The Ultimate Guide to Defeating Pillager Raids in Minecraft! 

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If you don’t have golems / iron, a pack of wolves works really gr8. I can beat raids without full iron armor if I have a pack of 10+ wolves and a stack of meat to keep em fed and bred. If you don’t have armor, use a bow + wolves combo to kill the evoker mages that drop the totems. Those MF’s are strong and can one shot you with full iron armor.

Thank you for always mentioning the differences between bedrock and Java

At first I thought Totems were rare. Now, after abusing the mechanics using a raid farm I don't even know what to do with them anymore.

Extra info: Vindicators can also break wood doors (with their axes).

Something that wasn't mentioned here: A wall made of cacti or sweet berry bushes ideally combined with fences or stone walls surrounding the village makes it drastically easier to fight the raids.

Woah! I've been playing Minecraft for over ten years now, and I never knew you could heal iron golems using iron ingots. That's awesome! ^-^

When we find a village, we lock all the villagers inside the houses and build a fence around the village. If the fenced in area is small enough, raids will form outside the village fence and it is much easier to defeat the raids from inside the fence. The villagers won't wander off and iron golems usually stay inside the fence. Light up the area inside the fence and mobs won't spawn either. If you find a villager with a really good trade, fence in their house so you always know where to find them.

A lava bucket is another effective method for dealing with Ravagers. It slows them down and makes them very easy to shoot with a bow on top of lava damage, provided you don’t need/want the Saddle that drops.

Fun fact: Ravagers have a special attack called stunning, on which the ravager gets stunned for a couple of secs, then it roars and knocks the player quite far away. And according to SimplySarc, the ravager attack if tackled with a shield, you can use some pretty neat tricks to launch yourself even 1000s of blocks with that knock back!

I actually defeated a raid while on horseback. It's much more easier to evade and dodge arrow attacks. It can also outrun a ravager. Just make sure you pick the horse that has the fastest run speed

It's too bad Vindicators named "Johnny" have limited hostilities. I'd love to just run around during a raid tagging Vindicators and watching them slaughter their own dudes lol

Slight elaboration: “a raid is triggered when [the player makes the killing blow on a] raid captain.” If one of the other raiders shoots the captain and kills them, it will not trigger the “bad omen” status effect. (At least not a Java, unknown on Bedrock).

Fun fact: A sharpness 5 netherite axe crit with strength 2 is just enough to kill pillagers, vindicators, witches and evokers in one hit, as they all have 12 hearts of health.

Pro tip for the Ravengers Crossbow with Quick draw 3 and Multishot firing slowness(0;11) works amazing to control them and also for basic riot control. Slowness 4(0;02) arrows work well with Piercing crossbows too and that's my general purpose carry bow.

Excellent video. While I do love raids, I'll never understand the extremely short duration of Hero of the Village. I feel like it should be more like 15-20 ingame days rather than around 2. Still, it's a fun experience and the totems of undying make it worth it.

Back in my early minecraft days, i came across my first pillager patrol. I had seen pillager outposts before, so I figured they had to be from there. I tried to follow them back to the supposed outpost, but like i said, I hadn’t played for very long and didn’t know about despawning. So i ended up looking for a pillager patrol that didn’t even exist anymore for about half an hour.

Another fun defensive strategy is making dense areas of bamboo in the areas where they're most likely to come. They tend to get stuck in the bamboo and easy to pick off and it slows them down. And as a bonus the bamboo looks nice too

Biggest issue i have with raids is collecting all the loot. As for fighting them just walk away when the raid is due and they'll definitely spawn behind you. Then reach for your bow.

Thanks for this, I need alternative methods since my nether portal trap failed recently due to lag. (Yes I keep a stash of obsidian to build huge portals to banish incoming pillagers)

Just a small critique. You said hit the witches with a fire resistance sword. I think you meant to say fire aspect.

9:00 Raider No.1 - He's sleeping, we can kill him easily Raider No.2 - Oh no, don't, let him sleep

First, the primary purpose of raids is the discount, not the totems. It's nice to get a couple of them initially, but beyond that, they just start accumulating. The discount is always useful, however, especially if you're not playing on hard mode, and can't reliably zombify your villagers for better trades without a raid. Second, the best way, by far, to defeat a raid is to do it in a village specially created for the purpose, which has a magma-block moat around it. All you need is a single villager with a bed to count as a village. The setup is pretty simple, though it takes a bit of time. Around your village, dig a trench that's about four blocks deep and four blocks wide. Fill that trench with water, and make sure all the water blocks are source blocks (planting kelp to the surface and breaking it is the easiest way to do that). Now put magma blocks on the entire bottom surface of the moat, save for a one-block ring on the outside. The latter allows you to swim up and get out, after going in to fetch the loot (remember to crouch when on the magma blocks). Make sure you hit a pillager at least once during the raid to make it count as a victory. Beyond that, you can literally just sit back and watch. They will all rush towards you and the villager(s), go into the moat, then burn to death at the bottom. Save the witches. They can live for a very long time down there, so you'll want to pick them off with a bow before they jump in, if you can. Otherwise, wait until they're the only ones left in the wave, then kill them with a ranged weapon or jump in to attack with a melee weapon (be prepared to deal with poison). If you want XP, you'll need to hit each pillager within 5 seconds of them dying. You'll want to do this with a bow or trident. The bubble column requires you to change your aim, however. While it sucks mobs downwards, it pushes projectiles upwards. So you need to aim at a point between you and the target. If you have a bow with Punch II, you can see when you've got the aim correct. Finally, getting Bad Omen V, for the best discount, can be tedious if you just sit around the fort waiting for a banner to spawn. But there's a workaround. Just leave the area - a few chunks away - and return. A whole new batch of pillagers will spawn en masse, likely with a banner. It's extremely easy and fast to do this if you have Elytra. Just fly away for a couple seconds, then fly back.

Another thing about Ravangers!!! They can't hit you if you're underwater! That can also be used as a huge advantage against them, but of course only with a little preparation. ("Underwater" In this case means that there's a lake or something, not just a bucket of water, for clarification)

Also, it's possible to trigger two raids in adjacent villages. It'll confuse the game and probably murder your base village when you're fighting the raid at your villager breeder but it's possible

you know the best part of this? I, as a 23 year old guy, found myself in a raid while my 8 year old little cousin was watching me play. It was my first time that ever happened as I just starting playing minecraft for the first time a little while ago. I didn’t know what was happening but he guided me through the entire thing to where I successfully defended the village and completed the raid, all thanks to his guidance.

Or luck out and have the raid spawn in the partially blocked cave behind the village! This is what happened on my first ever raid. I could hear them, and was searching the village for them but finally found them trapped in the cave. Eliminated them with almost no damage to myself. Doubt I'll ever get that lucky again.

ur voice and the way u talk make me feel better

I appreciate how concise and to the point your videos are. Very informative. +1 Subscriber.

Here’s an updated comment. I experienced A raid. They were inside my walls the first time. The traps I set outside of the walls (berry bushes and magma blocks) just kept them back but they never hurt themselves so they stayed away from it, the snow didn’t have the powder on it so that didn’t work. But what really helped was my lava trap and the iron golem and I made some snow golems I feel the snow golems fought the hardest and worked the best. I was going to use my dogs but I sat them back down. I haven’t uploaded that video yet but will soon. It’s rather hilarious😂

Pillagers: We will raid any village you enter! Also pillagers: Oh, he drank milk, nevermind I guess.

I hate the fireworks effect after the raid, because if you have them trapped theyll set off fireworks indoors and kill themselves

THANK U FOR THE BELL TRICK U SAVED MY HARDCORE WORLD

I wish I could have stumbled upon this amazing and informative video of yours a few months ago since I didn't know that you had to wait 40 minutes for a raid to respawn.

I was watching all your other videos in one go and then bam, a new one!

Me, my wife and my son just did 4 raids in a row on hard mode. Soooo FUN!!!

thanks for the video gives more new info about the Raid event 👏 when I do raids, I always using a lot of boats, it catches every Raid Mobs, yes Vex and Ravager too

Very good guide! I've been wondering about the raid and will be doing one soon!!

I like how he is so calm while doing a raid

Thanks! Also, unrelated, I had some ideas for how raids could be better, just to share ideas: -What if Milk didn’t get rid of Bad Omen. I know! That would make things harder! But it would also be more realistic. The Pillagers won’t stop hating you because you drank a pail of milk. It would also enforce voluntary exile: you’d want to stay away from a village for some in-game days. -There was different tier raids. If you kill a Pillager Captain in a patrol, that’s a tier one raid (normal). If you kill one in an outpost, that’s tier 2, which means that a couple extra enemies will appear regardless of the raid difficulty level. -Illusioners should be in Mansions. -If pillagers win, the next time a player steps out of sight of the village it changes. When they come back in sight, the illagers will be gone, and the village will be fully looted and on fire. All beds and villagers, chest items, crops, gone. Just ransacked and in flames, with Illager flags here and there. -Vinidcators can break doors like Zombies. Pillager arrows can eventually break windows after a few shots. And ravagers can break more solid blocks.

I always place boats on the ground around the village and I am on a house roof shooting with bow. They ran just always in. Boats are just too op

Oh oh. I didnt know about the bell spectral thing... I started a raid and I ended up looking for 20 minutes for 1 stupid pillager what fell in some waterpool and got stuck underground. I found him because after 20 minutes I just went into spectator mode and it took me 2 minutes to find. I was really annoyed but now I know to always bring a bell... :)

I subbed to ur channel, really enjoy the content keep it up !!

Awesome Video Eye! I wish bedrock had the spectral affect from the bell its so useful!

thank you for being so detailed!

loved these tips. my only suggestion would be wolves... pretty easy to get a big a army of wolves early game and combined with a bow you can easilly take out all the waves without any troubles.

these are really nice advices, thanks a lot :)

Last night,a friend accidentally activated a raid...inside our base 🤣,it was chaotic but fun since it was our fist raid,so this video saved us from accidentally activating another raid since we had no idea milk removes the bad omen effect. Happy to say that we won the raid and saved Esclovian and Esclovania,our 2 frost~mending librarian russian refugees. (We are hispanics,so their names are a play on the word "esclavo/esclava" which mean slave)

thanks man you helped me defeat my first ever raid :) it felt so good to complete

If you can plan ahead I always build a wall around the village it works like a charm

Golems definitely help in solo raids, was doing a raid on hard mode and I had my village spread out heavily, they stayed near homes and would kill a occasion pillager or vindicator attacking a house

I resisted for awhile, but I finally caved and built a raid farm recently. Most frustrating project ever but I don't regret it.

In all my 8 years of play, I never knew you could get a level 3 or 4 Bad Omen effect nor did I know you could heal golems. You learn something every day with Eyecraft.

Thank you for this guide, made my life easier :) .

I never knew about the bell effect, that is soooooo helpful

The boat thing is great! i'll surely use it, thanks . Didn't know milk cured bad omen effect! good video

I've done the 7 stages of a raid with a bow with power 1 and normal arrows. You can even shoot vexes with arrows too. Elevation, breaking line of sight with evokes helps inbetween shots. 10 normal arrows to defeat a ravager....would love to see a raid video with the minimal equipment.... If near a coastline, a border around the water 1 extra block high is a great way of keeping them in the water. Easy pickings then.

This was a lot of great advice but what i came here for was info on how to physically protect a village. Is it not a good idea to build a wall was my thought? Can you actually lock the illagers out of the village or will they break in?

Im so excited, im new to minecraft and i crated a practice world and defeated a raid on survival!!!

You forgot two more things and that's if you want a village as your base/small kingdom. Build a wall and a ditch to slow the enemy down

What i do is i go to the highest point of the village make the door a iron door and when a ravenger comes i get in the house ladder up to the roof and shoot it and i also build up from the roof to scope out

8:39 I didn't know that you could repair iron golems. That's cool!

Your videos always calm me down when I’m stressed

a vex is probably the hardest mob to kill in the game including the with and ender dragon cause how small it is so its hard to hit and it does a ton of damage and it can go through walls so the only way to get away is with elytra

I recently had a raid in my start up village of a farmer, his crops, and animal pens. A few of the raiders (including a ravager, vindicator, and a few pillagers) got stuck in the animal pens, making it much easier to take them out. The only drawback was the vindicator turned my blue sheep red!

Bro not gonna lie you have helped me alot in my survival world I wanna say this you gained a new subscriber ;)

I wish I had watched this a day or two ago. Just had a defeat in the 7th wave of my 2-villager village. Another good option is to build a simple 'raid farm' and trick them into it. Also, walling off your village will help (my 2-villager village had like 10 houses and 3 or 4 buildings of the village was in a hole with a cave), mine was just too large to keep all the raids out.

thx man!

Youre so underated whenever i need a tutorial of something i just search you

Thanks for this guid

Get lots of wood, craft lots of trapdoors, make trapdoor "fences". It will trap those raiders good.

7:00 with the bell alert I already see a way to warn your villagers before approaching the village: Set up bells throughout the village inbefore, wire them up with redstone and connect them to a clock. When having bad omen, pull a lever further away from the village and the clock should spam all bells. Wait a short time and then rush in to lock all doors. With the redstone clock switch you can save yourself some time by triggering all bells before provocing the raid. If you have transformed your village buildings with piston doors, even better.

Wall up your village! A stone wall 2 blocks tall is enough to stop everything in a raid, ravagers included. Make sure you place it close to the buildings so the raid doesnt spawn inside. This way the illagers group up against the walls alowing golems to crush them and you to decimate them with a piercing or rocket crossbow.

Thank you 👍

this helped me alot thanks

Nice asmr voice, and incredibly clear informative video, thx

who knew you could put fire resistance on a sword. I always use fire aspect like a noob.

8:16 nah that golem have some different plans😂

This was VERY helpful like VERY

İ think Bow and Swiftness Potions are better for figth these Mobs, because you can escape and shoot the mobs.İf you killed Vindicators and you want to get Totem of Undying, Shield and Armor Can be Usefull.

Completed my first raid on hardcore because of these tips will say building a tower or a safe house is a must cus of the ravengers then the iron golems I was unknowingly on bad omen two so I had to deal with 7 waves I burnt through 5 iron golems but it was worth it as I have 3-4 totems now !

Had a witch get itself trapped underwater at my island base once. Spent half an hour looking for them, only to just yeet a trident at them once. Gotta grab a bell for that place.

Lmao i can just imagine “OH SHIT” “SIR HE DRANK MILK” “QUIT THE MISSION HE DRANK MILK”

Best minecraft youtuber. Love your vids keep up the good work

Thanks for the info, good job! I use powdered snow around my base to kill off most of the raiders, really easy.

I won a raid because of you 😊

This is a really helpful guide hank you, but also make sure you don't have your villagers in an underground area, because the fireworks will kill them all

Iron golem at 8:15 : “You hit me? Nah screw the villagers this personal”

Op guidelines for Minecraft on this video 👍👍👍👍

Me with iron armour and 15 arrows watching a guy in full netherite with 2 stacks of spectral arrows:

A fun way to win that I use is to breed a ton of wolves and place them in groups around village by making them sit. When it starts I "activate" them by making them stand up. When the rain starts to get serious with all the tougher mobs I usually go up into a little watchtower they'll make ahead of time and start shooting them with arrows whoever I attack the wolves will swarm like crazy and when I'm on the ground if I get attacked they'll do the same thing. This is particularly funny when the ravagers come out and I'm running towards you and they don't have a chance of getting at you. Best thing is it doesn't take much to set this up all you have to do is feed your dogs some meat to make them them breed as much as you like which is a whole lot cheaper than making a bunch of iron golems which are also able to be made ahead of time and ready to go by waiting to put the pumpkin on their head until they're needed that way you don't have to try to make them in the middle of a battle

Thanks for taking the time to make great videos! Your chill voice is a welcome change from the over reacting super-pumped guys. I’m 50 and I guess I’m an old codger because I just can’t stand that type of delivery. Thanks again!

4:08 your insane if you bring villagers to the end

Lava can also be used for ravagers, probably vindicators too but since a boat can easily trap them it's more efficient

Currently playing in Hardcore and I'm doing quite great on day 52 rn, found 2 villages couple hundred blocks away from my base which is pretty good, I still only have enchanted iron armor and tools however I do have a crazy good bow from fishing

I used to take a huge pack od wolfes (about 20) to battle against them and it worked perfectly, ecspecialy against ravagers, wolfes just overwelmed them with the ratę od attacks

Just build a 2 block high wall around the village and most can't reach you. Then design a main gate with overlapping fields of fire for your soldier mods. After that it's only the vexes that threaten me. Especially because my reflexes are so below average.

My strategy? Breed a bunch of dogs( Around 50-100 is good, I tend to use about 200 cuz i'm bad), give the dogs potion effects, and let them distract the raiders. You will only need to focus on evokers, as they have an AOE attack

I recommend use Diamond Pickaxe as silk touch, its easier to choose, *for normal work and for special things* Because You wont use diamond one, it gets faster

The Iron golem bit is interesting. i will get a few