Dungeons:Pillager

Pillager

Health points	Tier 1: 120 Tier 2: 350 Tier 3: 480
Behavior	Hostile
Classification	Enemies
Mob category	Illager
Attack strength	Tier 1: 60 Tier 2: Default damage x 1.1 Tier 3: Default damage x 1.2
Spawn	See § Spawning
Equipped models	Crossbow

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A pillager is a crossbow-armed hostile illager that can be found within the various missions of the game. It comes in three tiers while only having one variant in Arcade.

Spawning

• Cacti Canyon
• Redstone Mines
• Fiery Forge
• Highblock Halls
• Underhalls
• Obsidian Pinnacle
• Frosted Fjord
• Lone Fortress
• Lost Settlement
• Windswept Peaks
• Gale Sanctum
• Gauntlet of Gales
• Colossal Rampart
• End Wilds
• Broken Citadel
• Daily Trial
• Tower
• Treetop Tangle

Pillagers can be summoned by the following:

• Vigilant Scoundrel

Behavior

Walk

Pillagers move away to keep distance from the hero, similar to skeletons, spiders, and geomancers.

Basic attack

Pillagers are armed with crossbows and are usually slow-moving, preferring to shoot the hero from a distance. However, it deals great pierce damage with a single shot.

The second tier cannot be stunned by normal attack damage except certain artifacts, any armor with the Snowball enchantment, and any weapon with the Stunning enchantment.

Sounds

Idle

The idle sounds for the second and third tiers are slightly low-pitched. (0.7-0.9)

Sounds
Sound	Description	Identifier
	Idle	?

Hurt

Sounds
Sound	Description	Identifier
	Hurt	?
	Armor Leather Layer 1 (Variant 1 & 2)	?

Death

Sounds
Sound	Description	Identifier
	Death	?
	Mob body fall (Basic)	?
	Mob body fall (Variant 1 & 2 only)	?
	Armor Leather Layer 1 (Variant 1 & 2 only)	?

Crossbow

Sounds
Sound	Description	Identifier
	Shoot	?
	Crossbow loading	?

Projectile

According to sfx_mob_pillagerProjectile file, the projectile sounds of a pillager's arrow are mixed with sword and "whoosh" sounds.

Sounds
Sound	Description
	Sword Shing
	Whoosh

Projectile impact

According to sfx_mob_pillagerProjectileImpact file, the impact sounds of a pillager's arrow are mixed with sword and sickles impact sounds.

Sounds
Sound	Description
	Sword Impact Steel
	Impact (1-4 only)

Data values

ID

Name	Variant	Blueprint	Level mob-type	Unified level mob-type	Translation key
Pillager	Tier 1	BP_PillagerCharacter_C	—	pillager Pillager	mob_Pillager
	Tier 2	BP_PillagerVariant1Character_C
	Tier 3	BP_PillagerVariant2Character_C
Pillager Projectile	—	BP_PillagerProjectile_C	—	—	—

History

Minecraft Dungeons
Dungeons Beta							Added pillagers.
1.5.0.0							Reduced base damage by 20%. (75→62). However, their base damage is 60 in their blueprint file.

Issues

Issues for Minecraft Dungeons relating to "Pillager" are no longer maintained on the bug tracker since September 28, 2023.

Quotes

“

PILLAGERS – Armed with crossbows, pillagers are slow-moving but capable of inflicting great damage with a single shot. You will have more luck defeating the pillager by dodging their attacks and getting close for a strong melee attack.

„

— Guide to Minecraft Dungeons:
A Handbook for Heroes

Trivia

• Alongside crossbows, pillagers were taken from Minecraft Dungeons, even though they were added to the original game first.
  • Pillagers in Minecraft Dungeons have many new sounds that didn't appear in the original game.
• The second tier pillager's nose texture is different than the other variants, it uses the vanilla Minecraft texture.
• Pillager's model has four bones for crossbow named "Weapon", three of which are unused.
• When pillager aims at a target, its right eye moves half a pixel to the left.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  A tier 1 pillager
• 
  A tier 1 pillager using a crossbow
• 
  A tier 2 pillager
• 
  A tier 2 pillager using a crossbow
• 
  A tier 3 pillager
• 
  A tier 3 pillager using a crossbow
• 
  A pillager (Minecraft Dungeons Arcade)
• 
  A pillager with loaded crossbow (Minecraft Dungeons Arcade)
• 
  A pillager aiming (Minecraft Dungeons Arcade)
• 
  Tier 2 pillager helmet
• 
  Tier 2 pillager helmet from behind
• 
  Tier 3 pillager helmet
• 
  Tier 3 pillager helmet from behind

Animations

• 
  Pillager idle
• 
  Pillager walking
• 
  Pillager basic attack
• 
  Pillager basic attack (unused legs animation)
• 
  Pillager stun
• 
  Pillager basic attack with unused crossbow animation

Textures

• 
  The texture of tier 1 pillagers
• 
  The shadow texture of the pillager
• 
  The texture of tier 2 pillagers
• 
  The texture of tier 3 pillagers
• 
  Murals in the Luminous Night Tower that depict an illager
• 
  The "Aunt" painting, depicting a pillager with no sleeves and green eyes, like in the base game

Gameplay

• 
  A tier 2 pillager helmet in the game
• 
  A tier 3 pillager helmet in the game
• 
  Pillagers in Minecraft Dungeons Arcade

Cutscenes

• 
  A pillager in fiery forge cutscene

Concept artwork

• 
  The pillager's first design prior to being changed to its current outfit.
• 
  A pillager walking, as seen in the earlier teasers and art for Minecraft Dungeons
• 
  A pillager aimimg, as seen in the earlier teasers and art for Minecraft Dungeons