Changes: Pillager Outpost

A pillager outpost is an assortment of structures inhabited by pillagers.

Generation

Pillager outposts are semi-rare structures, generating every several hundred to couple thousand blocks.^[1] This makes them rarer than villages^[2] but less rare than woodland mansions.

Pillager outposts can generate naturally in any village-generating biome, including:

• Plains
• Desert
• Savanna
• Taiga
• Snowy Tundra
• Snowy Taiga‌^{[BE only]}
• Sunflower Plains‌^{[BE only]}
• Meadow

Pillager outposts also generate in the following biomes, where villages do not spawn:

• Grove
• Snowy Slopes
• Jagged Peaks
• Frozen Peaks
• Stony Peaks

In Java Edition, pillager outposts never generate too close to, or within, villages. They can do so in Bedrock Edition as well generate far away from villages.

In Java Edition, if an outpost spawns in the water or in the air (e.g., spawning near a savanna plateau), then a platform of grass (or sand), dirt, and stone spawns underneath it in a circular shape. This also applies to the smaller structures such as tents, targets, log piles, and cages. On occasion, the smaller structures still spawn in the air despite having a platform below them, depending on how high up they are.

In Bedrock Edition, pillager outposts generate with foundations similar to that of a woodland mansion: watchtowers use cobblestone, birch planks, and dark oak logs as their foundation; tents and cages generate dark oak planks as their foundation; log piles use horizontal dark oak logs as their foundation; and targets generate cobblestone as a foundation.

The outpost tower generates each time. Up to 4 other smaller structures may spawn around the periphery of the main outpost structure.

Eight extra air blocks also generate around the outpost.^[3]

Mobs

Pillager	Iron Golem

Iron golems spawn only during the generation of the outpost structures. If an iron golem spawns, it does so only inside a cage.

Both regular pillagers and pillager captains can continuously spawn around the structure. Pillagers can still spawn if a player is inside the tower.^{[needs in-game testing]} In Java Edition they spawn in a 72×54×72 area centered on the top level of the watchtower, the same level as the chest. In Bedrock Edition, they spawn at or below a particular location in the outpost; specifically, they choose the northwest corner of the highest opaque block with a non-solid block on top.

In Java Edition, only pillagers and passive mobs may spawn within a pillager outpost spawn area. Pillagers may spawn on any valid opaque block as long as the sky light level is 11 or lower, and the block light level is 8 or lower, but can also spawn on grass or sand blocks regardless of block light level. Therefore, players may pacify an outpost by removing all grass/sand blocks and properly lighting the area as they normally would to prevent enemy mob spawns.

A total of eight pillagers, including the pillager captain, spawns in a pillager outpost.

Bad Omen

Upon killing an outpost captain, the player receives 1 level of the Bad Omen effect applied to them for 100 minutes (5 in-game days).

Structure

A pillager outpost consists of a 4 level watchtower with other smaller structures around it.

Structure blocks can be used to manually load pieces of the pillager outpost from the /data/minecraft/structures/pillager_outpost folder in minecraft.jar. To do so, set a structure block to Load mode, enter pillager_outpost/<structure_name>, and press LOAD.

Structure name	Description	Consists of	Images
pillager_outpost/watchtower	A large tower with a loot chest on the top level.	347 Dark Oak Planks 290 Birch Planks 207 Cobblestone 144 Dark Oak Log 48 Dark Oak Fence 45 Dark Oak Slab 33 Cobblestone Stairs 16 Dark Oak Stairs 8 Cobblestone Wall 4 Cobblestone Slab 4 Torch 1 Chest (random loot) 8 Ominous Banner‌[JE only]/Illager Banner‌[BE only]
pillager_outpost/feature_cage1 pillager_outpost/feature_cage2	A wooden cage, with cage_2 having an iron golem trapped inside.	24 Dark Oak Fence 12 Dark Oak Log 8 Dark Oak Stairs 4 Dark Oak Slab 0~1 Iron Golem
pillager_outpost/feature_logs	A pile of dark oak logs.	21 Dark Oak Log
pillager_outpost/feature_targets	Two scarecrow-like targets.	6 Dark Oak Fence 2 Carved Pumpkin 2 Hay Bale
pillager_outpost/feature_tent1	A small tent made of wool, with a crafting table inside.	20 White Wool 10 Dark Oak Fence 1 Crafting Table
pillager_outpost/feature_tent2	A small tent made of wool, with a crafting table and pumpkins inside.	20 White Wool 10 Dark Oak Fence 4 Pumpkin 1 Crafting Table

Technical structures

Structure name	Description	Consists of	Images
pillager_outpost/watchtower_overgrown	Generated with a structure integrity of around 0.03 on top of a regular watchtower to add random mossy cobblestone and vines into the build.	347 Dark Oak Planks 290 Birch Planks 207 Mossy Cobblestone 144 Dark Oak Log 113 Vines 48 Dark Oak Fence 45 Dark Oak Slab 33 Mossy Cobblestone Stairs 16 Dark Oak Stairs 8 Mossy Cobblestone Wall 4 Mossy Cobblestone Slab 4 Torch 1 Chest (random loot) 8 Ominous Banner‌[JE only]/Illager Banner‌[BE only]
pillager_outpost/base_plate	This generates first, to mark the locations of both watchtowers and each outer structure, using jigsaw blocks.	N/A
pillager_outpost/feature_plate	The horizontal jigsaw block connects to the base plate to determine its own location, while the vertical jigsaw block connects to an outer structure.	N/A

Loot

In Java Edition, each pillager outpost chest contains items drawn from 6 pools, with the following distribution:

In Java Edition 1.20.2, each pillager outpost chest contains items drawn from 6 pools, with the following distribution:

In Bedrock Edition, each pillager outpost chest contains items drawn from 7 pools, with the following distribution:

History

Issues

Issues relating to "Pillager Outpost" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Pillager outposts, together with ocean monuments, swamp huts, and nether fortresses, are the only four generated structures in the game that have special mob spawning rules within their bounding boxes.
  • Dungeons are not included, since the spawning condition is dictated by the spawner rather than the dungeon structure.

Gallery

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  A pillager outpost in a taiga biome.

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  A beachside pillager outpost with targets and a tent.

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  A submerged platform around a watchtower.

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  Unusual pillager outpost generation in Java Edition. Note how the structure generates new blocks around it, likely because it spawned too close to an ocean.

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  Example of loot in a pillager outpost chest.

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  The complete area, relative to the tower, in which pillagers naturally spawn.

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  A pillager outpost above a ravine in Java Edition.

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  An extremely rare instance of a fossil generated inside a pillager outpost.

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  Pillager outpost, which generated very close to a village.

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  Pillager outpost generated near badlands biome.

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  Pillager outpost located in desert biome.

Odd generation

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  A pillager outpost that generated inside of a desert temple.

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  A pillager outpost that generated inside a desert village.

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  Pillager outpost and desert pyramid generated on top of each other.

References