Pillager

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A pillager is an illager armed with a crossbow found in wandering patrols, in pillager outposts, or as a participant in raids. It attacks by firing arrows at the player.

In Java Edition, a pillager spawned by a player using a spawn egg or commands can be a captain, which has an ominous banner in their head slot, which displays as attached to the back of their head.

In Java Edition, the number of pillagers spawning in each patrol varies from one to five and depends on the regional difficulty, with one spawning as a patrol captain. Patrols occur after 5¹⁄₂ in-game days, any time and independently of structures, which means they still spawn in worlds without generated structures. A patrol spawns 24 to 48 blocks away from a random player, on the highest solid block. The individual pillagers of a patrol can spawn only at block light level less than 9, regardless of sky light.

In Bedrock Edition, each patrol spawns two to five pillagers with one spawning as a patrol captain. After 5¹⁄₂ in-game days, patrols appear 24 to 48 blocks away from the player, at a light level of 0-7.

Pillagers continually spawn in a 72×54×72 block volume centered on the top floor in a pillager outpost. Some pillagers spawn as outpost captains. They may spawn on any valid opaque block if the block light level is less than or equal to 8.

In Java Edition, there can be unlimited pillagers that spawn in outposts naturally, limited only by the natural spawning rules.

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers continually 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. A maximum of eight pillagers spawn naturally in an outpost.

In a raid, pillagers are more common in the earlier waves and decrease in number as the waves progress. Despite this, they still constitute the majority of raiders in total.

One pillager spawns riding a ravager in the fifth wave.

In Bedrock Edition, one of the ravagers is ridden by a pillager instead of a vindicator in the seventh wave.

In Java Edition, pillagers spawn during bonus waves and have the largest chance of being the raid captain in the first wave, but in the second wave and onward, vindicators have a greater chance than pillagers of being the raid captain.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

When a pillager spawns as a raid captain, it always drops their ominous banner on death, while equipped. Armor equipped by dispensers always drop on death. In Java Edition, the armor's durability won't be affected by damage. In Bedrock Edition, the armor's durability is still vulnerable to attacks, as if a player is wearing it.

Pillagers have a 8.5% chance to drop a crossbow when killed by the player or a tamed wolf. The crossbow may be loaded or unloaded depending on the crossbow's state when the pillager dies. The drop chance increases by 1% per level of Looting. The crossbow is of a random durability and has a chance of being enchanted. The chance ranges from 0% to 10% depending on the regional difficulty. The enchantment level is from 5 to 19.

5XP experience points and an additional 1–3XP points per naturally-spawned equipment drop when killed by the player or a tamed wolf, if the pillager does not drop their naturally-spawned equipment.

Pillagers move slowly when wandering or loading crossbows in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, pillagers move from one place to another as fast as when they're provoked.

In Java Edition, pillagers point their crossbows at any player or mob they are looking at, whether their crossbows are loaded or unloaded. In Bedrock Edition, pillagers only point their crossbows to other mobs when it is loaded.

Pillagers flee from creakings when within a range of 8 blocks.

Pillagers are hostile toward players, iron golems, wandering traders and adult villagers. Illagers do not retaliate at each other. A pillager that accidentally harms another neutral/hostile mob (except goats) causes the mob to retaliate against the pillager.

A pillager attacks by shooting arrows from its crossbow every three seconds from up to eight blocks away and sees enemies for up to 32 blocks in Java Edition or 16 blocks in Bedrock Edition.

In Java Edition, if a pillager gets attacked by a mob (excluding illagers and goats) or player, it alerts other pillagers to target the attacker, regardless of distance, unless the pillager was killed in one hit.

A pillager does not attack the player if summoned with commands in Bedrock Edition using the minecraft:calm spawn event.

When a player is in Creative mode or applied with the Invisibility effect, getting near a pillager still causes it to take notice and stare at the player. If a pillager notices an enemy while staring at the player, the pillager stops staring and attacks the enemy. If a player with the invisibility effect attacks a pillager, the pillager still retaliates.

The patrol captain wears an ominous banner on its head. The other illagers follow the captain around. The pillagers that are part of a patrol do not attack immediately. The patrol members' heads turn to follow the player or mob who attracted their attention. Players or villager-like mobs attacking or approaching within ten blocks of the patrol members provokes them into loading their crossbows and attacking.^[1]

If raiding pillagers kill all the villagers in a village or all beds are destroyed, they celebrate their victory by jumping and laughing. Unarmed pillagers also cheer. In Bedrock Edition, pillagers wave their arms while holding their crossbows in their main hand when cheering.

During a raid, pillagers equip ominous banners dropped on the ground within 3 blocks, but non-raider pillagers don't.

11% of pillagers use crossbows on their off-hand.

Pillagers load their crossbows when their target is within a 8 block radius and shoot when the target is within its pursuing radius, which is 64 blocks.

The command /summon pillager ~ ~ ~ {} summons a passive pillager, without a crossbow, that does not attack.

A pillager's crossbow eventually breaks after 465 uses without the Unbreaking enchant, unlike weapons wielded by other mobs.^[2] Unarmed pillagers are passive toward all entities, but they still frighten villagers and iron golems are still hostile toward them. This behavior is included to pillagers that have any other item that isn't a crossbow.

A pillager spawned with arrows or firework rockets in its off-hand slot uses them, depleting the stack over time and switching to regular arrows once running out of ammunition.^[3] When firing firework rockets, pillagers aim above the target as when using arrows, despite rockets being unaffected by gravity.^[4]

Pillagers cannot use their crossbows in their off-hand, as mobs cannot use weapons in their off-hand, just like players.

Pillagers use an outdated behavior.^[5][6] They also have different arm textures.^[7] Newly-spawned pillagers hold their crossbow in a lowered position similar to piglins until they start attacking a target, in which they raise their weapon. Pillagers load their crossbows when their target is at its pursuing radius, which is 16 blocks, and only shoot when the target is within a 8 block radius. After loading their crossbows, they begin to chase down the target endlessly, being slower than in Java Edition. Pillagers are not hostile to players before their crossbows are loaded, so sometimes they don't look at players or run around while loading their crossbows.

A dispenser can equip a pillager with armor. However, it isn't rendered on the pillager's model. If a player summons a pillager without a crossbow by spawn event or replaceitem command, it still shoots arrows to attack targets, like other arrow-shooting ranged mobs. This is due to the fact that in the pillager.json and ranged piglin.json files, the component_groups have both minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack and minecraft:behavior.charge_held_item, so if a pillager does not have a crossbow, the charge_held_item behavior cannot trigger and it continuously shoots arrows due to the ranged_attack behavior. This results in the arrows being shot more quickly without a crossbow than with one.

Unlike in Java Edition, the crossbows of pillagers in Bedrock Edition don't break.^[8]

Pillagers do melee attacks while underwater, unlike pillagers in Java Edition that maintain using crossbows underwater, where the shot arrows travel slower underwater and sink after a short distance.

Whenever a pillager captain dies, an ominous bottle of a random level from 1 to 5 is always dropped. Drinking the bottle gives the player Bad Omen. The effect lasts for 100 minutes (five in-game days) and can be removed by drinking milk. When a player afflicted with Bad Omen enters a village, the effect converts to Raid Omen. When Raid Omen runs out after 30 seconds, a raid commences in that village, bringing about waves of illagers that seek and try to kill all villagers.

Bad Omen can also be used to start ominous trials.

Each patrol spawns one pillager captain, meanwhile pillager outposts can continually spawn pillager captains.

Raid captains do not drop ominous bottles while participating in a raid.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Pillager" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Alongside crossbows, pillagers were taken from Minecraft Dungeons, even though they were added to the base game first.^[10]
• Pillagers were added in Village & Pillage as a means to give villagers a "true" adversary in order to balance the new village mechanics.^[11]
• An original design of the pillager appeared like a pirate wearing an orange vest. However, Mojang Studios' mob designers changed the mob's design to look more like brigandine armor.
• In Bedrock Edition, a running pillager uses the player's running animation rather than that of other illagers.
• Summoning an unarmed pillager in Java Edition that is invulnerable (/summon pillager ~ ~ ~ {Invulnerable:1b}) does not cause villagers to run away from the pillager.

• 👁 A pillager aiming in Java Edition.
  
  A pillager aiming in Java Edition.
• 👁 A pillager aiming in Bedrock Edition.
  
  A pillager aiming in Bedrock Edition.
• 👁 A pillager without a crossbow.
  
  A pillager without a crossbow.
• 👁 A pillager riding a ravager.
  
  A pillager riding a ravager.
• 👁 A sitting pillager.
  
  A sitting pillager.
• 👁 A pillager aiming a crossbow.
  
  A pillager aiming a crossbow.

• 👁 A pillager loading up a crossbow.
  
  A pillager loading up a crossbow.
• 👁 A pillager celebrating.‌[Java Edition only]
  
  A pillager celebrating.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 👁 A pillager celebrating.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A pillager celebrating.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

• 👁 A pillager armed with a crossbow, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  A pillager armed with a crossbow, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 A group of pillagers, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  A group of pillagers, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 A group of pillagers.
  
  A group of pillagers.
• 👁 A pillager patrol leader with a villager (before 18w46a).
  
  A pillager patrol leader with a villager (before 18w46a).
• 👁 A pillager outpost inside of a desert temple with pillagers inside and outside of the temple.
  
  A pillager outpost inside of a desert temple with pillagers inside and outside of the temple.
• 👁 A pillager attacking a villager.
  
  A pillager attacking a villager.
• 👁 A villager attracts the attention of a pillager patrol.
  
  A villager attracts the attention of a pillager patrol.
• 👁 A large group of pillagers together, with some riding on ravagers.
  
  A large group of pillagers together, with some riding on ravagers.
• 👁 A pillager firing its crossbow at a panicking villager in Java Edition.
  
  A pillager firing its crossbow at a panicking villager in Java Edition.
• 👁 A pillager
  
  A pillager
• 👁 A pillager
  
  A pillager

• 👁 Pillagers looking at a villager through a window.
  
  Pillagers looking at a villager through a window.
• 👁 A pillager aiming a crossbow.
  
  A pillager aiming a crossbow.
• 👁 Pillagers raiding a village.
  
  Pillagers raiding a village.
• 👁 An example of a bug which involves a pillager.
  
  An example of a bug which involves a pillager.
• 👁 Pillagers in the frozen peaks.
  
  Pillagers in the frozen peaks.

• 👁 The old texture file of pillagers.
  
  The old texture file of pillagers.
• 👁 An early rendition of pillagers.
  
  An early rendition of pillagers.

• 👁 Pillager texture file
  
  Pillager texture file

• 👁 Artwork of a single pillager.
  
  Artwork of a single pillager.
• 👁 A pillager as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A pillager as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 Artwork of several pillagers near a Pillager Outpost.
  
  Artwork of several pillagers near a Pillager Outpost.
• 👁 Official artwork of pillagers.
  
  Official artwork of pillagers.
• 👁 Official artwork of a pillager.
  
  Official artwork of a pillager.
• 👁 Official artwork of a pillager.
  
  Official artwork of a pillager.
• 👁 Official artwork of a pillager.
  
  Official artwork of a pillager.
• 👁 Official artwork of a pillager.
  
  Official artwork of a pillager.
• 👁 A group of pillagers and illagers shown within the Village & Pillage artwork.
  
  A group of pillagers and illagers shown within the Village & Pillage artwork.
• 👁 A pillager in promotional artwork for Education Edition 1.14.50.
  
  A pillager in promotional artwork for Education Edition 1.14.50.
• 👁 A pillager in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
  
  A pillager in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
• 👁 Promotional render showing a pillager shooting at Sunny and Alex on a camel.
  
  Promotional render showing a pillager shooting at Sunny and Alex on a camel.
• 👁 Gif of the pillager depicted in the Trails & Tales promotional art.
  
  Gif of the pillager depicted in the Trails & Tales promotional art.
• 👁 A LEGO pillager.
  
  A LEGO pillager.
• 👁 A pillager plush.
  
  A pillager plush.
• 👁 "Bad Omen," an official T-Shirt design featuring a pillager.
  
  "Bad Omen," an official T-Shirt design featuring a pillager.
• 👁 M.A.R.I.L.L.A. and Narrator witnessing pillagers.
  
  M.A.R.I.L.L.A. and Narrator witnessing pillagers.
• 👁 A word search filled with Minecraft-related words.
  
  A word search filled with Minecraft-related words.
• 👁 Bees chasing a pillager
  
  Bees chasing a pillager
• 👁 A pillager as seen in A Minecraft Movie Live Event.
  
  A pillager as seen in A Minecraft Movie Live Event.