Java Edition 1.14

"For a long time villages have always been a very serene, peaceful place, except at night when zombies would come, and then it was anything but that. There's never been a group of adversaries that maybe had it out – or perhaps even felt jealousy – for the villager lifestyle. With villages and villagers getting a new fresh coat of paint, we felt that it was time for them to also get a new challenge, to balance out their luxurious lifestyles they'll be living."

- Cory Scheviak

1.14, the first release of Village & Pillage, is a major update to the Java Edition released on April 23, 2019. It focuses mainly on villages, adding a new subset of illagers known as pillagers, and redesigning village architecture to match the biome it is located in. This update also introduces many new blocks and mobs, revamps the crafting system by moving some functionalities to different blocks, updates the taiga biome with foxes and berries, and adds a new bamboo forest jungle variant along with bamboo and pandas.

Blocks

 * Bamboo
 * Can be found scattered around jungles and in large clusters in bamboo jungles.
 * Can be found in shipwrecks and jungle temples.
 * Dropped by pandas when killed, or can be obtained when fishing in jungle biomes.
 * Can be farmed and grow up to 12–16 blocks tall.
 * Grows 1–2 blocks taller when bone meal is used on it.
 * Breaks instantly using swords.
 * Can be eaten by pandas, used as fuel (four bamboo can smelt one item), or planted inside a flower pot.
 * Can be used to craft sticks and scaffolding.


 * Barrels
 * Act as a storage unit, with the inventory of a chest.
 * However, unlike a chest, work in tight spaces and can be opened even with a solid block above them.
 * Can be crafted using 6 planks, and 2 wood slabs.
 * Generate in village fisher cottages.
 * Acts as the Fisherman villager's job site
 * Can be filled by droppers and filled and emptied by hoppers.


 * Bells
 * Play a shaking animation and a sound when right-clicked.
 * Based on the position and facing, bells can only be hit in some certain directions, and will only shake in those directions.
 * Generate in village meeting points.
 * Can be anchored to top and bottom block, as well as walls, with different texture for each.
 * Pop off as an item when the anchored block is destroyed or moved.
 * Hitting a bell during a raid applies the glowing effect to raiding illagers within 32 blocks of it.


 * Blast Furnaces
 * New furnace upgrade that allows for the smelting of ores and melting of metals faster than the traditional furnace.
 * Twice as fast as a regular furnace, but only gives half the experience.
 * Can only smelt ores and melt metals.
 * Can be crafted using 3 smooth stone, 1 furnace, and 5 iron ingots.
 * Generate in village armorer houses.
 * Acts as the Armorer villager's job site
 * Have support for hopper and dropper inputs and outputs.


 * Campfires
 * Generate in taiga villages.
 * Decorative fireplace without fire spread.
 * Does not burn items.
 * Can be crafted with 3 sticks, 1 coal or charcoal, and 3 wood or logs, stripped or unstripped, of any wood type.
 * Cooks up to four food items, but 3 times slower than a furnace (30 seconds).
 * Right-click with food item to place food on campfire.
 * Food item pops off when cooked.
 * Emits a new type of particle, a smoke signal that can be seen from a longer distance than normal particles.
 * The particles can travel through 1–2 blocks.
 * Placing a hay bale below the campfire causes the smoke particles to stay longer and rise higher.
 * Emits a light level of 15.
 * Can be put out using a water bucket or a splash water bottle.
 * Extinguishing a campfire pops off any (uncooked) food item on it.
 * Can be re-lit with flint and steel or fire charges, but not other fire sources like fire spread.
 * Repeatedly deals damage when walked on.


 * Cartography Tables
 * Can be crafted with 2 paper and 4 wooden planks.
 * UI visualizes the function of the recipes.
 * Allows cloning, extending, and locking of maps.
 * Locking can be done with a glass pane to prevent modifying them.
 * Generate in village cartographer houses.
 * Acts as the Cartographer villager's job site


 * Composter
 * Block which converts crops and plants into fertilizer.
 * Crafted using 4 wood fences of any type and 3 planks of any type.
 * Generate in village farms.
 * Acts as the Farmer villager's job site
 * Creates a single piece of bone meal per 7 levels of composting.
 * certain items on the composter has a chance to add 1 level of composting to the composter, up to 7 levels. After the composter reaches level 7, it will turn into level 8 which is the harvestable stage, yielding 1 bone meal when used.
 * Some composted items will be consumed without adding a level. The chance a level will be added depends on the quality of the item: larger or crafted items have a higher chance of adding a layer when used (e.g. Kelp has a low chance of about 30%, while pumpkin pie has a chance of 100%).
 * Fletching Tables
 * Generate in village fletcher houses.
 * Can be crafted with 4 planks and 2 flint.
 * Acts as the Fletcher villager's job site


 * Flowers
 * Added cornflower.
 * Can be crafted into blue dye.
 * Appear in plains biomes.
 * Added lily of the valley.
 * Can be crafted into white dye.
 * Appear in forest biomes.
 * Added wither rose.
 * Can be crafted into black dye.
 * Inflict 1 second of Wither status effect to players and mobs around it, when in any difficulty besides peaceful.
 * Is dropped or planted from any non-undead mob being killed by the wither.


 * Grindstones
 * Craftable with sticks, a stone slab and planks.
 * Generate in village weapon smiths.
 * Acts as the Weaponsmith villager's job site
 * Have a GUI with 2 input slots and 1 output slot.
 * Remove any non-curse enchantment(s) from an item.
 * Give the player experience back for each enchantment removed.
 * Weapons, tools, armor and enchanted books can have their enchantments removed within this block.
 * Can repair items by combining them together.
 * Can be placed on the top, bottom, or side of a block.


 * Jigsaw Blocks
 * A technical block.
 * Not obtainable in survival or in the creative inventory.
 * Can only be obtained using commands.
 * Is a 'junction' block that will allow the player to construct structures out of smaller templates.
 * Target pool
 * Refers to a pool of elements the jigsaw block can draw elements from (i.e.: the next template to place).
 * Attachment type
 * Refers to the "name" of the jigsaw block. Jigsaw blocks can only connect to other jigsaw blocks with the same "name" (attachment type).
 * Turn into
 * The blockstate the jigsaw block will turn into once the whole feature is placed.


 * Lanterns
 * New light source.
 * A feature originally planned for the Alpha Halloween Update.
 * Notch had previously said that lanterns would not be added into Minecraft.
 * Crafted with 8 iron nuggets surrounding 1 torch.
 * Generate in snowy villages.
 * Can be placed either hanging under or on top of a block.
 * Give slightly more light than a torch.


 * Lecterns
 * Were an idea originally scrapped from 2012.
 * Unique model based on the scrapped design.
 * Can be crafted from slabs and bookshelves.
 * Right-click empty lectern to place book.
 * Right-click lectern with book to open.
 * Multiple players can read the book at the same time, without having the item.
 * Current page is persistent and shared between all readers.
 * Book can be removed from it.
 * Emits redstone pulses when page is changed.
 * Redstone comparators can be used to get book reading progress.
 * Generate in village libraries.
 * Acts as the Librarian villager's job site


 * Looms
 * Can be crafted with 2 string on top of 2 planks.
 * Generate in village shepherd houses.
 * Acts as the Shepherd villager's job site
 * Easier way to apply patterns to banners: the purpose is to color and design banners, which was previously done in the crafting grid.
 * Have a slot for a banner, a dye and a banner pattern.
 * Generic patterns now only require 1 dye.
 * Removed existing banner recipes.
 * Special banner patterns can now be crafted into a new item, banner patterns.
 * Craftable using paper and the special pattern items.
 * These patterns don't consume the pattern item when used in the loom.
 * Available banner patterns are shown as a list.


 * Note blocks
 * Added 6 new note block sounds: "Iron Xylophone", "Cow Bell", "Didgeridoo", "Bit", "Banjo", and "Pling".
 * The sounds can be heard by using iron blocks, soul sand, pumpkins, emerald blocks, hay bales, and glowstone respectively.


 * Scaffolding
 * A new, quickly climbable block that can be crafted using bamboo and string.
 * The player can build a pillar of scaffolding by just pressing on the top face of a scaffolding block, as well as place scaffolding to the side.
 * The whole structure breaks when the bottom block is broken.
 * The player can climb up a block by and go down by pressing.
 * The player can sneak by pressing when there's no other scaffolding block below.
 * The sides only have placement collision detection on the bamboo struts.
 * Scaffolding without blocks under it has a bottom that can be walked on.
 * Can be placed 6 blocks out from its base of support without falling.


 * Signs
 * Added spruce, birch, acacia, jungle and dark oak signs: signs now come in all different wood types.
 * Sign text's color can now be changed by right clicking them with any of the 16 dyes.


 * Slabs
 * Added stone, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick, mossy cobblestone, smooth sandstone, cut sandstone, smooth red sandstone, cut red sandstone, smooth quartz, red nether brick, and end stone brick slabs.


 * Smithing Tables
 * Generate in village toolsmith houses.
 * Can be crafted with 4 planks and 2 iron ingots.
 * Acts as the Toolsmith villager's job site


 * Smokers
 * New furnace upgrade that allows for the cooking of foods faster than the traditional furnace.
 * Twice as fast as a regular furnace, but only gives half the experience.
 * Can only cook food.
 * Can be crafted using 4 logs and 1 furnace.
 * Generate in village butcher shops.
 * Acts as the Butcher villager's job site
 * Have support for hopper and dropper inputs and outputs.


 * Stairs
 * Added stone, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick, mossy cobblestone, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz, red nether brick, and end stone brick stairs.


 * Stonecutters
 * Can be used as a simpler way to craft various stone variants (stairs, slabs, bricks, walls, chiseled, etc).
 * Can be crafted with 3 stone blocks and 1 iron ingot.
 * Generate in village mason houses.
 * Acts as the Mason villager's job site


 * Sweet berry bushes
 * Commonly found in, , and biomes.
 * Rarely found in, and  biomes.
 * Can be planted from sweet berries.
 * Have 4 stages of growth: 'sapling', 'no berries', 'some berries', and 'full berries'.
 * Drop 1–2 berries in younger stage, 2–3 in full growth stage.
 * They're harvested with right-click.
 * Support bonemeal usage.
 * They slow movement of all mobs in all stages of growth.
 * Any mob can stand inside them, but they deal damage similar to a cactus if the mob isn't standing still, as long as the bush has grown past the 'sapling' stage.


 * Walls
 * Added brick, andesite, diorite, granite, prismarine, stone brick, mossy stone brick, sandstone, red sandstone, nether brick, red nether brick, and end stone brick walls.

Items

 * General
 * Added a new tag for item forms of blocks called BlockStateTag.
 * Formatted as.
 * Does not affect item model.


 * Banner Patterns
 * Crafted with paper and their associated items.
 * For example, enchanted golden apple is the associated item for "Thing" banner pattern.
 * New "Globe" banner pattern, with no associated item.
 * Obtained by trading with a master-level cartographer villager.


 * Crossbows
 * Crafted from strings, iron ingots, sticks, and tripwire hooks.
 * Can be used as a weapon similar to bows.
 * Slightly more range, but takes longer to charge.
 * Hold to charge, click to release.
 * Charge is saved in inventory, can be used later.
 * Can shoot firework rockets holding the crossbow in one hand and the fireworks in the other.
 * Can be enchanted with new enchantments:
 * Multishot
 * Fires three arrows at once in different directions; not compatible with Piercing.
 * Quick Charge
 * Increases the reload speed. 3 levels; 0.25 seconds faster each level.
 * Piercing
 * Projectiles pierce through mobs. 4 levels; not compatible with Multishot.
 * Its arrows deal from to  damage.


 * Dyes
 * Added blue dye, brown dye, black dye and white dye.
 * Separated bone meal, ink sacs, cocoa beans and lapis lazuli into their own items: they can no longer be used to dye directly.
 * New dyes craftable from respective ingredients.


 * Leather Horse Armor
 * Added leather horse armor in Java Edition.
 * This is already a item in Legacy Console Edition and Bedrock Edition.
 * Crafted from 7 leather.
 * Can be dyed 12,326,391 different colors, similar to leather armor.


 * Spawn eggs
 * Cat spawn egg
 * Fox spawn egg
 * Panda spawn egg
 * Pillager spawn egg
 * Ravager spawn egg
 * Trader llama spawn egg
 * Wandering Trader spawn egg


 * Suspicious stew
 * Found in shipwreck supply chests.
 * Can be crafted with a red and brown mushroom, a bowl and any flower.
 * Cannot be obtained in the creative inventory.
 * It restores hunger points and 7.2 saturation points and gives roughly 5 seconds of a status effect.
 * The effect given upon eating depends on which flower is used, as does the exact duration of the effect.
 * Oxeye Daisy gives Regeneration.
 * Cornflower gives Jump Boost.
 * Lily of the Valley gives Poison.
 * Wither Rose gives Wither.
 * Tulip gives Weakness.
 * Azure Bluet gives Blindness.
 * Allium gives Fire Resistance.
 * Blue Orchid gives Saturation.
 * Poppy gives Speed.
 * Dandelion gives Saturation.


 * Sweet berries
 * Fill hunger points.
 * Can be planted in the ground and will grow into sweet berry bushes.

Mobs

 * Cats
 * Have health.
 * Drop 0–2 string.
 * Typically found wandering around villages as strays.
 * Black cats can spawn in witch huts.
 * Untamed cats can despawn.
 * Have 8 new skins, one being chosen by the community.
 * Tamed cats will sleep or sit on the owner if they go to sleep in a bed.
 * When the owner wakes up from the bed, the owner will receive a gift, based on a loot table.
 * The possible gifts are:, , , , , or.
 * Scare off phantoms, and will hiss at them.
 * Cat collars can now be dyed.


 * Foxes
 * Have health.
 * Nocturnal mobs which sleep at morning and are awake at night.
 * Drop nothing when killed.
 * Will run from the player.
 * They are about as fast as ocelots.
 * Can be bred with sweet berries.
 * The baby born will trust the player and not run away.
 * Will pick up dropped food items with their mouth.
 * Are attacked by wild wolves (but run faster).
 * May spawn wandering around villages at night.
 * A white variant spawns in.


 * Mooshroom
 * Added brown variant.
 * Does not spawn naturally.
 * Obtainable when a normal mooshroom gets struck by lightning, or by using the command.
 * Will change back into a normal mooshroom when it gets struck by lightning again.
 * Can be fed with a flower and be "milked" for suspicious stew.
 * The stew would have the same attributes that would be given if the player crafted a suspicious stew with the flower.
 * Only given the first time the mooshroom has eaten the flower.


 * Pandas
 * Have health.  health for weak pandas.
 * Drop 1 bamboo when killed (not affected by Looting).
 * They are usually passive.
 * They spawn in bamboo forests inside jungles.
 * Will seek out bamboo and cake items and eat them.
 * They have varying personalities and traits.
 * They can be normal, aggressive, lazy, weak, worried, or playful (defined by two NBT tags, HiddenGene and MainGene).
 * They have a rare white and brown variant (both main and hidden gene have to be brown for a panda to appear brown).
 * Their emotions can be read on their faces.
 * Breedable.
 * Baby pandas will sometimes sneeze, making nearby pandas jump: when they sneeze, they have a chance to drop a slime ball.
 * Variants are inherited by a special panda inheritance system.
 * Sometimes roll and sit on hind legs.
 * When hit, nearby villagers will display the angry villager particles.


 * Pillagers
 * They are hostile mobs, considered a subset of illagers.
 * Have health.
 * They wield crossbows.
 * Drop their crossbows when killed (affected by Looting).
 * They will raid, or take over, villages, killing villagers.
 * They cannot equip armor of any type.
 * Attack villagers, iron golems and wandering traders.


 * Ravagers
 * Have health.
 * Have 100% knockback resistance when hit.
 * Destroy crops and leaves.
 * Attack villagers, iron golems and wandering traders.
 * Drop a saddle when killed (100% of the time, not affected by Looting).
 * Ravager Jockeys
 * Ravagers ridden by Illagers that spawn in Illager raids.
 * Trader Llamas
 * Have to  health.
 * Spawn in pairs alongside a wandering trader.
 * Are hostile towards all illagers (except for ravagers) and all zombie variants.
 * Are the same as normal llamas but have blue and gold decorations.
 * Have unique default carpet design. Can't be removed but can be replaced.
 * Can be equipped with carpets as normal llamas. Original garb reappears when the carpet is taken off.
 * Can be tamed normally like any wild llama after the wandering trader is killed or the lead breaks after it walks too far away.
 * Drop 1 lead when killed (100% of the time, not affected by Looting).


 * Wandering Traders
 * Have health.
 * Found in random places around the world. Only one will spawn in the world with two trader llamas and within a 48-block radius of a player.
 * After one in-game day, the game will begin to attempt to spawn a wandering trader once per in-game day.
 * Spawn attempt chance increases with each failed attempt: Initially it will start out at 2.5%, then 5%, and then finally cap out at 7.5%.
 * Provides a random variety of biome-specific item trades, not dependent on biome it spawns in.
 * Trading times are limited, locked trades are not unlockable by conducting other trades.
 * Has 6 trades, all unlocked up front, once used up cannot be reopened.
 * Despawn after 48000 ticks (40 minutes).
 * Will drink potions of invisibility at night to hide from hostile mobs.
 * Will drink milk in the daytime to remove the potion effect.
 * Have a data tag containing a block position. When set, they will pathfind to that position.

World generation

 * Bamboo forests
 * New biome variant of jungles.
 * It contains bamboo shoots, podzol, and pandas.


 * Pillager outposts
 * Are structures related to pillagers, separate from illager patrols.
 * Spawn pillagers. Patrol leaders can spawn at outposts.
 * They have loot chests at the top, and minor structures around the main tower.
 * Can be found in any biome a village can be generated in.
 * Use the jigsaw block for generation.


 * Villages
 * Added snowy tundra villages.


 * Zombie villages
 * Added snowy tundra zombie villages.

Gameplay

 * Illager patrols
 * Spawn in the world as a pack of 5 mobs consisting of pillagers or vindicators.
 * Spawn in all variations of the plains, taiga, desert and savanna biomes, on top of grass or sand blocks.
 * An illager banner can be found on the patrol leader's head.
 * Pillagers will attack and pillage villages, trampling crops and killing villagers.
 * Players who kill the leader will have the Bad Omen status effect inflicted upon them.


 * Illager Raids
 * Triggered when a player inflicted with the Bad Omen effect enters a village.
 * Max Bad Omen level for a maximum-strength raid is V.
 * Kill leaders to increase Bad Omen level.
 * Each person that brings Bad Omen into the village will lead to additional waves of raids.
 * Higher level of Bad Omen means higher chance that enemies will have enchanted weapons.
 * Pillagers, vindicators, evokers, witches and ravagers can appear as part of the raids.
 * Raid progress bar once a village has been entered is displayed like the ender dragon health bar, decreases on pillager kills.
 * The raid boss bar slowly fills up when a raid is triggered or when a wave is cleared.
 * Shows remaining mobs near the end.
 * Mobs appear in waves, which follow a set pattern of waves based on difficulty (Easy is three waves, Normal is five waves, and Hard is seven waves).
 * A bonus wave is added for every additional level of Bad Omen brought into a village, equivalent to the final base wave.
 * A wave can only begin, if all mobs in the previous wave have been killed.
 * Include witches and evokers on later waves.
 * When players defeat all waves, they get a effect as a reward, and the villagers will gift the player random items according to their profession.
 * Raids end with a Victory or Defeat message.


 * Resource packs
 * Added "Programmer Art – The classic look of Minecraft" to the resource pack menu.


 * Status effects
 * Acquired by killing an illager patrol leader (an illager wearing a banner on its head).
 * Occurs when a raid is defeated.
 * The level of the effect is equivalent to the level of the Bad Omen effect.
 * Lasts for approximately two in-game days, in which trades from villagers are heavily discounted.
 * The level of the effect is equivalent to the level of the Bad Omen effect.
 * Lasts for approximately two in-game days, in which trades from villagers are heavily discounted.

Command format

 * Tags
 * Nine new block tags:
 * bamboo_plantable_on,
 * small_flowers
 * Six new item tags: arrows.


 * General syntax: {{cmd|loot  in options.txt.
 * Discrete Scrolling tells the game to ignore scroll magnitude values given by the operating system and instead to act as if the operating system supplied &minus;1 or +1. These will be influenced by the sensitivity afterwards, if needed.
 * If unwanted scrolling occurs, enable discrete scrolling and set the sensitivity to 1.
 * If unwanted scrolling occurs, enable discrete scrolling and set the sensitivity to 1.


 * Narrator
 * Narrator is now found in settings.
 * The narrator will now read hovered over buttons out loud.


 * Optimizations
 * Inside the optimize world screen there is now an option to remove cached world data (e.g., height maps and light), so that it is re-computed when the world is next loaded.
 * Optimized nether portals.
 * They will now keep the other side loaded for 15 seconds after an entity goes through.


 * Particles
 * Are now broken up into individual textures files per frame rather than being in {{cd|particles.png}}.
 * Do not use {{cd|.mcmeta}} files for their animation – those are still hard-coded.
 * Sprites for particles can now be configured in resource packs.


 * Pause screen
 * Added "Give Feedback" and "Report Bugs" buttons.


 * Player positioning
 * The player's position will now adjust to the gap they are within:
 * 1.5 blocks: sneaking posture
 * <1 block: swimming animation
 * Being forced into an area under two blocks high will cause the player to adopt the appropriate posture.


 * Sounds
 * Rewrote sound system.
 * Reduced stuttering when playing sounds.


 * Splash
 * Removed "Hobo humping slobo babe!"
 * Removed splashes referencing Notch:
 * "Made by Notch!"
 * "The Work of Notch!"
 * "110813!"


 * Technical
 * Added support for directional opacity of blocks (used by slabs, stairs, snow, farmland, grass paths, extended pistons (base and head), End portal frames, and enchanting tables)


 * Textures
 * All textures have been updated.
 * New consistent set of block, item, mob, effect, GUI, etc. textures made by Jasper Boerstra.
 * Old textures are offered as a resource pack called "Programmer Art".


 * Video settings
 * 'Use VBOs' toggle removed. Now always enabled.


 * World creation
 * New progress message: "Upgrading structure data".
 * Worlds with names already being used now will prepend to the folder name a number in parentheses instead of adding hyphens (e.g., "New World (3)" instead of "New World---").


 * Miscellaneous
 * Improved collision code.
 * The loading screen with the Mojang logo now shows a progress bar.

Videos
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Trivia

 * Village & Pillage is the first update name to not have the word "Update" in its title.
 * Originally, the Update Aquatic was to be released as version 1.14, but this was changed to be released as 1.13, due to the world generation overhaul taking longer than Mojang was hoping.