The Ultimate Guide to Defeating Pillager Raids in Minecraft!

Villager raids and minecraft can get you totems of undying and other powerful items in this minecraft guide to defeating raids i explain how they work and the best ways to defeat them let’s check it out also most people who watch my videos aren’t subscribed to the

Channel so if you enjoy this video feel free to press the subscribe button with notifications on so that you never miss an upload in the future so how do you actually trigger a raid well a raid is triggered when a pillager captain is killed now pillager captains come in two

Different places the first one is in pillager patrols these are sort of those small groups of pillagers you may see roaming around your world occasionally and the other place is right here at a pillager outpost now of course the only guaranteed place to find pillager captains is the pillager outpost so if

You’re trying to set up a raid i would suggest going to a pillager outpost and killing one of the captains there they don’t spawn too frequently but you can find them around here among all the other pillagers like this one right here you knows the captain because it’ll have

The banner on its head there and if you kill it you will be given the bad omen effect now that you have the bad omen effect if you go inside of a village which is counted as any place in the game that has at least one villager with

Either a claimed bed or a claimed work station it can be a claimed workstation in java edition but it has to be acclaimed bed in bedrock but it can be either in java when you go into that place then you will start a raid but let’s say that you acquire the bad omen

Effect and you don’t want to trigger a raid with that then what you can do is you can simply get rid of it by drinking some milk so just go up to a cow right click on it with a bucket drink the milk and that status effect will be gone and

You can go into a village completely safely without any worry about starting a raid by accident so you’ve now triggered a raid in this village and there’ll be a group of pillagers and vindicators and other mobs like that come to the village to try and destroy it we’ll hear this horn sound and

They’ll appear right over here as we kill the moms you can see the boss bar of the raid slowly goes down then it says raiders two remaining one remaining and once we kill this well the raid isn’t done it’s filling up again there you can see the bar there is filling on

The top and that’s because there’s actually multiple waves to a raid but how many there are depends on your in-game difficulty so basically if you’re on hard mode you’ll have seven waves if you’re on peaceful it’ll actually disable the raid if you’re on easy you’ll have three

Waves normal you’ll have five and then of course like i said on hard you’ll have seven and so how difficult of raid you have is completely dependent on your in-game difficulty and if you’re on a server would be determined by that as well by whatever the server’s difficulty is set

To but you can also get more than seven raid waves because in java edition when you kill one captain of course you get your first bat omen effect but if we go and find ourselves a second pillager with a banner on it and we kill that pillager as well then we actually get

Bad omen 2. but it doesn’t stop at bat omen 2. if we can find another pillager captain and we kill it we can actually go up to batomen 3 4 or even 5. however the biggest difference is between batomen one and two so the big difference is that when you trigger a

Raid there can be an additional wave in it if you are on battlemen two in fact there will always be an additional wave so if you’re on easy you’ll have four waves if you’re on normal you’ll have six waves and if you’re on hard you will have eight waves the other difference is

For bat omen three four and five is that the chance that there being enchantments on the pillager’s tools that spawn in and try and kill you is higher so it’s kind of just slightly more difficulty after that but a good thing to note if you want to get the most out of your

Raid as that extra wave is incredibly dense full of valuable mobs and items so if you’re really trying to farm out raids it would probably be a good idea to get yourself bad omen level 2. here’s an interesting fact about raids if we already have a current boss fight going

So let’s say one with a wither or with an ender dragon just like this and then we have a raid be triggered you can notice that the color of the raid’s boss bar actually changes so it changes from pure red to kind of a mix of red and

Black i think this is probably meant to signify that it’s a bit more dangerous since you’re fighting two mobs at once but no other boss bars in the game do this but the raid bar does so if you’re fighting the ender dragon and you happen

To trigger a raid in the end where if you are fighting the wither and you trigger a raid at the same time you will see this interesting boss bar color but other than this there’s not much of a difference between normal raids and raids triggered at the same time as

Another boss fight just an interesting little easter egg you might not have known about if every villager in your village dies as you’re fighting a raid then the raid will have defeated you and it’ll say on the boss bar raid dash defeat and all the pillagers and vindicators and other mobs like that

Will kind of celebrate and dance around a little bit and of course you wouldn’t get the hero of the village effect from that however if you do defeat a raid successfully you will get the hero of the village effect which means that when you trade with villagers they’ll give

You amazing discounts on trades and the level of the raid that you defeated so let’s say it was a raid level 2 which would be triggered by the bad omen level 2 then you would get hero of the village level 2 instead of standard hero of the

Village and so on and so forth all the way up to hero of the village 5 from the battlemen level 5 and this will just continue to decrease your prices from villager trades also when a raid is defeated the villagers will shoot off fireworks and they’ll generally throw

Items at you of their corresponding job type if they’re unemployed or nitwits they will throw you wheat seeds and i believe baby villagers will sometimes throw you poppies but this throwing of the items although quite cool can also be somewhat useful considering that certain villagers like the fletcher can

Even give you tipped arrows and you can also get iron axes gold axes and other somewhat useful items from things like weaponsmiths so their gifts to you aren’t entirely useless at all now if you walk into a village with the bad omen effect and you trigger a raid but

Let’s say you don’t hit any of the raiders you maybe just hide in a little area have a couple villagers protected and do nothing then eventually after 40 minutes of the raid being started that is 40 minutes of the game being loaded in then the raid will say on it raid

Dash expired and it’ll basically stop and you won’t have to worry about that again but of course at that point generally most of your villagers would have died now let’s say you trigger a raid by accident and you want it to not continue on if you trap one of the

Pillagers just an easy mob to kill in a boat or in another place so for instance you could maybe trap them in a little hole or something and just wheel them to a safe place you can simply keep this pillager in the boat like that and they

Will just sit there and after 40 minutes that raid can expire as well so you can stop a raid that way if you don’t want to go through all the waves of it and you don’t want to die let’s say if you triggered one by accident so that’s a

Great way of stopping them well now you know a lot about raids but how do you actually defeat them well i’m gonna go into that right now the first thing you want to do is get all of your villagers inside their houses and then trap them

There with one or two pieces of dirt the point of doing this is that all of them are safe none of them are killed during the raid and so there’s no chance of the raid being a defeat now if you do have some villagers that are still outside

Their houses and they’re not going into their houses if you grab yourself a bell and you ring the bell then what can happen if you continue to ring the bell is they’ll try and navigate their way into a house so if we unlock this house here there’s already one villager in it

If we start to ring the bell here those villagers will tend to path fine towards their house you can kind of see they’re all trying to get in there and once they’re in there you can just block the door like this and you can continue to do that with all the different villagers

Until they’re all trapped inside their houses the next thing i would do is if you have a lot of iron and curved pumpkins do spawn in as many iron golems as you can all around the radius of the entire village if you do this you can

Kind of have an army of iron golems to protect the village with you and i guarantee you it’ll make the raid probably 95 easier as the iron golems tend to do most of the work for you but how do you actually defeat this the crazy wave of all kinds of mobs

Dangerous ones overpowered one just a lot of stuff to defeat well here’s what you can do what i would first suggest is try and get to a high place up in the sky maybe make yourself a defensive tower something simple but like this would be very good you don’t need

Something crazy and then from up here if you have a bow on you which i would definitely suggest range attacks for these then you can shoot the raiders down from on top of here it looks like the iron golems have killed most of them already and from your perch up here you

Can tend to shoot down the mobs somewhat easily i would actually suggest using spectral arrows so then you can see the mobs once you’ve hit them and taking out the witches first can be a good idea as they are quite dangerous because they can replenish the health of other mobs

Another great technique when you have a massive amount of mobs to deal with is to place down a boat so for instance like this you can see these two pillagers here have been captured in the boat and now they’re captured here you can very easily hit them just like this

You don’t have to worry too much about them trying to get you i would certainly suggest too if you have some iron golems to make sure to frequently right click on them with iron to heal them up as i think it only takes a maximum of four

Iron ingots to fully heal up an iron golem whereas to make an iron golem takes 36 iron ingots you’ll definitely be saving a lot of iron just to heal your current iron golems now one thing i cannot stress enough is that when you’re in the middle of a raid please do still

Sleep it’s really important to sleep during your raid the reason why is that tons of hostile mobs will still spawn in the world if you don’t sleep now of course it can be a little bit dangerous sleeping in the middle of fighting all these mobs but if you can find a quick

Little place to go to bed it’s definitely a vital effort as then you’re only fighting the raid instead of the raid and also creepers zombies skeletons and things like that additionally if there’s extra witches that spawn around they can actually join the raid if they are spawned in naturally and they can

Combine with the raid to make a truly deadly force now personally i would say one of the best weapons to fight raids with is the firework launcher that’s because there’s usually a mass amount of mobs in a raid and you can hit them all at once with something like this just be

Aware not to die of the splash damage yourself when you have a huge amount of mobs coming towards you this can be a really great weapon to use so for instance like this we’re hitting a huge amount of the mobs at once which is going to be a very efficient way of

Killing them just be aware not to die from all these crazy attacks you end up getting with the higher level mobs but something like this from further away can be a vital effort to not die in a raid you also don’t need as much aim with a firework crossbow so that’s

Another plus of this interesting weapon now what are the best techniques to kill every single different type of mob in a raid well i’m going to show you those right now let’s start with the standard pillager personally i would suggest getting close to them and simply finishing them off with an axe their

Crossbow is a very slow draw and so it’s a really easy thing just to go right up to them like this and hit them before they can even hit you or hit you very little and also they’re pretty dangerous from far comparatively and so they’re much

Better to hit at close range with an axe or a sword now they’ve dealt with a lot of the pillagers but there are vindicators these axe wielding thugs are quite dangerous what i would suggest to do to defeat them is place down a boat get them trapped in the boat and then

They can’t hit you they don’t have arranged attacks they’re perfectly easy to capture in a boat and not be able to hit you from even a pretty close range then from that on you can simply hit them like this and wear them down rather easily you can even capture up to two

Vindicators in one boat and so it’s pretty efficient to grab these guys and get them trapped there if you can get them to kind of get leaded in the right direction just like that there you go and you can see we have those two vindicators there we can finish off the

Pillagers and go over here and get these neatly captured vindicators that cannot kill us no matter what next is the ravager i would suggest using a shield on this when it tries to attack you can block the attack with your shield and then after you’ve blocked the attack you

Can kind of hit it up close but i would suggest is to go further away and try and get the ravager with the bow and they can go very very fast so it’s important to stay very vigilant with those as they can travel about as fast

As the player but if you can block their attacks close up with the shield if you interact with them then go further away to hit them with the boss that they can’t hit you in their range then it’s pretty easy to defeat them that way just

Be aware if they have a rider on top of them it’s probably best to kill the rider first and overall bows are great for any part of the raid i would certainly suggest them as your first weapon to use when trying to defeat this what about witches i would suggest

Killing them with a fire resistant sword the reason why is that when you hit them with fire resistance they’ll stop to drink a fire resistance potion this should give you enough time to finish them off before they throw a poison potion at you as if you are given the

Poison effect it is incredibly hard to recover from that during a raid and it basically spells certain death especially if there are vexes in the raid at that stage as it’s almost impossible to defeat them with that kind of damage now one of the most dangerous

Mobs in the raid the evoker how do you defeat the evoker i would suggest whether you believe it or not to get very close with them yes they do sometimes have the spiked attack but they summon in these vexes very quickly so if you can’t hit them really easily a

Lot of these guys will spawn in and these guys are incredibly deadly as they can hit you with almost as much damage as one of the vindicators can with their axe and so it’s really good to avoid these as much as you can or you will end

Up killed by them i’ve even had times where i’ve defeated a raid and the vexes have actually killed me after the raid spent a victory because they have such a high attack damage but it is very much worth it to kill the evoker in fact it’s

Really the only point of summoning in a raid because you get yourself totems of undying you do also get some emeralds from the raid of course but totems of undying are an amazing item because if you’re killed with the totem of undying on you you don’t really actually die in

Fact with the totem of undying you basically have a second life let’s watch ourselves be killed here we get the post-mortal achievement we get some extra hearts sort of like a golden apple and we have some regeneration to give us sort of like an extra life for a small

Amount of time and so with that then we can continue on to fight with the raid but i wouldn’t suggest using totems of undying too much during the raid considering that that’s the entire point of the raid is to get totems of undying so to use them all up during the raid

Wouldn’t really make a lot of sense now what happens if you’re looking around the village and you see there’s a couple raiders remaining but you don’t know where they are you’ve looked and looked and looked and you just cannot find them well thankfully mo jing thought of even

This when planning out the raid which is awesome because it’s very easy to do this simply grab the bell from the center of the village or a bell you’ve brought from another village or even when you’ve grabbed from a villager place it down and ring the bell now this

Usually would make the villagers go inside their houses but during the actual raid if we ring the bell it’ll have an additional effect if we ring it you’ll hear there’s a sound it kind of sounds like a bit of like a warping sound or something with that one

More time and that’ll make every single pillager in the area have the spectral effect let’s try it right here we can’t see the pillager we do that oh we noticed the pillager is sitting right here in the boat next to the cow and then we can kill it quite easily such a

Really cool thing to do is to bring a bell around with you i would certainly suggest it because unfortunately any witch within 96 blocks of a raid can join in on the raid as well as additional illagers like let’s say ones that came from a pillager patrol and so

These can be really far underground like the witches and you may have to go mining down in some caves to try and find that witch that somehow joined the raid but if you have a bell that’ll make that a lot easier evokers can also ride

On top of ravagers like this one here as well as the pillagers and the vindicators can do that as well you can see where the evoker can run very very quickly so it’s important to grab those as fast as you can because they can be

Hard to avoid and if you have a very large raid wave what i would suggest doing is taking out the evokers first then the witches then the vindicators and finishing off with the pillagers as that is basically the order of danger of course ravager should be taken out as

Quickly as possible as well most definitely important to get rid of the evokers as no other mop in the raid can actually spawn in more mobs one last interesting thing every raid has a raid captain that does have the banner on its head however of course killing that will

Not give you the bad omen effect as if it did you would literally have an eternal raid having lots of towers and lookouts things like this will definitely protect you in the long run from the dangerous mobs also be aware your armor can completely break during a

Raid if you’re really in a lot of the damage as a lot of the mobs like the ravagers can inflict a very large amount of damage even like the vindicators here they can hit you down to very very small amount of health quite quickly so definitely be aware of these before they

Kill you now in terms of tips of defeating the vexes i would generally suggest to ignore them as much as you can but if you can attack them if you turn on hitboxes it can be a little bit easier to hit them they do end up dying

A little bit after they respond but overall they’re pretty easy to defeat but their attack damage is very high we’ve just defeated the raid and we have the raid victory there some of the villagers are setting off fireworks and they’ll also throw items at us occasionally which is a really cool

Effect i love how mojing made the villagers have such a big celebration after the raid i would actually suggest going around your village and unlocking all the doors that you can have as many presents from the villagers as possible this can definitely be a good thing to have especially considering what they

Can give you and overall once you’ve done this you can trade with your villagers get these nice discounts for quite a while but for how long though well the hero of the village effect takes place in every single village you visit not just the village that you

Defeated the raid in but as well as that it only lasts for 40 minutes so let’s say you’re trying to get hero of the village to get some amazing discounts make sure to have all your materials to trade with ready before you even defeat the raid as if you don’t then you can

Definitely miss out on a lot of the trades but preparing for a massive trading bonanza after getting hero of the village can be quite a fun thing you can even trade the villagers some of the emeralds that you just got and you can see there i was just throwing a piece of

Leather from this leather worker as a present and that’s everything you need to know about a raid in minecraft and how to defeat it good luck