Pillagers can open doors or loot chests.
illagers armed with crossbows patrol the Overworld, guard their outposts and participate in raids.
The number of pillagers in each patrol depends on the local difficulty, with one spawning as a patrol captain.Patrols occur after 512 in-game days, any time and independently of structures, which means they remain in a world without generated structures.24 to 48 blocks away from a random player, a patrol will be on the highest solid block.The patrol can only have pillagers at block light level 7 or lower.
In Bedrock Edition, patrol spawns 2 to 5 pillagers on Easy and Normal difficulty, whereas on Hard difficulty only 20% are vindicators.A patrol captain is one of the illagers.After 512 in-game days, patrols appear 24 to 48 blocks away from the player, at a light level of 7 or below.
There is a 725472 block volume centered on the top floor.If the sky light is 11 or lower, and the block light level is 8 or less, they can spawn on any valid opaque block.
In Bedrock Edition, pillagers can choose between the highest opaque block with a non-solid block on top and the northwest corner.
In a raid, pillagers are more common in the earlier waves and decline in number as the waves progress.They are still the majority of raiders.The pillager is the most common raiding mob.A pillager rides a ravager in the fifth wave.One of the ravagers is ridden by a pillager instead of a vindicator on the seventh wave in Bedrock Edition.
In Java Edition, a pillager spawned by the player using a command can be a illager captain, meaning they have the Ominous banner sticking out of their back.
Players, iron golems, wandering traders and villagers are hostile toward pillagers.In Bedrock Edition pillagers are hostile toward snow golems, but not baby villagers.They attack by shooting arrows from their crossbows every 3 seconds up to 8 blocks away and then pursue their targets for 64 blocks.They are difficult to shake off because of their fast walking pace.The pillagers never retaliate against each other.Unlike most other mobs, they always seek an attacker.In Bedrock Edition, a pillager that accidentally shoots a vindicator makes it retaliate, as this never happens in Java Edition.The pillager doesn't retaliate against the vindicator that attacks it.
If pillagers kill all the villagers in a village, they celebrate by jumping and laughing.In Bedrock Edition, pillagers wave their arms while holding their crossbow.
The pillager's crossbow breaks with repeated use, unlike weapons wielded by other mobs.Iron golems are hostile toward unarmed pillagers in Java Edition.In Bedrock Edition, pillagers still use melee attacks to attack the player.
The pillager will point its crossbow at the player if a player goes near it or looks at it.There are pillagers that don't have a crossbow.When a pillager sees a target, it goes to kill it instead of staring at the player.
In Bedrock Edition, pillagers have a chance of dropping Easy and Normal, or 80% chance on Hard difficulty.
The Bad Omen status effect occurs if the player kills a pillager captain with an ominous banner on its head.The effect lasts for 100 minutes and can be removed by drinking milk.Waves of illagers try to eliminate all villagers in a village when a player afflicted with Bad Omen enters the village.
The player will be set with one level of Bad Omen upon death due to the fact that each patrol has one captain and outposts have pillager captains.When defeated in a raid, raid captains do not cause Bad Omen.Killing multiple captains in succession raises the Bad Omen level to a maximum of V, increasing the chance of pillagers and vindicators in the raid wielding enchanted weapons.If the Bad Omen level is higher than I, the raid will include an additional wave with the same raider composition as the last wave.