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Here's Johnny!

Marsh Davies[1]

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

Spawning

Woodland mansions

Vindicators spawn during the generation of mansions, in particular rooms. Some rooms will contain 1, others will contain 3, and some will contain 2 accompanied by an evoker. They will not respawn after their initial spawn. Vindicators that are generated with mansions do not naturally despawn.

Some vindicators may spawn with an enchanted iron axe, depending on the difficulty set: the chances go up as the difficulty goes up.

Illager patrols

Main article: Illager patrol

In Java Edition, Illager patrols spawn a maximum of five pillagers (weight 55) or vindicators (weight 27) 200 blocks away from villages on grass or sand with a block light level of 0–8 and a sky light level of 10–15.

In Bedrock Edition, Illagers consist of 2-5 illagers, with all illagers always being a pillager on easy and normal difficulties, and on hard 80% of them will be pillagers and 20% of them will be vindicators.

Raids

Vindicators are able to spawn as part of raids.

Drops

Vindicators only drop loot when killed by a player or tamed wolf. They will drop when they die:

In Bedrock Edition 1.11.0, if vindicators spawn from raids, they can additionally drop:

  • 0-1 Emerald (up to 4 with looting III)

And has 2.5% chance to drop one of these items:

  • 2-3 Emerald (up to 6 with looting III)
  • 4-5 Emerald (up to 8 with looting III)
  • Enchanted Book (enchantment level 30)
  • Iron Sword (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Helmet (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Chestplate (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Leggings (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Boots (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Axe (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)
  • Iron Shovel (will be badly damaged, can be enchanted with random enchantment)

Behavior

Vindication

A vindicator chasing a villager.

Vindicators are hostile towards players, iron golems, villagers or adult villagers, and wandering traders. They will try to attack them, raising their main hand and brandishing an iron axe. When in pursuit of their target they will sprint toward them, slightly faster than the player's walking speed. When not attacking, they cross their arms similar to a villager, and don't show the axe in their hand.

If a vindicator is named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b), it will be hostile to every mob, except for evokers, illusioners, pillagers[BE only], ghasts, and other vindicators. It will even be hostile to vexes and ravagers[Java Edition only]. All hostile or neutral mobs, except for endermites, phantoms, guardians, slimes, magma cubes and ravagers, will try to attack the vindicator in return. The Johnny tag overrides its name; the player can give the vindicator any other name and set the Johnny tag to 1b and it will still be hostile in the same way as described. Conversely, you can name the vindicator Johnny and set the Johnny tag to 0b, and the vindicator will not be hostile as described; it will act as a normal vindicator.

Naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a spawner will make the spawner spawn normal vindicators, not vindicators named Johnny.‌[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]

During raids, vindicators can break doors. If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators will celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

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

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    • Tags common to all mobs spawnable in raids
    •  Johnny: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, causes the vindicator to exhibit Johnny behavior. Setting to false prevents the vindicator exhibiting Johnny behavior, even if named Johnny. Optional.

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
Monster HunterAttack and destroy a monster.Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.15GBronze

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawAdventure
Adventure, exploration and combat Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.adventure/root
Advancement-plain-rawMonster Hunter
Kill any hostile monster AdventureKill one of these 34 mobs: Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.adventure/kill_a_mob
Advancement-fancy-rawMonsters Hunted
Kill one of every hostile monster Monster HunterKill each of these 34 mobs: Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.1116w39aAdded vindicators.
16w40a"Johnny" vindicators are now activated by a custom tag in addition to a custom name.
The vindicators' axes are now one of their HandItems, whereas before it was purely a visual effect. This means their attack will now disable shields.
Vindicators have now been heavily buffed - their attack damage on Easy has now been increased from 3♥♥ to 7♥♥♥♥, on Normal 5♥♥♥ to 13♥ × 6.5, and on Hard, 7♥♥♥♥ to 19♥ × 9.5.
1.13pre5The entity ID for vindicators has now been changed from vindication_illager to vindicator.
1.1418w45aVindicators can now spawn in illager patrols.
Vindicators can now sometimes spawn as a patrol leader in illager patrols.
18w47aVindicators can now spawn as part of raids.
Vindicators can now break doors.
19w05aVindicators are hostile towards the new wandering traders.
19w13aIf raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators will celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Added vindicators.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Vindicators are now hostile towards the new wandering traders.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Vindicators can now spawn as part of illager patrols and raids.
Vindicators can now spawn as raid captains.
Vindicators no longer attack baby villagers.
beta 1.11.0.4Vindicators that spawn from raids now have special drops upon death.
beta 1.11.0.7Vindicators can now break wooden doors.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54CU44 1.52 Patch 24Patch s4Added vindicators.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19Added vindicators.

Issues

Issues relating to "Vindicator" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

File:Vindicator Mobestiary.jpeg
  • According to Jeb, naming a vindicator "Johnny" will cause the vindicator to become hostile towards every mob, except other illagers; a reference to The Shining.[2]

References

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