Ravager

For other uses, see Ravager (disambiguation).

Ravager

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	100HP × 50
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster
Attack strength	Melee: Easy: 7HP Normal: 12HP × 6 Hard: 18HP × 9 Roar: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP
Hitbox size	Height: 2.2 Blocks Width: 1.95 Blocks
Speed	0.4
Knockback resistance	70%‌[JE only] 75%‌[BE only]
Spawn	Raids

A ravager is a large hostile mob that only spawns alongside illagers during raids. It attacks players, adult villagers, wandering traders, and iron golems by charging, biting, and roaring at them. A ravager can sometimes become stunned if its attack is blocked with a shield.

Spawning

Ravagers spawn starting at wave 3 as part of a raid. Depending on the wave, difficulty, and Raid Omen level,‌^{[JE only]} they spawn independently or with a pillager, vindicator, or evoker that rides them as a ravager jockey.

Spawning in Java Edition

• Easy difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3 and the extra wave (wave 4).
• Normal difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3.
  • A ravager ridden by a pillager spawns in wave 5.
  • 1-2 unridden ravagers spawn in the extra wave (wave 6).
• Hard difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3.
  • A ravager ridden by a pillager spawns in wave 5 and may spawn in the extra wave (wave 8) as well.
  • Two ravagers - one ridden by a vindicator and one by an evoker - spawn in wave 7. Both also spawn in the extra wave (wave 8).

Spawning in Bedrock Edition

Raids do not have extra waves.

• Easy difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3.
• Normal difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3.
  • An unridden ravager and a ravager ridden by a pillager spawn in wave 5.
• Hard difficulty:
  • An unridden ravager spawns in wave 3.
  • An unridden ravager and a ravager ridden by a pillager spawn in wave 5.
  • A ravager ridden by a pillager and a ravager ridden by an evoker spawn in wave 7.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Saddle	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Saddle	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Saddle	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Saddle	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Saddle[A]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Saddle[A]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Saddle[A]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Saddle[A]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

A ravager drops 20XP experience points when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Behavior

Ravagers are hostile toward players, iron golems, adult villagers and wandering traders within a 32-block radius.

A ravager attacks by running toward its target and ramming with its head, dealing a knockback of 5 blocks. A ravager also attacks by opening and closing its mouth, biting its target. In Bedrock Edition, ravagers have a unique delayed attack that can miss players when trying to attack, unlike other mobs.

When a ravager sees a villager and an iron golem at the same time, it always prioritizes the villager, unless it is already fighting the iron golem.

Ravagers do not attack pillagers who shoot them by accident, and do not attack evokers when their 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 hit by a mob’s 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 attack with projectiles requires a ravager to damage it with its roar in order to become hostile to it.

In Java Edition, a ravager who is attacked by a player or another mob (excluding illagers and goats) alerts other ravagers in the area to target the attacker, unless the ravager was killed in one hit.

Stunning

When a ravager’s bite attack is blocked by a shield, no damage is dealt and knockback is halved, but the shield loses a considerable amount of durability. The ravager also has a 50% chance to become stunned and unable to move or attack for 2 seconds, signified by gray/purple effect particles. After this period, it opens its mouth and roars, dealing 6HP 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. Illagers knocked back by a ravager's roar can still take fall damage.

Joining raids and patrols

Ravagers spawned separate from a raid (eg: from a spawn egg) may join a raid if they are within 96 blocks of the raid center when a raid wave spawns.

In Java Edition, ravagers can also join patrols if they are close enough to the patrol captain.

Destroying blocks

Ravagers can also destroy some types of blocks by charging through them. In Java Edition, ravagers can break all leaves and only some crops. In Bedrock Edition, ravagers can break all leaves, most saplings, most crops, including most plants and mushrooms, snow, and turtle eggs.

Ravagers cannot destroy blocks if the mob_griefing‌^{[JE only]} or mobgriefing‌^{[BE only]} game rule is disabled.

Blocks the ravager can break

Block	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
Beetroots	Yes	Yes
Carrots	Yes	Yes
Leaves	Yes	Yes
Potatoes	Yes	Yes
Wheat	Yes	Yes
Pitcher Crop	Yes	No
Torchflower Crop	Yes	No
Acacia Sapling	No	Yes
Allium	No	Yes
Azalea	No	Yes
Azure Bluet	No	Yes
Bamboo	No	Yes
Bamboo Shoot	No	Yes
Big Dripleaf Big Dripleaf Stem	No	Yes
Birch Sapling	No	Yes
Blue Orchid	No	Yes
Brown Mushroom	No	Yes
Bush	No	Yes
Carved Pumpkin	No	Yes
Cave Vines	No	Yes
Chorus Flower	No	Yes
Chorus Plant	No	Yes
Cornflower	No	Yes
Crimson Fungus	No	Yes
Dandelion	No	Yes
Dark Oak Sapling	No	Yes
Dead Bush	No	Yes
Fern	No	Yes
Firefly Bush	No	Yes
Flowering Azalea	No	Yes
Hanging Roots	No	Yes
Jack o'Lantern	No	Yes
Jungle Sapling	No	Yes
Large Fern	No	Yes
Lilac	No	Yes
Lily of the Valley	No	Yes
Lily Pad	No	Yes
Melon	No	Yes
Melon Stem	No	Yes
Oak Sapling	No	Yes
Oxeye Daisy	No	Yes
Pale Hanging Moss	No	Yes
Peony	No	Yes
Poppy	No	Yes
Pumpkin	No	Yes
Pumpkin Stem	No	Yes
Red Mushroom	No	Yes
Rose Bush	No	Yes
Short Grass	No	Yes
Small Dripleaf	No	Yes
Snow	No	Yes
Spore Blossom	No	Yes
Spruce Sapling	No	Yes
Sugar Cane	No	Yes
Sunflower	No	Yes
Sweet Berry Bush	No	Yes
Tall Grass	No	Yes
Tulips	No	Yes
Turtle Egg	No	Yes
Vines	No	Yes
Warped Fungus	No	Yes
Cactus Flower	No	No
Cherry Sapling	No	No
Closed Eyeblossom Open Eyeblossom	No	No
Leaf Litter	No	No
Mangrove Propagule	No	No
Pale Oak Sapling	No	No
Pink Petals	No	No
Pitcher Plant	No	No
Short Dry Grass	No	No
Tall Dry Grass	No	No
Torchflower	No	No
Wildflowers	No	No
Wither Rose	No	No[1]

Other attributes

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

Although ravagers have a large version of the saddle as part of their texture, they do not actually wear one, and they cannot be ridden by the player. Ravagers can only spawn in raids, sometimes with a pillager, evoker, or vindicator‌^{[Java Edition only]} riding them; however, another mob and even the player can be allowed to ride a ravager using the /ride command.‌‌^{[Java Edition only]}

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.

In Java Edition, ravagers can sometimes target and damage themselves^[2][3]. If a vindicator that spawns as part of a patrol, or as a raid captain during a raid, or has its Patrolling tag set to 1b through commands, is named "Johnny" with a name tag, the vindicator targets ravagers in addition to other mobs. The targeted ravager targets and damages itself if the ravager does not have another target and is within the vindicator's follow range. Other illagers, witches, and ravagers also target the ravager. The ravager can kill itself without any other mob damaging it.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Ravager	ravager	dismounts_underwater raiders	entity.minecraft.ravager

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Ravager	ravager	59	mob monster ravager	entity.ravager.name

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

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 41 monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		Kill the Beast!	Defeat a Ravager.	—	30	Silver
		We're being attacked!	Trigger a Pillager Raid.	Walk in a village with the Raid Omen effect applied in 30 seconds.	20	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 41​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Hero of the Village	Successfully defend a village from a raid	Kill at least one raid mob during a raid and wait until it ends in victory. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 41​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

Announcement

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.14			18w43a				Added illager beasts.
							Illager beasts had no sounds on the client side.
			18w44a				Illager beasts no longer flee in the presence of rabbits.[4]
			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.
							Ravagers now have their own sounds on the client side.
			19w13a				Ravagers can now be ridden by evokers.
1.17			21w05a				Ravagers can now break azalea and flowering azalea leaves.
1.18			pre8				Ravagers no longer attack baby villagers.
1.19			22w11a				Ravagers can now break mangrove leaves.
1.19.4			23w07a				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.[5]
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Ravagers are now afraid of the creaking.
1.21.4			24w44a				Ravagers are no longer afraid of the creaking.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.10.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			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 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			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.
1.11.0			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			Preview 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			Preview 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.
1.21.80			Preview 1.21.80.20				Ravagers are now imitated by parrots.
26.20			Preview 26.20.23				Ravagers can only destroy leaves and crops when running into them, and can no longer destroy snow, turtle eggs or various plant blocks. This better matches their behavior in Java Edition.
			Preview 26.20.26				Reverted the above change, due to fan backlash.[6]

PlayStation 4 Edition

PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91							Added ravagers.

Issues

Issues relating to "Ravager" or "Illager beast" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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.^[7]
• Ravagers originally had been designed to carry crossbows strapped to their backs, but it was decided that it was a bit much, so the idea was dropped. However, the same effect was gotten when a pillager was placed in its back.^[8]
• Ravagers were mainly inspired by the manticore, particularly the version from Dungeons & Dragons.^[8][9]
  • Jeb and the design team then refined it into the mob seen in-game, which is different from what inspired it.
• Ravagers have a vaguely bovine appearance, and are jokingly described as "a spicy cow" on the Minecraft.net page.^[8] 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.
• In a video uploaded by the official Minecraft account, ravagers were referred to as boss mobs, despite not having a bossbar.^[10]

Gallery

Renders

• 
  A pillager ravager jockey
• 
  A vindicator ravager jockey
• 
  An evoker ravager jockey
• 
  An illusioner ravager jockey
• 
  A pillager raid captain ravager jockey
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  A vindicator raid captain ravager jockey
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  An evoker raid captain ravager jockey
• 
  An illusioner raid captain ravager jockey

Animations

• 
  Ravager idle mouth‌^{[BE only]}
• 
  Ravager roaring‌^{[BE only]}
• 
  Ravager walking‌^{[BE only]}
• 
  Ravager biting‌^{[BE only]}
• 
  Ravager stunned‌^{[BE only]}

Screenshots

• 
  A ravager shown at MINECON Earth 2018
• 
  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)
• 
  An illager patrol leader riding a ravager (before 18w46a)
• 
  A ravager destroying tree leaves
• 
  A ravager biting an iron golem
• 
  Efe cornered by a ravager
• 
  The Ravager Run game from Minecon Live: Rush Race!
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  An evoker riding a ravager
• 
  A vindicator riding a ravager

Development images

• 
  Some of the early designs of the ravager
• 
  Another early design of the ravager
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  Another early design of the ravager

Textures

• 
  Ravager texture file

In other media

• 
  Official ravager artwork
• 
  More official ravager artwork
• 
  Ditto
• 
  Artwork of a ravager jockey
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  A ravager as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
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  Official animated 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
• 
  Two ravagers on the key art for Minecon Live: Rush Race!
• 
  A ravager in the Plastic Texture Pack

References

External links

• "Meet The Ravager" by Ash Parrish – Minecraft.net, May 11, 2019.