In Java Edition, any illagers, ravagers, or witches that did not spawn with the patrol can join the patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain. The pursuit lasts until either of the parties die or get 10 blocks away. A player or villager-like mob who approaches within 10 blocks of the patrol provokes them into loading their crossbows and attacking, and pursuing if the player flees. The patrol members' heads turn to follow a player or villager-like mob who looks at them or attracts their attention. Patrols seek villages, wander around, and attack nearby players, adult villagers, iron golems, snow golems‌ and wandering traders. Patrol looks at a villager and attracts their attention. A ravager spawned as a ''patrol member'' is immobile and does not attack, even when hit. The members can be any illager or a witch. To spawn an illager (for example, the patrol captain): Patrols spawn on solid blocks at light level 0–7 at the surface, like monsters. Additionally, patrols can spawn in biomes where common monsters cannot spawn such as in: In Bedrock Edition patrols spawn around 24–48 blocks away from the player (or more than 48 blocks away if the player is in a village). If the captain can spawn, the game tries to spawn 1 + localDifficulty (rounded up) more pillagers, with each pillager spawning within a 4-block radius square around the previous pillager.

If a pillager cannot spawn at the chosen position, it gives up and does not spawn anything. The game picks a random location 24–48 blocks along each of the X and Z axis away from the player to try to spawn the patrol's captain. Captains can spawn on dark green blocks and the 'support' pillagers can spawn on any green blocks. If a player is within 5 by 5 by 5 sub-chunk cube around a village, patrols do not spawn.Ī visual representation of patrols' spawning conditions. Patrols can spawn during the day on blocks with a block light level of 8 or lower. If a patrol spawns in peaceful difficulty, the pillagers instantly despawn. Patrols spawn in any Overworld biome except mushroom fields and its variants, although a patrol may wander into a mushroom biome after spawning. After an attempt is made, the delay is reset. Patrols spawn naturally after the world age reaches 100 minutes (5 in-game days), then after a delay between 10–11 minutes an attempt is made to spawn a patrol with 20% chance of success. In Java Edition, patrols never spawn if / gamerule doPatrolSpawning is set to false. The patrol captain always spawn as a pillager captain, unless using commands.

The other illagers follow the captain around. The patrol captain wears an ominous banner, known as the illager banner in Bedrock and Education Editions, on its head. Patrols spawn as a group of 1 to 5 pillagers in Java Edition or 2–5 illagers in Bedrock Edition, one of which is the patrol captain.

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