Minecraft Dungeons:Vindicator

A vindicator is a common illager and hostile mob equipped with an axe. It is found on most levels in Minecraft Dungeons.

Lore
Before the Arch-Illager appeared, vindicators were basic illager soldiers, guarding the woodland mansions and participating in raids. After Archie gets the, the vindicators and pillagers led by the evokers and , joined the Arch-Illager's army, patrolling now the Highblock Keep, the , , and participating in raids, now with the help of redstone golems and the. After the heroes defeat the Arch-Illager, they traveled to other areas of the mainland and even other dimensions, where vindicators can also be found.

Appearance
The vindicator's appearance $$ is similar to its default counterpart, but with a slightly brightened texture, and their arms are never seen together, unlike in the base game.

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Behavior
If vindicator sees a hero, it charges and attacks with an axe.

Vindicators attack the hero on sight. They have high movement speed. Their attack speed is slightly slower than zombies but they deal more damage and are tougher. They have more delay than other melee mobs when attacking. However they can easily catch up to hero as they can move while attacking.
 * Strong attack

Like baby zombies, after vindicators hitting a hero, they retreat. When they retreat, they lower their axes.
 * Retreat

Vindicators turn to "lock onto the hero" if they run more than 15 blocks away. Once triggered, Their charge speed is slightly increases and they no longer retreat after hitting but chase the hero until death or aggressivness is exhausted.
 * Target lock

A vindicator becomes aggressive if a hero stands in the vindicator's taunt circle. If hurt by hero, its attack speed increases and its charge speed decreases. An aggressive vindicator always raises its axe, even when retreating.
 * Aggressive


 * Novelty



If the hero is surrounded by a large group of vindicators and has already been attacked by some of them, the vindicator that has been retreated or outside the battlefield will do a call out behavior called "Novetly" before their next charges and attacks, as one of the easter eggs in the game.

Health
Vindicators have 110 HP in the code. On Default I, all mobs have 9.6% health and 12% damage of what is set in the code.

Data values

 * In the game files, the vindicator is referred to internally as the  and the.

Trivia

 * The vindicator's textures are perfectly compatible with the illusioner's model, and the unused white wig will appear in place of the Illusioner's hood layer, as well as the texture of the Vindicator's unused closed arms and upside down T eyebrows.
 * The vindicator of the beta versions that can be seen in the Minecraft Dungeons: Opening Cinematic and in the, used the skin texture of the base game (pre 1.14) and had a collar with the same color as the pants, instead of red.
 * In a cutscene seen between and, some vindicators can be seen walking around without axes.