Minecraft Vindicator

Minecraft Vindicator

Vindicator

Health points	24 × 12
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Bedrock Edition and Java Edition Easy: 7 Normal: 13 × 6.5 Hard: 19 × 9.5 Legacy Console Edition Easy: 6 Normal: 10 Hard: 15 × 7.5
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks

Spawning

Woodland mansions

Vindicators spawn during the generation of mansions, in particular rooms. Some rooms contain 1, others contain 3, some contain 2 accompanied by an evoker, and some can rarely spawn in the corridors. They do not respawn after their initial spawn point. Vindicators generated with mansions do not naturally despawn.

Some vindicators may spawn with an enchanted iron axe, depending on the difficulty set: the chances go up as the difficulty goes up.

Patrols

Main article: Patrol

in Bedrock Edition, patrols consist of 2-5 illagers, with all illagers always being a pillager on easy and normal difficulties, and on hard 80% of them are pillagers and 20% of them are vindicators.

Raids

Main article: Raid

Vindicators are able to spawn as part of raids. They appear less frequently during earlier waves and at easier difficulties but are more common in later waves and at higher difficulties.

Drops

Vindicators drop loot only when killed by a player or tamed wolf. They drop when they die:

• 0–1 emeralds when killed by the player. The maximum increases by 1 for every level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
• 8.5% chance of dropping their iron axe, which increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting.
• 1  Ominous banner, if they spawn as a raid captain.

In Bedrock Edition, if a vindicator spawns from a raid, they can drop:

• 0-1 Emerald

Additionally, vindicators have a 65% chance of dropping the following on easy and normal difficulties, and an 80% chance of dropping them on hard difficulty:

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

Note:

• Iron equipment from raid drops has a 50% chance of being enchanted with a random enchantment.
• Iron equipment from raid drops is always damaged.
• These drops are also affected by the Looting enchantment.
• The enchanted book has a level 30 enchantment, also can be treasure enchantment.
• Emeralds are both a regular raid drop and an additional raid drop.
• With Looting III enchantment, a vindicator spawned from a raid can drop up to 16 emeralds upon death, but the chance is 3.328% on easy or normal, and 4.096% on hard.
• It is possible for a vindicator spawned from a raid to drop both its naturally-spawned iron axe and a second iron axe from its additional raid drops (in easy and normal difficulty 0.3536% chance, 0.3952% chance with Looting I, 0.4368% chance with Looting II, and 0.4784% chance with Looting III, while in hard difficulty 0.4352% chance, 0.4864% chance with Looting I, 0.5376% chance with Looting II, and 0.5888% chance with Looting III).

Behavior

A vindicator chasing a villager.

Vindicators are hostile towards players, iron golems, villagers or adult villagers,‌^[BE only] wandering traders, and snow golems.‌^[BE only] In Bedrock Edition, vindicators that spawn in woodland mansion are neutral to players.^[2]

When attacking, a vindicator raises its main hand brandishing an iron axe. A vindicator moves toward its target at the player's walking speed or at the player's sprinting speed.‌^[BE only] When not attacking, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a villager, and does not show the axe in its hand.

A vindicator named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b) is hostile to every mob except for evokers, illusioners, pillagers, ravagers,‌^[BE only] ghasts, and other vindicators. Its hostility even extends to vexes and ravagers.‌^[JE only] All hostile or neutral mobs, except for endermites, phantoms, guardians, slimes, magma cubes, and ravagers, try to attack the Johnny vindicator in return. 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.

Naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named Johnny.‌^[BE only]

During raids, vindicators can open doors as villagers.‌^[JE only] Also, they can break doors.

If raiding vindicators kill all the villagers in the village or the beds are destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms.‌^{[JE & BE only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13.0]}

Vindicators are able to spawn reinforcements if one of them is attacked by an invisible player or visible mob that they don't naturally attack and there are not any villagers or iron golems or visible players.‌^[JE only]

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Vindicators 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]
  •  Johnny: Optional. 1 or 0 (true/false) - Setting to true will cause the vindicator to exhibit Johnny behavior. Setting to false will prevent the vindicator exhibiting Johnny behavior, even if named Johnny.

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

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 vindicators.
		16w40a			"Johnny" vindicators are now activated by a custom tag in addition to a custom name.
					The vindicators' axes are now one of their HandItems, whereas before it was purely a visual effect. This means their attack now disables shields.
					Vindicators have now been heavily buffed - their attack damage on Easy has now been increased from 3 to 7, on Normal 5 to 13 × 6.5, and on Hard, 7 to 19 × 9.5.
1.13		pre5			The entity ID for vindicators has now been changed from vindication_illager to vindicator.
1.14		18w45a			Vindicators can now spawn in illager patrols.
					Vindicators can now sometimes spawn as a patrol leader in illager patrols.
		18w47a			Vindicators can now spawn as part of raids.
					Vindicators can now break doors.
		19w05a			Vindicators are hostile towards the new wandering traders.
		19w13a			Vindicators can now open doors.
					If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms.
1.14.3		Pre-Release 2			Vindicators no longer spawn as part of illager patrols.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added vindicators.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Vindicators are now hostile towards the new wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Vindicators can now spawn as part of illager patrols and raids.
					Vindicators can now spawn as raid captains.
					Vindicators no longer attack baby villagers.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Vindicators that spawn from raids now have special drops upon death.
		beta 1.11.0.7			Vindicators can now break wooden doors.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch s4	Added vindicators.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added vindicators.

Issues

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

Trivia

• According to Jeb, naming a vindicator "Johnny" causes the vindicator to become hostile towards every mob, except other illagers; a reference to The Shining.^[3]
• They do the second-highest melee damage of all the non-boss mobs, first being the iron golem and third being the ravager.