What is Bad Omen 5?

Bad Omen 5 is the highest level of the Bad Omen status effect in Minecraft, which occurs when a player kills five Illager captains, and it determines the difficulty level of a raid that will be triggered when the player enters a village. The Bad Omen 5 effect will last for 140 minutes and can be removed by drinking milk or through player death.

Understanding Bad Omen 5

To fully comprehend the concept of Bad Omen 5, it’s essential to understand the Bad Omen status effect and its implications in the game.

FAQs

General Questions

1. What triggers Bad Omen?: The effect can last up to 1 hour and 40 minutes and occurs when a player kills either an Illager Patrol, Illager outpost, or Illager Raid captain.
2. Can Bad Omen wear off?: The effect can last up to 1 hour and 40 minutes and occurs when a player kills either an Illager Patrol, Illager outpost, or Illager Raid captain.
3. What does killing a pillager captain do?: The Bad Omen effect is an effect you receive upon killing a pillager, and when you receive it, it does not leave you until you enter a village, in which case it will initiate a raid and waves of pillagers will attack the village.

Removing Bad Omen 5

4. How do I get rid of Bad Omen 5?: By crafting a bucket, players can approach either animal and click on it to fill the empty bucket with milk, and drinking this milk clears the Bad Omen status and allows players to enter villages without starting raids.
5. Can you get rid of Bad Omen with milk?: Bad Omen is a status effect and can be removed through all conventional methods, such as drinking milk or dying.

Bad Omen Levels

6. Is Bad Omen 6 a thing?: It’s possible to get Bad Omen level 6 in Survival mode by killing six illager captains.
7. What’s the highest Bad Omen level?: Now that it’s clear that Bad Omens have levels to them and that the maximum level is capped at 6, it’s essential to know why this matters.

Villages and Raids

8. What does the illager symbol mean?: A raid captain illager is an illager (Pillager, Vindicator or Evoker) that has the Ominous Banner (banner with an illager face-shaped pattern) on its head.
9. Do pillagers hurt villagers?: Pillagers will use their crossbows to indiscriminately attack any and all nearby players, villagers, iron golems, and wandering traders.

Gameplay Mechanics

10. Can pillagers open doors?: Pillagers are still able to open doors just like villagers, and unless you’re planning on waiting them out, they don’t just give up.
11. Do pillager flags attract pillagers?: Displaying a Pillager banner will not attract Pillagers to your base.

Hero of the Village

12. How long does Hero of the Village last?: The Hero of the Village effect will last for ~2 in-game days and will give you great discounts on trades, with the discount dependent on the level of the effect.

Pillager Patrols and Raids

13. What triggers a pillager patrol?: 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.
14. Can pillagers steal your stuff in Minecraft?: During a raid, Pillagers will try to loot chests or any other storage items like barrels and shulker boxes.

Miscellaneous

15. Do pillager raids ever end?: If a raid goes on for 48,000 ticks (40 minutes in real-time), the raid bossbar disappears, and a message appears saying “raid expired“, although any living illagers stay until they are killed.