[MCPE-56507] Raids end early with no indication why when raiders do not find a spawnable spot

Original summary
A raid ended after wave 1

We decided to build a small village on a nearby island in our realm, only has one villager so far. some pillagers spawned while I was nearby so I messaged my friends to do this raid with me, we all got really prepared for a hard battle. On wave of pillagers came... then we killed them. Then the raid bar just disappeared.

Linked issues

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MCPE-197410 Raid suddenly stops after a few waves Resolved

MCPE-174704 Raids stop for no apparent reason after a few waves Resolved

MCPE-186625 Omen raid Bug Resolved

MCPE-186877 Tried to start a raid but nothing happened Resolved

MCPE-177413 A raid randomly stops after completing a round. Resolved

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Raid Fail.mcworld

Comments 21

migrated 2019-11-11T18:30:47Z

It is important to leave extra details such as what does surroundings look like; limited valid blocks such as 2 deep water all over area or plentiful valid blocks such as plain biome or any solid blocks enough to allow raid to spawn on. If there is very little valid blocks, there is chance the raid failed and stopped.

I noticed the game picks the location to spawn raid, if it's not valid block, the raid stopped. This is not like mob spawning algorithm that seeks a valid block to spawn random mob.

migrated 2019-11-11T18:40:04Z

Well we did another raid and it worked normally, I have no idea why it worked this time. The only difference is we brought home another villager. The island is about 25 by 35, with a tiny island nearby that is about 5 by 25.

migrated 2019-11-11T18:41:53Z

Also there is a lot of shallow water around the island and I believe pretty much everything is valid for Pillager spawning, like I said we did another raid and it worked

migrated 2019-11-11T19:00:19Z

Yea that is normal except for 1 layer water whether it is intention or not for raid itself.

Sometime it picks invalid block after 1 or more waves. It happens sometime but seems normal and possibly not a bug. Thanks for adding details. Let see what mods have to say. 🙂

migrated 2019-11-11T19:01:59Z

Oh ok, thank you aswell

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Desert Prince 2020-04-07T17:21:06Z

Encountering similar issues with obtaining the bad omen effect and having the raid bar start loading and then vanish before the raid itself begins and/or the raid ends after either one or two waves. The max I have had occur is the wave where the Ravager and Witch spawn, which I believe was wave 3. They get triggered because I am on a large island with a villager trading hall that has about 10+ villagers and 3 cats spawned. So it definitely meets the requirements for a village: villagers, profession blocks, beds. It is curious why sometimes the raid begins and sometimes not since I am generally standing in the exact same coords when the bar loads. Feels like a bug. When the raid does begin, they spawn in a predictable area not far from the underground villager hall, in a set of caves and tunnels that are well lit and fortified enough to keep them blocked for ease of killing off. Playing on a realm on Bedrock Mobile on Android 8.1 with no cheats enabled. It is a relatively new realm only a few weeks old and only two players.

migrated 2020-05-03T00:50:11Z

Affects 1.16.0.59

ThatJadon_26 2020-07-30T16:24:09Z

I only get 3 waves every raid I get

migrated 2020-07-30T20:53:57Z

Jadon:

Raids only spawn 3 waves when you play on "Easy", this is expected behaviour.

[Mod] GoldenHelmet 2020-08-21T21:39:00Z

I have no doubt that this issue is due to a raid wave not finding a valid spawnable block. I experienced this twice while trying to run a raid at the border between a swamp and an ocean. It appears that for each wave the game chooses a set number of random surface blocks within range of the player, and if none of these are raid-spawnable (i.e. not leaves, scaffolding, or >1-deep water) then the rest of the raid just gets canceled without any indication why.

migrated 2021-05-21T02:29:45Z

My friend and I have just experienced the same issue. We started a raid at a mesa biome with just a single villager with a bed, and after the first wave (the first wave all spawned in a cave down below), the raid suddenly just seized to exist.

[Mod] GoldenHelmet 2021-09-24T12:19:37Z

Still occurs in 1.17.30. Added test world:

[media]

. To use,

Load the world.
Press the button to start a raid. It will most likely end without notice instead of spawning the first wave.

migrated 2023-10-06T08:43:08Z

This issue affect 1.20.32

migrated 2023-10-19T02:10:15Z

Affects 1.20.32 Hotfix. Desert village is on an island. The raid may or may not start. If the raid starts it ends after first or second raid. The raid bar vanishes.

migrated 2024-02-15T17:41:33Z

Affects 1.20.60.

Jennifer B. 2026-01-08T21:39:06Z

Confirmed this issue still happening in Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.132.

After successfully defeating 1 or 2 waves, the Raid bar fills up but then goes away when full instead of the next wave. This has happened at the raid farm where all villagers and beds are safe from raiding party.

Jennifer B. 2026-01-08T21:58:33Z

Additional info: At my raid farm I started 5 raids using the regular Bad Omen (level 1) bottles. The first two raids had no issue, but raids 3 - 5 stopped after the 2nd or 3rd wave. In all instances, the Raid bar built up inbetween the waves but once full it dissapeared completely instead of triggering the next wave.

katy burnett 2026-03-11T03:18:48Z

happening in 1.26.3 too.

Dovid 2026-05-06T21:02:58Z

I’ve been having this happen every couple of raids. Although I think it is stopping at different waves each time? I use a manual raid farm but i dont know why that would affect anything.

Dovid 2026-05-06T21:03:32Z

PS: I am on hard mode.

Dovid 2026-05-06T21:06:16Z

PPS: I play on IOS if it matters