Has it been a while since you’ve dived into the depths of the caves within Minecraft? Are you wondering what these new underground structures are and what they entail? Well, I am here to provide all the information you’ll need to understand the Trial Chambers.
Source: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Trial_Chambers
1. Finding a Chamber
Before searching, you should be aware that the outside of a Trial Chamber is built out of Tuff Bricks, which blends fairly well with regular Deepslate, so make sure to bring a good amount of torches with you to spot the difference. Now, there are a few ways to find a Trial Chamber. The first is to stumble across them deep beneath the surface, between the Y layers -20 and -40. However, the most reliable way of discovering a chamber is to purchase a Trial Explorer Map from a villager with the cartographer job.
2. Trial Spawners
The biggest difference between these Trial Chambers and regular dungeons is that, unlike standard monster spawners, the Trial Spawners behave differently. Trial Spawners’ difficulty and the number of mobs that spawn from a spawner increase depending on the number of players nearby.
These Trial Spawners will activate as soon as you are within the required vicinity. So be careful not to tread too deeply into enemy territory without being properly prepared for what is about to come your way.
After you manage to kill all the nearby mobs that had previously spawned from the Trial Spawners, the Spawner block itself will drop loot rewards, and then there will be a 30-minute cooldown before you can use it again. These loot rewards can be: Trial keys, bread, cooked chicken, baked potatoes, glow berries, emeralds, golden carrots, ender pearls, and different types of potions.
3. Exclusive Mobs
These Trial Chambers are the only place within the Minecraft world that you will have the opportunity to encounter a “Breeze”. The “Breeze” is a wind-based hostile mob that jumps around quickly, shooting wind charges at you that can deal knockback. This mob is completely immune to most ranged attacks, meaning it will deflect any arrows you attempt to send its way. Killing the “Breeze” is the only way to acquire the Breeze Rod, a specific mob drop which is essential to crafting both the Mace and Wind Charges.
Whilst in the Trial Chambers, you can also encounter specific variants of mobs that you are used to seeing, such as the “Bogged”, which is a poisonous skeleton. The other mobs that can potentially spawn from the Trial Spawners are often variants of regular mobs, except for Slimes and baby Zombies.
4. Vaults
Source: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Trial_Chambers#Trial_spawners
Most of the loot that you can obtain from Trial Chambers is stored within Vaults. These can be opened using a Trial Key that you get from completing Trial Spawners throughout the Chamber itself. However, unlike regular chests, these vaults can only be opened exactly once per player. They provide their own set of rewards per player. You can also get loot through barrels that can spawn randomly around the chamber itself. There are also pots randomly placed around the chamber that can hold random loot inside.
The regular Trial Vault only has a 25% chance of dropping unique loot, which means most of the time, you will only receive common or rare item drops. These common or rare drops are not terrible by any means; this does mean that you only have a ¼ chance of getting the unique drops you were initially hoping for.
I will list everything possible to be given as a reward to you after opening your vault. These items are: Various minerals, different tipped arrows, food items, enchanted armours and tools, music discs, and different types of potions.
Ominous Trial Chambers
Ominous Trials are different from the regular Trial Chambers themselves, as they serve as a “hard mode” style for the Chambers. The combat difficulty within a Chamber increases a lot when doing an Ominous Trial. These Ominous Trials are specifically targeted towards finding the rarest items that were added within the 1.21 Tricky Trials update.
1. Triggering an Ominous Trial
Ominous Trials require more than just walking within the vicinity of a Trial Spawner. To start an Ominous Trial, you must first obtain an Ominous Bottle, which you can get from Raid Captains (the pillager mobs that have banners on top of their heads). You can also obtain them as a rare loot drop from standard Trial Vaults, as previously explained above.
Drinking the Ominous Bottle will give you the Bad Omen potion effect. If you drink this bottle before entering the Trial Chamber, once you then enter the chamber, it changes the effect from Bad Omen to Trial Omen.
2. Differences in Difficulty
The Ominous Trial is much harder for a few different reasons. Mobs can spawn wearing enchanted armour pieces, including enchanted Diamond armour. With that, they can also spawn with enchanted weapons. Mobs that can’t usually wear armour, such as slimes or spiders, will simply spawn in twice the amount that they regularly would.
Every 8 seconds, the spawner will create Ominous Items, which spawn above your player's head. These will hover above you for a couple of seconds before dropping random projectiles onto your player. These projectiles can be: Arrows, Wind Charges and Fire Charges.
The Ominous Spawner can also spawn lingering potions around you, which can create hostile zones. These lingering potions can be: Infestation (spawns silverfish if a mob takes damage) or Oozing (spawns slimes whenever a mob is killed).
3. Better Loot
Source: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Ominous_Vault#Loot
The main reason you and your friends will want to tackle an Ominous Trial is to obtain the Ominous Trial Key, which is the only way you can open the Ominous Vault at the end of the Trial.
These keys have a 30% drop rate from the Spawners once you have defeated all the waves of mobs. The keys are then taken to the vaults, which are commonly found higher up on the walls of the chamber, near the ceilings.
The Ominous Vaults offer a near 75% chance of unique loot in comparison to the regular Vault, which only gives a 25% chance of unique loot. Ominous Vaults are the only way to obtain the Heavy Core, an item required to craft the Mace weapon. Here is a list of every potential loot drop from an Ominous Vault: Heavy cores, different armour trims, music discs, enchanted diamond tools and armour, enchanted books, mineral blocks, tipped arrows and ominous bottles.
With this explanation, I hope you are now fully prepared to dive into your first Trial Chamber yourself! All you need now is a great server to run your Minecraft Server on. To get started with purchasing your own Minecraft server, see our Minecraft server plans and then head to our server setup guide here!