Per the patch notes:
OMINOUS BOTTLE
-Can be found uncommonly in any Vaults that are unlocked with Trial Keys, and is dropped by Raid Captains when defeated outside a Raid
However, this is not the case. Vindicator and evoker raid captains do not drop bottles when killed outside a raid, only pillager captains.
To replicate:
place a villager and composter in a creative world
drink an ominous bottle
as soon as raid mobs spawn, break the composter for raid defeat
wait for raid defeat message to end then kill the captain
if it was a pillager a bottle will drop, if it was a vindicator, a bottle will not drop
repeat as necessary to kill both pillager and vindicator captains and observe that only pillager raid captains drop bottles. You can also wait for a later wave and kill an evoker captain to observe no bottle drops.
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