Minecraft wiki entry for Survival_in_an_infinite_desert, associated text: Husks, zombies and skeletons sometimes wear armor and sometimes enchanted, which have a chance to dropped. You can get bows and arrows or even enchanted bow from skeletons, iron swords and iron shovels from husks or zombies or illagers. Of course, iron hoes or iron pickaxes would be much more useful. Likewise, pillager drops may provide you with a crossbow but neither they nor any other mob in an illager raid provides any useful tools in Java Edition. Illagers may also drop iron weapons, including—in Bedrock Edition (only)—possibly an iron pickaxe from a pillager. Witches may drop potions which could be useful in combat. Various mobs may drop Emeralds which can be traded for tools, weapons or armor with the correct type and level of the villager.