Evoker

Evoker

• Idle
• Summoning (vexes)
• Summoning (fangs)

Health points	24HP × 12
Armor points	2 ()‌
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Illager, Monster
Attack strength	Java Edition: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP Bedrock Edition: 6HP
Hitbox size	Java Edition: Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.9 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Spawn	Woodland mansions Raids

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An evoker is a spell-casting illager that can be found in woodland mansions and as part of raids. They are the only source of totems of undying. Evokers use two spells to attack: one that summons armor-piercing fangs and one that summons vexes, which is the one of the only 2 times vexes can spawn (along with spawn eggs).

Spawning

Woodland mansions

Evokers spawn during the generation of particular woodland mansion rooms. They only spawn on floor 2 and 3. They do not respawn after their initial spawn.

Evokers spawned with mansions do not naturally despawn (unless the world difficulty is switched to Peaceful).

Raids

Evokers can spawn during raids by themselves or riding ravagers. Evokers cannot spawn in raids on Easy difficulty, because such raids have only three waves, while evokers appear in the fifth wave and above.

Java Edition

Evokers spawn during raids starting at wave five. Up to five evokers spawn on Hard difficulty. During these events, they can be a raid captain. On Hard difficulty, evokers can also spawn riding a ravager at wave seven. They may also rarely spawn as a raid captain.

Bedrock Edition

Up to five evokers spawn during raids, with one evoker spawning during waves five and six, and three evokers spawning during wave seven. One of them rides a ravager during wave seven.

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Totem of Undying	100%	1	1	1	1
	Emerald	100%	0–1	0–2	0–3	0–4
	Ominous Banner	100%	1	1	1	1

• 10XP experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

An evoker moves at the player's sprinting speed, crosses its arms and does not show its hands. In Bedrock Edition, an evoker riding an entity does not visually sit down.

An evoker attacking with its fangs.

Evokers attack players, adult villagers, iron golems, snow golems‌ and wandering traders within 12 blocks by rising and waving both of their arms while looking at their target and summoning magical fangs or vexes, creating different colored particles for the different attacks.

If the player is within a ten block radius and the evoker is not in the middle of summoning an attack, the evoker flees from the player to avoid being attacked.

An evoker summoning fangs in two circles around it.

If an evoker is attacked, all evokers in a twelve block radius become alerted and start attacking the player, even if they are behind walls. In Java Edition, the alerted evokers can attack the player from an infinite distance away, even if the player switches to Creative or Spectator mode; this can be fixed by relogging the world, or by setting the game rule universalAnger to True. This is only true for the alerted evokers, not the initially attacked evoker.

In Java Edition, an evoker is passive to other illagers even if it is harmed. Any evoker can search for and join a patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain.

In Java Edition, evokers and illusioners are faster without any effects during raids.

In Java Edition, evokers are given three seconds of the Glowing effect if a bell is rung within 32 blocks of them. This applies to both evokers spawned in raids and evokers spawned in woodland mansions.

Evokers flee from creakings when within 8 blocks of them.

Fang attack

The evoker signals this attack by producing purple particles () and a low-pitched sound.

A number of fangs rise out of the ground around the player, then snap shut and vanish.

Players or mobs caught in the attack are dealt 6HP damage, regardless of difficulty‌. This harm is not mitigated by armor but is mitigated by enchantments such as Protection. Any evoker-summoned fangs do not deal damage to any illagers, although fangs summoned or spawned by the player do. When a neutral or hostile mob is caught in the attack, the mob retaliates and attacks the evoker.

Fangs appear no lower than the feet of the lowest combatant and no higher than one block above the feet of the highest combatant. Fangs attempt to appear on the highest opaque block between those two extremes, but fail to spawn if they are obstructed by a solid block. In practice, this means that fangs cannot spawn inside deep pits or on top of high walls, but may, for example, go up a staircase if the target is at the top and the evoker at the bottom, or vice versa. Likewise, an evoker floating in a boat on water cannot summon fangs against a player swimming or floating in a boat because there are no opaque blocks from which the fangs can appear.

The evoker typically summons sixteen fangs in a straight line toward the target. However, if the target is within three blocks of the evoker, the evoker summons the fangs in two circles around itself: the smaller circle has five fangs and the larger has eight. The fangs do not seek the player, thus the player is able to dodge them. Summoning fangs resets the evoker's spell cooldown to two seconds and resets the cooldown for summoning fangs to five seconds.

Summoning vexes

The evoker signals this attack by producing white particles () for two seconds and a higher-pitched sound. After that, three vexes appear nearby. The evoker can summon vexes as long as there are fewer than eight vexes within sixteen blocks centered on the evoker.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to five seconds and resets the cooldown for summoning vexes to seventeen seconds.

Non-air blocks that obstruct a vex's attempted spawning point will prevent it from spawning, meaning a summoning can result in only one or two vexes spawning.

An evoker summoning vexes.

Combo attack

In Java Edition, evokers may summon two circle fangs while summoning vexes, without any cooldown. It usually happens when a player melee attacks an evoker while it is summoning vexes.

Sheep color conversion spell

An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

While the evoker is not engaged in combat and /gamerule mobGriefing is set to true, it changes the wool color of any blue sheep within sixteen blocks from blue to red.

After the spell, the sheep is red.

The evoker signals this spell by producing orange particles () and making a "wololo" sound.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to three seconds and resets the cooldown for the sheep color conversion spell to seven seconds. Evokers look at the sheep they are using the spell on while they are doing the spell until they finish the spell.

In Bedrock Edition, evokers can still change a sheep's color, even when /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false.

Attack pattern data

Bedrock Edition

Data

Type	Weight	Min activation range (distance)	Max activation range (distance)	Entities spawned (amount)	Size	Summon cap	Summon cap radius
Fangs attack (line)	3	3.0	N/A	16 Fangs	20	N/A
Fangs attack (inside circle)	3	0.0	3.0	5 Fangs	1.5	N/A
Fangs attack (outside circle)	3	0.0	3.0	8 Fangs	2.5	N/A
Summoning vexes	1	N/A		3 Vexes	1.0	8	16.0
Color conversion spell	3	0.0	16.0	N/A

Timer (seconds)

Type	Base delay	Delay per summon	Cooldown time	Cast duration	Entity lifespan
Fangs attack (line)	1.0	0.05	5.0	2.0	1.1
Fangs attack (inside circle)	1.0	0.0	5.0	2.0	1.1
Fangs attack (outside circle)	0.15	0.0	5.0	2.0	1.1
Summoning vexes	2.0	N/A	17.0	5.0	N/A
Sheep color conversion spell	N/A		5.0	3.0	N/A

Evoker fangs

Evoker Fangs

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Evoker fangs are entities that evokers use to attack the player (or adult villagers, iron golems, snow golems‌, and wandering traders) with their fang attack. Evoker fangs are not affected by the Peaceful difficulty.

The individual fangs in an evoker's fang attacks each have a delay. Before the delay is over, the fangs cannot be seen, although unlike truly invisible entities, fangs in warmup still have a visible debug hitbox. After the delay, the fangs expand into existence, snap shut, make critical hit particles and shrink out of sight again, dealing 6HP magic damage to all mobs standing on the spot. Killing an evoker fang does not contribute to the "Monster Hunter" advancement or achievement.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Evokers use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Evoker murmurs	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.evoker.ambient	subtitles.entity.evoker.ambient​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Evoker casts spell	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker attacks	entity.evoker.cast_spell	subtitles.entity.evoker.cast_spell​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Evoker cheers	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker has won a raid	entity.evoker.celebrate	subtitles.entity.evoker.celebrate​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Evoker dies	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker dies	entity.evoker.death	subtitles.entity.evoker.death​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Evoker hurts	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker is damaged	entity.evoker.hurt	subtitles.entity.evoker.hurt​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Evoker prepares summoning	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker signals to summon vexes	entity.evoker.prepare_summon	subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_summon​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Evoker prepares attack	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker signals to use a fang attack	entity.evoker.prepare_attack	subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_attack​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Evoker prepares charming	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker converts a sheep's color	entity.evoker.prepare_wololo	subtitles.entity.evoker.prepare_wololo​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Fangs snap	Friendly Creatures	When an evoker fang is summoned	entity.evoker_fangs.attack	subtitles.entity.evoker_fangs.attack​	1.0	0.85-1.05	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.evocation_illager.ambient	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly while in a raid	mob.evocation_illager.ambient	3.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker attacks	mob.evocation_illager.cast_spell	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker has won a raid	mob.evocation_illager.celebrate	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker dies	mob.evocation_illager.death	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker is damaged	mob.evocation_illager.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker signals to summon vexes	mob.evocation_illager.prepare_summon	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker signals to use a fang attack	mob.evocation_illager.prepare_attack	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker converts a sheep's color	mob.evocation_illager.prepare_wololo	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an evoker fang is summoned	mob.evocation_fangs.attack	0.8	0.8-1.2

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Evoker	evoker	illager illager_friends raiders	entity.minecraft.evoker
Evoker Fangs	evoker_fangs	None	entity.minecraft.evoker_fangs

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Evoker	evocation_illager	104	entity.evocation_illager.name
Evoker Fangs	evocation_fang	103	entity.evocation_fang.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

Evokers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs spawnable in raids see Template:Nbt inherit/raidable/template[show]
  • [Int] SpellTicks: Number of ticks until a spell can be cast. Set to a positive value when a spell is cast, and decreases by 1 per tick.

Evoker fangs have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • [Int Array] Owner: The UUID of the entity that that fired the fangs, stored as four ints. If the entity is an Illager, the fangs do not damage other Illagers. Is not preserved when removed.
  • [Int] Warmup: Time in ticks until the fangs appear. The fangs appear and begin to close as soon as this value becomes zero or less; negative values simply result in no delay. The value continues ticking down while the closing animation is playing, reaching -20 on naturally spawned fangs.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker	—	30	Silver
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze
		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	—	20	Silver
		Sound the Alarm!	Ring the bell in a village after a villager has been hurt.	—	20	Bronze
		We're being attacked!	Trigger a Pillager Raid.	Walk in a village with the Raid Omen effect applied in 30 seconds.	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	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.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts 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.
	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 one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Voluntary Exile	Kill a raid captain. Maybe consider staying away from villages for the time being...	Kill an entity in the #raiders entity tag wearing an ominous banner: 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.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w39a				Added evokers and evocation fangs.
			16w43a				Added the [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Owner tag to evocation fangs.
1.13			pre5				The name of "Evocation Fangs" have been changed to "Evoker Fangs".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have been changed.
			18w47a				Evokers can now spawn in raids.
			19w05a				Evokers are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
			19w13a				Evokers can now open doors during raids.
							If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
			19w14a				Evokers can no longer open doors during raids.
1.18			21w37a				Evokers no longer attack baby villagers.
			Pre-release 5				Changed the texture to remove its hood.
1.19			22w17a				Changed its models, now the last two rows of pixels on its robes can render.
1.20.2			23w32a				Evokers evoking vexes or fangs now emit an entity_place vibration of frequency 14.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added evokers and evocation fangs.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have been changed.
							Evokers are now hostile to the new wandering traders.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Evokers can now spawn during raids.
							Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
1.13.0			?				Evokers now have smoother casting animations.
			beta 1.13.0.9				If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
1.20.50			Preview 1.20.50.20				Evokers no longer spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers and evocation fangs.
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	The size of evocation fangs has been increased to be about 2 blocks high.​
			1.91				Evokers can now spawn in raids.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19							Added evokers and evocation fangs.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​
			pre5				The entity ID has been changed from evocation_illager to evoker.
							The ID of "Evocation Fangs" have been changed to "Evoker Fangs".

Issues

Issues relating to "Evoker" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The sheep color conversion spell is a reference to the priest units from Age of Empires, where they can turn enemy units into friendly units (changing the unit's color in the process) after making a "wololo" sound.
  • Because Microsoft controls the copyrights for both Age of Empires and Minecraft, Mojang was able to get the actual "wololo" sound effect to use in the conversion sound effect.
• Evokers are still referred to as 'evocation illagers' in the code for Bedrock Edition.
• Hitting an evoker in survival mode and converting the gamemode into creative mode still causes the evoker to summon fangs and vexes at the player, although they deal no damage.

Gallery

Renders

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  The old version of the evoker.

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  An evoker sitting.

Screenshots

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  An evoker preparing to summon its fangs.

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  An evoker attacking with its fangs.

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  An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it.

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  An evoker summons fangs while its vexes attack.

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  An evoker looks on as its vexes lunge toward its target.

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  An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell.

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  An excessive amount of illagers, including several hundred evokers, vindicators, and illusioners spawned by command blocks. Note the abundance of vexes that originate from the evokers.

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  Evoker with an illager banner.

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  An evoker casting in a mansion.

Textures

• 

  Evoker texture file.

• 

  Evoker with wig texture file.

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  Evoker fangs texture file.

In other media

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  An evoker wearing a wig from "Meet the evoker" Minecraft's blog post, as a reference to the game Age of Empires.

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  An evoker within Minecraft Dungeons.

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  Artwork of an evoker.

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  Evokers in promotional artwork for the Exploration Update.

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  An evoker in promotional artwork for the Village & Pillage Update.

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  An evoker in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.

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  An evoker intimidating Kai, clad in the vex armor trim.

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  "Bad Omen", an official T-Shirt design featuring an evoker.

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  The evoker fang icon.

External links

• Meet the Evoker – Minecraft.net on May 1, 2017