Village & Pillage

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There are guides for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Village & Pillage and Bedrock Edition guides/Village & Pillage for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Village & Pillage.

Village & Pillage is the name for a major update themed around overhauling villages that was released for Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, PlayStation 4 Edition, and Minecraft Education.

This update was released for Java Edition as version 1.14 on April 23, 2019. The update's development started with snapshot 18w43a. The first pre-release for Java Edition 1.14 was released on April 10, 2019, followed by the second on April 12, the third on April 16, the fourth on April 17, and the fifth on April 18.

On Bedrock Edition, features of Village & Pillage were split into four separate versions: 1.8.0, released on December 11, 2018; 1.9.0, released on February 5, 2019; 1.10.0, released on March 19, 2019; and the main update as version 1.11.0 released on April 23, 2019. Additional features were added in 1.13.0 on October 29, 2019.

PlayStation 4 Edition was the only version of the Legacy Console Edition to receive the update. Similar to Bedrock Edition, it was divided into four separate versions: 1.83 (based on Bedrock 1.8.0), released on December 18, 2018; 1.88 (based on Bedrock 1.9.0), released on February 26, 2019; 1.90 (based on Bedrock 1.10.0), released on April 15, 2019; and the main update as 1.91 (based on Bedrock 1.11.0), released on June 3, 2019. PlayStation 4 Edition never received the additional features introduced in Bedrock Edition 1.13.0.

Additionally, features from this update were also released for Minecraft Education in 1.9, 1.12.0, and 1.14.31.

The official name for the update, Village and Pillage was revealed on September 29, 2018, during the MINECON Earth 2018 livestream.

For the China Edition, the full update was released on July 4, 2019, based on Bedrock Edition 1.11.0.

14 new stairs and slabs:

• Stone
• Diorite
  • Polished diorite
• Andesite
  • Polished andesite
• Granite
  • Polished granite
• Mossy stone bricks
• Mossy cobblestone
• Smooth sandstone
• Smooth red sandstone
• Smooth quartz
• Red Nether bricks
• End stone bricks

12 new walls:

• Diorite
• Andesite
• Granite
• Bricks
• Stone bricks
  • Mossy stone bricks
• Sandstone
• Red sandstone
• Prismarine
• Nether bricks
• Red Nether bricks
• End stone bricks

New smooth blocks for Bedrock Edition and PlayStation 4 Edition:

• Smooth stone
• Smooth sandstone
• Smooth red sandstone
• Smooth quartz
• These blocks can now be obtained in Survival by smelting their corresponding block.

Bamboo

• Generated in bamboo jungles.
• Can be found in shipwrecks and jungle temple loot chests.
• Dropped by pandas.
• Can be used to craft sticks.
• Can be potted.

Bell

• Decoration block that can be rung to produce a sound.
• Plays a gong animation and a sound when interacted with, hit by a projectile, or activated by a redstone signal.
• Generates in village meeting points.
• Can also be hang on the ceiling or wall.
• In Java Edition, when rung during a raid, all pillagers receive the glowing effect for a short amount of time.

Campfire

• Acts as a decorative fireplace without any fire spread.
• Crafted from 3 sticks, 3 logs and a coal or charcoal.
• Can cook up to four food items at once, but slowly (30 seconds), can cook an infinite amount of food without using any more fuel than the coal/charcoal in the crafting recipe.
• Can be lit or unlit.
• Acts as smoke signal when placed on top of a hay bale.

Dead corals for Bedrock Edition

• A variant of coral that can be obtained when the living coral is out of water or broken with a pickaxe.

Flowers:

• Cornflower
  • Can be crafted into blue dye.
  • Can be found in plains.
• Lily of the Valley
  • Can be crafted into white dye.
  • Can be found in forests.
• Wither Rose‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}
  • Can be crafted into black dye.
  • Inflicts 1 second of the Wither effect to mobs and players around it.

Lantern

• Has a light level of 15.
• Acts as a new light source.
• Crafted from one torch surrounded by 8 iron nuggets.
• Generates in snowy villages as lamp posts.

Ominous banner

• A special uncraftable variant of the normal banner.
• Obtained from pillager outposts and killing raid captains.

Scaffolding

• Crafted from 6 bamboo and a string.
• Can be climbed quickly.
• The player can build a pillar of scaffolding by just pressing use on any face of a scaffolding block.
• The whole structure breaks when the bottom block is broken.
• The bottom and sides have no collision detection.

Signs

• Added the additional 5 wood variants besides oak.

Sweet berry bush

• A bush that generates in taiga.
• Planted from sweet berries.
• Attracts foxes.
• Deals damage when an entity walks through.
• Slows down the player.

New workstation blocks:

• Barrel
  • Acts as a storage block similar to chests.
  • Crafted from 6 planks and 2 wooden slabs.
  • Can be opened in a one by one block space unlike the chest.
  • Generates in village fisher cottages.
  • Used by the fisherman.

• Blast furnace
  • Block used for smelting ores twice as fast as a traditional furnace.
  • Crafted from one furnace surrounding by 8 iron ingots.
  • Generates in village armorer houses.
  • Used by the armorer.

• Cartography table
  • Found in villages, specifically cartographer houses.
  • Crafted from 4 planks with 2 papers on top.
  • Block used for cloning, expanding and locking maps.
  • Maps that are locked can't be modified.
  • Used by the cartographer.

• Composter
  • Crafted from 7 wooden planks forming a "U" shape.
  • Produces bone meal.
    • Using certain items on the composter has a chance to add 1 level of composting to the composter, up to 7 levels. After the composter reaches level 7, it turns into level 8 (the harvestable stage), yielding 1 bone meal when used.
    • Some composted items are consumed without adding a level. The chance of adding a level depends on the quality of the item: larger or crafted items have a higher chance of adding a layer when used (e.g. Kelp has a low chance of about 10%, while pumpkin pie has a chance of 100%).
  • Used by the farmer.

• Fletching table
  • Found inside fletcher houses in villages.
  • Crafted from 4 planks with 2 flints on top.
  • Currently has no functionality.
  • Used by the fletcher.

• Grindstone
  • A block that can be used to remove any non-curse enchantment(s) from an item.
  • Crafted from 2 sticks and 2 planks by 2 sides and a stone slab in a middle.
  • Can repair items by combining them together
  • Generates in village weaponsmiths.
  • Used by the weaponsmith.

• Lectern
  • Found in villages, specifically libraries.
  • Crafted from one bookshelf in a center and 4 wooden slabs to form a "T" shape.
  • Used to hold books for multiple people to read at a time.
  • Emits a redstone pulse when a page is turned.
  • Used by the librarian.

• Loom
  • An alternate, easier and cheaper method of making banners.
  • Crafted from 4 planks with 2 strings on top.
  • Generate in village shepherd houses.
  • Used by the shepherd.

• Smithing table
  • Found inside toolsmith houses in villages.
  • Crafted from 4 planks with 2 iron ingots on top.
  • Currently has no functionality.
  • Used by the toolsmith.

• Smoker
  • Block used for cooking of food items faster than the traditional furnace.
  • Crafted from one furnace surrounding by 8 logs.
  • Found in villages, specifically butcher shops.
  • Used by the butcher.

• Stonecutter
  • Found inside mason houses in villages.
  • Crafted from 3 stones and an iron ingots on top.
  • Used for crafting all stone-related items and blocks.
  • Used by the mason.

Wood and stripped wood for Bedrock Edition and PlayStation 4 Edition

• Previously exclusive to Java Edition.
• They can now be crafted, 4 logs in a square yield 3 wood.

Banner patterns

• Crafted with paper and their associated items.
• Come with 5 sets of patterns:
  • Field Masoned Banner Pattern‌^{[Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions only]}
  • Bordure Indented Banner Pattern‌^{[Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions only]}
  • Flower Charge Banner Pattern
  • Creeper Charge Banner Pattern
  • Skull Charge Banner Pattern
  • Thing Banner Pattern
  • Globe Banner Pattern‌^{[Java Edition only]}
    • Only obtained through trading a cartographer.
    • Cannot be crafted.

Crossbow

• Stronger than bows, but slower to reload.
• Crafted with 3 sticks, 2 string, an iron ingots and a tripwire hook to form a "T" shape.
• Can be enchanted with new enchantments.
• Can shoot firework rockets holding the crossbow in one hand and the fireworks in the other.
• When reloaded, it holds the arrow without releasing it like a bow.

Dyes

• Added white dye, black dye, brown dye and blue dye.
• In Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions, items previously used as dyes (bone meal, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans, and ink sacs) can still be used as dyes except for some instances (such as in the crafting of firework stars).

Leather horse armor for Java Edition

• A new type of horse armor.
• Provides 3 () armor points.
• Can be crafted using 6 leather forming an "H" shape.
• Can be dyed like leather armor.

Shield for Bedrock Edition and PlayStation 4 Edition

• A new defensive tool that can be used to block damage from melee, ranged attacks and explosions.
• Can be placed in the off-hand slot.
• Activated by sneaking.

Spawn eggs:

• Cat spawn egg
• Fox spawn egg‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}
• Panda spawn egg
• Pillager spawn egg
• Ravager spawn egg
• Trader llama spawn egg‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• Wandering trader spawn egg

Suspicious stew‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}

• Found in shipwreck supply chests.
• Can be crafted with a red and brown mushroom, a bowl and any flower.
• Can not be obtained in the creative inventory.
• It restores 6 () and 7.2 saturation points, and gives roughly 5 seconds of a status effect.
• The effect given upon eating depends on which flower is used, as does the exact duration of the effect.
  • Oxeye Daisy gives Regeneration.
  • Cornflower gives Jump Boost.
  • Lily of the Valley gives Poison.
  • Wither Rose gives Wither.
  • Tulip gives Weakness.
  • Azure Bluet gives Blindness.
  • Allium gives Fire Resistance.
  • Blue Orchid gives Saturation.
  • Poppy gives Night Vision.
  • Dandelion gives Saturation.

Sweet berries

• A food item.
• Harvested from sweet berry bushes.
• Used to breed foxes.

New enchantments for the crossbow:

• Multishot
  • Fires three arrows at once in different directions.
• Quick Charge
  • Decreases the reload time.
• Piercing
  • Projectiles pierce through enemies.

Bad Omen

• Triggers when a player kills a raid captain.
• Usually starts a raid near a village.

Hero of the Village

• Triggers after defeating the raid.
• Makes villagers celebrate by releasing fireworks, throwing random items, and decreasing prices.

Fox‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}

• A passive mob that spawns in taiga biomes, taiga villages and their variants, more commonly at night.
  • Can also spawn as a snowy variant in snowy biomes.
• About as fast as ocelots.
• Will sleep during the day in a shade.
  • Occasionally sits if there is not enough shade to sleep.
  • Will always be awake at night.
• Picks up any items and blocks dropped on the ground with their mouth.
• Can be bred with sweet berries.
  • The baby then trusts the player and does not flee.
    • Can also protect the owner when an enemy harms it.
• Attacks rabbits, chickens, fishes, and baby turtles.
  • Pounces when their prey is a bit too far or out of reach.
    • Stuck when landed on snow.
• Attacked by wolves and polar bears.

Panda

• A neutral mob that spawn in bamboo jungles.
  • Has a rare brown variant.
    • Behaves like a regular panda.
• Eats bamboo and cake items.
• Occasionally sits.
• Attacks once when provoked.
• Drops bamboo when killed.
• Can be bred by bamboo if the surroundings are 8 grown bamboo.
  • Baby pandas will roll over.
    • They can sneeze, startling the adult and rarely dropping a slimeball.
• Has varying personalities and traits:
  • Normal: The generic default variant.
  • Lazy: They are slow and will sit on their back.
  • Playful: They will roll around, just like baby pandas.
  • Aggressive: They are always neutral and never attack once.
  • Worried: They will flee any monster, it also sits and covered its eyes during thunderstorm.
  • Weak: They have less health and their baby versions tend to sneeze more than usual.

Pillager

• Another subset of illagers that spawn in pillager patrols, pillager outposts and raids.
• Wields a crossbow.
• Raids villages, killing villagers and iron golems.

Ravager

• A large, bull-like hostile mob that spawns during raids.
• Destroys crops and leaves.
• Spawns being ridden by an illager, forming a ravager jockey.
• Drops a saddle when killed.
• Stunned when blocked by a shield.

Stray cat

• A separate mob from ocelots, which spawns in villages.
• Has 11 variants:
  • Tuxedo cat
  • Red cat
  • Siamese cat
  • Tabby cat
  • British shorthair cat
  • Calico cat
  • Persian cat
  • Ragdoll cat
  • White cat
  • Black cat
    • Commonly spawn at full moon or inside of swamp huts.
  • Jellie cat
    • The eighth variant chosen by the community.
• Attacks rabbits and baby turtles.
• Can be tamed to become tamed cats.
• Drops string when killed.

Trader llama

• A llama variant that spawns being leashed with the wandering trader.
• Has a unique default carpet skin.
• In Java Edition, attacks all zombie and illager variants.
  • Attacks players and other mobs who harm their trader.
• Despawns after 2 to 3 days.
• Can be tamed like a regular llama.

Wandering trader

• Only one spawns at any given time randomly around the world.
• Spawns with trader llamas.
• Despawns after 2 to 3 days.
• Trades biome-related materials.
  • Trades do not refresh after being locked.
• Drinks invisibility potion at night, in which zombies ignore it.

Added 11 variants of the tamed cat, including the original 3 cats:

• Tuxedo cat
• Red cat
• Siamese cat
• Tabby cat
• British shorthair cat
• Calico cat
• Persian cat
• Ragdoll cat
• White cat
• Black cat
• Jellie cat

Brown mooshroom‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}

• A rare variant of the red mooshroom.
• Obtained either by breeding or when a red mooshroom is hit by a lightning strike.
  • If hit by lightning again, it will revert back to red.
• Can be fed any small flower, and when milked by a bowl, it will give its corresponding suspicious stew.

Bamboo jungle

• New jungle variant.
• Contains bamboo, podzol, and pandas.

Bamboo (feature)

• A tree-like feature that generate in bamboo jungles.

Pile

• A pile made of hay bales, melons, pumpkins, packed ice, or snow that generates in villages.

Pillager outpost

• Structures related to pillagers, separate from illager patrols.
• Continuously spawns pillagers. Patrol leaders can spawn in outposts.
• Has a loot chest at the top, and minor structures around the main tower.
• Can be found in any biome a village can be generated in.
• Uses the jigsaw block for generation.

Village and zombie village

• Added snowy tundra villages.

Cat and ocelot

• Added eating sounds.
• In Java Edition, cats now make hissing sounds when near phantoms.

Note block‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}

• Added 6 new instruments for the following corresponding blocks:
  • Iron xylophone: Block of iron
  • Cow bell: Soul sand
  • Didgeridoo: Pumpkin
  • Bit: Block of emerald
  • Banjo: Hay bale
  • Pling: Glowstone

• In Java Edition, players can now sneak underneath slabs and crawl on one block underneath to avoid suffocation.

Dead bush

• Can now be used as fuel in a furnace.

Dispenser

• Shears can now be dispensed and shear sheep.

Item frame in Bedrock Edition

• Can be placed on the floor and the ceiling.
• Previously exclusive to Java Edition.

Leaves

• Now drop 0–2 sticks.

Nether brick fence

• Recipe changed to include nether brick items rather than just nether bricks blocks.
  • Now require 4 nether brick blocks and 2 nether brick items.

Signs in Java Edition

• Texts can now be colored with dyes.

Smooth stone slab

• Renamed from "Stone Slab" to "Smooth Stone Slab" to distinguish it from the stone slab.
• Now crafted with smooth stone instead of stone.

Block of quartz

• No longer uses the bottom texture.

Map

• Can now be duplicated and zoomed out using the cartography table.
  • Can also be locked.

Dyes

• Unified all dye names.
  • Rose red, dandelion yellow, and cactus green have been renamed to red, yellow and green dye, respectively.
• In Java Edition, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans, bone meal and ink sac can no longer be used as dyes.

Ocelot

• Now a separated mob from cats.
• Can no longer be tamed to become cats; instead, they trust the player, if fed raw salmon or raw cod.

Phantom

• Are now afraid of cats.

Tamed cat

• No longer obtained from ocelots.
  • Instead they come from stray cats.
• Now has 11 variants.
• Now has collars, which can be dyed.
• Now has a lying down animation when the owner sleeps in a bed.
  • When the owner wakes up from the bed, they may receive a gift, based on a loot table:
    • Rabbit's foot
    • Rabbit hide
    • String
    • Rotten flesh
    • Feather
    • Raw chicken
    • Phantom membrane
• Now drops string when killed.

Villager

• Now has seven skin types which correspond to the following biomes:
  • Plains villager: Found in plains village.
  • Desert villager: Found in desert village.
  • Savanna villager: Found in savanna village.
  • Taiga villager: Found in taiga village.
  • Snowy villager: Found in snowy village.
  • Jungle villager: Does not spawn naturally.
  • Swamp villager: Does not spawn naturally.
• Added a new mason profession.
• Revamped trading UI.
  • Available trades are listed in a left sidebar, similar to Bedrock Edition.
  • When players have the required materials, clicking on one of the trades puts the items into the slots automatically.
• Can now sleep, and around midday, they gather at the meeting point of the village.
• Unemployed villagers have no profession initially, but change profession based on a "job site" block near them.
• Now has a level based on XP gained from trading.
• Now has a badge marking its level.
• When hit by the player, villagers raise the price of their trades.
• Now shows players their trades in their hands if the player is holding certain items, which they are trading for.
• Villager children now play in villages.

Zombie villager

• Now has seven skin types which correspond to the following biomes:
  • Plains zombie villager
  • Desert zombie villager
  • Savanna zombie villager
  • Taiga zombie villager
  • Snowy zombie villager
  • Jungle zombie villager
  • Swamp zombie villager
• Now retains its trades when converted back into a regular villager.
• Added a new mason profession.

Village

• Now naturally generates with one iron golem spawned.
• Village detection is now based on beds, job sites and meeting points instead of doors.
• Plains, desert, savanna and taiga villages have a new architecture.
  • Village houses now have drastically different structures that depend on the biome and there are many more types.
  • Use jigsaw blocks for generation.
• Added new structure and loot table files for the new village houses.

Zombie village

• Updated plains, desert, savanna, and taiga zombie villages.

• Implemented the Texture Update, which changes most of the textures of blocks, items, and mobs.

• 1.14.1 and 1.14.2 made small changes and fixed several bugs.
• 1.14.3 added a game rule to disable raids, changed some block placement rules, and fixed several bugs.
• 1.14.4 added a new function to /debug, a new splash, tweaked villager behavior, and made other minor changes and bug fixes.

1.8

• 1.8.1 was released to fix bugs.

1.10

• 1.10.1 was released exclusively on Windows 10 to fix a purchasing issue.

1.11

• 1.11.1 was released to fix bugs.
• 1.11.2 was released exclusively on Xbox One to fix even more bugs.
• 1.11.3 and 1.11.4 fixed some more bugs.

1.9

• 1.92, 1.93, 1.94, and 1.95 fixed several bugs; the latter was the final update for the PlayStation 4 Edition.

In promotion of Village & Pillage, a free map was released on the Marketplace. Produced by Jigarbov Productions, the map tells the story of a trader, who is gifted with the ability to speak with villagers and help defeat the illagers. The map contains four original skins: Traveling Trader, Dala Llama, Vasco da Llama, and Exploring Entrepreneur. Once the main story is completed, it can be used as a regular survival world.

A trailer documenting some of the Village & Pillage's features was released on Mojang Studios' official YouTube channel on April 17, 2019, featuring a wandering trader on a journey with its trader llama.

Another trailer for the update was released on April 23, 2019.

Videos made by slicedlime:

• The pillagers were previously mentioned by Jeb in response to a suggestion posted on Reddit.^[1]
• The Village & Pillage trailer has a few game mechanics that were not introduced in 1.14. At 34 seconds into the video, the player throws a sword, and at 44 seconds, a cleric throws a blue version of redstone. The blue redstone was later confirmed to have been a rendering error.^[2]
• The official artwork for the Village & Pillage update shows a witch holding a potion with one hand, despite the fact that witch's arms are always folded like those of a villager.
• On the China Edition, the title screen is the Village & Pillage artwork, but with an extra vex and Steve flying with elytra.

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  Village & Pillage logo
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  Village & Pillage artwork
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  Village & Pillage artwork without logo

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