Minecraft Tricky Trials Details and Patch Notes - Minecraft Guide - IGN (2024)

The Tricky Trials update for Minecraft has arrived, bringing with it Trial Chambers, the Mace, mobs like the Breeze, and various other additions into the game.

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of the Tricky Trials Update for Minecraft, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

Tricky Trials Content

Trial Chambers

Trial Chambers are a new structure that will see you traversing traps and deadly monster spawners in order to retrieve special loot! For more details on Trial Chambers, check out our dedicated Trial Chamber page!

Breeze

The Breeze is a new hostile mob you'll confront in Trial Chambers, using a wind-based projectile attack that'll send you or other entities flying through the air.

Bogged

The Bogged is a new Skeleton variant that is poisonous, and can be found in the Trial Chambers as well as swamps in the Overworld.

The Vault

A new block debuting within Trial Chambers; you can crack the Vault open using Trial Keys to receive exciting loot! Every player in a Realm can unlock the Vault once each, meaning no one misses out on the goods.

Ominous Trials & Village Raids

These are new opt-in challenges that make everything much more difficult, but the rewards you'll earn for coming out the other side are greatly increased! For full details on how to trigger these events, and what you can expect within them, check out our dedicated Ominous Events page!

Mace Weapon

The Mace is the latest weapon to be added and lets you slam down and deal major damage to nearby enemies. The Mace has 3 unique enchantments, and are as follows:

• Density - Deal even more damage
• Breach - Penetrate armor of hostiles more efficiently
• Wind Charge - Launches you high into the air after a successful smash attack

For additional information on the Mace, check out our dedicated page here!

Crafter

The Crafter is a new block that you can use for automated crafting. Using redstone, you can pick a recipe and as long as you supply the ingredients the item will pop out for you to retrieve!

New Decorative Blocks & Items

Alongside new Armor Trims, Banners, and Pottery Sherds, new decorative blocks expanding the Copper family are available, alongside Tuff blocks that can be chiseled, and a total of 20 new paintings to decorate your builds with.

Update Breakdown

• Added a new underground structure called the Trial Chambers
• Added 2 new mobs
  • Breeze
  • Bogged
• Added a new weapon, the Mace
• Added 3 new enchantments exclusive to the Mace
  • Density
  • Breach
  • Wind Burst
• Added the following blocks:
  • Crafter
  • Trial Spawner
  • Ominous Trial Spawner
  • Vault
  • Ominous Vault
  • New variants in the Copper Family
  • New variants in the Tuff Family
  • Heavy Core
• Added the following items:
  • Trial Explorer Map
  • Ominous Bottle
  • Wind Charge
  • Trial Key
  • Ominous Trial Key
  • Breeze Rod
  • 3 new Pottery Sherds
  • 2 new Banner Patterns
  • 2 new Armor Trims
  • 4 new Potions
    • Potion of Infestation
    • Potion of Oozing
    • Potion of Weaving
    • Potion of Wind Charging
  • 4 new Tipped Arrows
    • Arrow of Infestation
    • Arrow of Oozing
    • Arrow of Weaving
    • Arrow of Wind Charging
• Added 3 new Music Discs by Aaron Cherof and Lena Raine
• Added 20 new Paintings
  • 5 by artist Sarah Boeving
  • 15 by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand
• Redesigned Bad Omen to give access to Ominous Events
• Added 6 new Status Effects
  • Infested
  • Oozing
  • Weaving
  • Wind Charged
  • Raid Omen
  • Trial Omen
• Added 9 new music tracks by Aaron Cherof, Kumi Tanioka, and Lena Raine
• Added 8 new Advancements
• Added 4 new cave ambient sounds
• Boats are now leashable

Changes

• Improved chunk loading performance
• Doors of different materials can now form a double door
• Witches now always drop 4-8 redstone dust on death
  • This is to improve the viability of farms that utilize Witch Huts to obtain Redstone Dust
• Piston sound volume and attenuation have been lowered
  • This was done to address the long-received feedback on the old sounds being too harsh and loud, creating very noisy redstone builds
• The panic behaviour of animals now lasts for 2 seconds after the damage is dealt, down from 5
• Ender Pearls that are thrown through portals can now teleport players to a different dimension than the one they are currently in
• It is now possible to ride entities such as Horses or Minecarts through portals
  • When riding entities through portals, the delay before teleporting is not applied
• Projectile knockback is no longer dependent on the shooters position
  • Projectiles such as Arrows and Fireballs knock back in the direction they travel
  • Projectiles such as Splash Potions and Fireworks knock back away from themselves
  • Projectiles shot by a Dispenser will also knock back
• Improved player attribute and effect handling
  • Custom set base attributes are now kept when respawning
  • Active effects and modifiers are kept when changing dimension or winning the game
• Blocks frozen by Frost Walker now emit "Block Placed" vibrations (frequency 13)
• End Crystals are now immune to fire damage
• The Trident is now considered of Epic rarity, giving its hover text a purple color
• Added an attestation checkbox when submitting a player report
• The "Burning Time" reduction effect of Fire Protection and "Knockback Resistance" effect of Blast Protection now stack from wearing several pieces
• Realms improvements
• The Pause Menu can now include a list of links provided by server
• Improvements to the disconnection screen
• Updated credits
• Removed Herobrine
• Chunk Loading Improvements
  • When reading an already generated chunk from disk, surrounding chunks are no longer unnecessarily loaded
    • This is also visible on the singleplayer world loading screen
  • The new system has less memory and CPU overhead
• Realms Improvements
  • Any member of a Realm can now upgrade a world
  • In the Realms main screen, all online players of a Realm are displayed
    • When hovered, a tooltip is shown with each player's head and name
  • Updated the confirmation screens in Realms to show as popups

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, you can do so via the official Minecraft websites Tricky Trials Patch Notes blog post.