Minecraft Dungeons:Vindicator Chef

"ILLAGER CHEFS – Near the buffet tables, you will see Illagers garbed in chef outfits and brandishing spatulas. They do not appreciate unwanted guests at the banquet. It should only take one or two swift hits with a melee weapon to finish them off. Spatulas do not make for great weapons."

- Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

A vindicator chef is a hostile illager and vindicator variant that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Appearance
A vindicator chef is a vindicator that wears a white chef apron and toque. It carries a ladle, which it uses to attack heroes.

Spawning

 * (Kitchen area)
 * (Secret area)
 * (Secret area)
 * (Secret area)

Behavior
Technically, vindicator chef's AI is the same as a regular vindicator. Vindicator chefs raise their main hand, brandishing a ladle, dealing the same amount of damage and same health as a regular vindicator.

Vindicator chefs 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

Vindicator chefs retreat after hitting a hero, similar to baby zombies. When they retreat, they lower their ladles.
 * Retreat

Vindicator chefs 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

Vindicator chefs become aggressive if a hero stands within their taunt circle. If hurt by hero, its attack speed increases and its charge speed decreases. An aggressive vindicator chef always raises its ladles, even when retreating.
 * Aggressive

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

Chef outfit
A chef’s outfit is an armor set that can be found exclusively equipped by vindicator chefs within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Ladle
A ladle is a weapon that can be found exclusively equipped by vindicator chefs within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Spawning

 * Missions


 * Mobs

Data values

 * In the game files, the chef outfit is referred to internally by the names  and the.
 * In the game files, the ladle is referred to internally by the name.

Trivia

 * Despite behaving like a vindicator, vindicator chef have its own separate ID:, and they cannot spawn by  ID.
 * Vindicator chefs were featured in a twitter post defending their food at an illager party within Highblock Halls.
 * In Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes, vindicator chef and ladles are confused with "Illager Chef" and "Spatulas".