Tricky Trials

Tricky Trials
Release date	June 13, 2024
Version(s)	Java Edition 1.21; Bedrock Edition 1.21.0;
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See Java Edition guides/Tricky Trials and Bedrock Edition guides/Tricky Trials for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Tricky Trials.

Tricky Trials^[1] is a major update released on June 13, 2024,^[2] as Java Edition 1.21 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.0. The update focuses on the trial chambers, which serves as a place for "combat adventures", and miscellaneous features related to "tinkering."^[3] The update adds new copper and tuff blocks, the crafter, bogged, and 20 paintings, among many other features. In the trial chambers, trial spawners spawn hostile mobs as a challenge, including breezes that jump in the air and shoot wind charges at players. Vaults reward players for completing trials. Ominous bottles can be used to trigger ominous trials for even bigger rewards. Maces are new melee weapons that can each be crafted by combining a heavy core and a breeze rod. The name of the update was revealed in Minecraft Monthly on April 26, 2024.

Additions

Blocks

Crafter

Crafted using five iron ingots, two redstone dusts, a crafting table, and a dropper.
Used to craft an item when powered on.

Heavy Core

Obtained from unlocking ominous vaults at a 7.5% chance.
Used to craft the mace.

Trial Spawner

Generates in trial chambers.
Spawns a limited number of mobs.
Once all the mobs are defeated, the trial spawner ejects a reward.

Ominous Trial Spawner

Changes from a trial spawner when a player approaches with the Trial Omen effect active.
Spawn mobs with equipment, as well as shooting potions and projectiles.
Ejects a different set of loot compared to the normal trial spawner.

Vault

Generates in trial chambers.
Unlocks with a trial key and ejects loot once per player.

Ominous Vault

Generates in trial chambers.
Has a unique loot table compared to the normal vault.

New copper blocks, all can be found in trial chambers:

Chiseled Copper
Copper Grate
- Can allow light to shine through.
Copper Door
Copper Trapdoor
Copper Bulb
- Crafted using three of the respective copper blocks, a blaze rod, and a redstone dust.
- Light level depends on oxidation state.
- Can be toggled on with redstone.
- Does not need power to continue to emit light.

New tuff blocks, most can be found in trial chambers:

Items

Breeze Rod

Obtained as drops from breezes.
Can be used to craft wind charge, mace, and flow armor trim.
Can also be used to brew potion of wind charging.

Wind Charge

Used as a projectile to knock entities back and activate certain redstone components.
Used by the breeze.
Can also be crafted with a breeze rod.

Mace

A new melee weapon that can be crafted using a heavy core and a breeze rod.
Deals 6 damage, identical to that of a iron sword in Java Edition and a stone sword in Bedrock Edition.
Has an attack speed of 0.6, 40% slower than that of a golden, diamond, or netherite axe.
Attacking after having fallen at least 1.5 blocks performs a smash attack. The more blocks a player has fallen, the greater the damage of the smash attack.
- Successfully striking a target with a smash attack negates any damage accumulated from the fall, similar to how a wind charge works, as well as resetting all vertical momentum.
- Maces have a unique explosive particle effect when executing a smash attack.
- In addition to the normal unique smash attack sound, a different unique sound is played performing a smash attack from a fall of more than 5 blocks.
- Other entities near a smash-attacked target receive knockback, with a stronger effect when having fallen more than 5 blocks before attacking.
- Smash attacks activates the Wind Burst enchantment.
Can be repaired with breeze rods using an anvil.
Has three exclusive enchantments:
- Density: Increases the damage of the smash attack per block fallen before the smash attack is performed.
- Breach: Reduces the effectiveness of armor protecting from damage dealt by the mace.
- Wind Burst: Creates a small wind burst when the smash attack is performed, similar to the one generated by a wind charge.

Ominous Bottle

Obtained from unlocking vaults.
Can also be obtained as drops by raid captains.
Gives the player Bad Omen when consumed.

Trial Explorer Map

Sold by Cartographers
Used to find trial chambers.

Trial Key

Obtained from trial spawners.
Used to unlock a vault.

Ominous Trial Key

Obtained from ominous trial spawners.
Used to unlock an ominous vault.

New potions:

Potion of Infestation
- Brewed by using stone.
Potion of Oozing
- Brewed by using a slime block.
Potion of Weaving
- Brewed by using a cobweb.
Potion of Wind Charging
- Brewed by using a breeze rod.

New tipped arrows:

New banner patterns:

Flow Banner Pattern
- Obtained from unlocking ominous vaults at a 15% chance.
Guster Banner Pattern
- Obtained from unlocking vaults at a 4.6% chance.

New pottery sherds:

New armor trims:

Bolt Armor Trim
- Obtained from unlocking vaults at a 6.3% chance.
Flow Armor Trim
- Obtained from unlocking ominous vaults at a 22.5% chance.

New music discs:

Aaron Cherof - Precipice
- Obtained from unlocking vaults at a 3.6% chance.
Lena Raine - Creator
- Obtained from unlocking ominous vaults at a 7.5% chance.
Lena Raine - Creator (Music Box)
- Obtained from breaking decorated pots in trial chambers at a 1.4% chance.

New spawn eggs:

Bogged Spawn Egg
- Used to spawn a bogged.
Breeze Spawn Egg
- Used to spawn a breeze.

Paintings

Added 20 new paintings and painting sizes by the artists Sarah Boeving and Kristoffer Zetterstrand:

Name	Size	Artist
Meditative	1x1	Sarah Boeving
Prairie Ride	1x2	Sarah Boeving
Baroque	2x2	Sarah Boeving
Humble	2x2	Sarah Boeving
Unpacked	4x4	Sarah Boeving
Bouquet	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Cavebird	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Cotán	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Endboss	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Fern	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Owlemons	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Sunflowers	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Tides	3x3	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Backyard	3x4	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Pond	3x4	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Changing	4x2	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Finding	4x2	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Lowmist	4x2	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Passage	4x2	Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Orb	4x4	Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Mobs

Bogged

Spawns in swamps and mangrove swamps.
Can also be found in trial chambers.
Shoots tipped arrows of poison.

Breeze

Spawns in trial chambers.
Jumps around and fires wind charges to deal knockback.
Drops breeze rods when killed.

Structure

Trial Chambers

Giant underground structures made of tuff and copper blocks that provide players a mid-game combat challenge.
The only place where breezes, trial spawners, and vaults appear.
Consists of several chambers connected together through corridors.
Each chamber has a trial spawner configured to either spawn the breeze, a melee mob (zombie, husk, or spider), a small melee mob (silverfish, baby zombie, cave spider, or slime), or a ranged mob (stray, skeleton, bogged).

Gameplay mechanics

Ominous events

Can be activated with Bad Omen.
When near an active trial spawner, it starts an ominous trial.
When near a village, it starts a raid.

Enchantments

New enchantments for the mace:

Breach
- Reduces the effectiveness of armor.
Density
- Increases damage dealt per block fallen.
Wind Burst
- Creates a wind charged effect upon executing a smash attack.
- Cannot be obtained from the enchanting table.

Effects

Infested
- Entities have a 10% chance upon being hurt to spawn 1-3 silverfish.
Oozing
- Upon death, entities can spawn two slimes within a 5x5x5 area.
Raid Omen
- Occurs when an entity with Bad Omen is near a valid village.
- Causes a raid to start.
Trial Omen
- Occurs when an entity with Bad Omen is near a trial spawner.
- Starts an ominous trial.
Weaving
- Upon death, entities leave behind 2-3 cobwebs within a 7x7x7 area.
- Entities with weaving can also move through cobwebs faster.
Wind Charged
- Upon death, entities release a burst of wind that deals knockback.

Music

Nine new ambient tracks from Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, and Aaron Cherof were added; all tracks play on the main menu.

"Featherfall" by Aaron Cherof
- Plays in badlands, cherry groves, flower forests, lush caves, and any other biome that does not already have a corresponding set of biome-specific music.
"Watcher" by Aaron Cherof
- Plays in any biome that does not already have a corresponding set of biome-specific music.
"Puzzlebox" by Aaron Cherof
- Plays in any biome that does not already have a corresponding set of biome-specific music.
"komorebi" by Kumi Tanioka
- Plays in any biome that does not already have a corresponding set of biome-specific music.
"pokopoko" by Kumi Tanioka
- Plays in dripstone caves, groves, jagged peaks, and snowy slopes.
"yakusoku" by Kumi Tanioka
- Plays in any biome that does not already have a corresponding set of biome-specific music.
"Deeper" by Lena Raine
- Plays in dripstone caves and the deep dark.
"Eld Unknown" by Lena Raine
- Plays in dripstone caves, groves, jagged peaks, and snowy slopes.
"Endless" by Lena Raine
- Plays in dripstone caves, groves, jagged peaks, and snowy slopes.

Changes

Effects

Bad Omen
- The Icon texture has been changed.
- No longer automatically granted when killing a raid captain.
- Now caused by drinking an ominous bottle.
- Becomes Raid Omen if in a village or Trial Omen if near a non-ominous trial spawner.

Further revisions

Java Edition

1.21.1 was released to fix critical bugs.
1.21.2, which also contained Bundles of Bravery and experimental The Garden Awakens content, and updated trial chambers.
1.21.3 was released to fix critical bugs related to 1.21.2.

Bedrock Edition

1.21.1 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.0.
1.21.2 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.1.
1.21.3 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.2.
1.21.20 was released to bring more parity from Java Edition, separate the IDs of many blocks, and fix bugs.
1.21.21 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.20.
1.21.22 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.21.
1.21.23 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.22.
1.21.30 was released to change lots of names and rarities of blocks and items to parity with Java Edition, add bundles as an experimental feature, and update trial chambers.
1.21.31 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.30.

Quotes

Team up or go solo and discover new decorative blocks, hostile mobs, items, weapons, paintings, and the trial chambers – a sprawling structure stuffed with traps and treasures for every player!

— minecraft.net on Tricky Trials

Me, a close combat fighter? In Minecraft, apparently so. I could blame it on how satisfying rage-click karate chops are, but the truth is I never learned to use any other weapons. Luckily, that’s (hopefully) about to change. For the Tricky Trials Update, I’m upping my combat skills by heading into the trial chamber as the unofficial welcome committee for our two new mobs: the bogged and the breeze. Sure, they might be hostile, but we all have our quirks, don’t we? And I think they can teach me a trick to two. Like archery!
I have my aim set on the bogged, the new skeletal mob equipped with poison arrows, which are deadly upon impact. Just like my dance moves! Speaking of moves, the breeze will quite literally sweep you off your feet with theirs. And that’s the iconic eyebrows aside! The breeze’s wind charge projectile attack even uses a gust of wind to send foes flying.
I can’t wait for the new update to be out, then these new weapons will be all mine and I can take over the Overworld, mwuahahaha! As long as I defeat these two mobs first, that is. And for that I have my trusty karate chop. Hy-ah!

— Linn Viberg

Being the thrill-seeker, the daredevil, the reckless lunatic that I am, I plan to challenge myself in 1.21 by taking on an ominous trial – all by myself! The thought of all the possible rewards I could reap from an ominous vault – should I be victorious – is keeping me awake at night. It must be mine! Sure, I had some minor setbacks where I died horribly a dozen of times (you can’t spell ‘perish’ without ‘Per’) in normal trial chambers in the snapshots. And sure, teaming up with people could make it easier, but I don’t have friends want to share all that glorious loot! I’m confident that the increase in difficulty will sharpen my senses and prepare me for whatever I might face. All I need to do is find a friendly neighborhood illager raid captain, get my hands on an ominous bottle, then search high and low for my local trial chamber! I might not be successful on my quest, but the sheer adrenaline rush from dodging poisonous arrows, navigating maze-like corridors, or getting knocked back across the room by a breeze are rewards enough. But who knows? Maybe I’ll become the best speed-runner in the Ominous Trials Any% respawn constantly category

— Per Landin

Video

Trailer

Soundtrack

Aaron Cherof - "Featherfall" (view on YouTube)

Aaron Cherof - "Watcher" (view on YouTube)

Aaron Cherof - "Puzzlebox" (view on YouTube)

Kumi Tanioka - "komorebi" (view on YouTube)

Kumi Tanioka - "pokopoko" (view on YouTube)

Kumi Tanioka - "yakusoku" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Deeper" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Eld Unknown" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Endless" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Creator" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Creator (Music Box Version)" (view on YouTube)

Aaron Cherof - "Precipice" (view on YouTube)

Gallery

Official videos

Official artwork

Tricky Trials logo
The update's logo with background
Key art
Key art with release date and logo
Alternate key art
Alternate key art wide version
Soundtrack artwork
Soundtrack artwork expanded
Ari and Noor with maces
Ari and Noor with maces detailed version
A breeze jumping
A trial spawner being looted
Zuri making art with the Tricky Trials blocks
Divider used on the website
Divider used on the website

Tricky Trials Update celebration

A new set of Character Creator items as part of the Tricky Trials Update celebration.
The Trial Top, the first free Character Creator item.
The Trial Mask, the second free Character Creator item.
The Trial Leggings, the third free Character Creator item.

Development images

A crafter as seen in its reveal.
A crafter activating and ejecting a cherry hanging sign.
Slots may be disabled by clicking on them, which is useful for automating shaped recipes.
A corridor of the trial chambers.
The second floor of a trial chamber.
A staircase at the end of a trial chamber hallway.
A trap featuring a dispenser and two tripwires.
A large room with a trial spawner in the middle.
A trial chamber corridor with a trial spawner on the balcony.
A breeze firing a wind charge at a player during the "upcoming features" presentation at Minecraft Live 2023.
Breeze in a trial chamber.
Trial chamber.
Trial spawner.
Breeze.
Copper bulbs.
Decorative blocks.
Bogged near a trial spawner.
Armor trim.
Armor trim.
Banner patterns.
Pottery sherd.
A build consisting of new blocks from the Tricky Trials Update.
A second build, a fountain made of tuff.
A third build, a living area with a cat.
A fourth build, featuring intricate pillars and a painting.