How to Tame a Pillager in Minecraft (2024)

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How to Tame a Pillager in Minecraft? ›

Using a Confusion potion and a Golden apple you can change a Pillager into a Villager.

Using a Confusion potion and a Golden apple you can change a Pillager into a Villager.

You can just leave. Pillagers (including captains) eventually respawn. You can use it in a raid farm, to deliberately get the Bad Omen effect to spawn raids to attack a village you have built as a trap, and collect the loot from raids.

During a raid Pillagers will try to loot chests or any other storage items like barrels and shulker boxes. This would be a feature that would occur on normal difficulty and higher. You would be able to kill the Pillager for any items they looted.

To tame the pillager, you need to break its crossbow. Since a crossbow has a durability of 326, you need the pillager to use its crossbow 326 times to break it! So add 5 shields to your hotbar (we added 6, just in case) and possibly some food.

Pillagers may naturally spawn on any valid opaque block (except leaves) as long as the block light level is 8 or less. They cannot, however, spawn on blocks that emit a light level of 14 or greater. There is a 6% chance a pillager will spawn as a patrol leader.

pillagers can spawn around outposts regardless of light level on grass or sand, but can only spawn at block light levels of 8 or lower on other opaque blocks. if you replace the grass and sand around the outpost with something else like cobblestone, you can prevent spawns like other hostile mobs.

Pillagers are still able to open doors just like villagers, and unless you're planning on waiting them out, they don't just give up willy nilly. If you control where pillagers will be, it's a lot easier to deal with them when and how you want to.

According to the Minecraft Mobestiary, the Illagers were banished from villages for committing "unspeakable activities." An example of this banishment could be seen in The Rise of the Arch-Illager, the prequel novel of Minecraft Dungeons. This is likely be the reason why the Illagers feel such hatred for Villagers.

While most Illagers prefer the solitude of huts or woodland mansions, the Pillagers are a different story. They're more adventurous than the rest of their kin, willing to journey out into the world in hunter-esque fashion and explore as much as possible.

What triggers pillagers? ›

Pillagers continually spawn in a 72×54×72 block volume centered on the top floor. They may spawn on any valid opaque block as long as the sky light level is 11 or lower, and the block light level is 8 or lower, but can also spawn on grass or sand blocks regardless of block light level.

↑ A tamed wolf killing a pillager captain gives their player the Bad Omen effect. ↑ One level is added each time a patrol captain is killed, capping at level Five.

They keep spawning because you haven't prevented them, and they keep coming near your house because that's what patrols do. Light up the entire area. Yes, pillagers spawn even in broad daylight, but they do respect block light. If you spawnproof far enough out, you'll never see these guys at home again.

Definitions of pillager. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler. types: buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover.

Around the world you will find pillager outposts, which should have some pillagers running around outside of them. Sometimes, one of them will have a banner above their head. Kill them, and you get the bad omen status effect. Now simply enter any village and it should trigger a raid on the village.

In Bedrock Edition, a pillager raid captain can be spawned using the /summon pillager ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_as_illager_captain command, and a vindicator raid captain can be spawned using /summon vindicator ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_as_illager_captain command.

To stop a pillager outpost from spawning you need to do three things. 1) kill all of the pillagers there, and drink a bucket of milk to purge Bad Omen. 3) cover or remove all grass and sand blocks in the area, which pillagers can spawn on regardless of light level.

Pillagers are still able to open doors just like villagers, and unless you're planning on waiting them out, they don't just give up willy nilly. If you control where pillagers will be, it's a lot easier to deal with them when and how you want to.