What are the Illagers doing in that dank, secluded mansion of theirs? With its redstone jails, elaborate altars and hidden rooms housing strange obsidian structures - it really seems like they are plotting something.

“We kind of just leave it open to the players to make their own interpretation,” says Jens, “I just wanted them to look like they’d actually take care of their own business, like they have a purpose. Normal Villagers just walk around and take what’s given to them, but the Illagers were supposed to be a little bit more active.”

According to Jens, that’s one of the reasons Illagers have arms that they can wave about, wielding axes in the case of the Vindicator, or casting terrible conjurations in the case of the Evoker.