Minecraft Vindicator

Minecraft vindicator: mansions, raids and the Johnny trick

The vindicator is the illager with the iron axe. It sprints at you and fights in melee, and it hits harder than almost anything in the game: on Normal it ties with the piglin brute for fourth place, behind only the iron golem, the warden and the giant. On Normal and Hard its axe is sometimes enchanted, more often the higher the regional difficulty.

You will find it in two places. In woodland mansions it generates in groups of 1 to 3 inside certain rooms on all three floors, sometimes with an evoker, and it neither respawns nor despawns. Some of the ones generated there are neutral and leave you alone until you hit them. In raids it shows up more in later waves and at higher difficulties, may carry Sharpness on its axe and, on Normal and Hard, breaks wooden doors.

When another mob attacks it, it tends to call other vindicators to go after the attacker, though it does not alert other illagers. It flees from creakings within 8 blocks, and ringing a bell makes every vindicator within 32 blocks glow for 3 seconds, which helps you find them during a raid.

Name it Johnny with a name tag and it turns hostile toward almost every mob, even the ender dragon, which it cannot actually hurt. It is a nod to the film The Shining. Killed by a player, it has an 8.5% chance to drop its axe, and if it was a raid captain it leaves an ominous bottle and its banner.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Vindicator