(Not to be confused with Trails & Tales, Trial Chambers, or Trial Omen. Also, see Cloud Update for the Education edition features.)
Overview:
The Tricky Trials update is a major game update released on June 13, 2024, for Java Edition 1.21 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.0. This update focuses on trial chambers, providing mid-game combat challenges, and introduces new gameplay mechanics such as tinkering, ominous trials, and wind-based attacks. Players can explore trial chambers filled with hostile mobs, collect new resources, and craft unique weapons like maces.
Release Information
- Java Edition: 1.21
- Bedrock Edition: 1.21.0
- Release Date: June 13, 2024
Guides
For detailed guides covering all features in this update:
Key Additions
Blocks
- Crafter:
- Crafted using 5 iron ingots, 2 redstone dust, a crafting table, and a dropper.
- Powers and crafts items automatically.
- Heavy Core:
- Obtained from ominous vaults at a 7.5% chance.
- Used to craft maces.
- Trial Spawner:
- Generates in trial chambers.
- Spawns mobs for combat challenges and rewards players with loot after completion.
- Ominous Trial Spawner:
- Activates with Trial Omen effect.
- Spawns mobs with equipment and projectiles; rewards different loot than normal trial spawners.
- Vault & Ominous Vault:
- Unlockable with keys obtained from spawners.
- Contain unique loot tables and reward players after completing challenges.
- New Copper Blocks:
- Chiseled Copper, Copper Grate, Copper Door, Copper Trapdoor, Copper Bulb.
- Some allow light to shine through and can be toggled with redstone.
- New Tuff Blocks:
- Includes stairs, slabs, walls, chiseled and polished variants, tuff bricks, and associated stairs/slabs/walls.
Items
- Breeze Rod: Obtained from breezes; used for crafting wind charges, maces, and flow armor trims.
- Wind Charge: Projectile used by breezes to knock back enemies and interact with redstone.
- Mace:
- Crafted from a heavy core and a breeze rod.
- Deals 6 damage (Java: iron sword equivalent; Bedrock: stone sword equivalent).
- Features smash attacks after falling ≥1.5 blocks, creating knockback, wind effects, and particle animations.
- Can be repaired using breeze rods.
- Has three exclusive enchantments:
- Density: Increases smash damage per block fallen.
- Breach: Reduces armor effectiveness.
- Wind Burst: Creates wind burst on smash attack.
- Ominous Bottle: Grants Bad Omen when consumed; obtained from vaults or raid captains.
- Trial Explorer Map & Keys: Help locate and unlock trial chambers and vaults.
- New Potions: Infestation, Oozing, Weaving, Wind Charging.
- Tipped Arrows: Infestation, Oozing, Weaving, Wind Charging.
- New Banner Patterns: Flow and Guster.
- New Pottery Sherds: Flow, Guster, Scrape.
- New Armor Trims: Bolt, Flow.
- New Music Discs: Aaron Cherof – Precipice; Lena Raine – Creator (regular and music box version).
- Spawn Eggs: Bogged and Breeze.
Paintings
20 new paintings by Sarah Boeving and Kristoffer Zetterstrand, ranging from 1×1 to 4×4, including Meditative, Prairie Ride, Baroque, Humble, Unpacked, Bouquet, Cavebird, Cotán, Endboss, Fern, Owlemons, Sunflowers, Tides, Backyard, Pond, Changing, Finding, Lowmist, Passage, Orb.
Mobs
- Bogged:
- Spawns in swamps, mangrove swamps, and trial chambers.
- Shoots tipped poison arrows.
- Breeze:
- Found in trial chambers.
- Jumps and shoots wind charges; drops breeze rods.
Structures
- Trial Chambers:
- Large underground structures of tuff and copper.
- Contain trial spawners, breezes, bogged mobs, and vaults.
- Connected through corridors with multiple combat rooms.
Gameplay Mechanics
- Ominous Events:
- Triggered by Bad Omen near trial spawners or villages.
- Start ominous trials or raids.
Enchantments (Exclusive to Maces)
- Breach: Reduces armor effectiveness.
- Density: Increases damage per block fallen.
- Wind Burst: Produces wind effect when executing a smash attack.
- Cannot be applied via enchantment table.
Effects
- Infested: 10% chance to spawn 1–3 silverfish when hurt.
- Oozing: Entities spawn 2 slimes upon death.
- Raid Omen: Triggers raids in villages.
- Trial Omen: Activates ominous trials.
- Weaving: Leaves cobwebs on death; increases movement speed through cobwebs.
- Wind Charged: Knockback burst on death.
Music
Nine ambient tracks from Aaron Cherof, Kumi Tanioka, and Lena Raine, playing on the main menu:
- Featherfall, Watcher, Puzzlebox, komorebi, pokopoko, yakusoku, Deeper, Eld Unknown, Endless, Creator (and Music Box version).
Changes
- Bad Omen Effect:
- Icon updated.
- No longer granted automatically by killing raid captains.
- Now acquired by drinking Ominous Bottles.
- Transforms into Raid Omen in villages or Trial Omen near trial spawners.
Further Revisions
Java Edition:
- 1.21.1 – Critical bug fixes
- 1.21.2 – Bundles of Bravery & experimental Garden Awakens content; updated trial chambers
- 1.21.3 – Critical bug fixes
Bedrock Edition:
- 1.21.1–1.21.3 – Bug fixes and parity updates
- 1.21.20–1.21.31 – Added parity with Java Edition, experimental bundles, trial chamber updates, and various bug fixes
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
“Being the thrill-seeker I am, I challenge myself to take on ominous trials solo to claim all the rewards. Dodging arrows, navigating mazes, and mastering breezes is all part of the fun!”
— Per Landin
Media
- Trailer: Tricky Trials Update Official Trailer
- Soundtrack: Full list of ambient tracks available on YouTube by Aaron Cherof, Kumi Tanioka, and Lena Raine.