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Minecraft 1.21 (Tricky Trials): New Mobs, Features, Expected Release, and More
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Minecraft 1.21 is the new major update coming to Minecraft whose name is not yet known, but it is related to combat and tinkering aspects of the game. It adds a new structure called trial chambers, new blocks like trial spawners, ominous trial sapwners, vaults, ominous vaults, plenty of copper and tuff blocks, crafter, new mobs such as the Breeze, armadillo and Bogged, new items like breeze rods, heavy core, armor trims, banner patterns, pottery sherds, wolf armor and the mace. Release window is suspected to be in June 2024.
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In the latest Minecraft Monthly video, the Mojang team has officially revealed that the upcoming Minecraft 1.21 update will officially be called Minecraft Tricky Trials. Find the explanation for why it's named Tricky Trials here.
Minecraft Standard vs Ominous Trial Spawner: What’s the Difference?
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Regular trial spawner generates naturally in trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. It can spawn melee, small melee, and ranged mobs, as well as the Breeze. The number of mobs will depend upon the number of players nearby. Once you kill all mobs, the trial spawner will eject some rewards for you and go in cooldown state for 30 minutes. The ominous trial spawner generates only when you approach a regular version with Bad Omen or Trial Omen. It often spawns mobs with enchanted gear, as well as potions and projectiles above you and the mobs.
Minecraft Preview 1.21.0.21 Adds Cool New Paintings, Raid Omen, and More
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Mace enchantments are finally live in Minecraft Bedrock edition. They include wind burst, density and breach. Wind burst can launch you in the air, density increases mace's fall damage and breach makes the mace ignore a certain armor percentage. Minecraft Preview 1.21.0.21 also adds five new paintings made by the artist Sarah Boeving. Bad Omen transforms into Raid Omen upon entering a village and various bugs related to trial chambers, armadillo and hardcore world death screen have been fixed.
Minecraft 1.20.5 Pre-Release 1 Nerfs the Mace and Brings Changes to the Trial Chambers & Ominous Trials
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Wind burst enchantment is no longer that OP and satisfying as before. In Minecraft 1.20.5 Pre-Release 1, it has been nerfed so you can activate it only by landing on the target from above. The trial chambers have received numerous changes and the ominous trial spawners regularly spawn mobs with enchanted gear and the special potion effects. This pre-release also introduces new advancements to help guide you through the Minecraft 1.21 update.
Best mace enchantments in Minecraft 1.21 are mending, unbreaking, wind burst, density and breach. Mending allows you to repair the mace with XP. Unbreaking reduces the chance of the mace losing durability. Wind burst launches you in the air upon hitting an entity. Density increase the damage mace gets by falling. Finally, breach allows the mace to ignore a certain armor value percentage of the attacked mob or player.
Ominous bottle is an item you can get in three ways in Minecraft 1.21. First, it's a drop from pillager raid captains who spawn in a pillager patrol or around the pillager outpost. Moreover, you can open the vault using the trial key and there is an 18.6% chance you'll get an ominous bottle. You can also open an ominous vault, which has a 13.4% chance of ejecting the ominous bottle. These items apply the Bad Omen effect which can trigger raids and ominous trials.
Ominous trial key is an item used to open an ominous vault, which yields far more valuable loot than the regular vault. To get this key, you need to get the ominous bottle by killing a pillager captain or from opening a standard vault. Then, drink it to get the Bad Omen effect. Now, get close to a trial spawner and it will turn into an ominous trial spawner. Defeat all the mobs and there is a 30% chance you'll get the ominous trial key in Minecraft 1.21.
Ominous vault is similar to a standard vault, as it is a loot block you have to unlock in Minecraft 1.21. To do so, you'll need an ominous trial key. So, you'll first have to get an ominous bottle, drink it and get close to a trial spawner. It will turn into an ominous trial spawner that will be more challenging. When you defeat all of its mobs, it may yield an ominous trial key. Use this key on an ominous vault to open it. Some of its loot include heavy core, enchanted golden apple, flow armor trim and more.
If you think trial chambers are easy, you should try the new ominous trials in Minecraft 1.21. They provide harder combat battles. If you get close to a trial spawner with the Bad Omen effect, the spawner will turn blue and will become an ominous trial spawner. The mobs it spawns will often have equipment and it can even summon projectiles and potion clouds above the player. Once you complete the ominous trial spawner's challenge, you may get an ominous trial key. It can open an ominous vault that yields rare loot.
Minecraft snapshot 24w13a changes how Bad Omen works. You can now only get it by drinking ominous bottles, which are dropped by raid captains. You may then start a raid or get close to a trial spawner, which will turn into an ominous trial spawner. It will spawn mobs with gear and projectiles and potions. Defeating this spawner may yield ominous trial key, which can open an ominous vault. It gives you rarer and better rewards. The mace has three new enchantments: density, breach and wind burst.
Mace is a new and powerful melee weapon you can craft with a breeze rod and heavy core in Minecraft 1.21. These items are available only in trial chambers. Place the heavy core above the breeze rod and you'll make a mace. It deals as much damage as a diamond sword, but the longer you fall the mace's damage will be higher. It accumulates 5.25 damage points for the critical hit per block. The mace then makes a smash attack which knocks back entities and negates all fall damage. You can repair the mace with breeze rods in an anvil.
You Can Now Find Trial Chambers with the Explorer Map in Minecraft Snapshot 24W12A
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This week's Minecraft snapshot 24w12a makes trial chambers more rare. Also, journeyman-level cartographers have a chance to offer you a special explorer map for 12 emeralds and one compass. It will lead you directly to a nearby trial chamber. It doesn't have to be the closest one. Moreover, you can now waterlog heavy core blocks and they stop lava flow. Several new advancements were added as well.
Heavy core is an item you can obtain only in the new trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. For that, you first need to get the ominous trial key by completing ominous trial spawners' challenges. You should then find the ominous vault block and use the key on it. Heavy core is one of the possible rewards from the ominous vault and there is an 8.3% chance of it being ejected. Once you get it, combine it with the breeze rod in the crafting grid to make a mace.
Breeze rods are drops from the new Breeze mob you will find in trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. This item is used in several different crafting recipes. Those include the flow armor trim, wind charges and the mace weapon. In order to obtain the breeze rods, you'll have to defeat the Breeze mob in the trial chambers.
Minecraft snapshot 24w11a introduces a mace, new melee weapon that deals damage equal to a diamond sword. But, it's also affected by the height you fell from, so the longer you fall the stronger the mace is. It creates an AOE and negates all fall damage if you hit the target. You can craft it with the Breeze rod and a heavy core. New armor trims, pottery sherds and banner patterns were also added and they are related to the Breeze, chiseled tuff textures, trial chambers and the mace.
Minecraft 1.21 introduced 8 new wolf variants, which include the pale, woods, ashen, black, chestnut, rusty, spotted, striped and snowy wolves. They spawn in different biomes and in different pack sizes. You can tame a wolf by using bones on it. To breed two tamed wolves, you can use any type of meat on them and the baby will look like one of the parents if they are different variants. You may equip wolf armor by using it on a tamed wolf. Repairing it will require more armadillo scutes and to remove it you'll need to use shears.
The update we've been waiting for is here. The Minecraft snapshot 24w10a introduces 8 new wolf variants to the game. These animals all have unique names and spawn in different biomes across your Minecraft world. The variants are pale wolf, woods wolf, rusty wolf, ashen wolf, black wolf, chestnut wolf, spotted wolf, stripped wolf and the snowy wolf.
Wolf armor is an item that you can craft inside the crafting table or crafter with six armadillo scutes in Minecraft 1.21. You can obtain these scutes by using a brush on an armadillo. Once you collect them, place them in an H shape with left or right upper corner being empty to complete the wolf armor crafting recipe. You can equip the wolf armor on your wolf by right-clicking it and you can remove the armor by using shears on your tamed wolf. To repair a damaged wolf armor, right-click a tamed wolf wearing it with armadillo scutes.
You may dye wolf armor with dyes, a crafting grid, preferably crafting table on Java or a cauldron on Bedrock Minecraft edition. On Java edition, you can combine dyes with the wolf armor inside a crafting grid and on Bedrock, you may first dye the water inside a cauldron the color you want and then use wolf armor on it. You can easily make a color you want with a special online tool that shows the required steps. If you want to remove dyes from wolf armor, you can use it on a cauldron with regular water.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w09a Lets You Dye Wolf Armor, Among Other Changes
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In Minecraft 24w09a snapshot, we have an ability to dye wolf armor different colors, similarly to the leather armor. Not only that, but you can combine colors to create specific shades. Bogged's texture and model has changed. You can now shear it to get two mushrooms. Game's UI has been refreshed and made more consistent. When it comes to the vault, its texture changed again to make it even more different than the trial spawner. Finally, player and Breeze-shot wind charges are now more precise.
Bogged is a hostile undead skeleton mob that spawns in swamps and mangrove swamps during the night in Minecraft 1.21. Moreover, you'll also find it in some trial chambers that have the Bogged as the chosen ranged mob. Trial spawners with bone blocks, podzol and mushrooms around it will spawn this mob. It shoots poison arrows at the target that inflict poison status effect for 4 seconds. The damage it deals depends on the difficulty you're playing on. Killing Bogged will yield bones, arrows, bows and arrows of poison.
Remember the skeleton with a poison arrow from previous Minecraft snapshots that spawned in trial chambers? Well, it got new looks now and even a brand new name - Bogged. Bogged is a skeleton variant that shoots poison arrows. The poison can't kill you, but the damage from the arrow can. This mob spawns in swamps, mangrove swamps and in trial chambers from trial spawners that have mushrooms around it. When you kill the Bogged in Minecraft 24w07a snapshot, you'll get usual skeleton drops and poison arrows.
Wind charge has so many uses and today we'll be sharing another one. One Reddit user invented a super simple cannon launcher made possible with the wind charge in Minecraft. You'll need four dispensers, seven redstone dust, four solid blocks, one slab, one button and at least four wind charges. Place the slab in the center, surround it with dispensers and place solid blocks between them. Place seven redstone dust on top of the blocks and a button on the eighth block. Fill dispensers with one wind charge, press the button and get launched!
Here are some tips to help you more easily farm wind charges in Minecraft 1.21. Create a room around the Breeze trial spawner to stop them from moving too much and jumping too high. Then, bring your tamed wolves to help you kill the Breeze quickly. You can also funnel the Breeze using water. Then, wait for them and hit them with the sword, Furthermore, you can make a semi-automatic farm, by adding a small room on one side, so Breezes can see and target you. They'll hit tamed wolves in the process and allow them to farm wind charges.
Wind charge has plenty of uses in Minecraft 1.21, but we listed six of the best ones apart from damaging others. First of all, it can catapult you in the air, thus, making some parkour jumps easier. Similarly to that, you can use the wind charge to move faster. The minigame opportunities are truly endless, as well as the way you prank your server mates. Since wind burst pushes entities, you can use wind charge to move mobs or interact with levers, buttons, and target blocks to trigger redstone contraptions from further away.
Wind charge is a projectile you can fire by right-clicking or using a dispenser in Minecraft 1.21. To obtain it, you'll need to find a trial chamber and kill the Breeze. This mob is guaranteed to drop 1-2 breeze rods, which you can then place in the crafting grid to get wind charges. The path of this projectile doesn't bend, but it's straight the entire way. It'll travel as long as it doesn't hit something. Also, wind charge will create a wind burst that knocks back entities, players and can damage them if it hits them directly.
Minecraft 24W06A snapshot added a drop for the Breeze and it's a wind charge projectile. You can fire it by right-clicking and once it collides with something, it'll create a small area of effect that knocks back entities. It will also deal damage to entities it collides directly with. This item will get used up and does have a cooldown of half a second. Apart from that, armadillo now has new animations and will only roll up for longer time when damaged. Vault's texture changed slightly and the tamed wolves are now much stronger than before.
The vault is a Minecraft 1.21 loot block with special properties. It has a face on the front side whose mouth opens when player is nearby. Vault requires a trial key to be unlocked. Once you do that, the mouth will close and items will be ejected on top of the block. Every player can open the vault with the trial key, but only once. The loot vault gives you varies from basic items like arrows and emeralds to special and rare loot like armor trims, enchanted golden apples and the heavy core.
Trial Key Will Open “The Vault” in Minecraft 1.21’s Trial Chambers
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The trial key is a special new Minecraft 1.21 item that you can get by completing trial spawner challenges. It is used to unlock the new vault blocks, which look similar to the trial spawners. They have a face on the front side that opens its "mouth" after it's unlocked. It will eject the rewards like armor and tools for players. The vault will reward every single player that unlocks it. But, each of the players will get the loot only once. Updated trial key and the vault block are coming soon to snapshots and previews.
Minecraft Snapshot 24W04A Makes Armadillo Tougher, Breeze More Dangerous
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Minecraft snapshot 24W04A brings new changes to the armadillo and new additions to the Breeze. Firstly, armadillo will roll up when a mob or player that attacked it recently gets close, even though they're just walking. Moreover, armadillo's shell will now protect it from incoming damage by reducing it. So, a weak punch won't hurt the armadillo anymore. Moreover, Breeze is now aggressive toward iron golems in the area, but will not attack the other hostile mobs from Trial Chambers. These mobs won't attack the Breeze anymore either, so you cannot rely on that strategy.
Breeze is a playful hostile mob that only spawns from trial spawners inside trial chambers. It moves fairly quickly and jumps a lot, which can lead to you getting disoriented. It attacks using the ranged attack - wind charge that you can avoid or reflect. To defeat the Breeze in Minecraft 1.21, you'll need armor, melee weapon, food and other optional items such as a water bucket, shield, etc. You should chase and charge at the Breeze, as well as avoid its projectiles. Use the shield to block projectiles and a water bucket to avoid fall damage.
Minecraft snapshot 24w03A has been released today, and it brings changes to the armadillo, experimental features, and spawn chunks. Armadillo texture now includes eyes on the sides and the base color is lighter. The armadillo scutes and wolf armor textures have also changed slightly. Spiders now run away from armadillos if they're not rolled up. Moreover, the Breeze mob can also deflect all projectiles, not just arrows and tridents. A brand new command lets you change the spawn chunk radius of your world, so you can easily boost performance. The new default value is 2 and it used to be 10.
Armadillo is a neutral mob that rarely spawns inside savanna and badlands biomes. It rolls up if it detects a threat, such as undead mobs, sprinting players or players on mounts, nearby. Armadillos have six hearts of health, can take damage from most sources, and their shell will absorb some of it. Their favorite food is spider eyes, which you can use to breed them. You may use a brush on an armadillo to get armadillo scutes, necessary ingredients for crafting and repairing wolf armor. You get only XP after killing an adult armadillo and nothing after killing a baby.
Armadillo and Wolf Armor Now Live in Latest Minecraft Bedrock Preview
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Armadillo is a passive mob that spawns in savanna biomes. It is pretty rare and does curl in a ball if it feels threatened by undead mobs or fast-moving players. Favorite food of armadillos is spider eyes, which you can use to breed them. You can use a brush on the armadillo to collect scutes form it. With six scutes, you can make wolf armor. Walk up to your tamed wolf and right-click it with the wolf armor selected to equip this item. If you want to take off the wolf armor, you'll need to use shears on the wolf.
In the latest video on the Minecraft YouTube channel, we can clearly see a tab open on one of the developer's screen that's called a Frying table. Could it mean a first real cooking block in Minecraft? This would make a lot of sense as the food goes hand in hand with the combat feature of the game. It's also a fairly old system that could use an upgrade. You may be able to cook powerful food items that could provide you with status effects. Frying table is still a speculation, but would be a great addition in Minecraft 1.21.
Crafter is an advanced redstone block that allows you to craft items automatically. Best uses for the crafter in Minecraft 1.21 include a machine that can easily make simple recipes made by Rays Works, a machine that auto crafts dried kelp blocks made by xisumavoid, which you can later use as fuel and a machine that creates bamboo planks made by Mumbo Jumbo, which you can use to make all sorts of wooden blocks and items.
The trial key is a copper key with a spooky skull as the handle in Minecraft 1.21. You can get it in multiple ways: in the chests near the entrance to the structure, in decorated pots in the corridor and by completing the trial spawner's challenge. You're most likely to get the trial key from the trial spawner, which can produce ranged, melee and small melee mobs for you to fight. Not to forget, you'll also encounter the Breeze spawners in this structure. The trial key opens the vault block, which will reward every player that opens it only once.
Breeze is a new playful hostile mob added in Minecraft 1.21 update. It kind of resembles the Blaze in a way and can only spawn from the special trial spawners in trial chambers. It moves around by jumping and attacks the player using only the ranged attack - wind charge. This projectile does very little damage when it collides directly with an entity, but can push them back by several blocks. Furthermore, the Breeze drops 1-2 breeze by default, which are used in crafting recipes for the wind charges, flow armor trim and the mace.
Trial chambers are massive structures that generate in the deepslate layers. You may find it while exploring these areas in your Minecraft world. Furthermore, cartographers sell a special explorer map that will lead you straight to a nearby trial chamber. If you have cheats enabled, you can also use the locate command to find trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. Finally, you can use an online seed finder website like Chunk Base to easily and quickly get the coordinates of the trial chambers in the area.
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