b) is hostile to every mob except ghasts and illagers.

The hostility even extends to vexes and ravagers.‌^{[JE only]}

All hostile or neutral mobs, except for endermites, phantoms, guardians, slimes, magma cubes and ravagers try to attack the Johnny vindicator in return.

The Johnny tag overrides its name; the player can give the vindicator any other name and set the Johnny tag to 1b and it remains hostile in the same way as described. Conversely, the player can name the vindicator Johnny and set the Johnny tag to 0b, causing the vindicator to act as a normal vindicator.

Naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named Johnny.‌^{[BE only]}

During raids, vindicators can open doors, just as villagers do.‌^{[JE only]}

They break wooden doors in Normal and Hard modes whereas attacking.

A vindicator disables the player's shield with its iron axe attack, even when riding a mob.‌^{[JE only]} For example, a player may not survive trying to land a melee attack on a vindicator that rides a ravager during a raid in Hard difficulty.

If raiding vindicators kill all the villagers in the village or all the beds are destroyed, vindicators celebrate cheering.

If vindicators have no weapons, they still attack players, iron golems, villagers, wandering traders and snow golems.

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

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Vindicator mutters	entity.vindicator.ambient	subtitles.entity.vindicator.ambient	?	?	?	16
	Vindicator cheers	entity.vindicator.celebrate	subtitles.entity.vindicator.celebrate	?	?	?	16
	Vindicator dies	entity.vindicator.death	subtitles.entity.vindicator.death	?	?	?	16
	Vindicator hurts	entity.vindicator.hurt	subtitles.entity.vindicator.hurts	?	?	?	16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Vindicators have entity data associated with them that contain 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
  •  Johnny: Optional. 1 or 0 (true/false) - Setting to true causes the vindicator to exhibit Johnny behavior. Setting to false prevents the vindicator exhibiting Johnny behavior, even if named Johnny.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	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.	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: 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 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins can also be killed for this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers and zoglins are also required for the advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.11		16w39a			Added vindicators.
		16w40a			"Johnny" vindicators are now activated by a custom tag in addition to a custom name.
					The vindicators' axes are now one of their HandItems, whereas before it was purely a visual effect. This means their attack now disables shields.
					Vindicators have now been heavily buffed - their attack damage on Easy has now been increased from 3 to 7, on Normal 5 to 13 × 6.5, and on Hard, 7 to 19 × 9.5. On normal and hard difficulties, a vindicator can kill an unarmored player in just 2 hits.
1.13		pre5			The entity ID for vindicators has now been changed from vindication_illager to vindicator.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of vindicators has now been changed. The eye colors are now same green as the evoker.
		18w45a			Vindicators can now spawn in illager patrols.
					Vindicators can now sometimes spawn as a patrol leader in illager patrols.
		18w47a			Vindicators can now spawn as part of raids.
					Vindicators can now break doors.
		18w47b			The texture of vindicators has now been changed. The eye colors have been changed to blue as before again.
		19w05a			Vindicators are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
		19w13a			If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
1.14.3		Pre-Release 2			Vindicators no longer spawn as part of illager patrols.
1.15		19w41a			Vindicators now have a fifth idle sound (known as "idle5"). The sound had been in the game files since 1.11, but was never heard in-game until this update.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added vindicators.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of vindicators has now been changed.
					Vindicators are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Vindicators can now spawn as part of illager patrols and raids.
					Vindicators can now spawn as raid captains.
					Vindicators no longer attack baby villagers.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Vindicators that spawn from raids now have special drops upon death.
		beta 1.11.0.7			Vindicators can now break wooden doors.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators 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 vindicators.
					Vindicators deal 6 on Easy, 10 on Normal, 15 × 7.5 on Hard.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of vindicators has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added vindicators.

Issues

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

Trivia

	“	He just looks insane – and it made me think of The Shining, when Jack Nicholson breaks through the bathroom door, yelling, "Heeere's Johnny!" So I thought it was funny to add an Easter Egg in which you name him Johnny and he would constantly be in hostile mode and kill everything he sees!	„
		— Jens Bergensten

• Naming a vindicator "Johnny" causes the vindicator to become hostile toward most mobs, except other illagers and ghasts; a reference to The Shining.
• Vindicators have blue eyes, unlike other illagers, who have green eyes. In the Texture Update, vindicators and illusioners were changed to green eyes, but in 18w47b the color of the vindicator's eyes turned blue again.
• They do the third-highest melee damage of all the non-boss mobs, first being the giant, second being the iron golem and fourth being the ravager.

References

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