Raid captain

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A raid captain^[a] is the occurrence of an illager that spawns wearing an ominous banner on its head. It is usually a pillager or vindicator, or rarely in Java Edition an evoker. They are the only renewable source of both ominous banners and ominous bottles, which they drop when killed.

Raid captains spawn in mostly the same conditions and occurrences as a regular illager, with a few exceptions.

In Bedrock Edition, a pillager raid captain can be spawned using the /summon pillager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_as_illager_captain command, and a vindicator raid captain (which is unused in-game) can be spawned using the /summon vindicator ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_as_illager_captain command.

In Java Edition, pillagers, vindicators and evokers spawned from spawn eggs, monster spawners or trial spawners also have a small chance to spawn as a raid captain.

One pillager raid captain always spawns as part of a patrol, as the leader. These are referred to as “patrol captains” to avoid confusion.

In Java Edition, one raid captain spawns in each wave during a raid. They usually spawn within a group of pillagers, and sometimes spawns riding a ravager. When its ominous banner is dropped, other illagers rush and attempt to pick it up to become the new raid captain.

In Bedrock Edition, raid captains are unused and do not spawn naturally during raids, but the code for them is present.^[verify]

Pillager raid captains regularly spawn in a pillager outpost. Every pillager spawned has a small chance to be a raid captain.

In Java Edition, only pillagers and passive mobs may spawn within a pillager outpost spawn area. Pillagers may spawn on any valid opaque block as long as the block light level is 8 or lower.

In Bedrock Edition, raid captains can only spawn first, meaning if there is any regular pillager left nearby, raid captain will never spawn.^[verify]

Upon death, a raid captain can drop:

• 1 👁 Image
  Ominous banner, unaffected by Looting and is always dropped.
• 1 👁 Image
  Ominous Bottle, unaffected by Looting of a random level from 1-5. Raid captains that are within 96 blocks of a raid do not drop ominous bottles, also it must be registered as "killed by player" to drop ominous bottle.

• 0–2 👁 Image
  arrows, dropping more with the presence of Looting, up to 5‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.
• Its 👁 Image
  crossbow (may be loaded or unloaded), which has an 8.5% chance to be dropped (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It has a random durability and may be enchanted.

• 0–1 👁 Image
  emeralds, with the maximum increasing by 1 for every level of Looting.
• Its 👁 Image
  iron axe, which has an 8.5% chance to be dropped (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It has a random durability and may be enchanted.

• 1 👁 Image
  totem of undying, unaffected by Looting.
• 0–1 👁 Image
  emeralds if killed by the player, with the maximum increased by 1 per level of Looting.

• Its 👁 Image
  bow, which has an 8.5% chance to be dropped (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It has a random durability and is unenchanted.

In Bedrock Edition, raid captains that spawn from raids can additionally drop:

• 0–1 👁 Image
  emeralds

An additional drop is dependent on difficulty, with a 65% chance of dropping on easy and normal, and an 80% chance of dropping on hard.
They can drop one of the following items:

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

Note:

• Raiders drop iron equipment in a damaged state, and the equipment has 50% chance of being enchanted with random enchantment.
• These drops are also affected by Looting enchantment.
• An emerald is both a regular raider drop and an additional raider drop.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Raid captains usually act the same as if they were a normal illager, but other illagers follow behind them (except for outpost captain), and usually the captain takes the lead ahead of the other illagers. Once a raid captain is killed by a player, an ominous bottle is dropped that if drank, grant Bad Omen, which can transform into Raid Omen in a village to start a raid, or into Trial Omen when seen by a non-ominous trial spawner, to start an ominous trial.The captain also drops its 👁 Image
ominous banner as well, and it can be picked up by another illager for it to become the captain.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• Ominous banners equip on raid captains’ helmet slot in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, ominous banners equip on illager captains’ chestplate slot.

• 👁 The Ominous Banner
  
  The Ominous Banner
• 👁 A raid captain vindicator, before 18w45a.
  
  A raid captain vindicator, before 18w45a.
• 👁 A vindicator patrol captain before beta 1.18.0.20. (Unused mob)
  
  A vindicator patrol captain before beta 1.18.0.20. (Unused mob)

• 👁 Illager banner with long pole in Bedrock edition. It equips on pillager captain chestplates slot.
  
  Illager banner with long pole in Bedrock edition. It equips on pillager captain chestplates slot.
• 👁 A raid captain spawned via a monster spawner.
  
  A raid captain spawned via a monster spawner.

• 👁 A pillager raid captain within Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A pillager raid captain within Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 A vindicator raid captain within Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A vindicator raid captain within Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 Lego pillager raid captain.
  
  Lego pillager raid captain.