---
title: Sorcerer
id: magicalscepter:sorcerer
icon: magicalscepter:sorcerer
---

a sorcerer is an illager that wields a [magical scepter](../items/magical_scepter) to cast spells for offense and defense.

## Spawning

A sorcerer may spawn in the [Overworld](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Overworld) above opaque blocks at a light level of 0 
in all biomes except for [mushroom fields](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mushroom_Fields) and [deep dark](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Deep_Dark). 
Sorcerers always spawn individually. Sorcerers are the only mobs that can spawn in the small area around an [old taiga cabin](../structures/old_taiga_cabin).

[Old taiga cabins](../structures/old_taiga_cabin) spawn a sorcerer inside during world generation that will never despawn.

Sorcerers spawn as parts of [raids](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Raid) starting from wave 4. From wave 6 sorcerers can spawn riding [ravagers](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Ravagers), creating a sorcerer ravager [jockey](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Jockey). 

The sorcerer can, like other monsters, be spawned with a [sorcerer spawn egg](../items/sorcerer_spawn_egg).

## Drops

4-8 [lapis lazuli](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Lapis_Lazuli), amount effected by [looting](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Looting).

50% chance to drop a [brown mushroom](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mushroom), amount effected by [looting](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Looting).

5 [experience](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Experience) when kill credit is given to a player.

## Advancements

The sorcerer constitutes to the ['Monster Hunter'](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Advancement_guide/Adventure_tab#Monster_Hunter) and the ['Monsters Hunted'](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Advancement_guide/Adventure_tab#Monsters_Hunted) advancements.

## Texture

The texture of the sorcerer is based on the [illusioner from minecraft dungeons](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Dungeons:Illusioner).