Minecraft Dungeons, see For the mob in, see MCD:Pillager

A pillager is an illager that spawns regularly in raids, patrols, and in pillager outposts.

Spawning [ edit ]

Patrols [ edit ]

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

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

Outposts [ edit ]

Pillagers naturally spawn and respawn in outposts. They spawn in a 72×54×72 block area centered on the top floor (with the chest). Only pillagers and passive mobs may spawn in that area.

Pillagers may spawn on any valid opaque block as long as the sky light level is 11 or lower, and the block light level is 8 or lower, but can also spawn on grass or sand blocks regardless of block light level.

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers 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 [ edit ]

Pillagers spawn as the most common mob within raids. They come in every wave and are difficult to deal with in large numbers. Lining them up makes them kill each other with arrows.

Behavior [ edit ]

A pillager is armed with a crossbow and shoots arrows at players, iron golems, snow golems, wandering traders, and villagers. A pillager shoots an arrow every 3 seconds up to 8 blocks away, pursuing an enemy within 64 blocks. Pillagers never attack one another; even if one is shot by another pillager, it does not start dueling. This also applies if it shoots any other Illager

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

In Java Edition, a pillager's crossbow eventually breaks with repeated use, unlike weapons wielded by other mobs.[1] A pillager continues to shoot arrows until their crossbow breaks. An unarmed pillager in Java Edition is passive to everyone, but still frightens Villagers and is attacked by Iron Golems. Since it takes 326 arrows to break a crossbow that is unenchanted or only has Piercing or Quick Charge and a pillager fires every 3 seconds it would take 16 minutes and 3 seconds to break a pillager’s crossbow. Each level of unbreaking multiplies the amount of arrows by level+1, and multishot divides the time by 3 (it still shoots the same number of arrows but uses more per shot). Similar to evokers and vindicators, pillagers are provoked when a nearby pillager is attacked.

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers use melee attacks while underwater.

Drops [ edit ]

Pillagers spawned by raids drop:

The following additional items drop from pillagers spawned by raids depending on difficulty (there is a 65% chance on easy and normal or an 80% chance on hard):

Notes:

Iron equipment drops from raids always has a 50% chance of being enchanted with a random enchantment level from 5 to 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 [ edit ]

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 5 (without using commands), but can be removed by drinking milk.

The higher the Bad Omen effect, the higher chance of the crossbows of the pillagers being enchanted.‌[JE only]

Sounds [ edit ]

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Entity tags (JE) Translation key Pillager pillager raiders entity.minecraft.pillager

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Pillager pillager 114 entity.pillager.name

Entity data [ edit ]

Pillagers 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 Inventory : Each compound tag in this list is an item in the pillager's inventory, up to a maximum of 5 slots. Items in two or more slots that can be stacked together are automatically be condensed into one slot. Pillagers don't change their inventory automatically or drop items from it upon death. The inventory is currently unused. [ more information needed ] An item in the inventory, excluding the Slot tag. Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

Entity data

Achievements [ edit ]

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

Advancements [ edit ]

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 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 [ edit ]

This section would benefit from the addition of more images.

The specific instructions are: Pillagers before Bedrock Edition Beta 1.9.0.2.

Render of pillager with unloaded crossbow with the same pose as a piglin with a crossbow in Bedrock Edition Beta 1.16.0.51

Renders of unarmed pillagers before and after 20w29a ( ) Please remove this notice once you've added suitable images to the article.The specific instructions are:

Issues [ edit ]

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

Trivia [ edit ]

In Java Edition , an unarmed pillager 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.

, an unarmed pillager 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. The command: /summon pillager ~ ~ ~ {} summons a passive pillager that does not attack anything.

summons a passive pillager that does not attack anything. In the Buzzy Bees trailer, a hidden pillager can be seen watching over the villagers. In the same trailer, a pillager comically flees from the bees.

Pillagers are the first mobs to wield a crossbow, the second being Piglins.

Pillagers are slightly taller than their other illagers and other villager like mobs. (Excluding Witches, who have a hat).

They are the only illager to not fold their arms.

An original design of the pillager made it look more like a pirate wearing an orange vest. However, Mojang's mob designers changed the mob's design to look more like brigandine armor (notice the resemblance of plates on the armor).

Gallery [ edit ]

In other media [ edit ]

A Mojang artwork.

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

An early development phase of the pillager.