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Archie

• Arch-Illager
• Archie

Details
Unified Level ID	Arch-Illager
Gender	Male
Species	Illager
Status	Unknown (More likely Alive)
Aliases	The Arch-Illager (former)
Affiliations	Orb of Dominance (former) Illager Empire (former)
Allies	Walda Yumi (former)
Enemies	Karl Thord
First appearance	Minecraft Dungeons
Latest appearance	Minecraft 15 anniversary sales promotional video
Actor	Dan Bittner (audiobook)

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The Arch-Illager, also known by his birth name Archie, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Orb of Dominance) of Minecraft Dungeons. He is the founder and leader of the illager empire in the game, and is a proxy for the Orb of Dominance to carry out its goals.

Appearance

In the opening cinematic, Archie has ragged and torn clothes and is holding a torch. When he is crowned as the arch-illager, he has blue robes that are similar to the evocation robe with a large chain with a ruby on it and a crown with a sapphire and a ruby on it. He also carries a staff to hold the Orb of Dominance. The Arch-Illager is also the only Illager to have a horizontal head and a smaller height.

In the arcade edition, the top of the Arch-Illager's crown lacks a texture, only appearing black.

Personality

As being an illager. Archie seems to have been quite cowardly before he was corrupted by the Orb of Dominance. He often would not run into the face of danger. However, in certain situations, he has the potential to be a strong warrior. He also is shown to have violent tendencies in certain situations, such as when Thord causes him to get exiled, and when Salah causes Smacker to get him thrown out of the village. At one point, he briefly considers executing Walda for her part in Thord’s betrayal.

Behavior

The Arch-Illager has seven behaviors. If a hero or summon comes too close to him, he begins repeatedly teleporting around the arena and firing blasts after each teleport. His health pool is the second lowest of any boss in the game, although this is mitigated by the deadly Heart of Ender battle that takes place after his health is depleted. Additionally, the Arch-Illager, when he isn't a boss, flies around summoning bosses and battles to try and thwart the hero's efforts to stop him.

Basic attack

The Arch-Illager fires three purple energy blasts in a horizontal swath toward a random hero or summon. Deals a small amount of damage if it hits (sixteen damage per energy blast on Default). Used extremely often.

Teleport

When a hero comes within close range of the Arch-Illager, usually melee attack range, and the hero gets hit by one of his energy blasts, the Arch-Illager teleports four or five times in a random area around the hero to avoid taking much damage. Similarly to the enderman, the arch-illager can also hide in teleportation and not reappear instantly. The teleport sound is identical to that of the illusioner miniboss that is found in the Creeping Winter DLC when doing a mirror move.

Enhance

The Arch-Illager can enchant hostile mobs in the same way that the enchanter does. However, if the Arch-Illager teleports, the enchanting is broken off the mob.

Defeated in a whirlwind

Once the Arch-Illager has taken enough damage, his staff slips out of his hands, sucks him in, and absorbs him while transforming into the heart of ender.

Summon circle

Since the Arch-Illager is not much of a warrior, he is capable of summoning a group of Illagers to assist him, usually a circle of ten to twenty vindicators around the hero.

Summon line

The Arch-Illager can also summon a line of twenty pillagers through the center of the arena.

Summon single

The Arch-Illager rarely summons a single redstone golem. This mob is not powerful unlike other redstone golems, and unlike the Arch-Illager's other summoned mobs, it does not despawn once he is defeated. While this attack is used sparingly, it is his most powerful attack.

Biography

Early life

A Woodland Mansion.

Archie was born within a woodland mansion under the leadership of Walda, an evoker. His parents died in a patrol when he was young, leaving him orphaned at a young age. Forced to grow up alone, Archie had a rough childhood, hardly having any help from his illager tribe and being the target of harassment from Thord, another evoker his age. Sometime early in his life, he developed ideas that if the illager tribes of the Overworld banded together, they could defeat the heroes that constantly hunted them. Due to being an outsider, the other illagers disregarded his radical beliefs as they went against the common ideology that illagers are power hungry and combative by nature, and that they only follow the strongest illager as their leader. The other illagers believed that if they ever tried to unite, it would just be coup after coup.

Life in exile

Karl ("Smacker") is one of the five heroes in story.

Archie’s life takes a turn when he was forcibly brought into the patrol led by Thord, responsible for clearing the nearby monsters. Unexpectedly, a hero named Karl arrived and turned the tide, slaughtering both the undead and illagers. Only Archie and Thord surviving, he blamed the incident on Archie for not helping, even though he was told to stay out of the fight. After they returned to the woodland mansion, Thord reported to Walda of his view of the incident. Thord’s lies push Archie to react by pushing Thord in front of Walda, who fell on purpose and pretended to be in pain. In response, Archie became exiled from the tribe.

Archie searches for a new home.

After struggling to survive in the wilderness, Archie discovered a village on the squid coast. There the inhabitants proved distrustful of him, save for a villager named Yumi who comes to respect and vouch for him. Thanks to her, he lived in the village for anywhere from a month to a year, until Karl happened upon the town. The village spokesperson, Salah, got the hero’s attention drawn to Archie and quickly threatened to kill him, since he could never feel safe in a village if an illager was there. Yumi fought to let him stay, but she had no choice but to tell Archie to run.

Back on the run, by sheer chance Archie happened upon a mountain, inside discovering the tomb of the Orb of Dominance. Freeing it from the depths, it promised to give Archie anything he could ever want. Repeatedly telling him it was Archie's destiny to rule the world, Archie would unite many illager tribes under his rule, taking the title in the process.

Archie finds the Orb of Dominance.

Illager empire

The Orb constructed Highblock Keep as Archie’s home, and gave him six redstone golems to protect him. However, these golems could not last forever, so he'd need a forge to make more, and a mine to gather redstone. The illagers were willing to work for him; at least once the Orb proved that it would not allow anyone to take it from Archie. The Orb insisted they would need to attack the villages of the continent so the militant illagers would "not get bored."

Walda crowns Archie as the Arch-Illager.

The Arch-Illager takes his revenge.

"Smacker" was scared away by Archie's custom-made redstone monstrosity.

It was a downward spiral, as one thing required another, each more evil than the last. He eventually killed Thord, who attempted to betray him once again. By Archie’s coronation, the illagers had no qualms at his leadership, bowing at him out of respect. Now mad with power, he captures Salah as a prisoner, and tried to convince Yumi to join, who refused. Pleading, Yumi almost broke through the veil, but the Orb, now partially controlling Archie's thoughts, would not let her. With the new title of the Arch-Illager, Archie vowed to make all of the Overworld suffer for taking away the peaceful life he could have had.

Minecraft Dungeons

During his reign, he would collaborate with the witches of the Soggy Swamp to obtain large potion supplies, as well as order the development of the redstone mines to use his villager slaves to mine redstone, and construct the fiery forge to refine the gathered redstone into the Redstone Monstrosity to enforce his rule. Eventually, the Arch-Illager would attempt to betray the Nameless One, launching a raid on the desert temple to try and take the his staff to gain the ability to summon the undead army for himself. Each of these plans, however, would be foiled by the heroes.

Eventually, once the heroes reach the Arch-Illager's throne room in Highblock Halls, he summons one last attack as the heroes reach him, before retreating to the Obsidian Pinnacle. After the heroes finally reach him on the highest point of the castle, the Arch-Illager fights the hero(s) himself. After having been heavily wounded, Archie is sucked toward the Orb of Dominance, which proceeds to manifest itself as the Heart of Ender. Once enough damage has been done to the embodiment, the heart of ender dissipates, rendering the Orb of Dominance extremely unstable.

The heroes find the Arch-Illager struggling to contain the Orb of Dominance a few moments before it shatters, knocking Archie down and relieving him of its control. Without the Orb of Dominance to give him power, Archie becomes afraid of the approaching heroes. However, they unexpectedly offer kindness and help him up. Archie then celebrates the destruction of the Orb of Dominance, and by extension the persona of the Arch-Illager, with the heroes.

After the Vengeful Heart of Ender and the Orb of Dominance was destroyed, it's currently unknown what happened to the Arch-Illager afterwards.

Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	High Treason	Defeat the Arch-Illager on Apocalypse difficulty.	—	100G	Gold
	Post Post-Apocalypse	Complete Obsidian Pinnacle on Apocalypse Plus 5 difficulty.	—	50G	Gold
	Saved The Overworld	Defeat the Arch-Illager at the Obsidian Pinnacle.	—	100G	Gold

Health

Power	Min health
1	288
4	489.6
10	777.6
16	1180.8
22	1584
27	2131.2
33	2851.2
39	3686.4
45	4723.2
51	6076.8
56	8236.8
62	11174.4
68	15091.2
74	19382.4
80	24883.2
86	31939.2
91	43488
97	59011.2
103	79948.8

Sounds

Music

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Boss stage 1 theme start	bgm_mob_obpiBossStage1Start-001
	Boss stage 1 & 2 theme loop	bgm_mob_obpiBossStage1Loop-001
	Boss stage 2 theme end	bgm_mob_obpiBossStage2End-001

Appear in other maps

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Load spell	?
	Mirror in	?
	Mirror out	?
	Spell	?
	Disappear spell	?
	Appear	?
	Haha	?
	Hargh	?
	Laugh	?
	Event	?

Boss

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Hurt	?
	Idle	?
	Intro chimes	?
	Intro final blow	?
	Intro greetings	?
	Intro laugh	?
	Intro first fly	?
	Intro second fly	?
	Intro third fly	?
	Intro Wieee	?
	Magic impact	?
	Orb wobble struggle	?
	Summon mobs	?
	Whirlwind	?
	Enchanting beam	?
	Spell	?

Arch-Vessel

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Idle	?
	Death	?
	Four Lasers attack	?
	Hurt	?
	Mortar barrage	?
	Mortar land	?
	Orb death	?
	Step	?
	Teleport in	?
	Teleport out	?
	Vessel voice	?
	Ambient Loop	?

Opening Cinematic

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Archie wreaking havoc with the platforms	?

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Opening Cinematic	?

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Ending Cinematic	?

Arch-Visage

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Description	Resource location
	Visage beam attack	?
	Visage beam loop	?
	Visage mortar shoot	?
	Visage teleport in	?
	Visage teleport out	?

Data values

• In the game files, the Arch-Illager is referred to internally by the name ArchIllager.
• In the game files, Archie is referred to internally by the name Archie.

Quotes

“	THE ARCH-ILLAGER – Once you have fought your way through the hordes of Illagers, you will reach the top of the Obsidian Pinnacle and come face-to-face with the Arch-Illager. What he lacks in height, he makes up for in evil. Since he is not much of a warrior, he will call forth his darkest creation to do his bidding.	„
	— Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

“	He became the Arch-Illager when he obtained the power of the Orb of Dominance. But before that, he was a misfit Illager who couldn't fit in a normal Illager society, and found this power within a mountain.	„
	— Chris Nordgren

“	A recent crime spree has begun in several villages across the nation. The crimes, which include pillaging, arson, and monstrosity unleashing, have been attributed to a local illager who mysteriously vanished some time ago. Fellow illagers describe the suspect as universally unliked but when questioned could not give a reason to why. Not that it matters, this maniacal leader has already assembled a posse of corrupted illagers. Villagers should stay vigilant at all times until the proper authorities or rogue heroes can take this kingdom down.	„
	— Local Troublemaker Makes Trouble

History

[hide]Minecraft Dungeons
September 28, 2019							A Twitter video was released featuring the first appearance of the Arch-Illager in the opening cinematic.
October 25, 2019							A Twitter video was released featuring the developers talking about the origin of the Arch-Illager.
March 23, 2020							A Minecraft article was posted on twitter telling a fictional story of a Mojang employee investigating the Arch-Illager.
March 24, 2020							The second part of the fictional story of a Mojang employee investigating the Arch-Illager was released on Twitter.
1.1.1.0							Added the Arch-Illager.

Issues

Issues for Minecraft Dungeons relating to "Arch-Illager" are no longer maintained on the bug tracker since September 28, 2023.

Gallery

Animations

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  Arch-Illager idle.

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  Arch-Illager idle in Highblock Halls.

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  Arch-Illager basic attack.

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  Arch-Illager basic attack jump.

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  Arch-Illager single summon.

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  Arch-Illager summon line.

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  Arch illager summon circle.

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  Arch-Illager anxious.

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  Arch-Illager docile.

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  Arch-Illager flying.

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  Arch-Illager landing.

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  Arch-Illager run.

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  Arch-Illager appear.

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  Arch-Illager appear in Highblock Halls.

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  Arch-Illager appear in Obsidian Pinnacle.

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  Arch-Illager defeated in a whirlwind.

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  Arch-Illager struggling with the Orb.

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Textures

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  The Arch-Illager's face.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager.

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  The shadow texture of the Arch-Illager.

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  The texture of the undressed Arch-Illager.

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  The shadow texture of the undressed Arch-Illager.

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  The texture of the cube.

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  The texture of the staff.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager ender dragon statue.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager ender dragon statue’s SPEC.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager horse statue.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager horse statue’s SPEC.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager statue podium.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager statue podium’s SPEC.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager schoolar statue.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager schoolar illum statue.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager schoolar statue’s SPEC.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager schoolar throne statue.

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  The texture of the Arch-Illager schoolar throne statue’s SPEC.

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  The "Arch-Illager Portrait" painting.

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  The "Arch-Illager Cool Guy" painting.

Screenshots

Main story

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  The Villagers of the Squid Coast forcing Archie out of their village, due to him being an illager.

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  Archie holds a torch in the darkness.

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  "The illager found something that changed him forever, the Orb of Dominance."

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  Archie immediately upon grabbing the Orb of Dominance.

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  The Arch-Illager leading his illager followers on a raid on the village he was once exiled from as an act of revenge.

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  "The Arch-Illager, the enemy of the villagers was defeated. Great heroes save the day and vanquished evil."

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  "Thanks to you, all as well."

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  A statue of the Arch-Illager, on the top of his castle.

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  A portrait of the Arch-Illager found inside a woodland mansion.

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  The Arch-Illager.

DLC

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  The Arch-Illager mural from the Lone Fortress. There is a note written in white paint on it. (Word "Weak" in illageralt)

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  Another Arch-Illager mural with another note written in white paint. (Word "Foe" in illageralt)

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  In a secret room, There is a scroll on the messy desk, with the faces of Arch-Illager and Wooly Cow painted on it. (Word "Wind" in illageralt)

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  The Arch-Illager seen for an extremely short time, summoning mobs in the End DLC teaser. This was confirmed to be a placeholder however.

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  A statue of the Arch-Illager after the gate is opened in Panda Plateau.

Concept artwork

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  Storyboard of the Opening Cinematic.

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  An early sketch of the Arch-Illager.

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  An early sketch of the Arch-Illager on a redstone monstrosity.

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  Two early sketches of the Arch-Illager.

In other media

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  Artwork featuring the Arch-Illager.

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  Ditto.

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  A frog eating the Arch-Illager's Orb of Dominance in the Minecraft Live 2022 trailer.

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  The Arch-Illager riding a Strider in the Minecraft Live 2022 trailer.

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  Arch-Illager Plush by J!NX

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  Notes on the Arch-Illager.

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  Photos of the Arch-Illager.

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  A newspaper report on the Arch-Illager.

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  Arch-Illager admiring a lush cave.

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  Arch-Illager in 15 anniversary sales promotional video

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  Arch-Illager in the Minecraft Spotify banner 2025.

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  Arch illager and redstone golem action figure