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Mercenary Illagers

This idea is similar to some that have already been posted here, but I think it's different enough in implementation and purpose to deserve its own thread. What I want is a somewhat dangerous npc that can defend an area against hostile mobs and, more importantly, other players. To this end I suggest the idea of mercenary Illagers.

Mercenary illagers are tamed Illagers (Pillagers, Vindicators, and Evokers) that defend a certain area from other players and hostile mobs, they are tamed by a special banner and require emeralds to maintain their allegiance. Mercenary Illagers are different from other mobs in that they will attack other players, can provide ranged attacks that iron golem and dogs cannot (snow golems can but they are low-grade trash for a variety of reasons), and automatically stay in one area rather than follow the player (unlike dogs).


Because describing the exact mechanics of Mercenary Illagers puts me over the word count, I'm gonna do that in the comments.

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    Loyalty banner

    A loyalty banner is the item used to turn an illager into a mercenary illager. It is crafted using loyalty item (a job block or special banner pattern) that can be taken from a woodland mansion. The loyalty item is combined with a regular banner to create a loyalty banner. The process of creating a loyalty banner should be expensive (consuming perhaps 30 levels or so). A player is turns an illager into a mercenary by right clicking the illager while holding a loyalty banner in their active slot. The illager then equips the banner onto their head slot like an ominous banner. The loyalty banner can't be recovered once used.

    Mercenary behavior

    A mercenary illager acts according to the following rules:

    1. A mercenary will not attack THE PLAYER THAT GAVE IT ITS BANNER. This can be changed in a game rule to include all players or players in the same faction.

    2. A mercenary will attack all mobs hostile to a player

    3. A mercenary will not flow a player, but wander around. This behavior can be controlled by a "sentry post" block that it will stay with in a certain distance of. This distance can be controlled by stacking blocks underneath the post in the same manner as a beacon.

    4. A mercenary will be able to equip weapons and armor that it perceives to be better than its current equipment. It will determine this by a hierarchy of materials (Netherite > Diamond > Iron > Gold > Stone), and enchanted equipment is preferable to unenchanted equipment, in the case of a tie.

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    Additionally, you could implement a similar system with piglins, but perhaps pay them in gold instead of emeralds.

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    It would also be interesting if there was a HUD similar to that of the villagers, but that gave the option of asking him to wander through a specific area or for him to follow you (the follow function could also be exclusive to piglins, granting an extra function to piglins)