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Hey Hexalobular + Toadrunner,

Thanks for the input, I left the game afked for a while and they've seemed to despawn (still have Bad Omen tho). I'll drink some milk when I get time to jump on again.

Notes: the wiki states the following on the Bad Omen: "Bad Omen is a status effect that causes a raid to appear if a player is in a village."

I thought that'd entail me having to actually live within the village limits to occur.

Secondly I was mistaken, I read from a Reddit article on r/minecraft (https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/btmh1f/ominous_banner_effect/) where the responder states that:

"The banner dropped as an item on the ground will attract illagers from a pre-existing patrol, who will try to pick it up and start carrying it. AFAIK it doesn't influence illager spawning, just makes whatever illagers spawned naturally to pathfind to it.Hanging/standing (placed) it should have no effect whatsoever."

Anyway, thanks for the help in the end guys.

Use a repeating command block

Quote from Hawk_Cyber_Gear»

It doesn't work.

If you're using this in 1.17, /replaceitem got changed into /item. This is the new syntax (without the execute):

/item replace entity @e[type=zombie] armor.head with minecraft:stone_button

Ah, we're misunderstanding each other.

You get the effect, and a symbol in the corner of the screen to show you have it, when you kill the captain.

But it shouldn't do anything unless you enter a village while it's active.

So as long as you stay away from villages you should be able to just ignore it.

And the thing you found on Reddit sounds like what you said earlier about the Wiki, that displaying the banner should have no effect (except in Bedrock) but something seems to have been going on with all your patrols. I don't know what though. Whether it's bugged or if you just had bad luck.

As Hexalobular said, drinking milk removes the omen and prevents raids. I carry a bucket of milk with me at all times. It is a nuisance sacrificing an inventory slot, but well worth it, since I don’t have to go looking for a cow after killing the guy carrying the banner.

EDIT:

By the way, where did you get the information about having to live in a village in order to get the bad omen effect? The Wiki does not say that to my knowledge. The way it works in my experience is:

1. You encounter an illager patrol

2. If one of the illagers in the patrol is carrying a banner and you kill him, you immediately acquire the bad omen effect

3. If you enter a village - any village - with the active bad omen effect, a raid bar appears at the top of the screen, the villagers flee to their homes (well, they are supposed to) and a raiding party spawns and heads for the village.

I think that the more banner-carrying illagers you kill, the more severe the raid will be. The process has nothing to do with where you "live".

The Bad Omen effect should affect you as soon as you kill the Patrol Captain and wear off after an hour and 40 minutes.

You should be able to get rid of it, like all effects, by drinking milk.

The only effect of having Bad Omen that I know about is triggering a raid if you are in a village.

So unless the game thinks you are in a village (no villagers nearby?) and you are getting a raid (or repeated raids) the Bad Omen shouldn't have anything to do with the new pillagers showing up.

No matter what the Wiki says I'd try taking down the banner. (And if you are playing in Bedrock the Wiki claims banners do attract patrols.)