Minecraft Dungeons:Vindicator Chef

“	ILLAGER CHEFS – Near the buffet tables, you will see Illagers garbed in chef outfits and brandishing spatulas. They do not appreciate unwanted guests at the banquet. It should only take one or two swift hits with a melee weapon to finish them off. Spatulas do not make for great weapons.	„
	— Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

A vindicator chef is a hostile vindicator variant that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Appearance[]

A vindicator chef is a vindicator that wears a white chef apron and toque. It carries a ladle, which it uses to attack heroes.

Spawning[]

Behavior[]

Vindicator chefs have the same AI as a regular vindicator, having the same health and behaviors as them. Vindicator chefs raise their main hand, brandishing a ladle, dealing the same amount of damage as a regular vindicator.

Strong attack

Vindicator chefs attack the hero on sight. They have high movement speed. Their attack speed is slightly slower than zombies but they deal more damage and are tougher. They have more delay than other melee mobs when attacking. However, they can easily catch up to hero as they can move while attacking.

Retreat

Vindicator chefs retreat after hitting a hero, similar to baby zombies. When they retreat, they lower their ladles.

Target lock

Vindicator chefs turn to "lock onto the hero" if they run more than fifteen blocks away. Once triggered, Their charge speed is slightly increases and they no longer retreat after hitting but chase the hero until death or aggressivness is exhausted.

Aggressive

Vindicator chefs become aggressive if a hero stands within their taunt circle. If hurt by hero, its attack speed increases and its charge speed decreases. An aggressive vindicator chef always raises its ladles, even when retreating.

Novelty

If the hero is surrounded by a large group of vindicator chefs and has already been attacked by some of them, the vindicator chef that has been retreated or outside the battlefield will do a call out behavior called "Novelty" before their next charges and attacks, as one of the easter eggs in the game.

Chef outfit[]

A chef’s outfit is an armor set that can be found exclusively equipped by vindicator chefs within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Ladle[]

A ladle is an axe variant that can be found exclusively equipped by vindicator chefs within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Spawning[]

Missions

Camp
- House

Mobs

Vindicator Chef

Sounds[]

Sound	Description
	Death
	Hurt
	Idle
	Novelty

Data values[]

In the game files, the chef outfit is referred to internally by the names ChefOutfit and the SM_ChefOutfit_Apron.
In the game files, the ladle is referred to internally by the name SM_ChefOutfit_SM_Ladle.

History[]

Minecraft Dungeons
Dungeons Beta					Added vindicator chefs, chef outfits, and ladles
1.4.3.0					Now spawns within a secret area within the Lone Fortress.
1.7.2.0					Adjusted new "taunt circle + lock" behavior for vindicator chefs.
					Reduced charge speed.
					Reduced melee ticks to 2 (was 3).
					Now capable of becoming aggressive when hurt or when standing in a taunt circle.
					Now capable of locking onto the hero if they run away > 15 blocks.
1.9.1.0					Now spawns within a secret area within the Radiant Ravine.
1.10.2.0					Now spawns within a secret area within the Broken Citadel.

Trivia[]

Despite behaving like a vindicator, vindicator chefs have their own separate ID:vindicatorchef, and they cannot spawn by using the vindicator ID.
Vindicator chefs were featured in a twitter post defending their food at an illager party within Highblock Halls.^[1]
In Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes, vindicator chef and ladles are confused with "Illager Chef" and "Spatulas".

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Vindicator Chef" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Relations[]

Gallery[]

Renders[]

A vindicator chef.
A vindicator chef walking.
A vindicator chef running.
Chef outfit hat.
Chef outfit apron.
Ladle.

Textures[]

The texture of chef's outfit.

Screenshots[]

A vindicator chef.
Another vindicator chef.
After defeating the vindicator chefs in the kitchen, heroes can find the hall containing tables with food that the hero needs to destroy to advance in the mission.
Another image of the buffet room.
A ladle within the camp house.