Vindicator

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A vindicator is an illager equipped with an iron axe. Vindicators spawn in woodland mansions and participate in raids. They sprint toward their targets to attack them with their axe.

On Normal difficulty and Hard difficulty, vindicators sometimes spawn with a randomly enchanted iron axe: the chance is 0–25%, and is higher when the regional difficulty is higher.

Vindicators spawn during the generation of woodland mansions, in groups of 1–3 inside particular rooms, sometimes accompanied by an evoker. They spawn on all 3 floors. Rarely, vindicators can spawn in the corridors and hallways.

They do not respawn after initially spawning. Vindicators generated in woodland mansions do not despawn.

Vindicators are sometimes neutral if naturally spawned in a woodland mansion, which means that the vindicator does not attack the player on sight, but only after the player attacks it.

In Java Edition, any vindicators can join a patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain, but do not go seeking out for patrols to join nor do they naturally spawn in a patrol.

Vindicators can spawn during raids. They appear more frequently during later waves and at higher difficulties.

Vindicators that spawn from raids have a chance to spawn with Sharpness I on their axe, or Sharpness II in waves 6 and up. This replaces the usual chance of a random enchantment.

Vindicators can spawn riding ravagers, creating a vindicator ravager jockey.‌^{[JE only]}

In Java Edition, if a player spawns a vindicator with a spawn egg or using a command, the vindicator has a chance of becoming a raid captain, with an ominous banner attached above its back.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

A vindicator drops loot only when killed by a player or tamed wolf:

• 5XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment.
• 8.5% chance of dropping their normal or enchanted 👁 Image
  iron axe, which increases by 1% per level of Looting with random durability.

Vindicators are hostile toward players, iron golems, adult villagers, wandering traders, and snow golems.‌^{[BE only]}

While idle, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a villager, with its axe stowed. While giving chase, the vindicator brandishes its axe and sprints. If it has no weapons, a mainhand-unarmed vindicator raises both of its hands when attacking.

On Normal and Hard difficulties, vindicators that are part of a raid can break wooden doors. This is controlled by the raider tag.^[1] Like any illager during a raid, vindicators celebrate by cheering if all the villagers are killed or all the beds are destroyed.

All illagers remain friendly to each other, even when struck accidentally.

Vindicators flee from creakings when within 8 blocks of them.

Vindicators are likely to call help from other vindicators when attacked by mobs (except for illagers and goats, or if they were killed in one hit), inciting them all to attack the aggressor. They do not call help from other kinds of illagers.

Vindicator raiders, in addition to breaking doors, can also open wooden and copper doors like villagers.

Ringing a bell gives all vindicators within 32 blocks the 👁 Image
Glowing effect for 3 seconds.

Vindicators can only sprint, even when idle.

A dispenser can equip a vindicator with armor, but it is invisible and does not show on its model.

Armed vindicators hit for 7.5HP👁 ❤️
× 3.75 to 19.5HP👁 ❤️
× 9.75 damage, depending on difficulty. They tie with piglin brutes for dealing the fourth most melee damage in the game, following the iron golem at 21.5HP👁 ❤️
× 10.75 damage, the warden at 30HP👁 ❤️
× 15 damage, and the giant at 50HP👁 ❤️
× 25 damage, all on Normal difficulty. Unless named "Johnny", vindicators are the only illagers that do not cause mobs to retaliate against it.

The vindicator's axe attack disables the player's shield for 5 seconds, even when riding a ravager.

A vindicator named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b) is hostile to armor stands‌^{[BE only][2]}, cameras‌^{[BE only]}, players in Adventure or Survival mode and all mobs except agents‌^{[BE & edu only]}, evokers, ghasts^[3], illusioners‌^{[JE only]}, other vindicators, and pillagers. This includes baby villagers‌^{[BE only][4]}, creakings (although it flees from it before it can attack), creepers, ravagers^[5], vexes^[6], and witches.^[7] Vexes or witches do not attack "Johnny" vindicators unless provoked by vindicators.

"Johnny" vindicators also attempt to attack the ender dragon, but the ender dragon does not take damage.

Most hostile or neutral mobs try to attack the "Johnny" vindicator in return. Exceptions are:

• mobs that die in one hit (e.g. bees, endermites);
• ender dragons and phantoms, as those only attack players (the ender dragon deals damage to all mobs that touch it, but this is not considered an attack);
• goats (apart from their usual ramming behavior);
• slimes, magma cubes, ravagers, guardians and elder guardians.

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.

In Java Edition, using a name tag to rename a "Johnny" vindicator does not reset its Johnny tag, and it continues to exhibit "Johnny" behavior.

In Bedrock Edition, naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a monster spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named "Johnny".

During a raid, "Johnny" vindicator raid captains sometimes tell a ravager or witch to attack itself and the mob does so until it dies.‌^{[Java Edition only][8]}

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Vindicators also have entities' 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: