Minecraft:Illusioner

Template:Dungeons hatnote Template:Exclusive Template:Infobox entity The illusioner is an unused Minecraft:illager armed with a Minecraft:bow. It attacks using illusions and can also fire Minecraft:arrows.

Spawning

Illusioners do not spawn naturally, nor do they have a Minecraft:spawn egg in the Minecraft:Creative inventory. An illusioner can be spawned only using Minecraft:data packs or the Template:Cmd in-game Minecraft:command. Illusioners do not spawn in Minecraft:woodland mansions or Minecraft:pillager outposts, nor at Minecraft:raids or Minecraft:patrols. Similarly to the Minecraft:giant, illusioners do not spawn in any Minecraft:biome, Minecraft:monster spawner, or Minecraft:world-generated Minecraft:structure. Illusioners will despawn out of simulation distance even if named with a Minecraft:name tag.

Drops

When an illusioner is killed by a Minecraft:player or a tamed Minecraft:wolf, any naturally spawned equipment, including its unenchanted Minecraft:bow, has an 8.5% chance of dropping (or 9.5% with Minecraft:Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) and drops with a random item Minecraft:durability. In addition, Template:Xp Minecraft:experience orbs are dropped on player or tamed wolf kills.

The illusioner also drops one illager Minecraft:ominous banner and one ominous bottle if it is a Minecraft:raid captain.

Behavior

Although they do not naturally spawn in raids, illusioners spawned by the player attack Minecraft:players, adult Minecraft:villagers, Minecraft:iron golems, and Minecraft:wandering traders within a 16×4×16 cubic area.

An illusioner joins a nearby raid if it occurs or joins a patrol if sufficiently near a Minecraft:patrol captain.

The illusioner attacks with its spells and its Minecraft:bow, firing an Minecraft:arrow every second, three times faster than a Minecraft:skeleton. Unless the illusioner is summoned using Minecraft:commands, it cannot attack with a non-bow item in its hand, cannot use Minecraft:tipped arrows in its offhand slot (but can use Minecraft:spectral arrows) and cannot use enchanted bows. Also, it is the only illager that can see its target through walls.

The Illusioner moves quickly on a semi-circular fashion and always tries to maintain a consistent distance between itself and the player, strafing from left to right and vice-versa, retreating if the player gets too close or advancing if the player retreats.

Finally, the illusioner has two spells: a spell that blinds its opponent and a spell that summons visual pseudo-duplicates and makes the illusioner invisible.

If a bow is not in the illusioner's main hand, the illusioner does not attack players or villagers, but still cast Minecraft:Blindness. An unarmed illusioner can be spawned with the command Template:Cmd.

Casting Blindness

File:Illusioner Blindness.gif

An illusioner casting Blindness.

The illusioner casts its Blindness spell only if the Minecraft:regional difficulty is greater than 2. As a result, the world difficulty setting, the inhabited time of the Minecraft:chunk, the total daytime in the world and the phase of the moon from the day-night cycle affects its ability.

This spell gives a Minecraft:Blindness effect that lasts for 20 seconds upon first engaging a new player opponent. The illusioner signals this attack by raising its arms during a short-timed animation, making a low pitched sound and producing a black mist of Minecraft:particles (Template:EffectSprite). Other entities (typically a wolf, a Minecraft:snow golem or an Minecraft:iron golem) do not trigger this magic. The illusioner does not cast this spell more than once on the same player opponent, unless it has first shifted its attention to another opponent and then back to that original opponent.

This spell resets the illusioner's spell cooldown to 1 second and resets the cooldown for the blinding spell to 9 seconds.

Summoning duplicates

File:IllusionerDuplicates.png

An illusioner's four false duplicates. The real illusioner is invisible.

As long as an illusioner is engaged in Minecraft:combat, it casts an Minecraft:Invisibility status effect on itself that lasts 60 seconds and refreshes the effect whenever the Invisibility's time runs out. The illusioner signals this spell by raising its arms, making a strange high pitched sound and producing a blue mist of particles called "mirror".

When an illusioner becomes invisible through this or another method, it creates four false duplicates of itself. These hover and waver at short distances from the actually invisible illusioner, though they do not space themselves out until the first time the illusioner is attacked. They face in exactly the same direction as the illusioner and move somewhat in step with the original, appearing to no-clip through Minecraft:blocks like a Minecraft:vex does. Despite using the shooting animation whenever the original uses its bow, only the real illusioner can shoot and be damaged.

The clones move to new positions if they were not triggered and are still bunched together. The illusioner can also do this once in a while to "refresh" the clones' positions.

When the real illusioner is damaged, its duplicates all snap back to where the real illusioner is, then quickly snap back out to new positions, making a teleporting sound, signaling the hit.

If an invisible illusioner receives the Minecraft:Glowing effect, all of the duplicates glow, while the true illusioner remains invisible. However, only the invisible illusioner burns when catching Minecraft:fire.

The duplicates disappear once the illusioner's Invisibility effect ends.

This spell resets the illusioner's spell cooldown to 1 second and resets the cooldown for the invisibility spell to 17 seconds.

Data values

Entity data

Template:See also Illusioners have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt inherit/raidable
  • Template:Nbt: Number of ticks until a spell can be cast. Set to a positive value when a spell is cast, and decreases by 1 per tick.

<section end="entity data"/>

Advancements

Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

History

Issues

Illusioners are an unsupported mob and as such issues relating to them may not be fixed.

Trivia

• The illusioner displace sound almost is the same as the traditional sound of teleportation via an Minecraft:ender pearl or Minecraft:chorus fruit, Minecraft:endermen or Minecraft:shulkers, albeit with a slight distortion at the end.
• Illusioners shoot backward when they are in a Minecraft:boat.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Illusioners hold bows in a different direction compared to Minecraft:skeletons or players, a little more diagonally.
• Despite being unused, the illusioner was present in a Minecraft:Minecraft video about every mob in the game.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
  • As a result of being unused, an episode of Minecraft:The Story of Mobs gave instructions on how to spawn it to give context for what the mob is.<ref>Template:YouTube link</ref>
• Illusioners displace spell can be triggered by splashing them with a splash potion of invisibility.

Gallery

Renders

• An illusioner aiming.
  An illusioner aiming.
• An illusioner that is a Minecraft:raid captain.
  An illusioner that is a Minecraft:raid captain.
• A sitting illusioner.
  A sitting illusioner.
• An illusioner riding a Minecraft:ravager.
  An illusioner riding a Minecraft:ravager.
• An illusioner without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in the game)
  An illusioner without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in the game)

Textures

• Illusioner texture file.
  Illusioner texture file.
• Programmer Art texture file.
  Programmer Art texture file.

Screenshots

• Illusioner duplicates dying when the original illlusioner is killed.
  Illusioner duplicates dying when the original illlusioner is killed.
• An illusioner shooting an Minecraft:arrow at a Minecraft:villager with its Minecraft:bow.
  An illusioner shooting an Minecraft:arrow at a Minecraft:villager with its Minecraft:bow.
• An illusioner attacking villagers.
  An illusioner attacking villagers.
• An illusioner preparing to cast its Minecraft:Blindness spell.
  An illusioner preparing to cast its Minecraft:Blindness spell.
• An illusioner killing a villager with its bow.
  An illusioner killing a villager with its bow.
• A few illusioner captains of illager patrol summoned using commands.
  A few illusioner captains of illager patrol summoned using commands.
• Illusioners using the wrong subtitles.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> "Minecraft:Skeleton shoots"
  Illusioners using the wrong subtitles.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> "Minecraft:Skeleton shoots"

In other media

• An illusioner from Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons with the different outfit and eye coloring.
  An illusioner from Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons with the different outfit and eye coloring.