Vindicator

Vindicator

Health points	24HP × 12
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Illager, Monster
Attack strength	Melee: Iron Axe: Easy: 7.5HP × 3.75 Normal: 13HP × 6.5 Hard: 19.5HP × 9.75 Unarmed: In Java Edition: Easy: 3.5HP × 1.75 Normal: 5HP Hard: 7.5HP × 3.75 In Bedrock Edition: Easy: 5HP Normal: 8HP Hard: 12HP × 6
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.9 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Speed	5.612 blocks/sec
Spawn	Woodland Mansion Raids
Natural equipment	Iron Axe (right hand: 89%; left hand: 11%‌; may be enchanted)

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A vindicator is an illager equipped with an iron axe. Vindicators spawn in woodland mansions and participate in raids. They sprint toward their targets to attack them with their axe.

Spawning

On Normal difficulty and Hard difficulty, vindicators sometimes spawn with a randomly enchanted iron axe: the chance is 0–25%, and is higher when the regional difficulty is higher.

Woodland mansions

Vindicators spawn during the generation of woodland mansions, in groups of 1–3 inside particular rooms, sometimes accompanied by an evoker. They spawn on all 3 floors. Rarely, vindicators can spawn in the corridors and hallways.

They do not respawn after initially spawning. Vindicators generated in woodland mansions do not despawn.

Vindicators are sometimes neutral if naturally spawned in a woodland mansion, which means that the vindicator does not attack the player on sight, but only after the player attacks it.

Patrols

In Java Edition, any vindicators can join a patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain, but do not go seeking out for patrols to join nor do they naturally spawn in a patrol.

Raids

Vindicators can spawn during raids. They appear more frequently during later waves and at higher difficulties.

Vindicators that spawn from raids have a chance to spawn with Sharpness I on their axe, or Sharpness II in waves 6 and up. This replaces the usual chance of a random enchantment.

Vindicators can spawn riding ravagers, creating a vindicator ravager jockey.‌

Java Edition

In Java Edition, if a player spawns a vindicator with a spawn egg or using a command, the vindicator has a chance of becoming an illager captain, with a Ominous banner attached above its back.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Emerald[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Emerald[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Emerald[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Emerald[A]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Emerald[A][B]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25
	Emerald[A][C]	0–7	80.00%	1.44	0–10	80.00%	2.04	0–13	80.00%	2.64	0–16	80.00%	3.24
	Emerald[D][C]	0–6	60.00%	0.94	0–8	60.00%	1.29	0–10	60.00%	1.64	0–12	60.00%	1.99
	Emerald[A][E]	0–7	81.15%	1.54	0–10	81.15%	2.17	0–13	81.15%	2.79	0–16	81.15%	3.41
	Emerald[D][E]	0–6	62.31%	1.04	0–8	62.31%	1.42	0–10	62.31%	1.79	0–12	62.31%	2.16
	Enchanted Book[F][C]	0–1	3.33%	0.03	0–1	3.33%	0.03	0–1	3.33%	0.03	0–1	3.33%	0.03
	Enchanted Book[F][E]	0–1	4.10%	0.04	0–1	4.10%	0.04	0–1	4.10%	0.04	0–1	4.10%	0.04
	Iron Pickaxe[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Pickaxe[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Axe[G][C][H]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Axe[G][E][H]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Shovel[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Shovel[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Sword[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Sword[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Helmet[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Helmet[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Chestplate[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Chestplate[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Leggings[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Leggings[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05
	Iron Boots[G][C]	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04	0–1	4.17%	0.04
	Iron Boots[G][E]	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05	0–1	5.13%	0.05

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Emerald[A][B]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4
	Emerald[A][C]	0–7	4⁄5	173⁄120	0–10	4⁄5	49⁄24	0–13	4⁄5	317⁄120	0–16	4⁄5	389⁄120
	Emerald[D][C]	0–6	3⁄5	113⁄120	0–8	3⁄5	31⁄24	0–10	3⁄5	197⁄120	0–12	3⁄5	239⁄120
	Emerald[A][E]	0–7	211⁄260	301⁄195	0–10	211⁄260	13⁄6	0–13	211⁄260	544⁄195	0–16	211⁄260	1331⁄390
	Emerald[D][E]	0–6	81⁄130	407⁄390	0–8	81⁄130	17⁄12	0–10	81⁄130	349⁄195	0–12	81⁄130	1687⁄780
	Enchanted Book[F][C]	0–1	1⁄30	1⁄30	0–1	1⁄30	1⁄30	0–1	1⁄30	1⁄30	0–1	1⁄30	1⁄30
	Enchanted Book[F][E]	0–1	8⁄195	8⁄195	0–1	8⁄195	8⁄195	0–1	8⁄195	8⁄195	0–1	8⁄195	8⁄195
	Iron Pickaxe[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Pickaxe[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Axe[G][C][H]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Axe[G][E][H]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Shovel[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Shovel[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Sword[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Sword[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Helmet[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Helmet[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Chestplate[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Chestplate[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Leggings[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Leggings[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39
	Iron Boots[G][C]	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24	0–1	1⁄24	1⁄24
	Iron Boots[G][E]	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39	0–1	2⁄39	2⁄39

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Emerald[A][B]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)
	Emerald[A][C]	0	1⁄5 (20.00%)	1⁄5 (20.00%)	1⁄5 (20.00%)	1⁄5 (20.00%)
		1	101⁄240 (42.08%)	101⁄480 (21.04%)	101⁄960 (10.52%)	101⁄1440 (7.01%)
		2	121⁄480 (25.21%)	53⁄192 (27.60%)	73⁄320 (22.81%)	257⁄1728 (14.87%)
		3	5⁄96 (5.21%)	89⁄640 (13.91%)	2689⁄15360 (17.51%)	8969⁄51840 (17.30%)
		4	17⁄480 (3.54%)	71⁄768 (9.24%)	1107⁄10240 (10.81%)	13997⁄103680 (13.50%)
		5	11⁄480 (2.29%)	67⁄1920 (3.49%)	2633⁄30720 (8.57%)	1735⁄20736 (8.37%)
		6	1⁄80 (1.25%)	47⁄1920 (2.45%)	449⁄10240 (4.38%)	1927⁄25920 (7.43%)
		7	1⁄240 (0.42%)	13⁄960 (1.35%)	731⁄30720 (2.38%)	1709⁄34560 (4.95%)
		8	0	5⁄768 (0.65%)	159⁄10240 (1.55%)	2863⁄103680 (2.76%)
		9	0	1⁄480 (0.21%)	53⁄6144 (0.86%)	139⁄8640 (1.61%)
		10	0	1⁄1920 (0.05%)	121⁄30720 (0.39%)	1109⁄103680 (1.07%)
		11	0	0	47⁄30720 (0.15%)	637⁄103680 (0.61%)
		12	0	0	7⁄15360 (0.05%)	1⁄324 (0.31%)
		13	0	0	1⁄15360 (0.01%)	47⁄34560 (0.14%)
		14	0	0	0	53⁄103680 (0.05%)
		15	0	0	0	7⁄51840 (0.01%)
		16	0	0	0	1⁄51840 (0.00%)
		Average	173⁄120 (1.44)	49⁄24 (2.04)	317⁄120 (2.64)	389⁄120 (3.24)
	Emerald[D][C]	0	2⁄5 (40.00%)	2⁄5 (40.00%)	2⁄5 (40.00%)	2⁄5 (40.00%)
		1	53⁄120 (44.17%)	53⁄240 (22.08%)	53⁄480 (11.04%)	53⁄720 (7.36%)
		2	1⁄16 (6.25%)	29⁄120 (24.17%)	439⁄1920 (22.86%)	41⁄270 (15.19%)
		3	1⁄24 (4.17%)	3⁄64 (4.69%)	529⁄3840 (13.78%)	469⁄2880 (16.28%)
		4	7⁄240 (2.92%)	13⁄320 (4.06%)	51⁄1280 (3.98%)	97⁄960 (10.10%)
		5	1⁄60 (1.67%)	5⁄192 (2.60%)	17⁄480 (3.54%)	1⁄30 (3.33%)
		6	1⁄120 (0.83%)	1⁄64 (1.56%)	47⁄1920 (2.45%)	43⁄1440 (2.99%)
		7	0	1⁄160 (0.62%)	53⁄3840 (1.38%)	19⁄864 (2.20%)
		8	0	1⁄480 (0.21%)	5⁄768 (0.65%)	59⁄4320 (1.37%)
		9	0	0	1⁄384 (0.26%)	61⁄8640 (0.71%)
		10	0	0	1⁄1920 (0.05%)	29⁄8640 (0.34%)
		11	0	0	0	1⁄864 (0.12%)
		12	0	0	0	1⁄4320 (0.02%)
		Average	113⁄120 (0.94)	31⁄24 (1.29)	197⁄120 (1.64)	239⁄120 (1.99)
	Emerald[A][E]	0	49⁄260 (18.85%)	49⁄260 (18.85%)	49⁄260 (18.85%)	49⁄260 (18.85%)
		1	157⁄390 (40.26%)	157⁄780 (20.13%)	157⁄1560 (10.06%)	157⁄2340 (6.71%)
		2	197⁄780 (25.26%)	167⁄624 (26.76%)	913⁄4160 (21.95%)	803⁄5616 (14.30%)
		3	5⁄78 (6.41%)	37⁄260 (14.23%)	2149⁄12480 (17.22%)	7079⁄42120 (16.81%)
		4	17⁄390 (4.36%)	31⁄312 (9.94%)	927⁄8320 (11.14%)	869⁄6480 (13.41%)
		5	11⁄390 (2.82%)	67⁄1560 (4.29%)	2273⁄24960 (9.11%)	1465⁄16848 (8.70%)
		6	1⁄65 (1.54%)	47⁄1560 (3.01%)	419⁄8320 (5.04%)	1657⁄21060 (7.87%)
		7	1⁄195 (0.51%)	1⁄60 (1.67%)	731⁄24960 (2.93%)	1529⁄28080 (5.45%)
		8	0	5⁄624 (0.80%)	159⁄8320 (1.91%)	341⁄10530 (3.24%)
		9	0	1⁄390 (0.26%)	53⁄4992 (1.06%)	139⁄7020 (1.98%)
		10	0	1⁄1560 (0.06%)	121⁄24960 (0.48%)	1109⁄84240 (1.32%)
		11	0	0	47⁄24960 (0.19%)	49⁄6480 (0.76%)
		12	0	0	7⁄12480 (0.06%)	4⁄1053 (0.38%)
		13	0	0	1⁄12480 (0.01%)	47⁄28080 (0.17%)
		14	0	0	0	53⁄84240 (0.06%)
		15	0	0	0	7⁄42120 (0.02%)
		16	0	0	0	1⁄42120 (0.00%)
		Average	301⁄195 (1.54)	13⁄6 (2.17)	544⁄195 (2.79)	1331⁄390 (3.41)
	Emerald[D][E]	0	49⁄130 (37.69%)	49⁄130 (37.69%)	49⁄130 (37.69%)	49⁄130 (37.69%)
		1	167⁄390 (42.82%)	167⁄780 (21.41%)	167⁄1560 (10.71%)	167⁄2340 (7.14%)
		2	1⁄13 (7.69%)	187⁄780 (23.97%)	349⁄1560 (22.37%)	521⁄3510 (14.84%)
		3	2⁄39 (5.13%)	3⁄52 (5.77%)	439⁄3120 (14.07%)	379⁄2340 (16.20%)
		4	7⁄195 (3.59%)	1⁄20 (5.00%)	51⁄1040 (4.90%)	41⁄390 (10.51%)
		5	4⁄195 (2.05%)	5⁄156 (3.21%)	17⁄390 (4.36%)	8⁄195 (4.10%)
		6	2⁄195 (1.03%)	1⁄52 (1.92%)	47⁄1560 (3.01%)	43⁄1170 (3.68%)
		7	0	1⁄130 (0.77%)	53⁄3120 (1.70%)	19⁄702 (2.71%)
		8	0	1⁄390 (0.26%)	5⁄624 (0.80%)	59⁄3510 (1.68%)
		9	0	0	1⁄312 (0.32%)	61⁄7020 (0.87%)
		10	0	0	1⁄1560 (0.06%)	29⁄7020 (0.41%)
		11	0	0	0	1⁄702 (0.14%)
		12	0	0	0	1⁄3510 (0.03%)
		Average	407⁄390 (1.04)	17⁄12 (1.42)	349⁄195 (1.79)	1687⁄780 (2.16)
	Enchanted Book[F][C]	0	29⁄30 (96.67%)	29⁄30 (96.67%)	29⁄30 (96.67%)	29⁄30 (96.67%)
		1	1⁄30 (3.33%)	1⁄30 (3.33%)	1⁄30 (3.33%)	1⁄30 (3.33%)
		Average	1⁄30 (0.03)	1⁄30 (0.03)	1⁄30 (0.03)	1⁄30 (0.03)
	Enchanted Book[F][E]	0	187⁄195 (95.90%)	187⁄195 (95.90%)	187⁄195 (95.90%)	187⁄195 (95.90%)
		1	8⁄195 (4.10%)	8⁄195 (4.10%)	8⁄195 (4.10%)	8⁄195 (4.10%)
		Average	8⁄195 (0.04)	8⁄195 (0.04)	8⁄195 (0.04)	8⁄195 (0.04)
	Iron Pickaxe[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Pickaxe[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Axe[G][C][H]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Axe[G][E][H]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Shovel[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Shovel[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Sword[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Sword[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Helmet[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Helmet[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Chestplate[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Chestplate[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Leggings[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Leggings[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)
	Iron Boots[G][C]	0	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)	23⁄24 (95.83%)
		1	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)	1⁄24 (4.17%)
		Average	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)	1⁄24 (0.04)
	Iron Boots[G][E]	0	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)	37⁄39 (94.87%)
		1	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)	2⁄39 (5.13%)
		Average	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)	2⁄39 (0.05)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Emerald[A][B]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25
	Emerald[A][C]	1.44	2.04	2.64	3.24
	Emerald[D][C]	0.94	1.29	1.64	1.99
	Emerald[A][E]	1.54	2.17	2.79	3.41
	Emerald[D][E]	1.04	1.42	1.79	2.16
	Enchanted Book[F][C]	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
	Enchanted Book[F][E]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Pickaxe[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Pickaxe[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Axe[G][C][H]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Axe[G][E][H]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Shovel[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Shovel[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Sword[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Sword[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Helmet[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Helmet[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Chestplate[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Chestplate[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Leggings[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Leggings[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	Iron Boots[G][C]	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
	Iron Boots[G][E]	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

A vindicator drops loot only when killed by a player or tamed wolf:

• 5XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment.
• 8.5% chance of dropping their normal or enchanted iron axe, which increases by 1% per level of Looting with random durability.

Behavior

Vindicators are hostile toward players, iron golems, adult villagers, wandering traders, and snow golems.‌

While idle, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a villager, with its axe stowed. While giving chase, the vindicator brandishes its axe and sprints. If it has no weapons, a mainhand-unarmed vindicator raises both of its hands when attacking.

On Normal and Hard difficulties, vindicators that are part of a raid can break wooden doors. This is controlled by the raider tag.^[1] Like any illager during a raid, vindicators celebrate by cheering if all the villagers are killed or all the beds are destroyed.

All illagers remain friendly to each other, even when struck accidentally.

Vindicators flee from creakings when within 8 blocks of them.

Java Edition

Vindicators are likely to call help from other vindicators when attacked by mobs (except for illagers and goats, or if they were killed in one hit), inciting them all to attack the aggressor. They do not call help from other kinds of illagers.

Vindicator raiders, in addition to breaking doors, can also open wooden and copper doors like villagers.

Ringing a bell gives all vindicators within 32 blocks the Glowing effect for 3 seconds.

Bedrock Edition

Vindicators can only sprint, even when idle.

A dispenser can equip a vindicator with armor, but it is invisible and does not show on its model.

Damage

Armed vindicators hit for 7.5HP × 3.75 to 19.5HP × 9.75 damage, depending on difficulty. They tie with piglin brutes for dealing the fourth most melee damage in the game, following the iron golem at 21.5HP × 10.75 damage, the warden at 30HP × 15 damage, and the giant at 50HP × 25 damage, all on Normal difficulty. Unless named "Johnny", vindicators are the only illagers that do not cause mobs to retaliate against it.

The vindicator's axe attack disables the player's shield for 5 seconds, even when riding a ravager.

"Johnny"

A vindicator named Johnny (using a name tag, named spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b) is hostile to armor stands‌^[2], cameras‌, players in Adventure or Survival mode and all mobs except agents, evokers, ghasts^[3], illusioners‌, other vindicators, and pillagers. This includes baby villagers‌^[4], creakings (although it flees from it before it can attack), creepers, ravagers^[5], vexes^[6], and witches.^[7] Vexes or witches do not attack "Johnny" vindicators unless provoked by vindicators.

"Johnny" vindicators also attempt to attack the ender dragon, but she does not take damage.

Most hostile or neutral mobs try to attack the "Johnny" vindicator in return. Exceptions are:

• mobs that die in one hit (e.g. bees, endermites);
• ender dragons and phantoms, as those only attack players (the ender dragon deals damage to all mobs that touch it, but this is not considered an attack);
• goats (apart from their usual ramming behavior);
• slimes, magma cubes, ravagers, guardians and elder guardians.

The Johnny tag overrides its name; the player can give the vindicator any other name and set the Johnny tag to 1b and it remains hostile in the same way as described. Conversely, the player can name the vindicator "Johnny" and set the Johnny tag to 0b, causing the vindicator to act as a normal vindicator.

In Java Edition, using a name tag to rename a "Johnny" vindicator does not reset its Johnny tag, and it continues to exhibit "Johnny" behavior.

In Bedrock Edition, naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and using it on a monster spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named "Johnny".

During a raid, "Johnny" vindicator raid captains sometimes tell the ravager to attack itself and the ravager does so until it dies.‌

Sounds

Java Edition:
Vindicators use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Vindicator	vindicator	illager illager_friends raiders	entity.minecraft.vindicator

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Vindicator	vindicator	57	entity.vindicator.name

Entity data

Vindicators also have entities' data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack 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.	15	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Sound the Alarm!	Ring the bell in a village after a villager has been hurt.	—	20	Bronze
		We're being attacked!	Trigger a Pillager Raid.	Walk in a village with the Raid Omen effect applied in 30 seconds.	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Hero of the Village	Successfully defend a village from a raid	Kill at least one raid mob during a raid and wait until it ends in victory. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Voluntary Exile	Kill a raid captain. Maybe consider staying away from villages for the time being...	Kill an entity in the #raiders entity tag wearing an ominous banner: Evoker Illusioner Pillager This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

History

Java Edition
1.11			16w39a				Added vindicators.
			16w40a				The vindicators' axes are now one of their HandItems, whereas before it was a visual effect. This means their attack now disables shields.
							Vindicator can be unarmed, raise one arm when attacking.
							Vindicators have been heavily buffed - their attack damage on Easy has been increased from 3HP to 7HP, on Normal 5HP to 13HP × 6.5, and on Hard, 7HP to 19HP × 9.5. On normal and hard difficulties, a vindicator can kill an unarmored player in just 2 hits. This makes vindicators the strongest illager, and one of the hardest-hitting mobs in the game.
							"Johnny" vindicators are now activated by a custom tag in addition to a custom name.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of vindicators has been changed. The eye colors are now same green as the evoker.
			18w45a				Vindicators can now spawn in illager patrols.
							Vindicators can now sometimes spawn as a patrol leader in illager patrols.
			18w47a				Vindicators can now spawn as part of raids.
							Vindicators can now break doors.
			18w47b				The texture of vindicators has been changed. The eye colors have been changed to blue as before again.
			19w05a				Vindicators are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
			19w13a				If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
1.14.3			Pre-Release 2				Vindicators no longer spawn as part of illager patrols.
1.15			19w41a				Vindicators now have a fifth idle sound (known as "idle5"). The sound had been in the game files since 1.11, but was never heard in-game until this update.
1.16.2			20w29a				The attack animation of unarmed vindicators has been changed.
1.18			21w37a				Vindcators no longer attack baby villagers.
			Pre-release 5				Changed the texture, to remove its hood.
1.19			22w17a				Changed its model and texture.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added vindicators.
							Vindicator can be unarmed, raise one arm when attacking.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of vindicators has been changed.
							Vindicators are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Vindicators can now spawn as part of illager patrols and raids.
							Vindicators can now spawn as raid captains.
							Vindicators no longer attack baby villagers.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Vindicators that spawn from raids now have special drops upon death.
			beta 1.11.0.7				Vindicators can now break wooden doors during raids.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				If raiding vindicators killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, vindicators celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.55				Vindicators in woodland mansions are no longer neutral toward the player. They are now hostile toward the player again.
1.16.20			beta 1.16.20.54				The attack animation of unarmed vindicators has been changed.
1.17.40			beta 1.17.40.20				Armor is no longer visible on vindicators.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.20				Vindicators no longer spawn as part of illager patrols.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.22				Vindicators now have blue eyes again.[8]
							Changed the texture, to remove its hood.
1.20.50			Preview 1.20.50.20				Vindicators no longer spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added vindicators.
							Vindicators deal 6HP on Easy, 10HP on Normal, 15HP × 7.5 on Hard.
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Vindicators renamed to "Johnny" now stop being hostile toward other mobs when renamed to something else.
			1.91				Vindicators can now spawn as part of raids.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19							Added vindicators.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Vindicator" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The "Johnny" Easter egg is a reference to the 1980 movie The Shining, where a troubled man possessed by evil spirits in an isolated, haunted, labyrinthine, mansion-like hotel attacks his family with an axe, and says the iconic line "Here's Johnny!" while breaking a door down.
• According to the Mobestiary, while a vindicator is stronger than a zombie, it still has low intelligence, 'a little smarter than a skeleton' (note that vindicators cannot use bows in-game).

Gallery

Renders

• 
  A vindicator.
• 
  An attacking vindicator.
• 
  An unarmed attacking vindicator in Java Edition.
• 
  An attacking vindicator in Bedrock Edition.
• 
  Attacking (unarmed; BE)
• 
  A vindicator riding a ravager.
• 
  A sitting vindicator.
• 
  A sitting attacking Vindicator
• 
  Green eyes vindicator attacking pose.

Screenshots

• 
  A vindicator raid captain.
• 
  A vindicator named Johnny trying to destroy an armor stand, although they do not break as armor stands can only be destroyed when quickly attacked twice.
• 
  A vindicator equips an item in off-hand only by command.
• 
  A few vindicators chasing some villagers during a village raid.
• 
  A vindicator attacking a camera mob.
• 
  Unarmed vindicator attacking the player.

Textures

• 
  Vindicator texture file.
• 
  Vindicator with wig texture file

In other media

• 
  A vindicator within Minecraft Dungeons.
• 
  Artwork of a vindicator.
• 
  A vindicator in the promotional artwork for the Exploration Update.
• 
  Vindicators in the promotional artwork for the Village and Pillage Update.
• 
  The Mobestiary page on vindicators.
• 
  A LEGO vindicator.
• 
  A vindicator as seen in A Minecraft Movie.

References

External links

• Meet the Vindicator – Minecraft.net on June 20, 2017

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