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Illager patrols[1] are common naturally spawning groups of pillagers and vindicators that attack villages.

Spawning

Illager patrols spawn as a group of either five pillagers, four pillagers and one vindicator, three pillagers and two vindicators, two pillagers and three vindicators, or one pillager and four vindicators, one of the pillagers is the patrol captain/leader.

Illager patrols spawn 200 blocks away from villages in plains, taiga, desert and savanna biomes, as well as their variants, on sand and grass blocks with a block light level of 0–8 and a sky light level of 10–15. Illager patrols spawn naturally throughout the day or night but after 5 days in-game days.

The patrol captain will wear one Illager Banner pillager banner on their head.

Behavior

Illager patrols will circle inwards to villages and then proceed to attack the village and try to kill villagers and iron golems.

The patrol captain always drops an illager banner upon death.

Bad Omen

Upon killing a patrol captain, the player receives 1 to 3 levels of the Bad Omen effect for 100 minutes, which has no consequences until the player enters a village. Then the effect is removed from the player and a raid spawns nearby after about 5 seconds.

History

Java Edition
1.1418w45aAdded illager patrols.
18w46aIllager beasts will now no longer spawn in illager patrols.
Illager patrols will now spawn 5 illagers instead of 4.
18w47aAdded the Bad Omen status effect, which is applied to players upon killing a patrol captain.
Illager patrols now spawn less often.
18w50aPlayer will now get unlimited time Bad Omen status effect when killing a patrol captain.

Issues

Issues relating to "Illager patrol" or "Patrol" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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See also

References

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 18w45a" – Minecraft.net, November 7, 2018
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