
Pillagers Improve Over Time
Pillagers get stronger the longer you play. Buffs include increasing health, speed, giving them powerful fireworks, blast protection, etc.
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Pillagers Improve Over Time
Pillagers get stronger the longer you play. Difficulty is calculated for each player separately. Improvements are gradual, taking place every minecraft day (20 minutes).
NOTICE: This datapack is discontinued, instead use the Hostile Mobs Improve Over Time datapack: https://modrinth.com/datapack/hostile-mobs-improve-over-time
Stat Increase
Stats that change include:
- Health
- Speed
- Knockback resistance
- Armor with blast resistance
- Fireworks
- Multishot
Timers
Timer for difficulty is per player, and increases every minecraft day (20 minutes). sleeping does NOT forward this timer. Max difficulty is day 100+ and difficulty does not increase after that.
Commands
To test out how hard the pillagers are, use functions pillager:day25, pillager:day50, pillager:day75, pillager:day100 or use command: /scoreboard players set Pilldif . To reset your score use pillager:reset, to reset all of players difficulty, use pillager:resetall.
Installing
Like your ordinary datapack, put zip file in datapacks folder of your world.
Unistalling
Run function pillager:uninstall and remove the datapack from datapacks folder
Other
I am planning on making a version of this datapack for each common mob, then making a datapack consisting of all of them (This is the eighth mob improvement datapack I made).
There is now Hostile mobs improve over time datapack which includes this + many more hostile mobs, you can download it here - https://modrinth.com/datapack/hostile-mobs-improve-over-time - but if you wish to play with only some of them, links are below
Here are all the datapacks "X improve over time" I made:https://modrinth.com/datapack/zombies-improve-overtime - Zombies
https://modrinth.com/datapack/creepers-improve-over-time - Creepers
https://modrinth.com/datapack/spiders-improve-over-time - Spiders
https://modrinth.com/datapack/skeletons-improve-over-time - Skeletons
https://modrinth.com/datapack/witches-improve-over-time - Witches
https://modrinth.com/datapack/drowned-improve-over-time - Drowned
https://modrinth.com/datapack/silverfish-improve-over-time - Silverfish
https://modrinth.com/datapack/pillagers-improve-over-time - Pillagers
https://modrinth.com/datapack/vindicators-improve-over-time - Vindicators
https://modrinth.com/mod/strays-improve-over-time - Strays
https://modrinth.com/datapack/wither-skeletons-improve-over-time - Wither Skeletons
https://modrinth.com/datapack/endermites-improve-over-time - Endermites
https://modrinth.com/datapack/ravagers-improve-over-time - Ravagers
https://modrinth.com/datapack/cave-spiders-improve-over-time - Cave Spiders
https://modrinth.com/datapack/zombified-piglins-improve-over-time - Zombified Piglins
https://modrinth.com/datapack/guardians-improve-over-time/ - Guardians
All of them are compatible with eachother, and I recommend you play with all of them for the best experience.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.19.4
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Pillagers Improve Over time V1.2.zip
- Download size: 76 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.