How to Survive in a Woodland Mansion in Minecraft

Finding a Woodland Mansion

Trade for a explorer map from a cartographer villager. They have a golden monocle. They'll ask for a generous amount of emeralds and a compass. You have to unlock the cartographer villager's third tier of offers to trade for the woodland explorer's map.

Look in dark oak forests. You may have to build up very high or travel by foot. It is difficult to find a mansion, as they are often tens of thousands of blocks away from spawn.

Bring an expanded map with you in case you get lost. It is recommended that you have one that clearly shows your base or panic shelter.

Know what you can get from killing illagers. There are four (naturally spawning) types: evokers, vindicators, pillagers, and ravagers. You'll only have to worry about vindicators and evokers in the woodland mansion. You can get Totems of Undying and emeralds from killing illagers. When you hold a Totem of Undying, you will be prevented from dying once, after which the Totem will be used up. You can use these emeralds to trade for an ocean monument explorer map. Note that you can only get Totems of Undying from evokers.

Learn how to identify an illager. An illager is a sickly gray color with bluish-gray eyes. You may come across many of these while inside the mansion.

Preparing to Go In

Arm yourself well. Wear enchanted diamond armor. Have an enchanted sword and a bow and arrow at the ready. Good enchantments to have on your armor are: Protection, Unbreaking, Thorns and Mending . Good enchantments to have on your sword are: Mending, Unbreaking, Knockback, Sharpness, and Fire Aspect Good enchantments for your bow are: Power, Punch, Flame, Infinity/Mending, and Unbreaking (Mending and Infinity conflict with each other. Choose which enchantment you want wisely.) NOTE: Mending will work only if you are wearing the item or holding the item in your main hand or offhand. If the item is just sitting in your inventory, Mending won't do anything.

Bring iron blocks and pumpkins with you. You will need them to make iron golems, which can assist you if there is a large number of illagers and other hostile mobs in the woodland mansion.

Pack plenty of high health regenerating food. Some good examples are bread, cooked beef, cooked mutton, and cooked pork chops. Also cake.

Prepare potions of healing, regeneration, and night vision for yourself. Woodland mansions are very dangerous to explore as they are dark and filled with hostile mobs, so these will come in handy.

Keep a parrot with you. Once a parrot is tamed (using seeds), they can be very useful in these mansions, as they will imitate the sounds of any mobs nearby.

Sleep in a safe shelter before going inside the mansion, just in case you die. Keep another set of enchanted armor, weapons, and food inside of a chest.

Surviving in the Woodland Mansion

Leave a trail of torches or bright blocks behind you. This will help you avoid getting lost in a woodland mansion.

Look inside hidden nooks in the walls as well as bedrooms for any valuable loot. Kill whatever mobs you come across when searching for loot. You may also find loot inside of chests. If you come across a storage room, avoid going inside of there as the chests in there are empty. It is optional to grab the chests. Hidden areas contain extra rewards which you can claim. The hidden nooks lead up to lengthy spiral staircases which may lead you to better rewards. However, you must defeat the monsters in these areas first before being able to claim them.

Turn up your volume to hear nearby illagers. The sounds illagers make are very similar to their passive variants, villagers.

Be alert for attacks from illagers, vexes, and other mobs. Evokers attack with vexes and harmful potions. The vexes attack with iron swords while the vindicators attack with iron axes. Be extremely cautious when fighting a evoker as they spawn 1 to 3 vexes to fight with them along with teeth coming up the floor which deal considerable damage.

Spawn iron golems. Do this as soon as you run into a "conference" room or any other room that has a large amount of illagers in it to avoid getting swarmed. In rooms like this, there are a large amount of illagers in there that you have to defeat.

Heal yourself from the attacks afterwards. This is to prevent yourself from dying and losing everything you collected while inside the woodland mansion.