Illager Update
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- 🏆 #130 of 596 adventure mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
# Illager Update A dark expansion to Illager culture, ritual soul magic, enhanced outposts, and a complete Wandering Trader overhaul — all vanilla-friendly and fully survival-compatible. ## 🔥 Illager Improvements New Pillager Outpost Variant A redesigned outpost layout that adds environmental storytelling, new pathways, and improved loot options. Pillagers With Attack Dogs Pillagers have a 12.5% chance to spawn with loyal hounds, making outposts and raids more chaotic and dangerous. ## 👻 Ritual Brewing Vex Souls Dropped by Vexes; used for advanced ritual crafting. Ritual Cauldron Brewing Perform Illager rituals using a water cauldron with a Soul Lantern above it. Two new ritual recipes: Allay Summoning — Vex Soul + Ghast Tear Illusioner Summoning — Bow + Pillager Head + Ghast Tear ## 🔪 Cleavers Cleavers are not meant for combat. They are utility tools used for harvesting Illager and Villager heads. Progression from Wood → Diamond Specialized for decapitation, not damage Enables collection of: Pillager Heads Villager Heads ## 🧳 Wandering Trader Rework The Wandering Trader is now a true world traveler. 60 Total New Trades 30 Emerald Trades — Sell overworld items to the Trader 30 Material Trades — Receive useful overworld materials without emeralds ### Trade Themes Logs from every overworld wood type Cave, forest, ocean, and swamp resources Clay, gravel, sand, dirt, and stone variations Iron and gold nugget exchanges Rare items gathered from across the overworld.
# Illager Update
A dark expansion to Illager culture, ritual soul magic, enhanced outposts, and a complete Wandering Trader overhaul — all vanilla-friendly and fully survival-compatible.
## 🔥 Illager Improvements
New Pillager Outpost Variant A redesigned outpost layout that adds environmental storytelling, new pathways, and improved loot options.
Pillagers With Attack Dogs Pillagers have a 12. 5% chance to spawn with loyal hounds, making outposts and raids more chaotic and dangerous.
## 👻 Ritual Brewing
Vex Souls Dropped by Vexes; used for advanced ritual crafting.
Ritual Cauldron Brewing Perform Illager rituals using a water cauldron with a Soul Lantern above it. Two new ritual recipes:
Allay Summoning — Vex Soul + Ghast Tear
Illusioner Summoning — Bow + Pillager Head + Ghast Tear
## 🔪 Cleavers
Cleavers are not meant for combat. They are utility tools used for harvesting Illager and Villager heads.
Progression from Wood → Diamond
Specialized for decapitation, not damage
Enables collection of:
Pillager Heads
Villager Heads
## 🧳 Wandering Trader Rework
The Wandering Trader is now a true world traveler.
60 Total New Trades
30 Emerald Trades — Sell overworld items to the Trader
30 Material Trades — Receive useful overworld materials without emeralds
### Trade Themes
Logs from every overworld wood type
Cave, forest, ocean, and swamp resources
Clay, gravel, sand, dirt, and stone variations
Iron and gold nugget exchanges
Rare items gathered from across the overworld.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Minecraft Data Packs
- Author
- DJUShorts
- Version
- 1.0
- Downloads
- 168
- Endorsements
- 0
- Category
- adventure
- Created
- 11/26/2025
- Updated
- 11/25/2025
- Game Versions
- 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
- Tags
- adventure, mobs, worldgen
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Which Minecraft Data Packs versions does Illager Update support?
The author lists 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.
What is the latest version of Illager Update?
Version 1.0, published 2025-11-25 with 168 downloads recorded at the source.
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