Vindicator

"Here's Johnny!"

- Marsh Davies

Vindicators are illagers that spawn in mansions, raids, and patrols. They are equipped with iron axes.

Spawning
Some vindicators spawn with a randomly enchanted iron axe, depending on the difficulty set: the chances go up as the difficulty goes up. 25% of them spawn with a enchanted iron axe.

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.

Patrols
$$, 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
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:
 * 5 experience orbs.
 * 0–1  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, which increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting. The tool have 25% chance to be enchanted.
 * 1 Illager Banner.png Ominous banner, if they spawn as a raid captain.

In Bedrock Edition, if a vindicator spawns from a raid, they can drop:
 * 0-1

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:

Note:
 * 0-1 ($10/39$ chance)
 * 2-3 ($5/39$ chance)
 * 4-5 ($2/39$ chance)
 * 1 ($2/39$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 1 ($5/78$ chance)
 * 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
Vindicators are hostile towards players, iron golems, villagers or adult villagers, wandering traders, and snow golems. $$, vindicators that spawn in woodland mansion are neutral to players.

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. When not attacking, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a villager, and does not show the axe in its hand. They follow the target for up to 12 blocks away.

A vindicator named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its  tag set to  ) is hostile to every mob except for evokers, illusioners, pillagers, ravagers,  ghasts, and other vindicators. Its hostility even extends to vexes and ravagers. All hostile or neutral mobs, except for endermites, phantoms, guardians, slimes, magma cubes, and ravagers, try to attack the Johnny vindicator in return. The  tag overrides its name; the player can give the vindicator any other name and set the   tag to   and it remains hostile in the same way as described. Conversely, the player can name the vindicator Johnny and set the  tag to , causing the vindicator to act as a normal vindicator.

Naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and it on a spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named Johnny.

During raids, vindicators can open doors as villagers. Also, they can break doors in Normal and Hard modes.

Vindicator can disable player's shield with their iron axe attack, even riding a mob. For example: Vindicator riding ravager during Hard modes raids. It will be very deadly and dangerous to player use melee attack to fight them.

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.

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.

Data values
Vindicators have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

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.
 * They do the second-highest melee damage of all the non-boss mobs, first being the iron golem and third being the ravager.