Minecraft:Java Edition guides/Village & Pillage

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Minecraft:Village & Pillage update (Template:JE 1.14.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with Minecraft:Update Aquatic (Java Edition 1.13.x releases).

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Brown mooshrooms	File:Brown Mooshroom JE1 BE1.png	Red mooshrooms turn into brown mooshrooms when struck by Minecraft:lightning. Breeding two red Minecraft:mooshrooms has 1⁄1024 chance to spawn a brown baby variant, and vice versa.	Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop (if killed by fire) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Give the player Minecraft:suspicious stew when fed a flower and then milked with a bowl.
Minecraft:Cats	Template:Animate	Stray cats can be found wandering in villages. A single stray black cat can be found inside Minecraft:witch huts.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Can be tamed with raw fish. Minecraft:Phantoms do not swoop in to attack a player if a cat is nearby. Seek active furnaces, beds, and chests to sit on. When waking up from a bed, there is a chance for a tamed cat to give its owner one Minecraft:rabbit's foot, Minecraft:rabbit hide, Minecraft:string, Minecraft:rotten flesh, Minecraft:feather, Minecraft:raw chicken, or Minecraft:phantom membrane.
Minecraft:Foxes	Template:Animate	Spawn in Minecraft:taiga and Minecraft:snowy taiga biomes. Also spawn in taiga villages in groups of 1–3.	Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Wolves and polar bears are aggressive toward foxes. Baby foxes born by breeding two adult foxes are loyal toward the player. Trusting foxes can attack the player if their trusted player is damaged. Can eat any food item, and can pick up any item in its mouth. Sleep during the day and are active at night.
Minecraft:Pandas	File:Panda.png	Spawn in Minecraft:bamboo forest biomes.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Can spawn with either an aggressive, lazy, playful, weak or worried personality. Eat Minecraft:bamboo, and can be bred if there is at least eight bamboo blocks within five blocks of each panda. Pick up and eat Minecraft:cake that is thrown to them.
Minecraft:Pillagers	File:Pillager.png	Spawn as part of Minecraft:illager patrols, which consist of a maximum of five pillagers. Illager patrols can spawn in any biome except mushroom fields and its variants. They spawn below light level 8, only at night, like monsters. Template:Verify Spawn around Minecraft:pillager outposts. Spawn as part of Minecraft:raids.	Template:Drop Template:Xp, plus Template:Xp per equipment piece (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Pillagers that spawn with an Minecraft:ominous banner on their head are known as Minecraft:raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, they receive the Minecraft:Bad Omen effect.
Minecraft:Ravagers	File:Ravager.png	Spawn as part of Minecraft:raids.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Destroy leaves and all crops it comes in contact with, except for melon and pumpkin stems.
Minecraft:Trader llamas	Template:Animate	Spawn in the world with Minecraft:wandering traders.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf) Anything equipped, such as Template:BlockLink or a Template:BlockLink. All items in their Minecraft:inventory.	Are hostile toward all zombie variants and Minecraft:illagers. They also become hostile toward mobs and players that attack the wandering trader they are leashed to.
Minecraft:Wandering traders	File:Wandering Trader.png	Spawn randomly in the world within a 48 block radius of the player.	Have a chance of dropping a Minecraft:milk bucket or Minecraft:potion of Invisibility if they are holding it when killed.	Randomly spawn in the world with two Minecraft:trader llamas. Only one exists in the world at any time. New wandering traders do not spawn until an existing wandering trader despawns. At the night (or when light level is 7 and below) wandering traders drink potion of invisibility. When light level is above 7, they drink bucket of milk and cancel any effects they have.

Changed

Minecraft:Creepers	File:Creeper JE3 BE1.png	Now drop Minecraft:music discs when killed by strays.
Minecraft:Evokers	File:Evoker.png	Can now spawn as part of raids. Evokers that spawn with an Minecraft:ominous banner on their head are known as Minecraft:raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, the player receives the Minecraft:Bad Omen effect.
Minecraft:Ocelots	File:Ocelot.png	Can no longer be tamed to get cats.
Minecraft:Phantoms	File:Phantom.png	No longer swoop to attack a player if a cat is nearby.
Minecraft:Villagers	Template:Animate	Now have biome specific skins. Skins now reflect their unique profession. Can now change their profession according to an available nearby job site block. Once a villager has leveled up, it cannot change their profession. Now have a new profession, the mason. Trading has been overhauled. Now have levels and require experience to unlock the next tier of trades; level 1 is novice, level 2 is apprentice, level 3 is journeyman, level 4 is expert, and level 5 is master. Cannot restock trades instantly anymore, however, they can restock up to two times per day at their job site block. Can now increase/decrease their trade prices. Hold items in their hands to the player when the player holds an item that the villager has a trade offer for. Now sleep in beds at night. Now have schedules. Their schedule includes working, gathering, as well as sleeping in beds at night. Now gossip at meeting points during their schedule. There are six types of gossip: Template:Code, each gossip has an effect on the village, such as spawning in an iron golem in the village center, or increasing/lowering trade prices for the player. When bells are rung or when a raid is happening, villagers retreat into their houses. Ring bells during raids themselves to alert other villagers. Sweat during raids. When a raid is successfully cleared, villagers celebrate by setting off Minecraft:firework rockets, and cheering. When a player has the Minecraft:Hero of the Village effect applied, villagers gift the player various different items, as well as decrease their trade prices.
Minecraft:Vindicators	File:Vindicator.png	Now spawn as part of Minecraft:raids. Vindicators that spawn with an Minecraft:ominous banner on their head are known as Minecraft:raid captains. When a player kills a raid captain, the player receives the Minecraft:Bad Omen effect.
Minecraft:Witches	File:Witch.png	Can now spawn as part of a Minecraft:raid. Heal raid members during attacks with Healing potions.

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Bamboo	File:Small Leaves Bamboo.png	Can be found in Minecraft:bamboo forest and Minecraft:jungle biomes.	Sword	Can be used to craft Minecraft:scaffolding and Minecraft:sticks. Can be feed to Minecraft:pandas, this can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas. Can be planted on Minecraft:grass, Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:sand, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:coarse dirt, or Minecraft:red sand. Grows twelve to sixteen blocks tall.
Minecraft:Cornflower	File:Cornflower.png	Found in Minecraft:plains biomes.	Any	Can be used to craft Minecraft:suspicious stew with the Minecraft:Jump Boost effect.
Minecraft:Lily of the valley	File:Lily of the Valley.png	Found in Minecraft:forest biomes.	Any	Can be used to craft suspicious stew with the Minecraft:Poison effect.
Minecraft:Wither rose	File:Wither Rose.png	Drops from mobs killed by a Minecraft:wither.	Any	Can be used to craft suspicious stew with the Wither effect. Any mob standing on a wither rose is inflicted with one second of the Wither effect for as long as they continue to touch it.
Minecraft:Sweet berry bushes	Template:Animate	Found naturally in all taiga variants. Can be planted with Minecraft:sweet berries.	Any	Drop sweet berries by Template:Control or when broken, dropping 1-2 berries at age three, and 2-3 berries at age four. Slow players while standing in them at age one, as well as deal damage to players while moving at age two and above. Standing still while in sweet berry bushes deal no damage.
Minecraft:Barrel	File:Barrel JE1 BE1.png	Found around and in fisher cottages in villages.	Axe	A storage block similar to Minecraft:chests, with twenty-seven inventory spaces. The main difference between barrels and chests is that barrels can be opened from any side, regardless of orientation or whether there's a solid block on top. Unemployed villagers take on the fisherman profession when near a barrel that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Blast furnace	File:Blast Furnace JE1 BE1.png	Found in villages.	Pickaxe	Used to smelt ores, as well as smeltable tools and armor. The blast furnace smelts items at twice the speed of a Minecraft:furnace. Unemployed villagers take on the armorer profession when near a blast furnace that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Smoker	File:Smoker.png		Pickaxe	Used to cook food items twice as fast as a regular furnace. Unemployed villagers take on the butcher profession when near a smoker that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Loom	File:Loom JE1 BE1.png		Axe	Allow the player to apply patterns to banners. Unemployed villagers take on the shepherd profession when near a loom that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Cartography table	File:Cartography Table JE2 BE1.png	Found in villages.	Axe	Used for cloning, expanding, and zooming out maps. They can also be used to lock maps, by using Minecraft:glass panes, making them no longer able to update. Unemployed villagers take on the cartographer profession when near a cartography table that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Fletching table	File:Fletching Table JE2 BE1.png	Found in villages.	Axe	Unemployed villagers take on the fletcher profession when near a fletching table that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Smithing table	File:Smithing Table JE2 BE2.png	Found as part of plains village toolsmiths houses.	Axe	Unemployed villagers take on the toolsmith profession when near a smithing table that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Composter	Template:Animate	Found around farms in villages.	Axe	Used to turn certain items into bone meal. Unemployed villagers take on the farmer profession when near a composter that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Lectern	File:Lectern.png	Found as part of libraries in villages.	Axe	Allows multiple players to read the same book at the same time. Lecterns holding a book also output a redstone pulse when a page is turned. Unemployed villagers take on the librarian profession when near a lectern that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Grindstone	File:Grindstone JE2 BE2.png	Generates as part of the blacksmith structure in villages.	Pickaxe	Used to repair items and tools by combining two items or tools of the same type together. This removes all enchantments apart from Minecraft:curses. A single item can be used in the grindstone to remove all enchantments from it apart from curses. Unemployed villagers take on the weaponsmith profession when near a grindstone that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Stonecutter	File:Stonecutter.gif		Pickaxe	Used to craft stone related blocks, such as walls, stairs, or slabs. Unemployed villagers take on the mason profession when near a stonecutter that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Bell	File:Bell.png	Generate in village centers. Can be purchased from either apprentice-level armorer, toolsmith or weaponsmith villagers for 36 emeralds each.	Pickaxe	Used to alert nearby villagers to return to their houses. Resonate and highlight nearby raiders during a raid. Villagers ring the bell during raids to alert other villagers.
Minecraft:Campfire	File:Campfire JE2 BE2.gif	Found in Minecraft:taiga villages. Fisherman Minecraft:villagers can sell campfires.	Axe (drops charcoal)	Emit a light level of 15. Can be unlit by waterlogging it and lit by a fire source. Used to cook food items. Damages mobs standing on top of it.
Minecraft:Lantern	File:Lantern.png	Generates in Minecraft:snowy tundra villages.	Pickaxe	Used as a light source, it can be placed on top of and below solid blocks, iron bars, and glass panes. Emit a light level of 15. Can be used as a decorative block.
Minecraft:Scaffolding	File:Scaffolding.png		Any (when broken all connected scaffolding breaks also)	Designed to be used for building in Survival. Standing in scaffolding and Template:Control allows the player to climb, while Template:Control allows the player to descend through the scaffolding. If there is no block below the scaffolding block the player is on, the player does not descend through the block.
Minecraft:Signs for all wood types	Template:Animate		Axe	All sign variants retain the same use as the original sign. While the default text color is black, the color can be changed with Minecraft:dyes.
New types of Minecraft:slabs	Template:Animate		Pickaxe	Can be used as decorative blocks.
New types of Minecraft:stairs	Template:Animate		Pickaxe	Can be used as decorative blocks.
New types of Minecraft:walls	Template:Animate		Pickaxe	Can be used as decorative blocks, as well as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.
Minecraft:Jigsaw block	File:Jigsaw Block.png	Can be obtained by using the Template:Control Minecraft:control, or by using various Minecraft:commands, such as Template:Cmd. They also spawn when a player uses a Minecraft:structure block to spawn certain structures. (Minecraft:Pillager outpost/Minecraft:Village)	Cannot be broken in Minecraft:Survival.	Template:Info needed

Changed

Minecraft:Brewing stand	File:Brewing Stand.png	Can now be found in village temples. Unemployed villagers take on the cleric profession when near a brewing stand that hasn't been taken by another.
Minecraft:Carpet	Template:Animate	Can now be crafted by surrounding a dye with white carpet.
Minecraft:Chorus flower	Template:Animate	Now break when shot with an Minecraft:arrow.
Minecraft:Dispenser	File:Dispenser.png	Dispensers with shears can now shear sheep standing in front of the dispenser.
All Minecraft:leaves	Template:Animate	Now have a chance of dropping Minecraft:sticks.
Minecraft:Nether brick fence	File:Nether Brick Fence.png	Previously the recipe used all nether bricks, this is now changed to take both nether brick and nether bricks to avoid conflict with the recipe for Minecraft:Nether Brick Walls.
Minecraft:Pressure plates	Template:Animate	Can now be placed on Minecraft:iron bars and Minecraft:glass panes.
Minecraft:Signs	File:Oak Wall Sign.png File:Oak Standing Sign.png	Can now be crafted only with matching wood planks. The color of text on signs can be changed with dye now. All original signs have been changed to oak signs. Now support editing anywhere on the sign, without having to backspace to the place where the edit is to be made. Now have copy and paste support.
All Minecraft:slabs and Minecraft:stairs		Now have directional opacity, meaning sides that are not completely solid do not block light.
Minecraft:Smooth stone slab	File:Smooth Stone Slab.png	Name changed from stone slab to smooth stone slab. Recipe now uses Minecraft:smooth stone instead of Minecraft:stone.
Minecraft:Torch	File:Torch JE6 BE2.png	Can now be placed on Minecraft:iron bars and Minecraft:glass panes.
Minecraft:Vines	File:Vines.png	Can now be climbed without supporting blocks by holding Template:Control.

Items

New

Minecraft:Banner patterns	File:Banner Pattern JE1 BE1.png		Can be used in a Minecraft:loom to apply the chosen pattern to that banner. The globe banner pattern cannot be crafted, and is obtainable only from master-level cartographer villagers.
Minecraft:Black dye	File:Black Dye JE1 BE1.png		Used in place of ink sacs as dye in all recipes.
Minecraft:Blue dye	File:Blue Dye JE1 BE1.png		Used in place of lapis lazuli as dye in all recipes.
Minecraft:Brown dye	File:Brown Dye JE1 BE1.png		Used in place of cocoa beans as dye in all recipes.
Minecraft:White dye	File:White Dye JE1 BE1.png		Used in place of bone meal as dye in all recipes.
Minecraft:Crossbow	File:Crossbow.png		A ranged weapon that has a longer range, as well as being able to deal more damage than a Minecraft:bow. Can fire Minecraft:fireworks, as well as Minecraft:arrows.
Minecraft:Leather horse armor	File:Leather Horse Armor JE1 BE3.png		Can be put on horses like other horse armor. Can be dyed similar to leather armor.
Minecraft:Suspicious stew	File:Suspicious Stew JE1 BE1.png		Gives a status effect to the player after eating it, the effect given depends on the flower used to craft it. The effect is hidden after suspicious stew is crafted, making it impossible to tell ones with negative effect from ones with positive effects.
Minecraft:Sweet berries	File:Sweet Berries JE1 BE1.png	Can be harvested from Minecraft:sweet berry bushes. Additionally sweet berries can be found in taiga village house chests.	Give Template:Hunger hunger points when eaten. Can be Template:Control on grass blocks, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt, and farmland to plant a sweet berry bush. Used to breed Minecraft:foxes.
Minecraft:Spawn eggs for all new mobs	Template:Animate	Can be obtained only via creative inventory.	Have the same function as other Minecraft:spawn eggs.

Changed

Minecraft:Bone meal	File:Bone Meal.png	Now used to craft white dye. Can no longer be used as a dye. Can now be obtained from a Minecraft:composter.
Minecraft:Cocoa beans	File:Cocoa Beans JE4 BE2.png	Now used to craft brown dye. Can no longer be used as a dye. Name changed from cocoa beans to cocoa.
Minecraft:Ink sac	File:Ink Sac JE2 BE2.png	Now used to craft black dye. Can no longer be used as a dye.
Minecraft:Lapis lazuli	File:Lapis Lazuli JE2 BE2.png	Now used to craft blue dye. Can no longer be used as a dye.
Minecraft:Green dye	File:Green Dye JE2 BE2.png	Name changed from cactus green to green dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Minecraft:Red dye	File:Red Dye JE2 BE2.png	Name changed from rose red to red dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Minecraft:Yellow dye	File:Yellow Dye JE2 BE2.png	Name changed from dandelion yellow to yellow dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Minecraft:Book and quill	File:Book and Quill.png	While writing, players can now edit any part of the page. The maximum number of pages has been raised to one hundred.

Biomes

New

Minecraft:Bamboo jungle	File:Bamboo Jungle.png	Generate in large patches within regular jungles. Trees are much less dense in this variant than in the main jungle, comparable to the Minecraft:jungle edge, but boasts countless amounts of Minecraft:bamboo across its landscape. Minecraft:Podzol generates on the jungle floor in this biome. It is home to all jungle mobs, including Minecraft:pandas, which are exclusive to this biome.	Minecraft:Jungle pyramids
Minecraft:Bamboo jungle hills	File:Bamboo Jungle Hills.png	Similar to the bamboo jungle, though with steeper terrain just like the regular jungle hills variant. Large amounts of bamboo cover the landscape, and patches of podzol replace Minecraft:grass blocks.	Jungle pyramids

Events

New

Name	Trigger	Description
Minecraft:Raid	Triggered when a player with the Minecraft:Bad Omen effect enters a village.	During a raid a combination of pillagers, vindicators, evokers, witches, and ravagers spawn around a village. The combination depends on the level of the bad omen effect. A boss bar at the top of the screen shows the number of raid enemies still alive within the village.

Effects

New

Minecraft:Bad Omen	File:Bad Omen JE2 BE2.png	Given to the player when they kill the leader of an Minecraft:illager patrol or Minecraft:raid captain.	If the player enters a village while having the Bad Omen effect a Minecraft:raid is triggered.
Minecraft:Hero of the Village	File:Hero of the Village JE1 BE2.png	Given to the player after they have successfully defended the village from a raid.	If the player kills all of the illagers during the raid, the player receives the Hero of the Village effect. This effect lasts for 2 in-game days.

Enchantments

New

Minecraft:Multishot	I	Template:ItemSprite	None	Piercing	Fires three arrows while consuming one. If an arrow hits, the other two vanish.
Minecraft:Piercing	IV	Template:ItemSprite	None	Multishot	Allows arrows to pass through as many entities as the enchantment level.
Minecraft:Quick Charge	III	Template:ItemSprite	None	None	Speeds up the charging of the crossbow.

Between snapshot 19w02a (13th for Java Edition 1.14) and 1.14.3 Pre-Release 1 (including both bounds) all different type Protection enchantments [Minecraft:Protection, Minecraft:Projectile Protection, Minecraft:Fire Protection, and Minecraft:Blast Protection] were not mutually exclusive. It means that any peace of armor could have them all at once (added with anvil). Obtained this way armor saves all its properties even after 1.14 Pre-Release 2 when Protection enchantments became mutually exclusive again.

Structures

New

Minecraft:Pillager outpost	File:Pillager outpost main.png	Can generate in any biome a village can generate in.	The structure contains one chest at the top.	Minecraft:Pillagers Minecraft:Iron golems	Can have a combination of smaller structures surrounding it, these structures include a cage, targets, logs, and a tent.
Snowy Minecraft:villages	File:18w49a.jpg	Can generate in Minecraft:snowy tundra biomes.	Many different buildings can include chests that contain loot based on the snowy tundra.	Minecraft:Villagers Minecraft:Iron golems Minecraft:Cats Minecraft:Pigs Minecraft:Cows Minecraft:Sheep	A variant of the village, designed specifically for Minecraft:snowy tundra biomes. It is the only place where Minecraft:lanterns can naturally generate. The structures are made up of various Minecraft:spruce wood and Minecraft:stripped logs. Some buildings resemble igloos and are constructed from either Minecraft:snow, Minecraft:ice or Minecraft:blue ice.