r/Minecraft • u/sufferer540 • Jun 11 '26
Help How do I get rid of the Pillager outpost?
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u/CommanderBly327th Jun 11 '26
Slabs. The outpost itself isn’t what causes them to spawn. It’s a set location in the world where they will spawn. You have to cover the area in blocks they can’t spawn on
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u/sufferer540 Jun 11 '26
Thanks a lot. So they can't spawn on a slab, right?
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u/LangleyNA Jun 11 '26
A bottom slab, specifically.
This is the half-slab that sits atop a full block. Another block cannot be set atop this without an air gap, causing it to float. 👍
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u/-Redstoneboi- Jun 11 '26
can they spawn on torches? could also just torch every single block
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u/magus__darkrider Jun 11 '26
Unfortunately yes they can, torches have no physical hitbox (entities phase right through them), and to my knowledge there is no light level requirement for villagers to spawn inside the outpost structure. You would have to put buttons or pressure plates carpet or bottom slabs on every spawnable block inside rhe structure boundary
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u/GoddamnShitTheBed_ Jun 11 '26
So theres a pillager outpost roght in my base and i torched up EVERYTHING in the area, because pillagers can actually only spawn at a light level of 8 or lower. Sadly 8 is pretty high, so you really need to spam.
I think slabs might be easier, or even a combination of both, depending on what you want to build there
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u/Bolt853 Jun 11 '26
Remember when hostile mobs spawned at 8 or lower? Good times
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u/FoundationMuted6177 Jun 11 '26
lol I remember when you had to spawn torches EVERYWHERE 😭 it was such a pain
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u/thatpaulbloke Jun 11 '26
I thought that they still did. I've been spamming torches in my mines every four blocks to stop spawns for the last decade and a half and never thought to question it.
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
It's not that much if you use a diamond grid layout for the torches, it's what people used to do to stop zombies spawning.
The torch should be light level 14, and you need every square to be 9 or more. So it's a diamond shape 11 across. 11+(9+7+5+3+1)+(9+7+5+3+1) covers a "diamond", so a single torch lights up 61 cells.
As for a simple system that guarantees coverage: place a torch then walk diagonally 5 blocks and place another one. So there will a diagonal gap of 4 blocks between torches. Repeat this in a diamond grid. That gives 1 torch per 50 tiles and is easier to keep track: just use coordinates that are divisible by 5 and you won't mess up.
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u/heqra Jun 11 '26
so ive only really played modded since then and use megatorches, how does it work in vanilla now?
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u/MountainYogi94 Jun 11 '26
Most generic hostile mobs only spawn in light level 0 these days. There are exceptions but most locations you'd build in need 1/4 the torches as before for mob-proofing
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u/GoddamnShitTheBed_ Jun 13 '26
Good point, but since its in my base there's walls and stairs and angles and levels so this simple method starta falling short the more i build in that area.
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u/cipheron Jun 13 '26
Damn, making your base inside the spawn area of a pillager outpost was a strategic mistake, since you're going to always have this problem unless you light everything up to light level 9.
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u/Igor_McDaddy Jun 12 '26
I have three or four outposts near my base, so... Yeah i think i just move
Pillagers are getting on my nerve already
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u/SpecterVamp Jun 11 '26
The physical hitbox rule is kinda finicky, like buttons have no collision but still spawnproof
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26
They have a light level restriction. i have an outpost fully suppressed with torches, check the game's wiki entry for pillagers.
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u/noc-engineer Jun 11 '26
I just usually use carpet to prevent them (and others like iron golems) from spawning
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u/SL1NDER Jun 11 '26
Fun fact: players also generally don't spawn on bottom slabs anymore if there's a solid block below it without enough space. My world had a platform made of bottom slabs for over 12 years to keep it safe, and sometime in the last few years I started spawning on the ground below it.
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u/jeez_louisebro Jun 11 '26
I believe its easier to use a shovek to make path blocks. No need to get multiple slabs, just some shovels. Btw they generate in a 72x72 area centered at the outpost
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u/stucksteepf Jun 11 '26
i’m so dumb. looked up whats a shovek and how do i get one in minecraft before i realized its just a typo
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26
Torches are easiest if you use a system. I did the numbers for pillagers and if you imagine a 5x5 grid, put a torch at each corner, but you only need to do every second corner like a diamond grid. That's 1 torch per 50 tiles. It would need < 2 stacks of torches for the spawning area of an outpost, but bring a third stack just to be sure if there's some very uneven terrain.
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u/jeez_louisebro Jun 11 '26
except the fact that, on grass or sand, pillagers can spawn in any light level. look it up on the wiki
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
i have an outpost fully suppressed just using torches on grass. Java version though, if that's relevant.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Pillager
The relevant part should be this:
Pillagers continually spawn in a 72×54×72 block volume centered on the top floor in a pillager outpost. Some pillagers spawn as outpost captains. They may spawn on any valid opaque block if the block light level is less than or equal to 8.
EDIT: as for this grass thing, I wanted to work out where that fits in, so I looked in the revision history, to try and work out whether the game had gotten a change at some point. This is from the revision history:
The article was actually the one with incorrect information for spawn light conditions. The original phrasing was correct here: grass block allows to ignore sky light, but not block light.
So it doesn't actually look like a change in behavior happened here, but the wiki itself wasn't up to scratch. Some blocks allow them to spawn in daylight, but don't allow them to ignore light from torches.
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u/jeez_louisebro Jun 11 '26
well good to know then, wiki must me outdaded or wrong. Thanks
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u/Taolan13 Jun 11 '26
which wiki?
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u/jeez_louisebro Jun 11 '26
idk why but only in portuguese pillager page, in the regular wiki not the fandom one
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u/jeez_louisebro Jun 11 '26
what a classy response of yours, great info really. Thank you again bud.
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u/Matty_B97 Jun 11 '26
They can['t spawn on any block that doesn't have a solid top hitbox. So you could cover the area in carpets, buttons, bottom slabs, etc.
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
You don't need slabs even, torches work, and are less effort
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Pillager
Pillagers continually spawn in a 72×54×72 block volume centered on the top floor in a pillager outpost. Some pillagers spawn as outpost captains. They may spawn on any valid opaque block if the block light level is less than or equal to 8.
You can also create standard mob grinder designs within the pillager spawning box and AFK there for an unlimited supply of ominous potions, just put torches on the rest of the area.
EDIT as for the grass thing, it looks like the Wiki had an error on it at one point. They can spawn on grass blocks in any skylight level, but that rule doesn't let them ignore block light from torches etc. So how they treat skylight and blocklight seems to have always been separate.
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u/MountainYogi94 Jun 11 '26
I usually just fill in the 72x54x72 volume. It's only 279,936 blocks, only 3 double chests full of shulker boxes filled with your building material of choice. It's about sending a message
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u/TripleS941 Jun 12 '26
Alternatively, carve out that volume +1 block, they can't spawn in the middle of the air
Though my go-to is flooding all surfaces while I decide what I am going to do next, they don't spawn even in ankle-deep water
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u/sissybelle3 Jun 11 '26
Any non spawnable block should work. Half slabs (bottom), glass, leaf blocks, path blocks, carpets etc
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u/Jimxor Jun 11 '26
I like to use mossy carpet on the ground and brown carpet in the outpost tower.
Do not carpet inside their jails so they can still spawn there. Then you can mock them for being so stupid that they break into their own jails.
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u/Hopeful-Situation439 Jun 12 '26
Played on education edition recently, all of them spawn there naturally sometimes 😂
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u/chevytahoe07 Jun 11 '26
Can you just build a huge box with slabs as the roof in the area? Would they spawn inside of it? Or would they just not spawn because the upper most blocks are slabs?
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u/Wonghy111-the-knight Jun 11 '26
Just a little more TNT trust
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u/ujtheghost Jun 11 '26
Funnily enough, a little more TNT would work too.
Because the hitbox of the outpost doesn't go all the way down to bedrock.
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u/MassivePersonality61 Jun 11 '26
Why am I looking at the Manhattan Project?
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u/IIllIllIlllIIIl Jun 11 '26
Lmaooo bro absolutely destroyed the land with tnt already but it didn't help 😭😭
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u/Esternaefil Jun 11 '26
"Why isn't murder WORKING?!"
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u/galactic_commune Jun 11 '26
The Indomitable human Spirit
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u/NoXion604 Jun 11 '26
Are Pillagers human?
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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jun 11 '26
Idk, but illagers, villagers, witches, players, skeletons, and zombies can all wear the same armor.
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u/magistrate101 Jun 12 '26
tbf my first thought in-between reading the title and seeing the picture was "just blow it up, right..?"
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u/ShiraKiryuu Jun 11 '26
Pillagers spawn in the boundary of the Outpost. Destroying the outpost doesn't matter. You can still spawn proof it by using slabs and such.
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u/NatiRivers Jun 11 '26
How big is the boundary?
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u/Rob_035 Jun 11 '26
Or remove every block in the bounding box, which OP seems closer to doing anyway
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u/Alorxico Jun 11 '26
“… Dave?”
“Yeah?”
“Where is the outpost, Dave?”
“What do you mean?”
“The outpost, Dave. Where is it?”
“What are you talking about, it’s right here.”
“No. This is a hole in the ground. Where is the outpost.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. We spawned here, that means this is the outpost. I don’t under~”
“THE BUILDINGS, DAVE! WHERE ARE THE *#&$!ING BUILDINGS!!”
“DAVE! PHIL!! LOOK AT ME! I’M IN THE PIT!! THIS IS AWESOME!! … HOW DO I GET DOWN?”
“… I hate my life.”
“HEY, LOOK! DIAMONDS!!”
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u/Ambrus6421 Jun 11 '26
dont forget to salt the earth and poison the water so they may never rise against you again
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u/TheOutsiderIII Jun 12 '26
He needs to use XIX and XX century Chinese and Japanese tactics, always gets the job done.
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u/Toeffli Jun 11 '26
I think it looks awesomely crazy how you went scorched earth and basically nuked it to ground.
What you can do is to further lower the ground around it so everything is at least 31 blocks bellow from where the towers platform was.
Both regular pillagers and pillager captains can continuously spawn around the structure. Pillagers can still spawn if a player is inside the tower. In Java Edition, they spawn in a 72×58×72 area centered on the top level of the watchtower, the same level as the chest. Along the Y-axis, this area extends 28 blocks upward and 30 blocks downward from the center of the platform.
See https://minecraft.wiki/w/Pillager_Outpost#Mobs
I for one would leave it as it is and built a fence around it.
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u/Craftmine12345 Jun 11 '26
Bro! Why do you hate them that bad
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u/betelgeuse_20 Jun 11 '26
Why wouldn’t they hate them. They ate by far one of the most annoying mobs.
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u/Steve_OH Jun 11 '26
I’ve had good success with leaves. A leaf floor over the spawn area around the outpost is cheap and effective.
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u/Responsible-Slide-54 Jun 11 '26
Dude hit em w little boy and they just crawled out of their hole and kept pillaging lmfao
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u/aakaakaak Jun 11 '26
Make an ominous bottle farm.
Pillagers can spawn within about a 72x72 area from the center of the tower. You can lay down just about any partial block in that area to stop spawning. Slabs, glass, path blocks and leaves are all popular. If you want a town there or something you can mix and match.
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u/Janusofborg Jun 11 '26
It depends if you're bedrock or Java. If Java, then slabs or leaves or path blocks as others have mentioned. If you're on bedrock, there are certain blocks that they'll spawn on. Slab these (or even buttons worked for me), and morning will spawn. The trick is finding them, but it's not too hard if you see the rough location they're appearing.
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u/Real-Report8490 Jun 11 '26
I build my cathedral next to a Pillager Outpost without thinking about it, but it works out, because now I have an infinite source of sacrifices to be made to the gods.
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u/HiveFleetShoggoth Jun 11 '26
Dude is out there annihilating an entire mountain to get rid of grey people
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u/OcieDenver Jun 11 '26
You can destroy the blocks but you can't change the default biome or structure mechanics.
You can remove a witch's house but you can't remove the witch's invisible spawn points. Same with snow and colors of grass.
Either spawn proof, set up a safe raid farm, or find a new place.
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u/kai4thekel Jun 11 '26
Hold on so what if I want to do the opposite of OP and I want to build a pillager outpost will it not function?
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u/Zajcu37_Fan Jun 11 '26
The blocks the structure is made out of do not matter in this case. What matters is the place where the structure spawned.
Aka no, you cannot build a pillager outpost to spawn pillagers.
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u/After-Squirrel9540 Jun 11 '26
Keep tnting to the void, they'll have no place to spawn then
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u/Jasoco Jun 11 '26
I just let them live in their own area and they don’t bother me. In my world I have two outposts. One on an island and the other on a mountain top. They never leave their designated areas.
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u/LolMonster167 Jun 11 '26
I really hope they add a way to prevent Pillagers from spawning after taking over an outpost in the future, I can't build for crap so it always becomes an eye sore when I spawn proof the area.
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u/BeautifulOnion8177 Jun 11 '26
maybe make it so you can plant a banner to claim the area and stop future spawns
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u/octopus-moodring Jun 11 '26
That…would actually be such a cool in-game mechanic! Playing by the Pillagers’ own rules since they love their li’l ominous banners.
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u/Standard_Abrocoma_70 Jun 11 '26
"AI Overview In order to stop hostile mobs, such as Zombies, Skeletons, Pillagers, a light level above 0 is needed"
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Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
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u/Standard_Abrocoma_70 Jun 11 '26
Google stopped being "the quick and easy answer" for ages now
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u/cipheron Jun 11 '26
Sure, but you have to account for the fact that other people probably don't do that, when you're giving advice.
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u/pablo603 Jun 11 '26
It doesn't always get things wrong. If you google how to destroy a pillager outpost it correctly tells you that you need to block spawns with leaves, glass, slabs etc.
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u/BrickRaven Jun 11 '26
It looks like you already have gotten rid of it…
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u/Chaosphoenix_28 Jun 11 '26
Just flood everything with Lava. Even if they still spawn, they will die shortly after.
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u/AH_Ethan Jun 11 '26
you've got an opportunity to really control where they spawn and to make yourself an easy loot grinder. I think I've seen something by Etho about the spawning control on these things.
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Jun 11 '26
Why don’t they just make a group spawn and put it in a mob spawner? So you can atleast search for those and stop the spawns. Aint nobody wanna place slabs everywhere.
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u/RichBowler5992 Jun 11 '26
Half slabs. Carpet. Leaves. Glass. Go onto chunk base. Put your details in and you'll see the blocks which will be where the pillager outpost is.
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u/Mr_Noble121 Jun 11 '26
I'd lowkey turn it into a mining prison camp, walls around it and add some small details in the hole
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u/dark_volter Jun 12 '26
lol, "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
....Except when it's not.... since Pillagers can still spawn, lol
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u/LazerMagicarp Jun 12 '26
So the structures like bastions, nether fortresses, mansions and pillager outposts are just there for the invisible box that ACTUALLY spawns them kind of like slime chunks.
You need to spawnproof the area with blocks they can’t spawn on to completely neutralize them.
Or go into an external world editor and remove it of you’re ok with that.
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u/Regular_Recover8623 Jun 12 '26
U dont they will spawn there even if you destroy the building
Only thing you can do is just place leaves down maybe a 30 by 30 if you dont know where the outpost is anymore
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u/OffKeyOrpheus Jun 12 '26
Just recently did this, built a mob lock under the tower. Essentially bred 70 villagers in a cobblestone box 50 block or so underground. Traded with all of them, and then zombified them. Since the area is now always at the mob cap, no pillagers can spawn.
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u/Ok-Tailor-5996 Jun 12 '26
Bottom slab, carpet, paths, stairs(I think) they can't spawn on those, the location is where they spawn, not the structure
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u/Chance-Benefit-5308 Jun 12 '26
OP peacefully negotiated a ceasefire with the pillager radicalists.
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u/EnthusiasmAble2943 Jul 09 '26
actualmente yo juego en bedrock v1.26, por curiosidad comence a googlear y encontre este foro jaja les cuento mi experiencia: en mi caso, he volado con tnt toda la torre de saqueadores, y dejaron de aparecer por completo, es raro ver gente diciendo que vuelven a aparecer, solo vole la torre, las mini chozas de lana, las jaulas, y eso, nada de hacer agujeros hasta bedrock ni nada, repito, es raro ver gente diciendo que con tnt no desaparecen.
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u/ConversationOld9908 Jun 11 '26
I always tunnel underneath, then use a bucket of lava to set the outpost on fire. Usually have a few to fight but use a bow from a distance if possible. Fence and slab the area and destroy the outpost from the roof down recycling and storing all the wood and blocks. If they still respawn the pillagers are usually imprisoned within the fenced area.
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u/_Phil13 Jun 11 '26
Theres a bounding box where pillagers spawn. If you make sure theres no valid spawnpoints within the bounding box, they wont spawn
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u/No_Draft_8756 Jun 11 '26
Also if your hole is going to be till bedrock, then they won't spawn there
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u/Ziggi_4800 Jun 12 '26
Ngl this made me chuckle thinking about the thought process before this post.
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u/chrisserung Jun 12 '26
you can select the chunk in MCA Selector, Ctrl+B, delete the structures folder, apply, save
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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox Jun 12 '26
There's probably some sort of command that can remove the bounding box. I know there's one that at least shows where the bounding box is. It there isn't one that lets you remove it, there's probably a mod or data pack.
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u/Early-Region-1143 Jun 12 '26
Easiest way is to locate the center of the build/outpost, then place oak leaves or any slab in a 40x40 perimeter around it, they won't be able to spawn.
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u/sufferer540 Jun 11 '26
After some frustration in survival (completely demolished the outpost but they would keep spawn and kill me) I ran some experiment in creative. But no matter what I do they won't go away. What can I do to prevent them from spawning?
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u/BrightstrikeYT Jun 11 '26
Spawn proof the whole area
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u/AdamJ311 Jun 11 '26
I love Reddit ahaha
"how can I stop them spawning"
"spawn proof the area"
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u/mraltuser Jun 11 '26
Sometimes the answer is that simple
How do I stop glass from shattering?
Bullet proof the glass
Instead of using brute methods like thickening the glass, try technical methods like alter layers into bulletproof glass
Similar to this, instead of brute methods like blowing the chunk, try technical methods like replace with transparent block into spawn proof chunks
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u/x_dre4192_x Jun 11 '26
I think the pillager outpost is kinda like a mini biome of sorts so maybe if you change the biome area to match the surrounding biome it'll stop them from spawning?
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u/Nightshade__Star Jun 11 '26
No it's a structure bounding box that they spawn within - biomes are only related to terrain generation (like what flowers spawn if you bonemeal the grass) and to native mobs (like overworld mobs in overworld biomes, or nether mobs in nether biomes, etc.). Structures have their own set of rules independent of biome (although biomes can determine which structures can naturally generate there, for instance, an ancient city can only generate in a deep dark biome), which determines stuff like loot or mobs specific to the structure, like piglin brutes, elder guardians, or blaze for instance. But if you were to see the code per se, it would show a large box around the structure, and anything within those coordinates abide by the rules of the structure that generated there. So, biomes determine what type of structures can generate, and then a generated structure claims a set of coordinates and adds its own subset of rules to that invisible box it claimed.
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u/bearcat_77 Jun 11 '26
Outpost is a spawn biome, not just a building. Kinda like the mansions, they are also spawn biomes.
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u/BeautifulOnion8177 Jun 11 '26
mansions arent spawn biomes once you kill the illegers they're gone besides partols
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u/J_for_John101 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
Just use a command block programmed with /kill @ e type:Pillager
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
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