Minecraft:Vindicator

Template:Distinguish Template:For Template:Infobox entity A vindicator is an Minecraft:illager equipped with an Minecraft:iron axe. Vindicators spawn in Minecraft:woodland mansions and participate in Minecraft:raids. They Minecraft:sprint toward their targets to attack them with their axe.

Spawning

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

Woodland mansions

Vindicators spawn during the generation of Minecraft:woodland mansions, in groups of 1–3 inside particular rooms, sometimes accompanied by an Minecraft: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

Template:Main Template:IN, any vindicators can join a Minecraft:patrol if sufficiently near a Minecraft:patrol captain, but do not go seeking out for patrols to join nor do they naturally spawn in a patrol.

Raids

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

Vindicators that spawn from raids have a chance to spawn with Minecraft: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 Minecraft:ravagers, creating a vindicator ravager jockey.Template:Only

Java Edition

Template:IN, if a player spawns a vindicator with a spawn egg or using a command, the vindicator has a chance of becoming a Minecraft:raid captain, with an Minecraft:ominous banner attached above its back.

Drops

On death

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

• Template:Xp and an additional Template:Xp per naturally-spawned equipment.
• 8.5% chance of dropping their normal or Minecraft:enchanted Template:ItemLink, which increases by 1% per level of Looting with random durability.

Behavior

File:Vindication.png

A vindicator captain chasing a villager.

Vindicators are hostile toward Minecraft:players, Minecraft:iron golems, adult Minecraft:villagers, Minecraft:wandering traders, and Minecraft:snow golems.Template:Only

While idle, a vindicator crosses its arms similar to a Minecraft:villager, with its axe stowed. While giving chase, the vindicator brandishes its axe and Minecraft: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 Minecraft:wooden doors. This is controlled by the raider tag.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> Like any illager during a raid, vindicators celebrate by cheering if all the villagers are killed or all the Minecraft:beds are destroyed.

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

Vindicators flee from Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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 Minecraft:copper doors like villagers.

Ringing a Minecraft:bell gives all vindicators within 32 blocks the Template:EffectLink effect for 3 seconds.

Bedrock Edition

Vindicators can only sprint, even when idle.

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

Damage

Armed vindicators hit for Template:Hp to Template:Hp damage, depending on Minecraft:difficulty. They tie with Minecraft:piglin brutes for dealing the fourth most melee damage in the game, following the Minecraft:iron golem at Template:Hp damage, the Minecraft:warden at Template:Hp damage, and the Minecraft:giant at Template:Hp 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 Minecraft:shield for 5 seconds, even when riding a Minecraft:ravager.

"Johnny"

A vindicator named Johnny (using a Minecraft:name tag, named Minecraft:spawn egg, etc., or has its Johnny tag set to 1b) is hostile to Minecraft:armor standsTemplate:Only<ref>Template:Bug, Template:Bug</ref>, Minecraft:camerasTemplate:Only, Minecraft:players in Minecraft:Adventure or Minecraft:Survival mode and all mobs except Minecraft:agents, Minecraft:evokers, Minecraft:ghasts<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, Minecraft:illusionersTemplate:Only, other vindicators, and Minecraft:pillagers. This includes baby Minecraft:villagersTemplate:Only<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, Minecraft:creakings (although it flees from it before it can attack), Minecraft:creepers, Minecraft:ravagers<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, Minecraft:vexes<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, and Minecraft:witches.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> Vexes or witches do not attack "Johnny" vindicators unless provoked by vindicators.

"Johnny" vindicators also attempt to attack the Minecraft:ender dragon, but the ender dragon 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. Minecraft:bees, Minecraft:endermites);
• Minecraft:ender dragons and Minecraft:phantoms, as those only attack players (the ender dragon deals damage to all mobs that touch it, but this is not considered an attack);
• Minecraft:goats (apart from their usual ramming behavior);
• Minecraft:slimes, Minecraft:magma cubes, Minecraft:ravagers, Minecraft:guardians and Minecraft: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.

Template:IN, using a Minecraft:name tag to rename a "Johnny" vindicator does not reset its Johnny tag, and it continues to exhibit "Johnny" behavior.

Template:IN, naming a vindicator spawn egg "Johnny" and Template:Ctrl it on a Minecraft:monster spawner has no effect; normal vindicators spawn rather than vindicators named "Johnny".

During a Minecraft:raid, "Johnny" vindicator raid captains sometimes tell a Minecraft:ravager or Minecraft:witch to attack itself and the mob does so until it dies.Template:Only<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

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

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<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt inherit/raidable
  • Template:Nbt: 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.

<section end="entity data"/>

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Achievements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

Advancements

Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

History

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.
  • Similarly, the movements of the vindicators in Minecraft:A Minecraft Movie were also inspired by the film.
• According to the Minecraft:Mobestiary, while a vindicator is stronger than a zombie, it still has low intelligence, 'a little smarter than a Minecraft:skeleton' (note that vindicators cannot use Minecraft:bows in-game).

Gallery

Renders

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

Screenshots

• A vindicator Minecraft:raid captain.
  A vindicator Minecraft: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 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 vindicator equips an item in off-hand only by command.
• A few vindicators chasing some villagers during a village raid.
  A few vindicators chasing some villagers during a village raid.
• A vindicator attacking a Minecraft:camera mob.
  A vindicator attacking a Minecraft:camera mob.

Mojang screenshots

• Unarmed vindicator attacking the player.
  Unarmed vindicator attacking the player.

Textures

• Vindicator texture file
  Vindicator texture file
• Vindicator with wig texture file
  Vindicator with wig texture file

In other media

• A vindicator within Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons.
  A vindicator within Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons.
• Artwork of a vindicator.
  Artwork of a vindicator.
• A vindicator in the promotional artwork for the Minecraft:Exploration Update.
  A vindicator in the promotional artwork for the Minecraft:Exploration Update.
• Ditto but cut-out
  Ditto but cut-out
• Vindicators in the promotional artwork for the Village and Pillage Update.
  Vindicators in the promotional artwork for the Village and Pillage Update.
• The Mobestiary page on vindicators.
  The Mobestiary page on vindicators.
• Vindicators as they appear in Minecraft:Ghast in the Machine!
  Vindicators as they appear in Minecraft:Ghast in the Machine!
• A LEGO vindicator.
  A LEGO vindicator.
• A vindicator as seen in Template:AMCM.
  A vindicator as seen in Template:AMCM.
• A vindicator in the Minecraft:Plastic Texture Pack
  A vindicator in the Minecraft:Plastic Texture Pack

External links

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