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How to Get Ominous Trial Key in Minecraft 1.21
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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.
Minecraft Ominous Vault Guide: Where to Find and How to Unlock?
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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.
7 Reasons Why Minecraft Is Still so Fun and Popular in 2024
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Minecraft has been around for a long time and it's still going strong. The main reason I believe why Minecraft is still so popular in 2024 is because it receives consistent updates that improve it. Furthermore, there is a little bit of everything for everyone. Thanks to the world seeds, Minecraft is infinitely replayable. Building greatly encourages creativity and children can learn a lot from playing Minecraft. The community-made resources have also shaped Minecraft into what it is today and the competitiveness is what keeps many players interested in playing.
Minecraft April Fools 2024 Update Is All About Poisonous Potatoes
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Poisonous potato is pretty useless in Minecraft, so this April Fools 2024 Minecraft update wants to change that. It adds a whole new poisonous potato dimension that is mostly made up of various potato-related blocks. You can access it through the potato portal and there you'll find mobs that all look like poisonous potatoes. In one of the potato biomes you may even come across a poisonous potato slime boss and fight it with a poisonous potato hammer. There are even potato armor, elytra, utility blocks, grappling gun and so many more potato items.
7 Rarest Mobs in Minecraft and How to Get Them
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The rarest mobs in Minecraft include special mob variants you can get usually by pure chance or by spending a lot of time trying to produce them by breeding. The rarest mobs on our list are pink sheep, brown mooshroom, skeleton horse, brown panda, blue axolotl, mobs wearing carved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns who spawn on October 31 only and the rarest mob of them all which is a baby zombie chicken jockey with full diamond armor.
Minecraft Iron Ore Guide: Best Level to Find Iron
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In the early game, you're much more likely to mine for iron than to make an iron farm. Iron ores are pretty common in Minecraft, but the best levels to find them are Y levels = 16 and 232. If you're going for the Y level = 16, you can either explore caves or branch mine in Minecraft. Caving is faster but dangerous. Whereas branch mining is safe, but it might take some time before finding iron. If you're lucky, you may find huge iron veins. They generate in the deepslate layers and consist of lots of tuff blocks and deepslate iron ores.
What Are Ominous Trials in Minecraft and How Do They Work
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If you think trial chambers are easy, you should try the 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.
Hermitcraft Season 9 Map Now Available on Minecraft Bedrock Marketplace
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Hermitcraft season 9 map is now easily accessible for all players and fans via Minecraft Marketplace. You can enter the Marketplace and search for the Hermitcraft season 9 map. Then, click on the Free button and download, as this world is completely free. Download it and then click on the Create This World button. You play in survival or creative modes, and there are even some useful items and details available for you at the spawn point.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w13a Adds Ominous Trial and Ominous Vault
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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.
This Redstone Genius Made an Epic Fireworks Display in Minecraft
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Have you ever seen fireworks display in Minecraft that doesn't even use firework rockets? Well, the design made by a Reddit user towsti functions without fireworks. Instead, it uses beacon beams and different colored stained glass to create the magical colors and a cute animation. Not only that, but there are many more smart redstone systems that make up this machine, like 0-tick delays, usage of copper bulbs, leaves changing state and more.
How to Get Heavy Core in Minecraft 1.21
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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 a 7.5% chance of it being ejected. Once you get it, combine it with the breeze rod in the crafting grid to make a mace.
Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition Player Found the Weirdest Village Ever
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There is a lot of examples of crazy terrain and structure generation in Minecraft, but this weird village might just be one of the funniest. Normally, villages consist of various features like houses, villagers, iron golem, paths, farms, animal pens and more. Though this seed has only a small road that leads nowhere. There are no houses nor villagers in the vicinity. The world seed is 14880744008722756659 and you can only find it on the Minecraft Xbox 360 edition. The discovery was made by a Redditor named RaspyAtol20734.
How to Get and Use Breeze Rods in Minecraft 1.21
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Breeze rods are brand-new Minecraft 1.21 items that can only be obtained when killing Breeze mobs inside trial chambers. It drops 1-2 breeze rods by default, but the looting enchantment only increases this number. This item is used in several different crafting recipes. Those include the flow armor trim, wind charges and the mace weapon.
Minecraft Gold Ore Guide: Best Level to Find Gold
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Gold ores generate from Y level -64 to 32 in most Minecraft biomes. The Y level you'll find most gold ores in Minecraft is -16. These ores will mostly generate completely surrounded by solid blocks. You should bring armor, weapon, shield, food, torches, water bucket, bed, perhaps even a crafting table and a chest when looking for the gold. It's better to go branch mining at Y level -16 outside of badlands biomes. But in the badlands biome, you should explore caves, as gold ores generate regardless of air exposure.
Mace is the Brand New Weapon Added in Minecraft Snapshot 24w11a
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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.
How to Ride a Strider in Minecraft And Why You Should Do It
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Striders spawn in every Nether biome usually on top of large lava seas. To ride a strider in Minecraft, you'll need a saddle and a warped fungus on a stick. Get close to a strider, use a saddle on it to equip it, interact with it to get on top and select the warped fungus on a stick. The strider will move in the direction you're pointing the stick at. To make it move faster use right-click. This is quite a fast method of transport in the Nether and with fire resistance potions also pretty safe.
10 Best Minecraft Seeds for Building
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Building is a big part of Minecraft and the surrounding terrain actually affects which direction you'll take when making building decisions. That's why in this Minecraft guide, we bring you some of the best seeds for building houses and cities. They include different biomes, flat and mountainous terrain, large landmasses, islands, warm and cold climates and more. So, if you're looking for a new amazing seed for your build, you'll definitely find the one you love here.
This Minecraft Player Beat the Warden with No Armor, Weapons, or Totems in Hardcore Mode
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Minecraft player TacticalSlyme has recently posted a video of them killing the Warden in the hardcore mode. How is this possible? Well, they had speed and strength buffs applied, as well as resistance and absorption. They also applied slowness and weakness debuffs to the Warden and constantly replenished health with healing potions. After about a minute of dealing critical damage to the Warden, it is finally defeated.
How to Make a Lodestone in Minecraft
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You can craft a lodestone with one netherite ingot, 8 chiseled stone bricks and a crafting table. Place the netherite ingot in the central slot of the grid and surround it with chiseled stone bricks. It's also possible to find it inside the bridge bastion chests in the Nether dimension. By using a compass on a lodestone, the lodestone's location will be assigned to a compass, so it'll always point towards it. This is very useful in case you settled far away from spawn, but is it really worth one netherite ingot? It's up to you to decide.
All Wolf (Dog) Variants in Minecraft and Where to Find Them
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Minecraft Armored Paws update added 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. To breed two dogs, you can use any type of meat on them and the baby will look like one of the parents if they are of different variants. You may equip wolf armor by using it on a tamed wolf.
This Minecraft Player Is Building a Large City in MCPE on Mobile
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A Reddit user has recently shared his progress on a large city build being made in Minecraft Pocket Edition. It's a version of the game available for mobile devices, so the controls can be tricky to use. Despite that, this dedicated builder has been working on this impressive project since November 2023. The buildings are clean and the shapes, proportions and architecture are executed basically perfectly. There is a lot more work to be done on this creative mode build and we cannot wait to see the final result.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w10a Adds 8 New Wolf Variants
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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.
5 Best Uses for Bone Meal in Minecraft
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Bone meal has many uses in Minecraft. By using it on a crop,it may mature 2-5 growth stages or get multiplied like bamboo. Bone meal is a part of crafting recipes for bone blocks and white dye. Speaking of which, Bedrock players can use bone meal as a white dye. Also, by using bone meal you may create completely new blocks like short grass, seagrass, logs and leaves, mushroom blocks and more. Dispensers can use bone meal similarly to players, so many farms can be automated with this item.
How to Make Bone Meal in Minecraft
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Bone meal is one of the most useful items in Minecraft, and you can obtain it in many different ways. Breaking down bones and bone block will get you 3 and 9 bone meal, respectively. Using a plant-like item on a composter will slowly increase its compost level until it's full and ready to drop bone meal. On Java edition, you can get bone meal by killing fish, and on Bedrock, you can buy bone meal from a wandering trader.
How to Make Minecraft Wolf Armor
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Wolf armor is an item that you can craft inside the crafting table or crafter with six armadillo scutes in Minecraft. 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.
How to Dye Wolf Armor in Minecraft
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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.
Sea Pickles in Minecraft: How to Get and Use Them
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Sea pickles are plant-like blocks you can find at the bottom of warm oceans and on top of coral blocks in coral reefs in warm oceans. They sometimes generate in desert village houses and can be sold by wandering traders. You can farm sea pickles by using bone meal on a waterlogged sea pickle placed on a living coral block. Sea pickle colony will expand and any surrounding living coral may also grow them. These blocks emit light when underwater and can be cooked to get lime dye.
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.
How to Make Scaffolding in Minecraft
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Scaffolding is a useful block you can use to reach tricky places easily. To make it, you need six bamboo and string. Fill the left and right columns with bamboo and add string in the upper slot of the middle column. You can place scaffolding on top of scaffolding by interacting with the side, or to the side by interacting with the top. While sneaking, you place scaffolding exactly where you right-click. Breaking the base scaffolding will cause all other scaffolding to break. You can ascend and descend while being inside scaffolding.
This Redditor Made the Solar System in Minecraft; Take a Look
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Have you ever wondered how big Minecraft builds can really get? Well, Reddit user bubbaflubba2 wanted to answer that question with a recreation of the solar system in Minecraft. They created the Sun and several other planets. They are all built in trustworthy scale and proportions and blocks used perfectly represent the object's texture and feel. Have you ever seen anything like this done in Minecraft before?
8 Best Minecraft Bedrock Add-Ons You Must Use
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Minecraft Bedrock add-ons (or mods) are now officially available on the Marketplace. You can easily download and install them no matter what platform you're on. Some of the best add-ons are Gravestone, Another Furniture Add-On, Spark Portals Add-On, More TNT Add-On, Naturalist Add-On, All the Wool Add-On, Spark Pets Add-On (Lite) and Hiker's Friend. They introduce new mobs, blocks and items you can explore, find, craft, play around with and enjoy.
How to Install and Use Add-Ons in Minecraft Bedrock
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You can find add-ons or mods for Minecraft Bedrock in the official Marketplace. You'll see some add-ons on the top, but you can also scroll down a bit to find a dedicated add-ons section. Click on the mod and purchase it with minecoins if they are paid. Then, click on the Download button to get the mod. You'll then need to make a new world or edit the old world. Go to the Behavior or Resource Packs, select Available at the top, click on the add-on and click Activate to apply it to your world. So, that's how you download and install add-ons for Minecraft Bedrock edition.
Minecraft Coral Reef: Everything You Need to Know
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Coral variants include coral, coral blocks, and coral fans in Minecraft. They generate as five different variants in warm oceans as part of coral reefs. If coral variants don't have any water sources or flowing water attached to any of their six sides, the coral will die. this will cause them to turn into dead coral variants, which are fully gray. Moreover, it's possible to farm only coral and coral fans by using bone meal on natural blocks underwater in warm oceans. Coral variants are mainly used as building and decorative blocks,
How to Get and Repair a Trident in Minecraft
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Trident is a very unique and epic Minecraft weapon. You can get it very rarely by killing trident-wielding drowned and also looting vaults in trial chambers. Moreover, once you get it, you can repair it by enchanting it with the mending enchantment. Then when you gain XP, it'll mend the trident. You may also combine two damaged tridents in an anvil to get one with higher durability. Trident is both a melee and ranged weapon and it can have mending, unbreaking, loyalty, impaling, channeling, riptide and curse of vanishing enchantments.
10 Best Dripstone Caves Seeds in Minecraft
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In this guide, we have covered some of the best dripstone cave seeds in Minecraft. Thanks to our list, you will find seeds with massive caves, underwater caves, caves with unique structure generation, dangerous dripstone-deep dark cave combos with ancient cities, and many more. So, if you're looking for a challenge or just a great place for building an underground base, the dripstone cave seeds on this list will have you covered.
Minecraft Trapped Chest: How to Make and Use It
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Trapped chest is a chest variant in Minecraft. It looks almost exactly the same, but with red pixels around the latch. Moreover, you'll need a regular chest and a tripwire hook to make it. Combine these items in your 2x2 crafting grid and the trapped chest will appear on the right. This chest is a container block, as well as a redstone component. It transmits redstone power to all four sides and also downwards. You can use to to make some really funny and successful pranks on your server.
How to Make a Jukebox in Minecraft
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Jukebox is a wooden block used to play music discs in Minecraft. You may make it with 8 wooden planks of any wood type, one diamond and a crafting table. Place the diamond in the central slot of the grid and surround it completely with wooden planks. Right-click the jukebox to insert or remove a music disc. Jukebox is also a redstone component that emits redstone signal depending upon the disc itself. Moreover, hoppers and droppers interact with the jukebox, so you can make a simple set up using them to play a disc on loop.
How to Get Beetroot Seeds in Minecraft
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You can get beetroot seeds in three different ways in Minecraft. First, breaking planted beetroot will yield up to 4 seeds. The chances are affected by fortune enchantment. Furthermore, these seeds will generate inside chests of dungeons, mineshafts, end cities, snowy village houses and woodland mansions. Also, wandering trader has a chance to sell beetroot seeds for one emerald. These seeds are used in growing beetroot, feeding chickens, taming parrots and creating decorative beetroot fields in your world.
Minecraft Bogged: Everything You Need to Know
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Bogged is a hostile skeleton mob that spawns in swamps and mangrove swamps during the night in Minecraft 1.21. Moreover, you will also find it in some trial chambers. Trial spawners with bone blocks, podzol, and mushrooms around it spawn this mob. It shoots poison arrows at the target that inflict poison status effect for 4 seconds. Killing Bogged will drop bones, arrows, bows and arrows of poison.
How to Make a Dropper in Minecraft
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Dropper is a redstone component block that can eject items in the direction it's facing or put them in a container like a chest. You'll need 7 cobblestone, one redstone dust, and a crafting table to make it. Place redstone dust in the middle slot of the bottom row and fill every other slot with cobblestone, leaving only the central slot empty. Dropper will activate only once it receives a redstone signal.
New Forest Dweller Minecraft Mod May Be Scarier Than the Cave Dweller
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Forest Dweller Minecraft mod is fairly similar to the Cave Dweller mod, but apart from the dweller, it introduces a scary biome, unsettling dimension, powerful tools, and more. The Biome of Death contains a portal frame made out of glowing obsidian blocks that you can light if you have the eye of the Forest Dweller. This is an item you'll get by killing the Forest Dweller. It's a mob with slender black body and red glowing eyes. It spawns during the night in the Biome of Death. This mob moves quickly and unpredictably, so keep your eyes peeled.
How to Easily Combine Enchantments in Minecraft
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When you acquire enchantments, you can then combine them in Minecraft. You need an anvil and XP levels. It's possible to combine enchanted books, enchanted pieces of gear and a piece of gear and an enchanted book. When it comes to combining the same items, all the adequate enchantments will end up on the output item together. If you're combining two same enchantments with different levels, the lower one will be deleted but if they're the same level, they'll get combined to create a higher level.