Ravager

Ravagers are large hostile mobs that only spawn alongside illagers in raids. They attack players, adult villagers, wandering traders and iron golems by running at them and biting them. They can be briefly stunned by being blocked with a shield, but after recovering they will roar, damaging and knocking away all nearby entities.

Spawning[]

Raids[]

Ravagers spawn starting at wave 3 as part of a raid.

Java Edition[]

Unridden ravagers spawn at wave 3, a ravager ridden by a pillager spawns at wave 5, and a ravager ridden by a vindicator spawns at wave 7. A ravager ridden by an evoker also spawns at wave 7.

Bedrock Edition[]

Up to 5 ravagers spawn as part of a raid. Unridden ravagers spawn at waves 3 and 5, a ravager ridden by a pillager spawns at waves 5 and 7, and a ravager ridden by an evoker spawns at wave 7.

Ravagers can be summoned with riders by using spawn event commands. /summon ravager ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_with_pillager_rider.

Drops[]

Upon being killed, a ravager drops:

• A saddle, unaffected by Looting
• 20 experience orbs

Ravagers, as well as piglin brutes, drop the most amount of experience orbs out of all non-boss entities.

Behavior[]

Ravagers are hostile toward players, iron golems, adult villagers, and wandering traders within a 32-block radius. They attack by ramming enemies with their head, dealing a knockback of 5 blocks. Ravagers also attack by opening and closing their mouths, similar to biting their target.

When ravagers see a villager and an iron golem together, they always prioritize villagers unless they are already attacking an iron golem.

They can also destroy certain block types by charging into them. In Java Edition, ravagers can only break leaves and crops. In Bedrock Edition, they can break leaves, all crops, any other non-tree plants, mushrooms, and turtle eggs. Here is the complete list:

Although ravagers are equipped with saddles, they cannot be ridden by the player. Ravagers will only naturally appear ridden by an illager. However, another mob can be allowed to ride a ravager using the /ride command.

In Bedrock Edition ravagers have delayed hits hit_delay_pct: 0.5. When set to 0.0, ravager hits wouldn't be delayed to match Java Edition.

When its bite attack is blocked by a shield, no damage is dealt and knockback is halved. A ravager also has a 50% chance to become stunned and unable to move or attack for 2 seconds. After this period, it will open its mouth and roar, dealing 6 damage and a knockback of 5 blocks to nearby entities. The roar knocks back nearby illagers without damaging them and has no effect on other ravagers (note that vexes and witches are not treated as illagers and will take both damage and knockback). Illagers that are knocked back by a ravager's roar can still take fall damage.

Ravagers do not attack pillagers who shoot at them by accident, and do not attack evokers when evoker fangs accidentally hit them. When a vindicator riding a ravager has been named "Johnny" it may attack the ravager while it is riding it, but the ravager does not attack the vindicator for any reason. When a ravager gets shot by a mob that battles with a projectile while it is attacking the player, the ravager first attempts to kill who shot it, then goes back to attacking the player once the deed is done. Any mob that doesn't battle with projectiles requires a ravagers to roar in order to aggro on it.

In Java Edition, a ravager who gets attacked by a mob (excluding illagers or goats) or player will alert other ravagers to target the attacker unless the ravager was killed in one hit.

Ravagers take 75% less of knockback, but they still float in water. A ravager being ridden dismounts its rider if it moves into water two blocks deep. Riders cannot mount ravagers again after being dismounted.

In Java Edition, any ravager can join a patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Ravagers use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data[]

Ravagers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	adventure/root
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History[]

September 29, 2018					Illager Beasts are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added illager beasts.
		18w44a			Illager beasts no longer flee in the presence of rabbits.[1]
		18w45a			Illager beasts now spawn in illager patrols, 200 blocks away from villages on grass or sand with a block light level of 0–8 and a sky light level of 10–15.
		18w46a			Illager beasts no longer spawn as part of illager patrols, which has made them unused.
		18w47a			Illager beasts now spawn in the new raids, which has made them used again.
		19w05a			"Illager Beast" has been renamed to "Ravager".
					The ID has been changed from illager_beast to ravager.
		19w13a			Ravagers can now be ridden by evokers.
1.17		?			Ravagers can now break azalea and flowering azalea leaves.
1.18		Pre-release 8			Ravagers no longer attack baby villagers.
1.19		?			Ravagers can now break mangrove leaves.
1.19.4		?			Ravagers can now break torchflower crops and cherry leaves.
1.20		23w14a			Ravagers can now break pitcher crops.
1.20.2		23w33a			Ravagers now have a lower attack range. They can no longer attack through multiple-block-thick walls.[2]
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added illager beasts.
					Illager beasts are currently available only through Experimental Gameplay.
					Illager beasts have a basic AI, use the player's hurt sound and don't have any animations.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			"Illager Beast" has been renamed to "Ravager".
					Ravagers now have animations and their own sounds.
					The AI behavior of ravagers have been fully implemented.
					Ravagers can now spawn during raids.
					Ravagers can now be ridden by vindicators and pillagers.
					Ravagers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
		beta 1.11.0.3			Ravagers have been fully implemented and are now separate from Experimental Gameplay.
		beta 1.11.0.5			Ravagers can now be ridden by evokers.
1.19.20		beta 1.19.20.20			Ravagers can now destroy mangrove leaves, azaleas, azalea leaves, cave vines, big dripleaves, small dripleaves, spore blossoms, and hanging roots.
1.19.40		beta 1.19.40.21			Ravagers are no longer illagers.
					Ravager's collision box has been changed to match Java Edition.
					Ravager's movement speed has been increased to match Java Edition.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91					Added ravagers.

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  Some of the early designs of the ravager.

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  Another early design of the ravager.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Ravager" or "Illager beast" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery[]

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  A ravager shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A group of pillagers raiding a village, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A ravager seen in the Village & Pillage artwork.

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  A ravager patrolling along with some illagers (before 18w46a).

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  An illager patrol leader riding a ravager (before 18w46a).

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  A ravager destroying tree leaves.

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  A ravager biting an iron golem.

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  Efe cornered by a ravager.

Ravager riders[]

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  A pillager ravager rider.

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  A vindicator ravager rider.

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  An evoker ravager rider.

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  An illusioner ravager rider.

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  A pillager raid captain ravager rider.

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  A vindicator raid captain ravager rider.

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  An evoker raid captain ravager rider.

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  An illusioner raid captain ravager rider.

In other media[]

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  Official ravager artwork.

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  Official ravager artwork.

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  Official ravager artwork.

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  Official ravager artwork.

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  A Ravager working with a nitwit and agent.

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  Lego Minecraft ravager.

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  "Bad Omen," an official T-Shirt design featuring a ravager.

Trivia[]

• When the ravager was first revealed at Minecon Earth 2018, it had the placeholder name of "illager beast", and kept this name for multiple snapshots and betas as Mojang listened for name suggestions from the community. In Java Edition 19w05a and Bedrock Edition beta 1.11.0.1, illager beasts were named ravagers, although "behemoth" was also considered.^[3]
• Ravagers were mainly inspired by the manticore, particularly the version from Dungeons & Dragons.^[4]
• Ravagers have a vaguely bovine appearance, and are jokingly described as "a spicy cow" on the Minecraft.net page.^[4] However, they cannot be milked.
• Several ravager sounds are altered versions of the sounds of other mobs:
  • The first and third ravager death sounds ( and ) are versions of the first pillager death sound () but lower pitched.
  • The fourth ambient ravager sound () is the third evoker ambient sound () but lower pitched.
  • The fifth ambient ravager sound () is the third villager "trade denial" sound () but lower pitched.
  • The third stunned ravager sound () is the first zombie villager ambient sound () but slightly edited.

References[]

External links[]

• Meet the Ravager – Minecraft.net on May 11, 2019