Tricky Trials

Not to be confused with Trails & TalesTrial Chambers, or Trial Omen.
This article is about the update that adds the trial chambers, breezes and maces. For the soundtrack, see Minecraft: Tricky Trials (Original Game Soundtrack).
For the Minecraft Education update that included the features of this update, see Cloud Update.
Tricky Trials
1.21 banner.jpg: Infobox image for Tricky Trials the theme in Minecraft
1.21 Bedrock Banner.jpeg: Infobox image for Tricky Trials the theme in Minecraft
Release date

June 13, 2024

Version(s)

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!

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There are guides for this update!
 
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 logo.
Key art

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

Heavy Core

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

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:

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

Items

Breeze Rod

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

Trial Explorer Map

Trial Key

Ominous Trial Key

New potions:

New tipped arrows:

New banner patterns:

New pottery sherds:

New armor trims:

New music discs:

New spawn eggs:

Paintings

Picture 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

Breeze

Structure

Trial Chambers

Gameplay mechanics

Ominous events

Enchantments

New enchantments for the mace:

Effects

Music

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

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

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.

Video

Trailer

Soundtrack

Gallery

Official videos

Official artwork

Tricky Trials Update celebration

Development images

References

  1. "The 1.21 Update Has a Name" by Sophie Austin – minecraft.net, April 26, 2024
  2. "Tricky Trials Update official release date" by Sophie Austin – Minecraft.net, May 30, 2024.
  3. "Minecraft Live 2023" – Minecraft on YouTube, October 15, 2023

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