There are two types of pillagers: captains and illagers. They will attack you until you die or separate yourself from them by at least 10 blocks. If you have no protection, the pillagers will attack you and your party. However, if you are not careful, you can be struck by a few Pillagers. They can be controlled with a crossbow, which will let you target an enemy in melee combat. Illager patrols attract the attention of pillagers, which will attack villagers whenever they come near them. If you are not careful, you will be surrounded by pillagers and the bad omen status can stack up to level 6. During a bad omen, villagers will die and be destroyed, and pillagers will swarm and attack villages in waves. Pillagers will attack villagers more often than the player, causing them to lose valuable items and beds. These banners can attract villagers, but they also cause damage to your village. To draw the attention of pillagers, place an ominous banner on a wall. It simply adds a eerie effect to the player, and it is useless if you don’t have any nearby Pillagers. While this item is useful, it doesn’t have a lot of useful effects in the game. This unique banner is used to attract pillagers to your Outpost, and cannot be found anywhere else. Don't pass that up.The Ominous Banner is one of the most distinctive mobs in the game. It gives you an in-place respawn with all of your items intact if you hold it in you off hand. After you defeat a number of waves, you will pick up the Totem of Undying from the Warlock at the end. I was disappointed! You see, receiving the Bad Omen will trigger an attack on the next village you wander into. The rest of the patrol had apparently been swallowed up by the vast sands without a trace (despawned?) I climbed the dune searching the vast open desert under moonlight. Catching a glimpse of one Illager part way up the dune, I downed him by striking his legs repeatedly from below, while taking not a single crossbow bolt. Steeling myself with my enchanted diamond sword, I skirted the dune closely moving forward once again, and the patrol had vanished. Yikes! facing 4 crossbows at once in plain iron armor seemed foolhardy, so I scuttled back behind the edge of the dune. The Cleric has emeralds! I rounded a sand dune, and walked straight into a freshly spawned patrol 30 blocks away out in the open. If you are adamant on not fighting a patrol because you do not want to suffer the effects of 'Bad Omen' you can avoid getting the effect by either drinking milk after receiving the effect or by killing the banner-carrying pillager in a way that will not be attributed to you, such as dumping a bucket of lava underneath their feet.Īn alternate way of looking at this follows: The other night I was in the desert smacking husk walkers around in large numbers for my rotten flesh collection. If you are adamant on not fighting a patrol because you are ill-equipped, you should put yourself at a great distance just far enough that you can still see them but are definitely more than 32 blocks away and wait for a while. Mobs in an unloaded chunk do not despawn and are saved along with everything else within it. What may have happened is that you moved far enough away before the despawn time could occur that the chunk had become unloaded. According to despawn mechanics, any mob 32 or more blocks away from the player after 30 seconds has a 2.5% chance per second to despawn at random. After some research, I could find no documented special despawn rules for pillager patrols.

Illager banner effect