Minecraft Evoker

Minecraft Evoker

Evoker

Health points	24 × 12
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	6‌[JE only] Easy: 4 Normal: 6 Hard: 9
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks

Spawning

Woodland mansions

Individual evokers spawn during the generation of particular woodland mansion rooms. They will not respawn after their initial spawn. Evokers spawned with mansions do not naturally despawn, unless the world is switched to Peaceful mode. Evokers may also rarely spawn as a raid captain.

They will not despawn when switched to Peaceful mode nor can they spawn as a raid captain.‌^[BE only]

Raids

Java Edition

Up to 5 evokers spawn during raids, starting at wave 5. During these events, they have a rare chance of being a raid captain.

Bedrock Edition

Up to 5 evokers spawn during raids, with 1 Evoker spawning during waves 5 and 6, and 3 Evokers spawning during wave 7. One of them will ride a Ravager during wave 7.

Drops

Evokers drop when dying:

• 1 Totem of Undying, the Looting enchantment does not increase this drop.
• 0–1 Emerald if killed by the player, with an increase by 1 with each level of looting (0-4 maximum).
• 1  Ominous banner, if they spawn as a wave leader in raid or pick up an ominous banner from the ground.

Behavior

Evokers will attack players, baby villagers‌^{[JE & LCE only]}, adult villagers, iron golems, wandering traders and snow golems‌^[BE only] within 12 blocks.

If the player is within a 10 block radius and the evoker is not in the middle of summoning an attack, the evoker will flee from the player to avoid being attacked.

The evoker has two different attack methods: fang attack and summoning vexes. When attacking, the evoker is much more likely to use a fang attack, and may immediately follow it up by summoning some vexes.

When evokers are ready to attack, they will raise their arms and wave them and also produce different colored particles for the different attacks.

During raids, evokers can open doors as villagers. ‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Fang attack

An evoker attacking with its fangs.

An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it.

The evoker signals this attack by producing lilac colored particles () and a low-pitched horn-like sound. A number of fangs rise out of the ground, then snap shut and vanish. Non-illager mobs caught in the attack are dealt 6 damage in normal mode (regardless of difficulty‌^[JE only]). This damage is not mitigated by armor but is mitigated by enchantments such as Protection.

Fangs will appear no lower than the feet of the lowest combatant, and no higher than one block above the feet of the highest combatant. Fangs will attempt to appear on the highest opaque block between those two extremes but will fail to spawn if they are obstructed by a solid block. In practice, this means that fangs will not spawn in deep pits or on top of high walls, but may, for example, go up a staircase if the target is at the top and the evoker at the bottom, or vice versa.

The evoker would usually summon its fangs in a straight line towards the target but if the target is very close to the evoker, the evoker will summon them in 2 circles around it.

Summoning fangs resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 5 seconds, and resets the cooldown for summoning fangs to 17 seconds.

Summoning vexes

An evoker summoning vexes.

The evoker signals this attack by producing white particles () and a higher-pitched horn-like sound. Three vexes appear nearby. The evoker will summon vexes even if there are some still left alive from the last summoning.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 2 seconds, and resets the cooldown for summoning vexes to 5 seconds.

Sheep color conversion spell

An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

After the spell, the sheep is red.

While the evoker is not engaged in combat and /gamerule mobGriefing is set to true, it will change the wool color of any blue sheep within 16 blocks to red. It signals the spell by producing orange color particles () and making a "wololo" sound. In Bedrock Edition, evokers can still change a sheep's color when /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 3 seconds, and resets the cooldown for the sheep color conversion spell to 7 seconds.

Reinforcements

In Java Edition illagers are able to spawn reinforcements, including evokers, if one of them is attacked by an invisible mob or player and there were no visible mobs or players that they naturally attack, around.

Evoker Fangs

Evoker Fangs

Sounds	Snap
Internal ID	33
Network ID	JE: 79 BE: 103
Namespaced ID	See Data values

Evoker fangs are the entities that evokers use to attack the player with their fang attack.

The individual fangs in an evoker's fang attacks each have a delay. Before the delay is over, the fangs cannot be seen, although unlike truly invisible entities, fangs in warmup still have a visible debug hitbox. After the delay, the fangs expand into existence, snap shut, and shrink out of sight again, dealing 6 magic damage to all creatures standing on the spot. Naturally spawned fangs do not harm illagers, but player-spawned ones do.

Evoker fangs are not affected by Peaceful difficulty.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Evoker	evoker
Evoker Fangs	evoker_fangs

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Evoker	evocation_illager	104
Evoker Fangs	evocation_fang	103

Entity Data

See also: Chunk format

Evokers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

•  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities [show]
  • Tags common to all mobs [show]
  • Tags common to all mobs spawnable in raids [show]
  •  SpellTicks: Number of ticks until a spell can be cast. Set to a positive value when a spell is cast, and decreases by 1 per tick.

Evocation fangs are also entities which have associated entity data.

•  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities [show]
  •  Warmup: Time in ticks until the fangs appear. The fangs appear and begin to close as soon as this value becomes zero or less; negative values simply result in no delay. The value continues ticking down while the closing animation is playing, and will reach -20 on naturally spawned fangs.
  •  Owner: Contains information about the entity who owns the evocation fangs.
    •  OwnerUUIDLeast: Least significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the fangs' owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDMost to form a unique ID.
    •  OwnerUUIDMost: Most significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the fangs' owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDLeast to form a unique ID.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: enderman, zombie pigman, spider, cave spider.	Xbox One	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze
				Xbox 360		Alt		20G
	Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	30G	Silver

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	minecraft:adventure/root
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. Other mobs are ignored for this advancement.	minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.11		16w39a			Added evokers.
		16w43a			Added the  Owner tag to evocation fangs.
1.13		pre5			The entity ID is changed from evocation_illager to evoker.
					Evocation Fangs name and ID changed to Evoker Fangs.
1.14		18w47a			Evokers can now spawn in raids.
		19w05a			Evokers are hostile towards the new wandering traders.
		19w13a			Evokers can open doors during raids.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added evokers.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Evokers are now hostile to the new wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Evokers can now spawn during raids.
					Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Added evokers and evocation fangs.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added evokers and evocation fangs.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Minecraft's "Meet the Evoker" shows an Evoker with a hat, which is the similar model of the Illusioner's.^[1]
  • This hat model is also seen in the Witch, Nitwit, Librarian, Priest and Vindicator's texture file but unused.
• The sheep color conversion spell is a reference to priests in a video game named "Age of Empires", where they can turn enemy units into friendly units after making a "Wololo" sound.

Gallery

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  A dying evoker mob.
 
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  An evoker preparing to summon its fangs.
 
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  An evoker summons fangs while its vex minions attack.
 
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  An evoker looks on as its vexes lunge toward its target.
 
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  An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.
 
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  An evoker wearing a wig at "Meet the Evoker", as a reference to a game Age of Empires.
 
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  An excessive amount of illagers, including several hundred Evokers, Vindicators, and Illusioners spawned by command blocks. Note the abundance of Vexes that originate from the Evokers.
 
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  Evoker with an illager banner.